April 28, 2010
Roman Road at the Robotics
Further to the report while the robotics was going on, the team came a very close second to St Philip Neri. All team members performed to the highest ability. According to the Heworth CLC staff, our score would have won any other heat!! Well done to all the team members.
A few more pictures can be seen in the gallery.
Report from the Robotics - Wednesday 1.30pm
The team are hard at work trying to solve six challenges. So far they have managed most of them and are looking like scoring lots of points during the competition to be held later.
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March 18, 2010
Year 6 - Garage Band at Heworth CLC
We made our own songs using a program called 'Garage Band.' We had to find 30 different sounds covering bass, rhythm and melody. Then we used these to build up a song out of even building blocks. We then learned how to fade in and out the song and add pauses. Mrs Lawson and Mrs Pigott were very impressed by the results. 
We then used our songs as background music to a film that we produced from a variety of space clips. We are awaiting our finished product to view in class. We are very excited!
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Year 6 Transition Lessons at Heworth
Over the course of the year, year 6 have had the opportunity to visit Heworth Grange Secondary School for a variety of transition lessons. We have had a French lesson and have learned how to say animals in French. Can you remember what le lapin is? We also learned how to use Movie Maker in ICT and have started creating our own e-safety movies, Miss McMullen has invited us back next half term to add sound to our movies.
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February 10, 2010
ICT + Valentines = Fab Day!
In ICT we have been learning how to use Word Art in a document.
We wrote a message for Valentines day, printed it and then added it to a Valentines Day heart which we decorated. We can't wait to share them with our loved ones.
Do you like them? Please leave us a comment.
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January 28, 2010
Year 6 at Heworth CLC
Year 6 attended Heworth Grange CLC last week to develop robotic skills. As we are the reigning champions of the robotics competitions we were given an exclusive invitation to trial a new piece of equipment. The children had to use the robot, find codes and complete the challenge to avoid mass destruction! In addition to this we also learned about energy and had to present our findings to the class and answer challenging questions. We now know about tidal power, wind power and nuclear power!
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July 9, 2009
Robotics Champions
The robotics team had to complete a series of challenges and gain the most points to become champions. The first challenge was to programme the robot to follow a line and avoid a defender. The second challenge was to programme the robot to score a goal and celebrate. The third challenge was to programme the robot to dribble the ball around defenders. Extra points were gained if a goal was scored. Well done for completing all the challenges and scoring the most points.
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July 3, 2009
Robotics Champs!!!!
Our fantastic Year 5 Robotics team are Gateshead Champions!!!!!
Well done to Kate, Liam, Kevin & Megan for working so well together to bring back another Robotics win for the school - the second in three years.
Thank you to Mr Bradshaw for all of the hard work that he has put in with this team and the other teams he is involved with.
Photos to follow.
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May 5, 2009
We are Writers!
At the moment, we are waiting for our own published book 'We are Writers!'. The books will be here soon so do not worry if you have ordered a copy.
Our writing at Roman Road is getting better and better! Before Easter we uploaded our best examples of work onto the Scholastic Website and our very own published book was available to order at the Book Fair in March. When the books arrive, there will be a few which can still be purchased at the cost of £5.99. They are worth every penny!!!
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March 4, 2009
Animation Club
Some of our Year 5 pupils have worked really hard over the last few weeks in preparation for an animation competition.
This will be held at Heworth Grange Comprehension School on March 19th 2009. They have worked closely with our Year 6 pupils who made it through to the finals last year. Keep up the hard work I know you will do really well. Miss Stubbs and Mr Bradshaw
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March 1, 2009
Control Technology with Bee Bot
On Monday we visited Gateshead's City Learning centre near the Metrocentre. We were there to learn all about giving directions and inputtng inormation into Bee Bot.
First we all showed Anne that we knew our directions - forward, backwards, left and right. We practised giving ourselves instructions - e.g. going forwards 3 steps snd turning right. Then she introduced us to Bee Bot, a busy yellow bee. We learnt how to input the correct information and then pressed go. We used this to make Bee Bot move around lots of different mats and ICT programs on the interactive whiteboard.
It was a great afternoon out!
All of the information we have learned, we have been using in our numeracy work this week. Go on, give us a direction and see if we can follow it - you'll be amazed how good we are.
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February 11, 2009
The Fire of London
This term in History we are learning about the Great Fire of London. To help us and make it interesting we have been using an interactive cd-rom which we used with the interactive white board. We are able to touch the interactive white board to find out about the people who were involved and what it was like when the fire happened in London. We take turns to answer questions and place captions and pictures in the correct places. We will be learning more about this important event from history over the next few weeks.
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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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January 19, 2009
Terrific Toy Time
Year one have been learning all about toys from the past and present
We have had great fun this afternoon, making kaleidoscopes and buliding toys that have to move around a maze.
This is really helping develop our ICT skills. We are having to click, drag and drop as well as follow on screen instructions. In Build a Toy we are having to give our toy control commands to beat the bad toy and stop it from draining our power.
Interested?
Click on the links below.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/moc_kaleidoscope/
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1481_build_a_toy/
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1482_moving_toys/toys_modem.htm
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October 15, 2008
A Visit to the CLC
The year 4 class walked down to Heworth CLC for a lesson today.
We went on a journey to different places by using Google Earth. The children were shown how to use the program to visit famous places such as Disneyworld in Florida and Ayers Rock in Australia.
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October 12, 2008
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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May 23, 2008
Year 5's Taking Part in the Lego Robotics Competition
Our year 5 team of Daniel, Brogan, Rebecca & Joe have been taking part in a Lego Robotics heat at Heworth CLC.
They had to program the robot to different tasks using a range of sensors and commands.
