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This week, we have enjoyed learning about Boudicca in Topic. We learned how she was the leader of the Celtic Icini Tribe and about the battles she fought in. Using this knowledge, we produced some fabulous fact files all about her. We were amazed by the fact that no one knows what really happened…

Year 3 have produced some fabulous pieces of writing, inspired by the story 'Papa God' from the book 'Tales of Wisdom and Wonder' written by Hugh Lupton.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, BLAST OFF. Year 1 have enjoyed designing and making their own space rockets.

Year 1 have been programming simple instructions into a Bee-Bot and testing their algorithms for accuracy.

I have stated in past RAFT Annual General Meetings that, in many schools, there is no longer a PTA, or that the ones that exist are run by Heads or teachers, as parents are hard to recruit. This certainly isn’t the case at Roseberry. We are not only lucky to have a PTA, but are privileged to have…

Everyone had great fun in music, learning to play 'G' on a glockenspiel. The children had to play along to the song 'Mamma Mia', keep in time to the music and sing along to the song!

This week, we enjoyed a fantastic start to our new topic, Romans, by taking part in an online session with Durham University. We looked at maps of where the Romans had conquered and learned that names ending in 'chester' were once Roman settlements. The historian then explained how artefacts…

Following on from our story, Spike - The Hedgehog who lost his prickles, we have been doing some art using Autumn leaves collected from our school grounds.

We have started a new topic called Wonderful Woodlands.  We began this topic by reading the story Spike - The Hedgehog who lost his prickles by Jeanne Willis.

We've been breaking out the concrete resources: using multilink to help us to understand bar modelling representations and multi-step problems. Take a look at the bar modelling with multi-link then how they have applied their knowledge and skills to more challenging questions. 

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Year 2 have travelled back to the medieval times to learn all about towers, tunnels and turrets!  This week to launch our new topic, the children have accessed castles online across the British Isles to see up close some of the remaining features.  We also created our own ‘Coat of Arms’ using a…

As part of our new topic, Bloodheart, we have been learning all about the functions of the heart and we even managed to dissect a pig's heart! The children loved it! Check out the photos.