Roman Road Primary School
October 12, 2008
Measures
Year 4 are starting work on measures. Use the activity below from the BBC which will help to support reading scales.
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Year 4 Are Learning to Use Excel
Year 4 have been learning how to use Excel to create questionnaires.
They have typed in questions and asked the questions to get the data needed. From there, they used the wizard to create charts for each question. The charts were moved around the page to fit and the children also learnt how to format them to make them look better.
The whole topic fits in with our work in Science which is to do with Temperature.
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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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February 10, 2008
Multiskills Mania For Year 4
The year 4 class attended the cluster school's Multiskills event which was held at Heworth Grange Comprehensive School.
Skills based around jumping, running, dribbling, shooting and teamwork were all shown and one of the teams came 5th out of sixteen. The attitude was excellent and all the children had a great time.
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January 31, 2008
Computer Art in Year 4
Year 4 have been very busy using Fresco to draw pictures of houses. They have used stamps, airbrush tools and symmetry to create their pictures.
All the pictures can be found in the Key Stage 2 section of the Gallery from the link at the top of the home page or in Mr A's classroom.
There were some really good examples of pictures that used the stamp tool to create texture for trees, bricks, the sky and grass.
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January 27, 2008
Year 4 and the Human Body
Year 4 are currently looking at how the human and animal bodies are formed.
We also found out that our muscles work in pairs. We carried out stretching exercises to find out which ones contract and which relax during exercise.
All human and most animal bodies have a skeleton. The class have found out that that a human skeleton has three jobs:
i) to support the body;
ii) to protect vital organs such as the heart, lungs and the brain;
iii) allows the body to move.
The children's BBC site on the skeleton can be found by clicking on the link below:
Muscle stretch work:
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January 15, 2008
Keyboards Are Back !!
Year 4 and 5 have started to learn how to play the keyboards.
Since the huts were demolished, there has been no place where the keyboards could be set up. After a bit of thought and organising though, they were set up in Mrs Stirrup's classroom and she has begun to teach the children how to play well known tunes.
In their first lesson, the children learnt about which notes are which and where they are on the keyboard.
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January 7, 2008
Year 4 Topics
By clicking the link below, you will find out what areas we will be covering until February half term.
Literacy - Fiction - Fantasy stories - descriptive writing.
Numeracy - Addition / subtraction, place value, Measures and shape/space.
Science - Human and animal bodies incuding work on skeletons.
ICT- Drawing images - art package work.
PE - Dance
Geography - Villages and places in other countries.
Music - Keyboards
MFL - French phrases
RE - Christianity
Art - Take a seat topic - Designing chairs.
Don't forget, if you have anything that links to one of the topics, please bring it in for us to look at.
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December 18, 2007
Website About St. Nicholas
Year 4 have found a really good website about St.Nicholas alias Santa Claus.
Click on the link to go there.
http://www.stnicholascenter.org/
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December 3, 2007
History Websites
http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/preload.htm
Click this link for a really good site that will help you with various areas of history:
This is another good site for the Ancient Egyptians:
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html
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November 8, 2007
Trinny Comes For A Visit
A special visitor came into class to see the children.
Trinny the Mongrel came in with Mrs McKeown.
Trinny is a 'hearing' dog. We all are used to seeing dogs being used to help blind people but it's a bit more unusual to have a visit from a hearing dog.
Hearing dogs help people that are deaf to respond to sounds like doorbells and smoke alarms. As with dogs for the blind, hearing dogs are also trained to a high standard.
The children enjoyed meeting Trinny and finding out about the job she does.
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November 5, 2007
Experimenting With Circuits in Year 4
Year four are starting their topic on Electricity. We have learnt that electricity from the sockets and lights IS VERY DANGEROUS AND WILL KILL YOU IF TOUCHED.
Most batteries are low voltage and can be used. We connected wires, batteries and bulbs together.
We learnt that if you keep adding bulbs but don't increase the amount of batteries (also known as cells), the bulbs will get dimmer because the electricity is shared between them.
Some children extended their learning by using a bell and a switch.
Look out for more work from year 4 about electricity and our special project we are going to do.