Two other schools, Ryton & Brandling were involved in the heat.
Our tem had practised really hard for the competition under the guidance of Mr Bradshaw.
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April 14, 2008
Useful Website Links for Year One
You may enjoy using the following websites at home with your child.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/barnabybear/
Where in the World is Barnaby Bear?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/pushes_pulls.shtml
Pushes and pulls.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey/
The Magic Key website, - links with our home reading books.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/numbertime/
Numeracy activities
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March 14, 2008
Year 5 Team Win Animation Heat
Our fantastic four of Adam, Nicole, Chloe & Joe worked as a brilliant team to win their heat of the animation competition at Heworth Grange.
The team were winners in a heat that included children from Brandling, St. John RC and Bill Quay.
The children had to construct a storyboard and make an animation using toys, a computer and a camera. They were marked on how they worked together as well as their artwork and the finished product.
A digital camcorder was their prize which will be used by the children in school. The children will attend the final in April.
More photos of the day can be seen in the gallery.
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February 5, 2008
Year 6 at the City Learning Centre
Year 6 took up the opportunity to visit Heworth Grange Comprehensive School for the day to take advantage of the fantastic ICT facilities and expert staff on offer.
We spent the whole day in the City Learning Centre at Heworth Grange where we undertook fun activities using ICT. We used state of the art equipment to produce our own comics based on the adventures of 'Jonni Starr' in outer space. These were very successful and we anticipate the delivery of our comics from Heworth to share and display at Roman Road. We also used an internet trail to explore and learn about 'Earth in Space' and 'The Heart' to enhance our Science knowledge. We had great fun at the CLC and will definately return if the opportunity arrises again.
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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 23, 2008
Kid Pix4
Look what we have created in ICT.
We have been using the program Kid Pix4 to create some stunning work. Take a look at some of the pictures we made. We used the setting from The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch. Can you see the wire that Mrs. Grinling uses to send the food to the lighthouse? Or how about Mr Grinling's boat crossing the sea. We have many more excellent pictures in the classroom on display. Well done to everyone for fantastic ICT work.
Uploaded by Mrs Inkster
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October 29, 2007
Scruffy Scroggles
Year 1 have been working so hard in ICT this term. We listened to a story about a very lonely monster called Scruffy Scroggles. Why was he lonely? It was because he was a good monster. He never picked his nose, always got his sums right, never put his elbow on the table at mealtimes and never ever, ever, used rude words. So we decided to make some monsters so Scruffy was not lonely anymore.
We used the paint program Fresco and experimented with colours, paintbrush size and even effects. Our work was fantastic. We developed skills suck as click and drag, as well as mouse control. Finally, we displayed all of our work in the cloakroom and Scruffy is now very happy and is not a lonely monster anymore.
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September 25, 2007
Our Trex Robot
As we reported before on our website, we won a Trex robot. We would like to show you the picture of it so here it is.
Jordan McDonald (year 6)
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September 24, 2007
Year 6 Lego to go
Some year 6 pupils have took part in a Lego robotics competition.They made it throught to the
final and it will be held at Hewoth Grange Comperhenstive school on the October 19th 2007. As we won the competition heat, the CLC gave us a Roboraptor. It is called Rex.
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May 11, 2007
Year 5 Win Robotic Competition at Heworth Grange
Two teams have been busy at Heworth Grange CLC this afternoon in a Lego control competition.
One of our teams won the competition by five points, which involved six challenges with a robot. The school won a Roboraptor which will be used by everyone.
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May 2, 2007
ICT in Roman Road
Our new ICT suite opened earlier this year.
ICT is good in our school is good because we can use Kar2ouche and make funny pictures and make them into animation.
We can also use Junior Control Insight to control events.
Some of my work is on the school website.
by Jordan McDonald and Nathan Keall.
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ICT in Roman Road
Our new ICT suite opened earlier this year.
ICT is good in our school is good because we can use Kar2ouche and make funny pictures and make them into animation.
We can also use Junior Control Insight to control events.
Some of my work is on the school website.
by Jordan McDonald and Nathan Keall.
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January 18, 2007
Our New I.C.T Suite
On 8th January 2007, our school opened a new ICT suite which has 20 new Dell computers.They all have 19 inch screens.The computers provide us with programs that help us with our work.
We have decided to replace the old desks with better condition desks.
Most of the children in Roman Road have been in the new I.C.T suite. The children like having lessons in the suite and we learn many of things including Science, Literacy and Numeracy.
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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 17, 2006
The visit to the CLC at Heworth
On the 16th November 2006, year 6 went on a trip to Heworth Grange, CLC.We split into two groups.One of the groups had a lesson on solids, liquids and gases on the computers.There were games which were really tested our brains. Another group had a music lesson, which included using the computer - choosing your own tracks - then putting it together to make a real life tune which was amazing. We now have downloaded them on to a C.D.We had a really good day.
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October 3, 2006
Year 6 ICT team start on the website
Year 6 have started their new website, they are working together as a team, to make sure it goes well. We have all got a strong friendship, and we shall enjoy ourselves.
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February 14, 2006
ICT gets a BT boost
The school has been awarded £1000 by BT to develop speaking and listening by parents and their children while working with ICT.
The money is being spent on two machines with the idea of parents / carers being able to come into school with their children and use them. Some uses could be:
* Find some information from an encyclopedia;
* Surf the net;
* Look at our website;
* Make a computer birthday card.
We hope to see parents come into school and have the chance to use some of our ever expanding facilities.
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November 22, 2005
Year 4 Use Copy and Paste To Produce Art
Year 4 have been using copying and pasting to draw a forest scene. Jordan drew the picture below and changed it using the tools.
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