
Y1 OPAL Morning
morning in the sun today. We played across all areas collaboratively and independently with plenty of laughs and smiles along the way!
Our Y1 class is led by Miss Clarkson supported by our teaching assistants, Mrs Williams and Miss Collins.
Y1 have PE on Tuesday. Children wear their complimentary Roby Park PE kit to school – white logo tshirt, navy joggers and jacket. In the warmer months, children may want to wear their burgundy shorts.
Children are allocated multiple books weekly on Rising Stars Reading Planet as well as a physical book which is changed weekly, linked to their stage of Reading. Physical books are changed every Monday. We expect children to read for 10 minutes every night and then to complete the end of book comprehension quiz online when they come to the end of their book. You can access Reading Planet here.
Click on the links below to find out more about our half termly Topics:
Head to our ‘Curriculum‘ page to discover the whole school curriculum overviews and progression in skills across the school.
morning in the sun today. We played across all areas collaboratively and independently with plenty of laughs and smiles along the way!
who support lots of families within our community. Well done! #RPEnrichment
that we then used to make predictions about what they story may be. We wrote fantastic predictions and even read them out to our friends! Well done year 1
visit this week with their friends Roger, Luna and Baby Luna. We learnt all about their story and had to make predictions as to how it ended! One child said “I’m just having the best day ever!” #RPEnrichment #StGeorgesDay
by having a positive attitude towards
playtime’s and helping younger children to explore all the areas! Well done!
We really enjoyed our workshops with Jenny and
We learnt a lot about palm oil and the problems that are caused for our rainforests and animal populations when it is not grown sustainably. We know now what we need to look out for when we go shopping! #RPEnrichment
How amazing is this egg design – it is a perfect replica of our amazing
offer at Roby Park! Well done to Archie in Y1
. Thank you to Leon and Jenny for delivering the
conservation programme to pupils in Y1-6 focusing on the palm oil challenge.
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77We had our final workshop with Jenny and were able to see all of the incredible animals that they have there too! What a way to end the term! #RPEnrichment
Thank you so much to Miss Emily and Mrs Tucker for running a fabulous whole school Easter egg hunt today. We hope your children enjoy their Easter eggs from us
reps had a really tricky job picking winners
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Y4 & Y6 were our attendance recognition winners this week and got the chance to move their class on our Classopoly board.
Mr Couling said, “Well done to the whole of Year 4 for demonstrating excellent behaviour during our OPAL stay and play afternoon.”
Miss Beggs said, “Well done to the whole class for their hard work and determination throughout our practice SATS papers.”
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Today it was a real honour to welcome all the wonderful women who inspire and love our children into our school. To all the mums, step mums, carers, nans, sisters, aunties, family members and everyone else who love our children….thank you Happy Mother’s Day weekend
9assembly, we discussed what our mornings look like! We all do different things in the morning & some of us go to breakfast club! One child said “breakfast club is good because our parents can go to work earlier!” Another said “breakfast club is lots of fun!”
bingo donations off your hands! Thank you for rummaging around your houses and gardens for pre-loved items children can make use of during their play The classes who complete their bingo card win an afternoon of Opal play and ice creams!
Tomorrow is
Children can come to school wearing red and white, Comic Relief merch or even in 80s fancy dress to mark 40 years of the charity! We will be collecting £1 donations for this incredible charity
Y1, Y2 & Y6 were our attendance recognition winners this week and got the chance to move their class on our Classopoly board.
Miss Clarkson said, “Well done to the class for engaging in lots of stories during world book day and in particular James, Harvey and Wyatt who read stories to the class!”
Mr Swatman said, “well done to Y2 for showing fantastic learning behaviours during their lessons this week. We have focused on improving our listening skills and showing respect when others are sharing their ideas in class.”
Miss Beggs said, “Well done to the whole class
for showing a great level of determination when solving equations in algebra lessons!
21📰As advertised in our weekly newsletters, we are hosting a launch workshop tomorrow to help parents and carers get set up on our new app that we will be moving to straight after Easter.
🕘🕑🕔Come and join us tomorrow at our sessions running at 9am, 2pm and 5pm.
