July 3, 2010
Sports and Health Week Takes Place
Children from across the school took part in our annual Sports and Health week. What's more it isn't over yet. Due to the postponement of Sports Day last Tuesday, it will go on a little longer!!!
Over the week, children took part in various activities. The aim of the sports element was to try some sports that were new them.
Years 1 to 5 worked with Karate coaches, years 4 & 6 experienced rowing machines while all year groups including the nursery were able to tray sports such as hockey, tennis, golf, bowling, basketball and badminton amongst others. Hopefully some children will take up some of the sports.
Year 5 continued with their hula hooping whereas year 3 were trained in netball by a visiting coach.
Our visiting chef Nick, taught children from different classes how to cook healthily.
There were visits from the school nurse, Alan from Bike-It and also predestrian training.
To finish off the week some year 6 children planned an afternoon of coaching that they did with Reception.
The fantastic weather made a good week even better.
Lookout for photos in the gallery.
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KS2 Teams Take Part in the Athletics Festival
A squad of twenty children from years 3,4,5 & 6 took part in the Gateshead Primary Schools Athletics Festival at the International Stadium.
All the children worked extremely hard both in performance and above all attitude.
It was a great day with twelve semi-final places gained.
Well done to all the squad and thank-you to the adults that made the day possible.
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May 24, 2010
Making a Powerpoint
As part of the African fortnight, year 4's project has been to learn about Fairtrade and then produce a Powerpoint.
The Powerpoint is to be shown to vistors at the whole school African showcase afternoon. So far, the children have sent e-mails to schools in Ghana and Uganda, went fairtrade shopping at the CO-OP, joined Comic Relief's Pa Pa Paa Live site, took part in role play & researched Fairtrade using the internet.
They have also explained to Year 3 about Fairtrade and what they've found out.
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May 23, 2010
Are you an Eco Eagle?
Get ready to launch into ECO WEEK!!
Week beginning 7th June 2010!
Get ready to launch straight into…
ECO WEEK
when you return after the half term holidays!
During the week beginning 7th June 2010, we will be learning how to become Eco Eagles!
Roman Road Primary School is embarking upon a journey to achieve our Green Flag Award. This is an internationally recognised award. During this year’s Eco Week, we will be launching Eco Themes in a BIG way and will hopefully achieve our Bronze and Silver Flags during the week.
As a school, we are already looking for ways to be more Eco friendly:
*Our School Council are also our Eco Council and Staff members include Mrs Lacey, Mrs Phillips, Mr Bradshaw and Miss Allen.
*Teachers are including ‘Green themes’ in their Creative Curriculum.
*We are brilliant at ‘Bike-it’
*Our garden club has been up and running for a while and the vegetables grown are very tasty!
*We have our Healthy School Award!
In order to improve further, we need to review the 9 Topics of the Eco Award:
Energy
Litter
Waste & Recycling
Water
Transport
Healthy Living
Biodiversity
School Grounds
Global Perspectives
The Theme of Eco Week this time is…
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
Our particular focuses will be:
India & Global Warming.
Aims of ECO WEEK :
*To create an understanding about Indian culture
*To make links and raise money for an Indian orphanage in Malakapatnam
*To raise whole school awareness of Climate change issues
*To sponsor a polar bear
*To devise a school Eco Code
Indian Orphange Information:
It’s a Christian school based in the middle of a Hindu community. The children are mainly orphans due to the Tsunami hit on December 26th 2004. The children are of the lowest caste system (or ‘untouchables’) and without education would end up living in the worst possible conditions. We want to help them build a school and keep in touch with them to find out about life in India.
Events during the week:
The children will be taking part in loads of activities during the week which will raise their awareness about Indian life and Climate change. An Indian expert will be talking to the children, a drama company will be visiting to tell an Indian story and a visitor will be doing art work with the children.
On Friday 11th June we are having a Green Day.
This is a national event and children can get dressed up all in green.
Please bring £1 and all the money raised will be sent to the Indian Orphanage.
If you would like to donate more it will be greatly appreciated.
How PARENTS/GUARDIANS can get involved:
*Encourage your child to bike-it to school during the week and bring your own bikes as well!
*Each class will be given a ‘polar bottle’ through the week. Any spare coppers you have, please send them into school and we use the money collected across the year to sponsor a polar bear.
*You are invited with your children to an Indian breakfast on Friday 11th June at 8am in the Junior Hall. The event is free, but if you would like to bring a donation for the orphanage/polar bear, there will be a collecting box available.
