June 5, 2011
Year One Visit Beamish Museum
As part of our England project, Year One took a trip back in time to see England in the past. Our visit to Beamish Museum was enthralling! The children were very excited but listened hard and learned so much. Many visitors and staff at the museum told us we were the best school they had ever had. Well done Year One and Year Two.
Check out our amazing adventure in the gallery. Click on the link below.
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May 1, 2011
Circus Book Week! Roll up... Roll up!
This year’s Book Week was, as always a great success and the children had a fantastic time!
Thank you for all your support. You especially excelled at the adult and child competition – all entries were fantastic!
Money Raised:
Bookfair Total - £449
Fun Afternoon & Sponsored Event Total - Just over £400!
All monies raised will go straight towards buying school resources for Literacy and the Library.
I have put together a KS2 Hall Display showing photos and work completed by children and parents during Book Week. Please come and have a look! In past years we have really benefitted from this money raised. We bought our sound system with it which we use during performances. Also, we purchased a lot of Read Write Inc products which has been a massive success.
What’s next?
The next big literacy/drama event will be at the end of the Summer Term when Year 6 will be performing ‘Sleeping Beauty’ at 6pm in the Junior Hall. Fliers will be distributed next term to promote this exciting event.
Thank you for your continuing support in all our Literacy projects.
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A Model School!
Ruth Miskin, the Author of Read Write Inc visited Roman Road! We have just hosted a conference for 50 headteachers and senior staff from across Gateshead Authority. Ruth Miskin said she was very impressed with our school. It was an honour to have her speak at Roman Road. The whole conference was a fantastic success!
To find out more about Read Write Inc, please visit the website at www.ruthmiskinliteracy.com
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February 27, 2011
Circus skills workshop.
The theme for Book Week this year was the circus, and all of the children have been doing lots of exciting work about circuses. Miss Allen organised a circus skills workshop which started with a performance for the whole school which had the children gasping in awe,
Throughout the day each class had the opportunity to try out some of the equipment.
Mrs Pigott was very impressed with how much the Year 5 children improved their skills during the session. Every single member of the class could balance a peacock feather on their chin, and the effort and concentration the children put into learning other skills was impressive. As you can see, even Mr Craggs could not resist joining in.
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February 20, 2011
Our Shadow Theatres
As part of our Creative Curriculum topic entitled 'Into the Light', Year 4 have been making shadow theatres.
Linked to the bookweek theme of 'A Circus' the children worked in small groups to write their own script and make characters for a performance.
We experimented with the position of torch and the characters.
Following a bit more practice, the plays will be performed after half term.
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February 13, 2011
Circus Book Week
Roll up, Roll up ... It's time for Book Week and the Circus Book Fair is here in town!
In addition to the exciting events we always have, this year, our children will receive circus training from a professional circus visitor who has actually worked in the travelling circus for 2 years. Alan, our Bike it officer will also be joining the junior children to work on some circus creative writing. It's going to be a fantastic week and an exciting end to this half term!
Dear Parents/Carers,
Book Week 2011 (14th-18th February)
It’s time for this year’s Book Week which has always been a fantastic and enjoyable time for the children as well as being supported by parents exceptionally well. There will be loads of events and loads of ways to get involved!
Bookfair
The Bookfair arrives in school on Monday 14th February and will be with us until Thursday. As always, it will be based in the Junior Hall and books, posters and stationery will be available to buy each night from 3.30pm. This year the theme is ‘Roll up, Roll up and read!’ (A Circus theme) and some of the books you can purchase are shown in the catalogue. There is always a great selection and the school also benefits from the fair. Last year the school received £300 which was put towards buying further Literacy resources. Children can bring their £1 off voucher which they received last Friday when they come to the fair. We will have a special visitor this year at the bookfair each night...I wonder who it could be?
Fun Afternoon (Tuesday 15th)
The children love this! This is an afternoon in celebration of Book Week where the children simply enjoy themselves. The Year 6s will be running this as an enterprise project and look after stalls selling old books/videos. We will also have various competitions to guess the name of the ‘cuddly clown’ etc. Children are free to bring in money on this day and spend it during the afternoon. The Book Fair will be open during the fun afternoon and there will be face painting which is always popular so fill in the form below if you do not wish your child to be painted! Thank you for all your generosity in sending books, toys, gifts and DVDs which you no longer want.
Non-uniform day
Children can get dressed up on Tuesday 15th to match the theme of our Circus Book Week. There will be prizes for the best costume! Anything linked with the Circus will be great. Your child could be a clown, trapeze artist, circus animal or ring master! This non-uniform day will be great fun.
