Roman Road Primary School

March 7, 2010

Year 2 Assembly - Parents!

We had a gift for all of the parents. We made a French painting (inspired by Claude Monet) and a bookmark. We also gave the parents a taste of France - a crepe (pancake) and cakes with home-made french flags.
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All of them enjoyed our gift and the assembly went really well.

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After the success of the assembly, we all said goodbye to parents and they congratulated us!
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Year 2 French Assembly!

The Year 2 performed their fabulous Year 2 French assembly last Thursday. It was super and all the parents enjoyed it.
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The children were fantastic and remembered all their lines. The audience heard every word! Miss Allen thought it was so wonderful the children all received a prize afterwards! Even Mrs McKeown said she had learned new things about France! Well Done for all your hard work Year 2!

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February 23, 2010

CHANGE TO DRESS UP DAY!!!!

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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

The countdown begins for Book Week!!!

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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...

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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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Oliver DVD!

The amazing Summer 2009 Musical is now available to buy on DVD for a bargain price of £5!! If you would like to purchase a copy, ask Mrs Redhead at Reception or Miss Allen in the Y2 classroom.
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The Year 5 and 6 children put in loads of time and energy to make this a fantastic musical. Many people said it was 'better than going to the theatre'! Our children can match the talent of those on the stages of London! I can't wait for this year's musical...

Please make a comment on the website to say what you enjoyed about Oliver!

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Growing Magic Beans in Year 2

As well as our stories about Jack and the Beanstalk, we have been growing broad beans. Miss Allen challenged us to 2 competitions. Whao could write the best instructions for 'How to grow a bean' and who could grow the tallest beanstalk.
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Alisha and Liam grew the tallest beanstalks for the girls and boys.
Bethany and Haydn wrote the best instructions.

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We measured our beanstalks using a tape measure. We can measure really well now using cm.

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Jack and the Beanstalk

In Year 2 we have been learning the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.
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Miss Allen read it to us, then we said the story as a class, in groups and in pairs using actions to remind us of the main parts of the story. The ogre's wife had a face as ugly as a troll's doll. Miss Allen said our scary faces would keep her awake at night!! Argghhhh!

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Afterwards, we created a story map on a beanstalk with memory joggers. This helped us to write our story. We have a beautiful classroom display of our work with a massive beanstalk!!

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February 10, 2010

Sense -tastic!

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Can you write your own non-fiction book? - We can!
Try out our quiz also.

A non- fiction book gives the reader lots of information and facts. We have written a booklet all about our senses?

Try our quiz and see what you know.

1. How do we see?
2. What happens if there is no light?
3. How can I hear?
4. How does sound travel?
5. What sense does our nose have?
6. Can you name the four kinds of food we taste with our tongue?
7. What part of our body gives us the sense of touch?

How did you do?

First person to submit the correct answers will receive a prize from Mrs Inkster.
Write your answers in the comment box below.

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January 27, 2010

Gingerbread Man Stories

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In Year One we have been working really hard on our writing. As part of assessment week, Mrs Inkster asked us to write the story of the Gingerbread Man.

We all worked so hard and wrote some absolutely fantastic stories. We can't wait to share them with you. You will be amazed at how good our writing is becoming.

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December 27, 2009

Reading Rocks!!

Do you know we give prizes for reading in our school? The Infants read loads at school and at home and every time we read a book at home, we move a star on our display. When we reach a book character, we receive a prize!
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ALWAYS REMEMBER TO READ! I WONDER WHO WILL REACH THE END OF THE STARS? CHALLENGE YOURSELF TO READ LOADS IN THE SPRING TERM!

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May 12, 2009

Fantastic Fairytales!

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Year One have been writing fairytales this week. Their work is magnificent. Click on the link to read some of our stories. Please note all words have been spelt how the children wrote them. Prepare to be amazed!!!!

Ellie Todd

Once upon a time, long long ago, ther livt a princess called princess long hair. She livt in a high tower. A Prince called prince charmin and a bad prince called Twitchy Nose was there. He let the dragon out. he had red shiny skales. the princess skremd! "Help! Help!" said the princess. "I'll save you" said the prince. "Ha your defeetd" Then they galapt away. Then they livt happyly evar afta.
The end.