KEEP A LOOK OUT ON THE WEBSITE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT ECO WEEK!
Thank you for all your support...why don't you begin looking for ways in which YOU can become more eco friendly?
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April 27, 2010
Linking to Ghana
As part of our forthcoming work on Africa, we will be soon linking with the country of Ghana.
Very soon children will be exchanging information about what life is like in the two countries.
As part of this, the school is now linked to the Pa Pa Paa website.
This site, which is partly ran by Comic Relief, sends out webcasts from a school in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Children from the Great Fammis School talk about their life in the village. As part of the link up, we are able to e-mail questions which will be answered in the webcast.
The school was built using money from Fairtrade. Fairtrade believes that farming families should get a fair amount of money for what they produce. Cocoa beans for chocolate is the major produce of the area. Lots of the families of the children at the school are tomato farmers.
Year 3 & 4 are focussing on Fairtrade but we will be looking for questions to ask the school from everyone !!
Pa Pa Paa :
Can you use the site to find out what Pa Pa Paa means in the Ghanaian language of Twi?
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March 31, 2010
EGG COMPETITION
Well done to everyone who entered the egg competition. They were all 'egg'cellent'!!!
Well done to the winners and runners up.
Nursery - Hannah Marshall
- Jennifer Callighan
Reception - Ryan Pearson
- Elliott Loews
Year 1 - Alex Gore
- Dylan Callighan
Year 2 - Kyle Mclean
- Daniel Hick
Year 3 - William Fair
- Brooke Champney
Year 4 - Kirsty Lacey
- Chloe Percy
Year 5 - Nathan Nelson
- Jake Archibald
Year 6 - Caitlin Stewart
- Liam Thompson
MSB - Kieran Smailes
- Jake Reed
Best solo effort - Aimee-Lee Brooks
- Sophie Platts
More pictures can be seen in our Gallery by clicking on this link:
http://www.romanroadprimary.org/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=1488
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Thornley Woods
Year 3 and the MSB enjoyed their visit to Thornley Woods as part of their theme 'Animal Kingdom!'
Whilst there the children went in a bird hide, did some pond dipping to explore all the different kinds of animals that live in a pond, made some art sculptures using natural materials found in the woods and went on a camoflage hunt.
It was a fantastic day out and no one fell in the pond!
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March 14, 2010
Fun Afternoon
Well done to Year 6 who raised just over £200 during Wednesday's Egyptian fun afternoon. The money raised will go towards the Year 5/6 end of year concert. Everyone was fantastic and enjoyed a brilliant afternoon...thank you to all the parents and children who donated gifts for the tombola. Thank you to all staff who gave their help and support. Another big success!!!
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Sponsored Event - BOOKWEEK!
In Year 2 we had some really difficult spellings to learn for the BookWeek Sponsored Event.
One of the words was 'papyrus'. Miss Allen is giving out the prizes for the most sponsor money raised this Friday (19th March). there will be a bronze, silver and a gold prize so keep collecting!!! Good Luck!
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March 7, 2010
The Best Book Week Ever!
Tomorrow is the launch of Book Week 2010. Let's make it the best ever and spend the week 'Wrapped up in Reading!'
There will be lots of exciting things to learn and get involved with at school. Two prizes to look out for are Gold Writer award and Poetry Prize. These are given out every year to one person in KS1 and one in KS2.
Remember to learn your song or spellings for the sponsored event and return your money soon. Also get ready for the fun afternoon and dress up day on Wednesday!
Thank you for your returned parent/child competition entries. Winners prizes given out on Friday so return quickly please.
Keep checking the website for events happening this week and see how much fun we are having and all the learning going on!!!
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Roman Road's Talented Artists
As part of our 50th Anniversary Celebrations, Mrs McKeown wanted a mural on the school site. It was to be placed on the side of the boiler house. Last year, Miss Allen asked a few talented artists to design the mural.
This week, they were invited back to use special paints to create the mural. It will be placed on the wall shortly!
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February 23, 2010
CHANGE TO DRESS UP DAY!!!!
The dress up day has been changed during Book Week to Wednesday 10th March. Letters were sent out this Tuesday sharing this information. Remember, it's an Egyptian theme so you could come as an explorer, a pharaoh, Cleopatra or a mummy! Prizes for the best costumes.
Remember, it's also the fun afternoon on the same day so bring your money!!!