📱Don’t forget your mobiles.
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Check out the Spring edition of our
termly newsletter. Lots of new exciting plans to share with you all!
afternoon where we could show our families exactly what play is like at Roby Park! #RPEnrichment
We look forward to inviting parents & carers to another afternoon of OPAL play from 1.30pm tomorrow. Come and experience all that is on offer at Roby Park 🎾⚽️🥅🎧🤸
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where we had a workshop on solids, liquid and gases. We explored circuits, air resistance, looked at objects under microscopes and used a green screen to make weather forecasts! #RPScience #RPEnrichment
for World Book Day who spent time reading some of our favourite books with us! #worldbookday2025
challenge too!
This week, some of our children participated in a programme to help them ride their bikes without stabilisers and it was a huge success! Our children showed great resilience and independence. Check out how well our children did during the morning session.
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. We spent the day with Henry VIII who taught us about kings and queens of the past, we did some dancing and archery and even made our own minted coins and medals out of clay! #RPHistory #RPEnrichment
🏈🎾🏀Spring term 2 extra-curricular clubs go live on Friday at 9am so be quick to book your places.
🏏🧑🌾Booking for clubs closes on Friday 2th February at 9am.
Clubs begin the week of Monday 3rd March and will take place weekly until the last week of term.
24Well done to our remarkable readers this week. Children get to bring the remarkable reader bag home with a book, hot chocolate, bookmark and pencil. Children also get to choose a book from our book vending machine. Children can earn remarkable reader points by engaging in reading at home and in school. Who will win next week? #rpreading #readingforpleasure
30assembly today was about climbing mountains and we had lots of discussion about Mount Everest. One child said “It makes me sad that people would drop litter there!” and another, “Climbing with someone would keep you safe!” #RPPHSE
Children can come to school dressed in their own clothes ahead of their Valentine’s discos.
Disco tickets can be purchased on Parent Pay.
Please see the letter sent on Class Charts and on the website for all of the details.
16We are offering an exciting opportunity for children in YR-Y3 to participate in this exciting programme for children to learn to ride their bike without stabilisers. If you would like to participate in this programme with your child on Wednesday 26th February, please click on the link, read all of the information and sign up! Places are limited.
21meeting and five more of us have completed our Silver Mini Junior Dukes! It has been so lovely to see all the amazing things that you have been up to and the hard work you have put into your challenges! #RPEnrichment
#NumberDay2025 by wearing patterns and numbers. We also played some maths games & created flowers that help us with our number bonds to 10 #RPMaths
Kirkby to 30 to help create a more relaxed and manageable space for everyone, giving all children access to a fun, safe, and comfortable environment.
summer festival. Will you be joining the 35 children so far? Don’t forget to complete journals over the weekend with written reflections and photo evidence of challenge completions and bring to school on Monday.
challenges!
Tomorrow is @NSPCC Number Day. Children can come to school wearing clothes with numbers or patterns on and they will enjoy a range of Maths activities throughout the day. We will be collecting £1 donations for this wonderful charity who supports vulnerable children across the UK.
21Today in PE our aim was to develop stability and control when performing balances. Well done!
Ahead of #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek, our @SSCCTY meeting this week asked what we could do in school to help our well-being? We had a very sensible discussion and lots of children voted for spending time with other classes reading!
26In PE our aim was to develop quality when linking shapes to improve my sequence. Well done!
In @JigsawEduGroup PSHE today, we looked at what we need to do to work well with a partner. We said that it is really important to listen, communicate and even sometimes compromise! We used this to then create a joint picture to show our goals! #RPPHSE
20Our @HelpPicture assembly today had us talking all things YouTube! We discussed how we liked that we could use YouTube to watch things that make us laugh, to play games and also to learn. We think it would be good if YouTube had more on it that we could learn from #RPPHSE
31This week’s attendance recognition winners were Y1 & Y4.
“Well done to Darcie who came into school with a positive attitude even though she wasn’t feeling 100%.” – Mr Couling.
Miss Clarkson, “Well done for showing a great attitude towards your forest school session, tying tricky knots and showing excellent navigation skills especially Paddy, Trudi, Wyatt, Junior and Jude who all earned their navigation badge!”