Mikey Stell

Once upon a time long long ago in a land far away there lived a buttiful princess and prince called Elizbeth and chris. One morning Elizbeth was gone. The evil side he fought and ran outside to find her. She was locked up in a big blue castle and a big dragon who had a fight. he was fears and tuf. he was very angry because the prince was being silly. the pince stabed the dragon and they lived happily for ever.

Joshua Burke

Once upon a time long long ago in a land far far away thire lived a new princese called Princese Layrah. Now princese Layrah lived in a humunguse tower. She could fit 100 princesise inside! The kitchen was 10 foot the livin roon was 80 foot the bedroom was 56 foot and the bathroom was 112 foot. it was amasing! Last Monday Princese Larah was nvitede to a princese party. but unlucely she didn't get a map uuuh! Thair wire 2 pathes she took the right one but it was the left one, oh no! the right one took you too a villans lair. O OW! She slowely moved her stubern body as she climed in the pitch black castel. Sadely the villan called Dr Evelenie came back! A charmin night called Prince charmin he was like lightning on his horse! Dr Evilenie quicly held out his hand but the night choped her in harf and he lived hapely ever after.

Kyle McLean

Wones apon a time in a land far a way there was a princess calld Alsin. She livd in a red palles. One day was shoping a roba took hir to his lair. He took hir to the dunjin. The prince hird about it. he went to the casl the bad prince fightit the good prins. he let out the dragn wif a long tayl. the dragn was dfeetit the good prins was mareed. haplee eva after the End!

Shay Swinney

Ones apn a time long long a go in a land far away lived a prinses called gold. she was a good prinses she was so good she get perfoum and some sowp. a bad prins came and got her and she was scaird. she was lockd in a big casle and a good prins came and had a fight wif the bad prins. the dragin had smoke comen out his nose and sharp claws and a sharp tayl. the dragin had a fight. The prince and the dragin chayst after them and the prins cort the dragin and the prins mareed. the bad prins was cross with the dragin. happily ever after

Chloe Gibson
ons apon a tighm lived a prinses long long a go in a land far away. she is corld prinses Gabbyela. She livs in a torl casl. She livs in the torl casl with sum won els corld prins chroy. won day she was plantin her flowas the evil prins went past and capshad the prinses and tuc her to his lair. the evil prins chuced her in the dunjin. the good prins hird about the prinses so he cam to rescyou the prinses. so the evil prins let the dragin out. so the prins fighit the dragin. so the prinses mareed the prins and they lived happlee eva afda.

Elicia Stewart

ons upn a time livd long ago a prinses calld prinses Isbell. There was a norty prins called Prins thin nows and a nighs prins calld prins right. One day she was plantin hir flowas when the evil prins went past. The evil rins capchad the prinses and took her to his lair. the evil prins chucked her in the dunjin. the good prins hird abowt the prinses so he caym to rescyou the prinses. the bas prins let the dragon our of the cayj. he bloo smowc at the night so the prinses mareed the good prins and they lived haply evir avder.


More stories being added each day so keep checking to find yours.

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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.
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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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May 1, 2009

Kosmic Krew Land at Roman Road

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We have been enjoying a performance by the Kosmic Krew which was about Superheroes.

http://mandmkids.co.uk
P5010317.JPG 'I thought it was fantastic.' by Leroy McGillan Agar - year 4

'I thought it was really funny and great when the troll got hit.' by Courtney Fallon - year 3

'I thought that the face on the tree was really funny and the dancing was good.' by Rebecca Thompson - year 6

You can see their site:
http://mandmkids.co.uk

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April 13, 2009

Coming soon...

Oliver!

Oliver is coming to Roman Road ... that's the MUSICAL Oliver!
All of Roman Road's Concerts are brilliant because the children are brilliant and everyone works really hard to make them spectacular. This year we are going to perform our own version of the famous musical. It will be performed in the Junior Hall in the penultimate week of the Summer Term! Looking forward to seeing you there!