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February 16, 2010
Are you an Eco Hero?
We are an Eco School! We will shortly be asking pupils and staff to join our bid to win our Bronze, Silver and Green Flag Award. this will make us an Eco School. A Green Flag Award is an internationally recognised Award and we will win it!
Parents, let us know if you are interested in joining our Action Team!
You might be able to give us some tips on how to become more Eco Friendly. We already have a gardening club run by parents and staff. We have a rag bag bin so all your old clothes can go to be recycled. We are an amazing Bike-it! school and we can only get better!
Look out in the future for Eco Events and join with us in our journey to win the Green Flag!
Miss Allen
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The countdown begins for Book Week!!!
10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1
It's the week you've all looked forward to...
Book Week is Monday 8th - Friday 12th March!
The theme this year is 'Wrapped up in Reading' - an Egyptian theme...
Keep working on your parent/child competition entries and pass them to Miss Allen as soon as you can. There will be loads of competitions and activities to get involved in during the week:
*Every night from Mon - Thurs the Bookfair will be in the Junior Hall from 3.30pm!
*Wednesday is the Year 6 Enterprise Project where they run a sale in school ...bring your money as there will be loads of fab games, food and prizes as well as books to buy!
*Friday is the BIG competition day. All prizes will be given out on this day. This is also when you can get dressed up...Egyptian style!
(For other information about Book Week, please check the letters sent home before half term)
REMEMBER...Book Week is when we choose our Gold Writer in KS1 and KS2. It could be anyone, so work hard!
If anyone reads this entry and you find information about Ancient Egypt using the internet/researching in the library...Miss Allen will give you a Frogget!!!!!!!!!!!!! Roll on March 8th!
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January 26, 2010
Christian Visitors!
Sheila and Katie came to see us today. They are from Miss Allen's church (Living Waters Church).
As part of Interfaith Week, Sheila and Katie came to talk to us about their faith. They visited all our classrooms and led a whole school assembly. Sheila made a banana appear from nowhere in a magic trick. She wanted us to eat dog food! Don't worry parents...it was only chopped up mars bars and jelly with a different label on. She told us that we should never judge people by their outward appearance!
We heard the story of Frd with the wobbly legs (the paralysed man story in the Bible) and asked Sheila questions about what she believed. What a fab day! She wants to come and visit again!
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January 11, 2010
Animal Kingdom - MSB and Year 3
During the Spring term our topic will be all about animals. We will be investigating and finding out about lots of different types of animals, where they live, how they move and much,much more. Do you have a favourite animal?
Science
- Why do some living things need protection?
- How can we group animals?
- What do animals eat?
- Look at life cycles of butterflies and frogs.
- Build an ant farm to observe over time.
Geography
- Where do animals live?
- Does the climate affect where certain animals live?
- Develop map skills.
Art
- Colour mixing to create patterns and colour tones for jungle and desert habitats.
- Create own animals using different mediums eg. paper mache, clay.
Design and Technology
- Design and make a moving insect.
- Design and make an animal puppet.
Literacy
- Non chronological reports
- Instructions.
- Fact finding
- Animal stories.
- Record life cycles through a story board.
- Dictionary work.
Music
- Listen to music that describes animals.
- Sing animal songs.
- Create sounds for animals using a range of instruments.
French
- Learn animal words.
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November 25, 2009
Panto Pandemonium
Year 3 and Year 4 are proud to present Panto Pandemonium.
There will be two performances of Panto Pandemonium.
Both concerts are on Wednesday 16th December - 10am Show (KS2 Hall)
- 6pm Show (KS2 Hall)
We look forward to seeing you there.
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November 23, 2009
Roman Roads 50th Birthday / Christmas Events
Dates for your Diary
SCHOOL BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
Week beginning 23rd Nov
* Writing our favourite school memories.
* Choosing what will go in our time capsule.
* Making a display on what makes Roman Road such a special school.
* Thurs 26th Nov - 1950's lessons and school lunch.
* Fri 27th Nov - Balloon Release at 3pm (Parents welcome to attend)
Week beginning 30th Nov
* Mon 30th Nov - Time Capsule
* Tues 1st Dec - Over 18 Reunion (4 - 7 pm)
* Wed 2nd Dec - Anniversary plates to be made
- Under 18 Reunion (4 - 6pm) for Students currently attending Heworth
Grange or another local comprehensive school.
Not for children who currently attend Roman Road.