18Year 1 won the attendance recognition prize and so were able to role the dice on our Classopoly board. We were really lucky to win a prize of our choice and as a class we decided on a movie and popcorn!
22in PE our aim was to develop quality when performing and linking shapes. Well done!
20Thank you again to @Tesco for providing us with funding for daily fruit and veg for our children to enjoy. Fruit is available at break time and lunch time and if there is anything left, children (only) can help themselves to a piece of fruit for the way home/extra-curricular clubs. Children are having the options of at least 12 different types of fruit each day including: melon, watermelon, grapes, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, apples, bananas, tangerines, mango, pineapple, nectarines, plums, pears #StrongerStarts #fiveaday
21We had a special delivery this week that contained some clues to help us make predictions about our new vehicle text, Hermelin @Bonzetta1. We predicted that a detective may be involved but the cheese left us a little confused!
31We started looking at seasonal changes in science and began by looking at the seasons throughout the year. In our first lesson, we created weather wheels to show changes within each season before designing a habitat for an animal going into hibernation
23Our latest @SSCCTY was focused on what we want to achieve this year We had sensible and exciting conversations within our groups, making sure everybody had their say! Most children in year 1 voted for learning a new sport! #RPPHSE #BritishValues
24Remaining tickets for Happy’s Circus are now available on Parent Pay until they sell out. All 600 tickets sold out rapidly last time so be sure to secure your tickets! Gates open at 4.30pm with food and drinks vendors as well as face painting.
25Early bird tickets are now sold out! Watch this space for full price tickets going on sale in February.
16It has been lovely to see all the incredible work and effort year 1 have been putting into their Junior Duke challenges! A masssive well done to our first two superstars to complete their Silver Mini Duke award!
28Forest school was a chilly one today! We started off outside using natural resources to make bug hotels before heading inside to practice our knots, make different shapes with ropes & also try to identify landmarks on maps of Liverpool towards our forest stamps!
31In PE our aim was to choose our own actions to create a dance. Our theme was weather. Well done year 1!
28In PE to develop stepping into shape jumps with control. Well done
26In PE our aim was to show confidence to move in character as a pirate! Well done
28In PE our aim was to link movements and basic shapes to create a short sequence @Year1RobyPark
Well done!
31In computing we have been looking at algorithms and the importance of clear and precise instructions to ensure that something happens correctly! We followed instructions to navigate a map and fixed any bugs we found along the way! #RPComputing
20Each half term we will be bringing you our Inclusive Attendance newsletter which is deisgned to share information and so we can work together to support school attendance. Here is our Spring Term 1 edition. A copy will hit your Class Charts inbox as well as information on your child’s attendance.
The incredible Happy’s Circus 600 seater big top is coming back to Roby Park for the second year, on Wednesday 21st May.
It was an amazing event that we are thrilled to be able to offer again to our school community with a new show!
We are offering 300 early bird ticktes for half price at just £4 each! You can buy a maximum of 10 tickets for friends and family. Once they are gone, they are gone.
Tickets available now on Parent Pay.
24We have a few remaining places on some of our extra-curricular clubs for this half term. All clubs start as of Monday 13th January. Sign up on Parent Booking.
25Happy New Year to our Roby Park community! We hope you have enjoyed the festivities and are looking forward to all that 2025 brings.
27We want to take this opportunity to wish our whole school community a very merry Christmas.
Thank you for your love and support throughout 2024. It has been an incredible year for Roby Park.
Christmas is not about what is under the tree but who is around it and we can’t wait for the children to return to tell us all about it. Rarely they mention gifts, they mention you. They share their cherished memories of pj days snuggled on the sofa watching movies and eating only chocolate or funny stories of things that happened with their loved ones
Enjoy this special time together, relaxing and making memories and we look forward to seeing you all in the new year
23Introducing the stars of the KS1 Nativity – The King is Born
Years 1 and 2 put on a fantastic Christmas performance that they worked incredibly preparing for! You were all superstars and we are beyond proud of you all!