These are websites where you can find out more about electrical circuits:
http://www.andythelwell.com/blobz/
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/science/electricity_book1/index.htm
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October 29, 2007
Year 4 Subject Topics
Up until Christmas, we will be looking at the following areas (click the link) in our lessons in year 4. If you have any information or things you would like to show, please bring them in.
Literacy - Non Fiction - Newspapers, Instructions and Reports;
Numeracy - Measures, Multiplying and Dividing, Fractions and Data Handling;
Science - Electricity
I.C.T. - Using I.C.T. to present information in different ways;
P.E. - Swimming, Football and Dance;
History - Egyptian Kings and Mummies
Geography - Settlements;
R.E. - Christianity;
Art - Designing Chairs
Personal, Social, Moral Education - New Beginnings.
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October 3, 2007
Making Christmas Cards
I enjoyed drawing a picture of a snowman that is going to be sent away to the printers to be made into Christmas cards.
by Danny Cairns
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September 28, 2007
Simon Pops in For A Visit
Year 4 got really nice surprise today when Simon visited our class for the first time since moving to live in Australia. He has come back on visit and will be returning soon.
The class had a question and answer session and found out lots of information about his new country including what it's like to live there and what his school is like.
Our class were really interested to find out what it's like to have Christmas in the summer and also about the big snakes and spiders that live very near to everyday life.
Simon's class in Sydney sent over a portfolio about themselves as well as some photos. We are looking forward to making links with them in the near future.
Some of the year 4 boys are pictured with Simon above.
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September 25, 2007
Year 4 Experience Pottery
Year 4 are currently learning how to make clay bowls and plates. They have concentrated hard on making sure the finsihed product will be as smooth as possible and ready for painting.
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July 12, 2007
The Sage
On the 21st of June 2007, year 3 and 4 went on a trip to the Sage to perform some songs with other schools. At 1 o clock in the afternoon we went for a practice. But we did the real performance at 7pm. In the afternoon we travelled by a coach but on the night time we had to make our own way there.
We had a live orchestra, which included all ages. We had one interval. There were more people on playing musical instruments so that the whole performance took longer than we had expected.
We all really enjoyed it!!!
By Nicole Stell and Joe Hunter
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Gateshead Primary Schools Athletics Festival
23 children from years 4,5 & 6 took part in the Athletics Festival at Gateshead Stadium recently. Various different activities based around running, skipping, jumping and throwing kept the children busy.
As some of team were away at Whithaugh Park, others took their place and performed really well with a large number of semi final and final places being gained.
We won a gold medal in the year 3/4 skipping to cap a very good performance by both teams.
Above all, the behaviour was excellent as was our support from the parents. Well done everyone.
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May 9, 2007
Year Four Team Miss Out By One Point
Durham County Schools Year 4 Football Competition
Our year four football squad played in the County Competition.
They won their first group by winning all three matches:
v. Falla Park 5-0
v. Colegate Greens 2-0
v. Colegate Reds 2-0
They then played at St. Mary’s School, Sunderland in the semi finals. Unfortunately, they missed the final by one point. The scores were:
v. St Mary’s (Sunderland) – lost – 1-0
v. Westoe Crown (South Shields) – won – 2-1 (goalscorers - Ross Butler & Liam McDonald)
v. Easington C of E. (Peterlee) – won – 1-0 (goalscorer - Ross Butler)
St. Marys went through to the final.
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May 1, 2007
Stunning Year 4 Football Performance
The school year four team consisting of Josh T, Joe D, Callum Q, Joe H, Adam W, Celine D, Ross B and Liam M.won through to the next round of the Durham County schools year 3/4 competition after three wins in the group stage at Colegate Primary School.
The scores and scorers were as follows:
Colegate Green 0 Colegate Red 2
Roman Road 5 (Liam 2, Joe H. 2 & Ross) Falla Park 0
Colegate Green 0 Roman Road 2 (Joe H & Ross)
Falla Park 0 Colegate Red 0
Colegate Green 1 Falla Park 0
Colegate Red 0 Roman Road 2 (Adam & Joe H)
Well done to all of our players and we look forward to the next round at St. Mary's (Sunderland) next week.