Parent/Guardian & Child competition
Last year we ran a parent and child competition which proved very successful – a few parents and guardians proved to be budding writers! This year, we want you to write a poem/story/information booklet around the theme of ’Circus’. Your poem/story/information text could be about anything to do with Circus. Remember to decorate it then hand it in to your child’s teacher and they will pass it on to me. If you would prefer to be more creative, you could make a model of a circus instead with some information attached! There will, of course be prizes for the most inventive!
Sponsored Event
This year we will be doing a Sponsored Circus Writing Challenge set by each teacher around a Circus theme (Foundation Stage will learn a rhyme). Each child will bring home some talk homework linked with the sponsored challenge, so carers have the opportunity to give your child ideas to include in the writing. Sponsor forms and further details have been sent home with this letter. All money raised goes straight back into school funds. Last year this money was spent on buying Literacy Resources for KS2 which are used within our new ‘Pirate Writing’ initiative to raise writing standards in school. As always, children who raise the most amount of money will receive a fab prize!
I’m sure the whole week will be a great success. There will be loads of prizes and exciting events during the week. Let’s raise as much money as possible to buy further resources to boost our children’s learning and enjoyment in school.
Thank you, as always, for your continuing support.
Yours sincerely
Miss E Allen
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January 28, 2011
Chinese New Year Story
Do you know why China uses animals to represent each year? It is an ancient Chinese story.
Click on the power point presentation below to find out.
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December 4, 2010
Parents into School!
Parents came into Literacy sessions throughout the school and 100% said they loved working with their child. It was great having carers into class!
Some parents of children in Read Write Inc came to share learning then found out all about the scheme in a meeting. We are proud to be a model school for Read Write Inc. It's a great phonics scheme!
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November 23, 2010
Are you ready for...Pirate Writing!
Don't forget. On Friday, we are dressing up as PIRATES!
We have challenges to face...and we will meet them head on!
We will become the BEST WRITERS IN THE WORLD!
We will be bringing home TALK HOMEWORK! Please help us with it because our writing on Friday depends upon it! ARRRGGGGHHH!
‘Pirate Writing’ is a whole school initiative adopted by Roman Road Primary School to improve writing standards. It is a strategy which emphasises the development of the writer’s voice. Children will be introduced to the concept:
‘If you can’t speak it…you can’t write it’
Using a variety of techniques, children are encouraged to ‘steal’ the best ideas to use in their own writing.
The main focuses are:
• 4 basic skills (GHASP: Grammar,Handwriting,Spelling,Punctuation)
• VCOP (Vocabulary,Connectives,Openers,Punctuation)
• Rainbow Reading and Writing using WoW words:
Red words WoW doing words (verbs)
Purple words WoW descriptive words (adjectives/adverbs)
Blue words WoW connectives
Orange words WoW openers
Green words WoW additional phrases and clauses
• Using OSIE (Openers, Senses, Imagery, Emotions)
• Stealing the best ideas from other writers
• Talk homework
• Assessment for Learning strategies:
(peer/self assessment, paired talk, questioning)
• Creativity & linking to Creative Themes – making the writing process meaningful
• Addressing all learning styles
• Specific Targets (of which the child is aware)
• Lots of praise and rewards
• Silence for writing (where appropriate)
• Tracking of progress
Pirate Writing culminates in a whole morning session every alternate week:
Lesson 1:‘Build up’ to writing using a variety of lively games/whole class modelling and planning/use of Rainbow Writing etc.
Lesson 2: ‘Pirate Writing’ session. The atmosphere of the room is altered to create an environment conducive to creativity.
We hope to become excellent writers and 'steal' all the best ideas...like pirates!
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November 22, 2010
Parents amazed in Read Write Inc Lessons
100% of parents enjoyed working their child today and thought Read Write Inc was a fantastic way to teach reading and writing to our children. Roman Road is the only Model School for Read Write Inc in the North of England. We train other schools so they can implement it and have had many success stories! Read on to find out some of the wonderful things parents and carers thought about our reading scheme!
"Really enjoyed toaday. I think the lessons are made fun for the children so they enjoy it a lot more. I have noticed a massive difference in Charley's progress. She works well with her partner and I think that is a good ideas because they helped each other very well. Thank you!"
Amanda Robinson (Parent)
"I was amazed with my child's progress. The lesson gave me a great understanding of Read Write Inc" Leanne Johnson (Parent)
"It was very interesting to see all children paired off with partners and enjoying all that they were learning and how they were praising each other. The teaching is FIRST CLASS in Read Write Inc. I would like to help a lot more" Carol Hope (Carer and Governor)
Wow! Thank you so much for all your positive comments. We are pleased you all found the parents meeting very useful.