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Book Week at Roman Road

We all had an amazing time during Book Week this year!
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This Year's Book Week theme was 'Rocket into Reading' and the children loved producing work around a SPACE theme. All the children took part in competitions. Our two Gold poetry winners were Mark Alexander and Megan Harker. Our Gold Writer winners were Joe Hunter, Michael Hudson and Elicia Stewart. Parents joined in too! Mia and her Mum Donna Bojang won our Infant parent and child competition. Dawn and Nicole Stell won for the Juniors! Our Book Fair raised over £600. The Year 6 enterprise fun afternoon raised £200 and our Sponsored spell raised just below £700! Ellie Todd raised an amazing £158.50. Tanesha Raad came in second with £76.50 and Taylor Walker was a close third with £73.00! Thank you to everyone involved - it was a very successful Book Week!

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March 12, 2009

The Great Fire of London

We have been learning about The Great Fire of London in history. To show what we have found out we made a display in our classroom.

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We all took part and made something to add to the display. In literacy we imagined that we were children in 1666 at the time of the fire and wrote about what it was like and what we saw.

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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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March 1, 2009

The Three Little Pigs

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Year One have written some fantastic stories about the Three Little Pigs.

First we listened to Mrs Inkster tell the story using actions. Then we repated the story a few times with her, joining in all the actions. Next we split into talking partners and retold the story. Then we snowballed with another group and told the story again.

Using different actions for different connectives in the story, it helped to keep us on the right track.

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In this picture we are doing the action for "Unfortunately, a wolf came creeping by.."

Finally we wrote our stories. They were magnificent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They have been displayed in Key Stage One for all to see. If you would like a loook - just pop by and see them.

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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.

http://www.educationcity.com

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Welcome to Year One

Come and have a look around our classroom and see what we have on display.

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This is our toy shop and museum. We love playing in here, but what do we learn? We have made silhouettes of our favourite toys, used chalk to paint the other half of an old toy. We have set up our own toy museum and are learning how to use money in the shop. In ICt we took photographs of different toys close up. We have made a guessing game of what they toys are by lifting the flap. Finally, not forgetting science we are discovering how things move.

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This is a photograph of our cloakroom. We turned it into a Winter Wonderland. Some of the work displayed includes adjectives that describe the cold, instructions how to make a snowman, glitter icicle spirals, and some great photos of us in the snow.


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When we were learning all about time, we used the story What Time Is It Mr. Wolf and this was the focus of our display. We each made a clock by putting the numbers in the correct place and then adding an hour hand and minute hand. We also included some examples of the clocks we had completed in the lesson.


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Our Winnie the Witch display shows us some examples of our writing. We had to write a sentence about Winnie the Witch. We were very proud of our work but can't believe how much we have improved since then.


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This is our art area. It shows the work we did on colour mixing. We mixed the primary colours on a wheel and then added white to one colour to see what happened. We also thought of words that described colour.

We hope you have enjoyed having a little look around our classroom. We love it!


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September 15, 2008

Writing Instructions in Year 2

Today in Year 2, we have been making cheese and tomato sandwiches.

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This is all part of our Literacy topic on writing instructions. Over the past two weeks, we have followed instructions to make jam and banana sandwiches for Miss Allen's friend and we have also made split-pin gingerbread men. We have read and ordered instructions and this week, we are going to write instructions. Can you remember some of the features of instructions? You need to include a title and bullet points. Also, you need to make sure you write each numbered point in order. Can you find any examples of instructions at home? Maybe you can bring a recipe into school.
This week we are going to make fairy cakes...pictures to follow!

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April 2, 2008

Mrs Miller visits Year One

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Did you know Mrs Miller went to Roman Road Primary school when she was little? She visited Year One this week to talk to us all about her time at Roman Road primary school.


We have been learning all about schools in the past. We thought of three questions each we would ask Mrs Miller. We wrote them down and even used question marks. On Tuesday after lunch Mrs Miller came to visit.