* Fri 4th Dec - Bling Your Bike and Yourself
Ben and Danny, BMX Stunt Riders Return
PTA Disco for Y1 - Y6 (4.30pm - 6.30pm)
Week Beginning 7th Dec
Tues 8th Dec - Roman Road is 50 years old today.
Re-dedication Service in KS2 Hall at 2pm. (Parents welcome to attend)
OTHER IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Thurs 10th Dec - School Christmas Lunch
Tues 15th Dec - Foundation Stage and Key Stage One Christmas Play (10am)
Y1 / Y2 children can be taken home for lunch to return for 1pm
Y1 / Y2 Christmas Party (1pm - KS1 Hall)
Wed 16th Dec - Y3 / Y4 Pantomime (10am)
Nursery / Reception Christmas Party (1pm - KS1 Hall)
Y5 / Y6 Christmas Party (1pm - KS2 Hall)
Y3 / Y4 Panotmime (6pm)
Thurs 17th Dec - Y3 / Y4 Christmas Party (1pm - KS2 Hall)
Fri 18th Dec - Carol Service at St. Andrews Church (2pm)
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Pink Day Success
Thank you to everyone who supported our Wear Pink Day. The children really enjoyed it whilst raising money for an important charity. We are delighted to let you know we raised £103.50 for Breast Cancer Awareness.
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November 22, 2009
Life at Home in The Second World War
Year 4 together with some year 3 children have been experiencing what it would have been like for children during the Second World War.
As part of our Creative Curriculum topic, a mock air raid shelter (with air raid sound effects) has been constructed in the classroom.
More can be found out about life in the second war for children by going on to a site by the BBC. Click on the link:
BBC World War 2 Site for children
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May 31, 2009
Year 3’s Healthy Sandwich
In Year 3 we have been making some healthy sandwiches as part of the D&T curriculum.
We learnt the importance of food hygiene and preparation and developed a good awareness of health and safety and what type of sandwich contributes to a healthy diet. We have developed our making skills by learning to combine ingredients according to personal preference.
We all enjoyed making the sandwiches but had even more fun eating our sandwiches.
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Year 3 Find Changes!
In Year 3 this term our Geography topic is 'Changes in our local area'.
We talked about different types of changes that could take place and where we could find out more. We asked Mrs Pigott, who has lived on Leam Lane since she was a little girl to take us on a walk around the area and share with us the changes she has noticed over the years.
We found changes that had happened within a week! The first change was within our school, we had just had a new bike shed fitted. We also found another recent change just outside the school, a block of flats had been knocked down the week before we went on the walk!
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April 14, 2009
Welcome to the Summer Term in Year 3!
I hope you have all had a lovely break. It’s hard to believe that the final term is upon us already! This is always a busy time with lots of exciting and fun events and this year is no exception. Please read on to find out what Year 3 will be learning this term.
Literacy we will be continuing work using ‘RWI’. We will also be writing instructions, recounts, reports and letters in Literacy.
Every Friday in numeracy will be doing problem solving focusing on logic problems and finding all possibilities, this will help develop the children’s ideas and methods to solve practical problems.
Science will focus on magnets and springs so that the children begin to understand attract and repel, upward and downward forces.
P.E – Every Tuesday afternoon until the end of the summer term Year 3 will be going to the swimming baths for their first swimming lessons with the school. I am really looking forward to this. Also on a Wednesday afternoon a football coach will be coming into school to work with the class on their control skills. Could you please make sure the children have their P.E kit in school every Wednesday and Thursday and swimming kit every Tuesday?
In R.E the children will be learning more about The Person of Jesus. They will look at how Jesus is represented through art in different periods and places. They will also look at Saints focusing on St. Paul and St. Cuthbert.
Art / Design Technology we will be making sandwiches.
In PSHE we will be discussing Relationships and Changes.
History we will be starting work on Anglo Saxons. Hopefully we will go on a visit to Bede’s world where the children will have the opportunity to dress in habits and discover where the Anglo-Saxon monastic buildings were and look at the chancel's exterior features.
In Geography we will be investigating our local area.
Music the children will be exploring musical arrangements.
Homework will continue to be given out on Friday and should be returned on Wednesday.
A big thanks to you for the continuing support in ensuring homework is returned.
If you have any concerns or queries, please don’t hesitate to come and see me after school Miss Stubbs.