23Due to illness, we postponed yesterday’s @JuniorDukeAward meeting until Thursday. If your child has not returned their journal, please do so by Thursday morning at the latest.
We have taken the decision to present all children with their certificates and badge upon completion of challenges in our celebration assemblies and all children awarded with their Junior Duke badge will be invited to our prestigious garden party in the Summer term!
If you have misplaced your child’s journal, please replace it by ordering from the shop on the Junior Duke webpage: https://t.co/SdIyKp8yDn
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We can not wait to have Mrs Clause join us tomorrow morning for songs around the Christmas tree, a story and letter writing to Father Christmas. If you have a child in YN-Y2 and you would like your child to join in, please book them in on Parent Pay.
32We really enjoyed inviting our families in this week to join us for Christmas dinner and were very lucky to have surprise visits from Bluey and Stitch too! #RPEnrichment
27We had a brilliant time in forest school this week! We collected natural objects from around the field and used these to make broom sticks that we had lots of fun with, we practiced our fire lighting and ended with marshmallows on the fire we built!
28We hope you all had a wonderful time of family, festive fun at our Winter Wonderland event.
Thank you to:
We can not wait for our Winter Wonderland event tomorrow! Check Class Charts for all the information needed for tomorrow.
36Children can wear their Christmas jumper with their school uniform tomorrow for Christmas Jumper Day. Y1 & Y2 have Forest school so they can wear their Christmas jumper with appropriate clothing for Forest school. We will be collecting £1 donations for Save the Children. Thank you.
31What a fantastic start to our Christmas Family Dining Week Thank you to Georgios and our kitchen team as well as our special guests from AC Mascots
23We’ve had such a brilliant day at @TheatreRoyalStH watching Snow White! We laughed, sang, danced and enjoyed every second! Thankyou for having us! #RPEnrichment
25Check out our latest @OPAL_CIC newsletter with exciting information about additional morning play
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20Children have until Monday 16th December to take on some of their @JuniorDukeAward challenges and update their journals, ahead of their class Duke Meeting.
Please add photos/evidence of challenges and complete reflections.
All children must bring their journals in to school on Monday 16th December please.
Children will get their challenges signed off by their Duke Leaders and earn 10 points per challenge plus an additional 100 points when they have completed all 7 challenges. That is an incredible 170 points in total for them and their team!
32In history, we have been looking at toys from the past and drew toys that our grandparents and parents would have played with as well as toys that we play with now to that we could see the differences #RPHistory
31We had a brilliant workshop with Toys in Schools today! We began looking at different kinds of toys that were all made from wood before becoming toy makers! We drilled, hammered, decorated and added wheels & legs to create our very own wooden toys! Well done year 1#RPEnrichment
35In science we have been looking at our senses & looked at taste and how we could describe a variety of different foods from bitter, fresh, salty and sour – we discovered that we all like different tastes! Some of loved lemon and spinach and others didn’t!
31Snow has been forecast over night. Please leave plenty of time to get to school. Please ensure children are wrapped up warm so we can have fun in the snow should it settle.