Miss Allen and Mrs Inkster
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November 21, 2010
Parents into Literacy Lessons.
A big thank you to all parents who took the time to come and spend a Literacy lesson with their child to see how hard they work.
Year 5 were writing some exciting stories, and including wow! vocabulary such as adjectives, connectives and sentence starters.
The children really enjoyed working with their parents, and sharing their writing with them. The comments left by the parents showed that they enjoyed the lesson as well, and appreciated how hard their children were working.
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October 26, 2010
Read Write Inc Model School
We are a Model School for Read Write Inc and during this half term, we would like to invite parents to work with their child in a RWInc lesson.
After the lesson, we want you to stay and chat in the KS1 hall for a while so you can find out more about this fab reading approach.
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Argghhhh! Pirate Biscuits
We designed and made pirate biscuits for Captain Bones. After we made them, we took them home and ate them. They were really FAB!! We sequenced the pictures and used them to write some amazing instructions using WoW words!!!
YUM YUM ARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!
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October 7, 2010
Jack and the Beanstalk
M&M Theatre Production Company came to Roman Road to share their production of Jack and the Beanstalk. It was a hit with all children from Nursery to Year 6!
Year 3 enjoyed the show so much we continued with the Jack and the Beanstalk theme in our Numeracy lessons. We measured ourselves and ordered our heights on our class beanstalk. We even solved a problem for the giant to produce gigantic fruit and vegetables for him and his family.
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October 6, 2010
Drama in Year 5.
There were two quite large spiders on the ceiling, and one almost landed on one of the children...
However, once they were returned to the garden, we got down to some real drama.
In Literacy this week we have been reading play scripts. Today we tried acting out a small part of a play about Dr Barnado. Mrs Pigott was thrilled with the entusiasm and attitude of the children. They showed some fantastic facial and vocal expression. Keep an eye on these budding actors and actresses in the future Miss Allen!
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October 5, 2010
Meet Year 6!
In the first week of the new term, I could not wait to find out all about the new year 6 children. So, the children eagerly wrote an autobiography sharing lots of information about themselves. It is obvious year 6 have many talents, have high aspirations and are keen to do well in year 6. I am looking forward to the year ahead! They also produced a self portrait where they concentrated very hard to ensure correct size and proportion and realistic colouring. What do you think?
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September 22, 2010
A Blast from the Past
Knock, knock - who's there? Well in Year One you will find yourself time travelling back to a home from the past.
We have transformed our role play area into a Victorian kitchen and we are having great fun. In our lessons we have also been learning all about some of the things you would find in our house today and how they have changed over the years. Click on the link below and see what you can learn.
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Meet Fergus
Hello, my name is Fergus the Frog and I live in Year One with all of the children.
Each week I listen carefully to hear who has had fantastic Frog Factor and then I ask Mrs Inkster if I can go home with them for the weekend. It is now called Fergus Friday!
When I go home, I get to have lots of adventures with my friends and then they write all about it in my diary.
On the Monday we share my adventures with the rest of the class. I have been to two houses so far...I wonder who will be next? Could it be you?
Let me know if you think you have the FROG factor and why?
Love Fergus
x
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May 23, 2010
African Authors
We have been writing African stories this week and we wrote the story of the Tortoise and the Baboon. Next we made them into books. They are fabulous. Look out for them at the Showcase.
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March 18, 2010
What a Success Year 6!
Year 6 worked so hard to set up the book week fun afternoon. They designed posters, set up all the stalls and games and organised all the reources they needed. Miss Allen, Mrs Lawson and Mrs Pigott are so proud of all the year 6 children who ran the afternoon independently.. Fun was had by all and over £200 was raised - FANTASTIC!!!
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March 14, 2010
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
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.
All of them enjoyed our gift and the assembly went really well.
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.
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!!!!
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!!!
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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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.
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.
Alisha and Liam grew the tallest beanstalks for the girls and boys.
Bethany and Haydn wrote the best instructions.
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.
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!
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!
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
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!
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!
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.
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
We have been enjoying a performance by the Kosmic Krew which was about Superheroes.
http://mandmkids.co.uk
'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!
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.
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
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.
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?
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Welcome to Year One
Come and have a look around our classroom and see what we have on display.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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:
Cannonball
Pick up sticks
Chucks
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.
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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February 1, 2008
Mrs Grinlings Sandwiches
In Year one we have been giving instructions at how to make a sandwich.
First we washed our hands.
We got two slices of bread and buttered it.
Then we added some ham or turkey.
After that we cut the bread with a knife.
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
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
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
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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.
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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?
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
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
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
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.
More to come.
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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
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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