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February 11, 2007
Year 4 Team Finishes Fifth in Heworth Grange Multiskills
The whole of year 4 took part in a multiskills event at Heworth Grange School. They were competiting against Whitemere, Wardley, Lingey House and the Drive schools in a competition that involved throwing, running, jumping and ball control.
Three teams from our school took part and they finished 5th, 7th and 12th. A team from Wardley won the event which was organised by Heworth Grange PE department and the Sports Leader Course students from year 10.
A very enjoyable morning was had by everyone.
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December 1, 2006
Sting Attack!!!
At the start of September, a small wasp attack went a little bit wrong & four year four people with one teacher were stung. The three dinner ladies took the children on to a different yard to play on so they didn’t get hurt.
After the children had lunch, a wasp exterminator came in to get rid of the wasps and the nest. When the exterminator left, everyone was nice and calm and the wasps were gone.
by Taylor Johnston
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Dance Teacher Rules the School.
A dance teacher called Miss Scott is in school teaching the year three and four
classes how to dance. She is from Heworth Grange Comprehensive school . She does the dancing in the junior hall.
The dance teacher comes in on Mondays. She does the dancing at 2.30pm on an afternoon. Miss Scott started teaching year four street dance moves in October.
In December year four are going to do a performance, with Miss Scott. It’s about Christmas. Year four are very excited . It’s going to be performed after the Christmas play and it’s going to be really good!
By Katie Sanderson
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Pins and Needles
Two weeks ago year four made finger puppets with Miss Minnican and Miss Strangwood in the year four classroom. They made allsorts of brilliant finger puppets.
Firstly Miss Minnican showed us some examples that we could make. Year four made different kind of finger puppets like cats, dogs, book characters, ladybirds, birds and lions.
They had to sew two pieces of felt shaped as a finger puppet together. Then they glued googly eyes, pom poms and pipe cleaners on. After that they put them on the art table to dry and then Miss Minnican and Miss Strangwood put them up on display in the corner of the classroom.
They really enjoyed it and are looking forward to doing other things.
by Daniel Sutton
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Dance Teacher Busts a Move.
A dance teacher started to teach year four and year three in the middle October,
at Roman Road School. The dance teachers name is Mrs Scott. She normally teaches at Heworth Grange Comprehensive School.
She teaches the children in the key stage two hall because it is big enough to fit everyone in.
They are learning some street dance moves and now learning a Christmas
Dance witch will be performed in December. They skids. It is going to be
Great! Look forward to see the photos on this site soon.
By Chloe Carney.
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Dance teacher strikes a move!
Every Monday, a dance teacher from Heworth Grange School called Miss Scott, comes into Roman Road School. Miss Scott teaches year three and year four. She comes at 2:30 pm.
Miss Scott mostly teaches street dance but can do other dances too. Year three and year four practice in the Junior hall. Miss Scott shows us different steps and moves. She comes to help us learn more and get better at things we can’t do in P.E.
Miss Scott uses different music, so we can entertain everyone. It is very important that we learn our positions and steps, because we are going to show the rest of our school in a performance in December.
By Nicole Stell
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November 23, 2006
Year 4 Celebrate Thanksgiving Day
Year 4 have spent the afternoon learning about Thanksgiving Day as part of their American topic. They had a go at different activities to find out what is done in the USA to celebrate the festival.
Thanksgiving is a three day holiday that starts on the fourth Thursday of November. Americans celebrate it to give thanks for the harvest and other events. The tradition was first celebrated in 1621 when travelling pilgrims were saved by the indians.
Every year, Maceys Department Store hold a thanksgiving parade. Year 4 watched a live webcam feed of the event. The picture above is from today's parade in New York City.
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November 21, 2005
Mr Allsop's Class Have Been Learning About Non Fictional Texts
We have been learning about the difference between non-fiction and fictional texts. We found that fictional texts are not real. Examples are stories and poems.
Non fictional texts are true. Examples are explanations, instructions, persuasive writing & non-chronological reports.
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