July 4, 2008

North East Artsmark Celebration 2008

Yestrday, July 3rd 2008, two children from Key Stage 1 were proud to accept Roman Road's Silver Artsmark Award.

The celebration of Artsmark took place at Northern Stage in Newcastle and was attended by two Key Stage One children, Mrs Barnes and Mrs Inkster. The event was hosted by a comedian (who was very funny), presentations from schools who had achieved Gold and Silver Artsmark last year and finally over 80 schools who were there to collect their prestigious award.

We are extremely proud of our schools achievements and couldn't wait to collect our award and goody bag. This award shows that Roman Road is commited to providing our pupils with a range of creative experiences.

Many thanks to the two children who were extremely well behaved and thoroughly enjoyed their afternoon out of school. Congratulations to all pupils and staff who have worked extremely hard to achieve this award.

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January 15, 2008

Keyboards Are Back !!

Year 4 and 5 have started to learn how to play the keyboards.

Since the huts were demolished, there has been no place where the keyboards could be set up. After a bit of thought and organising though, they were set up in Mrs Stirrup's classroom and she has begun to teach the children how to play well known tunes.

In their first lesson, the children learnt about which notes are which and where they are on the keyboard.

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November 2, 2007

Music

We are learning to play the recorder!

In Year 6 we are learning to play the recorder! Mrs Cullen has been showing us how to play and some of us joined the Friday lunch time club! We are hoping to play for the rest of the school during assemblies and we will soon be learning some Christmas tunes to play i the Carol Service.

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July 12, 2007

The Sage

On the 21st of June 2007, year 3 and 4 went on a trip to the Sage to perform some songs with other schools. At 1 o clock in the afternoon we went for a practice. But we did the real performance at 7pm. In the afternoon we travelled by a coach but on the night time we had to make our own way there.
We had a live orchestra, which included all ages. We had one interval. There were more people on playing musical instruments so that the whole performance took longer than we had expected.
We all really enjoyed it!!!

By Nicole Stell and Joe Hunter

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May 8, 2007

Music

We have had visits from the Gateshead Music Team. Our last workshop was all about Transport. We all joined in with the songs and percussion games.

The choir is entering a singing festival held at the Sage so we are beginning to learn the songs for the event. They are all from the Victorian Times!

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October 4, 2006

School Music Service Visit Roman Road

Earlier today the Gateshead Music Service came to Roman Road School to play music and sang songs about myths and legends.
We all enjoyed it and some children go the chance to play instruments and do other activities.

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February 13, 2006

Music

At Roman Road we continue to include many musical activities within the curriculum. We have half termly visits from the fabulous Gateshead Music Team! There are always opportunities for us to join in and we thouroughly enjoy the visits!
The children in Key Stage Two are continuing to learn key board skills with the Music Co-ordinator as part of their music time. They learn listening, perorming nd composing skills. There maybe another Chopin coming from our school!

The Harvest festival was very successful and we sang beautifully! The carol service was also a sucess, some children singing solo and in small groups.

The Key Stage Two Christmas production was 'Rock Around Christmas'. The modern perfomance went down well with both children and adults. The performers worked very hard and learnt their lines and songs completely in their own time as part of the 'Performing Arts' after school club.
We definately have some budding actors and singers here at Roman Road.

We look forward to working towards this years school performances including an Easter Service, Year 6 production of Grease and the Foundation Stage Spring concert.

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