We were all ready with our questions. She was very impressed with them. Some of the questions we asked were:
1 Did you ever get the cane?
2 Did you have a register?
3 What were your teachers called?
4 Did you use paper towels?
5 Did you write on chalk boards?
6 What did you play with?
7 Did you do Read Write Inc?
8 Did you do swimming lessons on the floor?
9 What did you wear?
10 What lessons did you like?

Mrs Miller answered all of our questions. Then she showed us some of the games she played at school. They were:

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Cannonball

Pick up sticks

Chucks

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Spinning Top

2 and 3 Baller

Lacky Bands

We are getting so good at knowing all about schools in the past and hopefully we will learn a little more about them in the Summer when we go on a school trip.


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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.

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Every time we achieve and award, we receive a certificate in whole school celebration assembly on Friday.

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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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February 1, 2008

Mrs Grinlings Sandwiches

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In Year one we have been giving instructions at how to make a sandwich.

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First we washed our hands.

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We got two slices of bread and buttered it.

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Then we added some ham or turkey.

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After that we cut the bread with a knife.

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Finally we ate it. Yum, yum!

We are sure Mrs Grinling would have been very proud of our tasty sandwiches.

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January 23, 2008

Retelling a story

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We have been retelling the story of the Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch.


After reading the story and enoying playing in the role play area, we got to work writing the story using the main points. We amazed ourselves and shocked Mrs Inkster and Mrs Cairns at how fantastic our work turned out to be. We have displayed them in the classroom for all to see, but we hope you enjoy reading these two excellent stories now. Well done Paige and Ellen!

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Read Write Inc

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Across Key Stage One and Year 3 we are using a great new reading and writing scheme.

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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

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January 15, 2008

Blends in Spelling

A good program blending clusters of letters to make words can be found by clicking on the link below.
Aimed at upper infants and lower juniors.

Word Wheels

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December 3, 2007

Home Reading Books

Each child in school should have their own home reading book. Parents or carers need to listen to their child read and ask them questions about the what has been read.

Remember, you should be reading for at least ten minutes a day!!!

Please also remember, that we can't change your books unless you bring them in.

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Jack and the Beanstalk Comes To School

We have been watching Jack and the Beanstalk.

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November 29, 2007

Jack and the Beanstalk

In school on Monday 3rd December.

S and P Theatre Productions are coming to Roman Road on Monday 3rd December 2007. We look forward to seeing them back in our school and are eagerly awaiting their performance of Jack and the Beanstalk.

An update on the performance will follow soon.

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Guided Reading

Why are we really enjoying reading in Year One?

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In Year One we read in partners. We have great fun and are able to help each other with our words. How do we do it?

First we practise our speed sounds - this is all of the phonemes we have learnt. We need to try and recognise them on sight.

Then we build up our green words. These are words that can be sounded out. We do this by Fred talk.

Next we look at the red words. Red words are tricky words and cannot be sounded out and you just need to be able to know them.

Then we read the book. We take turns reading a page each, helping each other if we get stuck. We have special teaching sticks that we use to point to the words, it helps us not to lose our place.

Finally we practise our speed words. These are the words that could be found in the story. It's a race who can read them all the fastest!!!

We are getting so good at our reading everyone is impressed.

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November 4, 2007

What is Fred talk?

This year in Key Stage One, each class has a special visitor called Fred. Fred has come to help with our reading. Unfortunately Fred can only speak in sounds and so it is the children's job to help him understand by saying the words. For example Fred may say c-a-t and the children say cat. This is helping the chidlren to blend words from the sounds they are learning. When reading at home with your child you can ask them to Fred talk the word and then say the word if they are stuck. Remember the more you practise reading the easier it gets!

Photos of Year 1 Fred are to follow.

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November 2, 2007

Year 2 writing

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Miss Allen says "I'm tickled pink!"

In Year 2 we are trying something new linked with assessment for learning. Miss Allen highlights our work with pink if she is tickled pink with our work. If she sees something that we can improve, she highlights it in green. This means 'grow green' and we try to improve on these bits of our work. Look at the picture. Miss Allen marked our Halloween stories about 'The Three Little Witches' using 'TICKLED PINK' and 'GROW GREEN'.