27Congratulations to our odd socks competition winners who were photographed in the strangest of places or the most peculiar of ways. We hope you enjoy your @SmythsToysUK vouchers! #chooserespect
23The best sort of day, is a pj day. £1 donations can be handed in on the doors or to class teachers. Thank you
28Thank you to everybody who attended our Autumn Progress evenings. Thank you also for your extremely positive feedback
25Children can wear blue clothes to school today to raise awareness for World Diabetes Day
28In computing we have been looking at programming using Indi Sphero. We first looked at the pads that we had, to work out their function and then worked collaboratively to create a route that we programme Indi to take correcting any mistakes as we went! #RPComputing
37Today we wore odd socks to show our support for #AntiBullyingWeek as well as discussing ways we can show and receive respect with Jigsaw Jack
32For our most recent @SSCCTY meeting, we focused on the British Values of democracy & tolerance. We discussed how we could raise awareness of anti-bullying week & rocked out to @RockKidzUK giving us chance to discuss the message in the song! #RPPHSE
31We have begun our new unit – animals including humansIn our first lesson we looked at our five senses and also labelled parts of the human body. Over the next few lessons, we are excited to learn a little more about each of our 5 senses!#RPScience
34To celebrate @OutdoorClassDay we had a fantastic afternoon of @OPAL_CIC stay and play. Children & adults made the most of the play opportunities & had fun. The hay bales, loose parts, construction, den building & the swings were all very busy areas #RPEnrichment #RPPlay
40Thank you to all parents and carers who attended our remembrance service today. It was a lovely opportunity to recognise those who have served and currently serving for our country. Well done to our year 6 speakers who did everyone proud. #RemembanceDay
38Wow our free fruit has been exceptionally popular this week. The children have devoured:
31 punnets of strawberries
10 watermelons
200 apples
223 bananas
48 oranges & 130 satsumas
14 pineapples
9 tins of apricots
8 boxes of plums and 8 boxes of blueberries
The feedback has been so positive and children are saying it is the favourite part of their day
Please don’t feel you need to provide your child with a morning snack, we have a lot of fruit to provide. Children are even taking fruit out after their lunch! Thank you
25There was no better way to mark @OutdoorClassUKI than to have one of our half termly parent @OPAL_CIC play afternoons! What a fantastic time everyone had!
33Today is @OutdoorClassDay so come and mark the occasion with our @OPAL_CIC parent play afternoon from 1.30-3pm. Wrap up warm and come and enjoy what Roby Park has to offer.
34In PE our aim was to use counts of 8 to move in time and make my dance look interesting.
25Our annual Christmas Family Dining events are back!
Head to Parent Booking to reserve the total number of seats you need for your family party including all adults (maximum of 2) and all children: parents-booking.co.uk/ROBYPARKPRIMAR
Then please head to Parent Pay to make payment for your adult meals. Only when seats are booked and paid for is your booking secured. DEADLINE: FRIDAY 29TH NOVEMBER @ 9AM
30On Monday @ 2.15pm we will be holding our annual Armistice Day service. We look forward to welcoming parents and carers to join us.
31Our Autumn Progress Meetings are taking place next Wednesday and Thursday. If you haven’t already, booked your appointment to meet with your child’s class teacher, head to Parent Booking: parents-booking.co.uk/robyparkprimar We look forward to seeing you all next week and sharing how well your children are getting on at Roby Park.
34We still have some spaces available on our extra-curricular clubs for this half term. Head to Parent Booking to secure your child’s place. Bookings close on Monday 11th November
26Today we had a very special delivery to year 1 – a box full of interesting items that we were able to use to make predictions about our new vehicle text. A tower, a spell book, long hair and a black pointy hat! What could our story be?
36In our most recent @SSCCTY meeting, we asked children across school what extra curricular clubs they would like to see in the next half term. They asked and so we delivered – this half terms clubs have been decided by the children themselves! #RPPHSE #RPEnrichment
30Wow our fruit has gone down a storm this morning! Children particularly enjoyed the watermelon, pineapple and strawberries they could help themselves to Thank you to @Tesco stronger starts and thank you to @GreggsOfficial for the fridge to store our fruit and veg
31Our Autumn term 2 clubs are now live on Parent Booking. Book your spaces now. As always, clubs start the second week back starting Monday 11th November. There will be no Y3/4 Christmas Craft Club or Y6 Booster Club on Thursday 14th November due to Autumn Progress Meetings.