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April 9, 2009
Easter Egg Hunt
Children in Years 1, 2, 3 and MSB had a lovely surprise on the last day of term.
The Easter bunny had hidden little tokens all around the school field and yard. In return for these tokens were chocolate eggs. Miss Stubbs, Mrs Inkster, Mr Slane, Mrs Cairns and Miss Parkin helped us find them. Rayne managed to find one of the special tokens which got him an extra big egg. We all had great fun!! We hope you all have a lovely Easter.
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March 31, 2009
Year 3 - Teeth
In Science this half term Year 3 have been looking at Teeth.
We looked at the different types of teeth we have and even held a pair of false teeth! Miss Stubbs asked us to investigate which drinks are more harmful to our teeth than others. First we voted for our favourite drinks. Then we got six eggshells to represent the enamel on our teeth. We then put an eggshell into each of our favourite drinks and left them for a week. After the week we examined what had happened to the eggshells and as you can see from the photos it wasn’t pleasant at all.
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March 15, 2009
Year 3 - The Romans
In Year 3 this term we have been learning all about the Romans.
We learnt how Rome was created and re-enacted the Romulus and Remus story. We all enjoyed getting into character as you can see from the photos. We have also designed and made Roman catapults in Technology then had a competition of whose catapult would fire the furthest, which we all enjoyed. We are making Roman Helmets in Art but need a few more lessons before they are finished. We have loved learning new things for this topic. Miss Stubbs
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March 8, 2009
Year 3 - The Romans
In Year 3 this term we have been learning all about the Romans.
We learnt how Rome was created and re-enacted the Romulus and Remus story. We all enjoyed getting into character as you can see from the photos. We have also designed and made Roman catapults in Technology then had a competition of whose catapult would fire the furthest, which we all enjoyed. We are making Roman Helmets in Art but need a few more lessons before they are finished. We have loved learning new things for this topic. Photos to follow. Miss Stubbs
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February 3, 2009
Education City
Across all year groups we use Education City to enhance our learning in English, Maths and Science. Have you heard your child talking about it and wondered what it was?
EducationCity.com is the most engaging learning and assessment resource for children and includes online Tests for Assessment learning and exam practice. It is ideal for children aged between 3 and 12 years old, as well as for older children with special educational needs (SEN).
It's educational games make learning fun for children at school and at home and help to improve their academic performance.
Want to know more, click on the link below for information, including how to get a free trial at home.
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December 10, 2008
Track Santa this Christmas Eve
Hello Roman Road Children. Santa has asked us to keep you updated with the countdown to Christmas, as well as being able to track his progress around the world on Christmas Eve. Click on the link below and NASA will help keep you updated and let you know when it's time to be heading for bed! Don't delay check it out.
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November 4, 2008
Year 3 - Salvation Army Visit
Year 3 - R.E. Communities in our local area
In R.E. we have been learning all about what a community is and what it’s like to be part of a community. We have spent a long time looking at different types of communities and what symbols are used to show people that they are a member of that community, such as a cross, school badge, football strip etc...
We then focused on one community the ‘Salvation Army’. The whole class thought this was the army and were shocked to see our visitor from the Salvation Army turn up in normal clothes rather than a camouflage uniform.
Year 3 really enjoyed the visit and asked lots of questions.
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June 30, 2008
Gateshead Athletics Festival 2008
We arrived at school on June 27th at 8.30am all kitted out and ready to go to Gateshead International Stadium, home of the 10th Schools Athletics festival. How did we do?
A selection of children from Year 3 -6 had taken part in trials across the month in school and were then chosen to represent Roman Road at the festival. We particpated in a huge number of events from sprints, skipping, relays, long jump, javelin, cricket ball throw and many more.
All of the children who participated were incredible! They had a fantastic team spirit and represented our school superbly both on and off the track.
We were able to secure a semi final place in all of our races: sprint, skipping and relays. With all of the children giving 100% effort. We went on to have three opportunities in the finals - Year 5/6 Boys skipping, Year 5/6 Boys 80m Sprint and finally the Year 5/6 Boys Relay.
David Kippen represented the school in all three events and was an amazing team captain. He was just pipped to a medal in the skipping. By the time the final race of the day approached we were all extremely nervous.
The relay started with a fantastic first leg by Josh Archibald who powered down the track, Liam McDonald had a great baton change and held our position well, Jamie McKeown roared down the track gaining ground all of the time and had a clean baton change to David Kippen who never gave up and was determined that our day would end with a medal.