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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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Foundation Stage

In a dark dark town there was a dark dark house. In the dark dark house there was a dark dark cellar. In the dark dark cellar some skeletons lived. . .

We have been doing lots of activities based on the story 'Funny Bones' by Janet and Alan Albergh. In our gluing area we fastened bones together to make some scary skeletons!
We painted the big skeleton in our art area and in ICT we made pictures on 'Fresco' of the characters. In the Reception classroom we are making a big 'Funny Bones' display. Come and have a look! If you dare to, you could come inside our 'Dark dark cellar' too! Don't be scared!

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November 1, 2007

Magic Sandwiches

In Year 2 we have been making jam and banana sandwiches for our magic dragon Denzel's party.

We really enjoyed making them. After that we wrote instructions for making a sandwich. We made sure that we included bossy verbs and gave plenty of detail about how we made our sandwich. We also included bullet points, list of equipment and ingredients and numbered steps.


Photos to follow soon.

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October 31, 2007

Writing Labels and Captions

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In the first half term we promised photos of our label work. Well here they are!

In this photo we can see that the P.E. cupbaord has no label. Year 1 soon sorted that out.

We have been exploring how labels, captions and signs give us important information.

First we went for a walk around school and found lots of places with labels. Examples were Key Stage One doors - please keep doors closed, Mrs Jones room - Deputy Headteacher and our own classroom had lots of labels and signs giving important information.

Next we found four areas that did not have a label and we took photographs. Mrs Inkster made a power point presentation using the photographs and in guided writing we wrote captions telling people what the photograph was of and what it was used for. Finally, we worked in pairs and wrote our own captions independently. Mrs Inkster was extremely pleased with the results.

In the photo below we found that the fire alarm did not have a label but it was important we all knew what and where it was in case of an emergency.

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October 29, 2007

Signs in Year 1

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In Year 1 this half term we have spent time looking at labels, captions and also signs. We did a lot of work on the highway code and found out that red triangles were signs giving a warning and red circles were signs giving an order.

In class we worked in groups and came up with some fantastic ideas for Class Codes using red triangles and red circles. Mrs Inkster's favourite is the triangle with a picture of her in it. Green group thought of the warning "Mrs Inkster is watching." We have displayed our Class codes in the classroom for everyone to see. We hope you like them too.

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March 9, 2007

All the School enjoy Book Day

Today all of Roman Road were dressing up as book characters and after lunch year 6 held a fun afternoon including face painting, where's the white rabbit and lots more.


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March 2, 2007

Bookweek is Coming

Book Week is the week beginning 5th March ! Many exciting things are going to be happening at Roman Road, which have mainly been organised by the Year 6 class as their enterprise project. We are having 2 competitions for prizes - making a bookmark and producing a piece of work about a book. The best pieces of work produced in each Key Stage will receive a gold reader award! The bookfair is in school all week and we are having a mammoth sponsored readathon. Our sponsored event last year raised a massive £1200 for the school! WOW! On the Friday of Bookweek, we are all dressing up as characters from books - even the teachers! We are also enjoying a fun afternoon in the hall with lots of books to buy and games to play. We are going to have a FAB time!

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March 9, 2006

Theatre Company in School

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We are enjoying watching a theatre company production based around Charles Dickens. We are finding out about his books and life in Victorian times.
This is part of our bookweek which is going on in school.

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February 13, 2006

Bookweek Promotion

A fantastic opportunity to boost reading in Roman Road

Roman Road Primary School is hosting a bookweek 6th - 10th March. During this exciting week, we are having a bookfair in school where children and parents can purchase the latest books about all subjects. But we're not stopping there! The whole school is getting involved in a sponsored spell event in order to raise further funds for Roman Road. All children and staff are dressing up for a day as book characters and having a fun afternoon which will be organised by Year 6. A theatre company is visiting school to perform for all children. Many competitions will also happen during that week, including a story writing and handwriting competition. Children will join with other classes to partake in paired reading. This event will be exciting and will involve all children and staff as well as including parents.

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