It did! The boys brought home a silver medal for Roman Road. Fantastic!
By the end of the day Mr. Allsop was sunburnt, Mrs Inkster and Mrs Rushton had lost their voices and Mr Bradshaw was floating with delight at the results.
Congratulations to all of the children that took part you were amazing and a credit to our school.
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June 12, 2008
Line Dancing Festival
Children from Roman Road Primary School participated in Gateshead's Line Dancing Festival last night.
The children and parents thoroughly enjoyed the event, with everyone taking part and 'having a go', parents included! Children from Year 3, 4 and 5 represented the school and their behaviour was exceptional, they are a credit to our school.
We look forward to participating in next year with a view to having our own dance to present to the audience.
Many thanks to Miss Ternent, Miss Stubbs and Mrs Lacey for all their hard work in teaching the children the dances.
Photos to follow soon
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March 25, 2008
Celebrating success in Literacy!
We love reading and spelling!
All of the infants in Roman road are working on reading and spelling their 300 key words. We learn them as part of our homework. It is very tricky, but our teachers have made it easier for us by splitting the words into groups. We have Copper, Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards.
Every time we achieve and award, we receive a certificate in whole school celebration assembly on Friday.
We all love achieving our awards...they are FAB!!!
by Miss Allen
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Book Week
The children throughly enjoyed dressing up as under the sea characters. I really enjoyed being a mermaid for the day! We had lots of fun writing poems, completing wordsearches and taking part in a colouring in competition judged by Miss Parkin. On the Friday the children had even more fun with the Fab Food Fun House!
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January 23, 2008
Read Write Inc
Across Key Stage One and Year 3 we are using a great new reading and writing scheme.
Every day we are reading and writing with our partners and teaching sticks.
We start the day by learning a new phoneme - this is the sound made by a letter or group of letters.
We then move onto our speed sounds - this is practising reading every phoneme we have learnt so far at speed.
Then we work out the green words with our partner - these are the words that can be blended.
Red words follow - these are words that have grotty graphemes and can't be sounded out.
Next we read the book using a teaching stick to point to the words. We help each other lots.
Finally we concentrate on using the phonemes and our knowledge of the book to complete writing tasks.
All of our teachers are so impressed with our progress and we show our achievements with lots of celebrations. Some of our celebratios are King Kong, marshmallow clap, L'oreal, Elvis, lorry driver and many more. Why not ask for a demonstration we would love to show you and share our success?
To find out more aout Read Write Inc click on the link below.
www.readwriteinc.com/page12.html
Uploaded by Mrs Inkster
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November 22, 2007
Children Make Bike-It Dusties
Children from year 3 have been busy making dustcaps for their bikes.
James from Bike-It, the project linked to our school to make bike riding safer, showed the children how to make them using clay.
This is one of many activities in the Bike-It project.
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November 21, 2007
Year 3 Activity
We enjoyed learning about relationships. We painted special pictures of us and how we get on with each other. We used pastels, paint and coloured pencils.
by Luke Hall, Shaun McIntyre and Lauren Johnson
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November 2, 2007
Poetry
Poetry Poetry Poetry!
We have been looking at shape poems this week in literacy. We have been looking at the impact of the presentation and picking out rhyming and non rhyming words. Next week we will be writing our own monster shape poems!
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Art Presentation
Presentation on pattern
On Thursday 1st November the children listenend to an art presentation by Pippa Bell from the National Gallery. The presentation was all about pattern. She showed the children different paintings and asked them to look for the patterns within the painting. She couldn't believe how enthusiastic the children were and how many great ideas they had. The presentation lasted just over an hour and the children gained many good ideas for future art work.
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Roman lady Visit
On Monday 15th October year 3 enjoyed a visit from a Roman lady.
The Roman lady dressed the children up and talked about life during Roman times. This included clothes, food, homes and jobs. The children throughly enjoyed asking questions and finding out about Roman life. She handed round lots of artefacts for the children to touch and discuss.
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February 13, 2006
French!!
Bonjour! In Year 3 we have been learning lots of French! Learning a MFL is now part of the KS1 and KS2 curriculum. We have learnt lots of French songs including, "Bonjour!" "Six au lit" and "C'est Moi!" Everyone is really enjoying learning a new language. We also experienced a delicious french breakfast which consisted of baguette, croissants and pain au chocolat! Everyone is becoming much more confident and all of the children are learning new vocabulary each day!
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