26We would love to see what challenges you have completed so add your photos and videos below or on our Facebook page to be included in our @JuniorDukeAward movie
32Today we are coming together to support our local food bank. Children can bring in a donation and in return wear their own clothes. Thank you for your support
44Tomorrow, we will be holding our Halloween discos. We will end the day, with our fabulous Halloween discos with Nursery and Reception enjoying their party from 2.00-3.00pm during the school day. Y1 & Y2 will have their disco at 3-4pm with Y3 – Y6 having their disco 4.15 – 5.15pm. All children can come to school in their Halloween costumes however these must be age appropriate. Frightening and gory costumes, masks and weapons are not allowed. If children do not want to dress up, they can come to school in party clothes or whatever they are most comfortable in. Nursery children who do not attend school in the afternoons but wish to come to the disco, are welcome to return to school at 2pm. The cost of the disco for Nursery – Y2 children is £3.00 and includes a small packet of sweets, crisps and a drink. The cost of the disco for Y3 – Y6 is £3.00 and children get a chip cone and they can bring extra money to buy sweets, drinks and crisps. There is also limited glow items. The disco must be paid for on Parent Pay by 3.00pm tomorrow. Tickets are live on Parent Pay now. All children in Nursery – Y2 should be picked up from their classroom door at the end of their discos. KS2 children should be collected from the main playground by an adult at 5.15pm. KS2 children must be brought to school for the disco by an adult and the adult must wait for children to have gone through the double red doors before leaving then collecting them at 5.15pm. Staff are not responsible for children until they are in the disco.
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In art, we used what we have learnt about shape, colour and lines to create our final piece. We overlapped shapes and then added colour and line in an abstract way. You have worked so hard year 1, well done!
39In art, we have been looking at marks and exploring the use of line, shape and colour. We looked at work by Sarah Morris and have since been experimenting with shape and different lines!
42We are excited for our first @JuniorDukeAward meeting this Monday. We look forward to children sharing their challenges and reflections
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We are excited to be hosting an inspirational workshop with European Champion Boxer, Chloe Watson. Chloe needs your help to raise funds for vital training, medical and competition costs. This money raised will also help our school and we will be using monies raised to put towards OPAL.
Sponsor forms need to be returned by this Wednesday along with sponsor money or alternatively you can add your sponsor money to our crowd funder page. Copy and paste this link in to your web browser: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/robypark Once you have donated, you have the option to add a message – please add your child’s name here so we know who the sponsors are connected to.
Children will enjoy a number of sponsored activities that they will complete alongside Chloe and they will get to hear all about her inspirational career. More information to follow next week.
There are rewards for sponsor money raised:
All children to wear their school P.E. kits on Friday to complete the sponsored circuit challenge
60Get involved in Recycle Week this week! You can help us by donating unwanted clothes to school as well as old tech lying around your house. Check out the presentation for more info…
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During ADHD Awareness month, we would like to share another photo of our @ADHDFoundation
Umbrella Project. From the ADHD foundation website: The Neurodiversity Umbrella Project is an uplifting visual representation of all the different minds we have here in the UK. Every Umbrella Project installation helps to raise awareness and understanding of neurodiversity. Thousands of colourful umbrellas are strung together over public spaces, in schools, and in company buildings around the nation. Each display is designed to represent the one in five of us who have a neurodevelopmental condition, such as ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia or Tourette’s syndrome. These conditions fall under the umbrella term of neurodiversity. #neurodiversity #ADHDAwarenessMonth2024
51This month is ADHD awareness month. See the link below for some support materials that may help you and your child
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During continuous provision, our focus during phonics lessons has been to enjoy our Rocket Phonics books independently. We have been choosing books and getting comfy to enjoy some reading time whilst working on our segmenting and blending skills!
44Today we wore yellow and really enjoyed doodling some of the things we love the most for World Mental Health Day #WorldMentalHealthDay #HelloYellow24 #RPWellbeing
31In forest school we completed lots of activities towards stamps on our forest skills card! We made rope shapes, practised knots, made prints of natural objects and even made our own magic wands! We supported our friends and worked fantastically together!
40We were so excited to start writing our own narrative today based on Old Bear by
We used different resources to help with our writing and were very proud of what we produced – the adults were VERY proud of you all too! Fantastic work year 1!
44To all of our amazing Teaching Assistants, you are worth your weight in gold. Caring, nurturing, supportive, knowledgeable, determined, passionate. Our children are lucky to have you! Thank you!
37For European Day of Languages today, we had a day filled with Spanish activities and a Spanish themed lunch too! We sang songs, played interactive games and even created our own self portrait in the style of Spanish artist Picasso!
31Come and join us this morning 9-10am for a coffee and a pastry. Mrs Lyon will be explaining about our new Thrive Approach to Wellbeing and how it can benefit your child/ren at home and at school
40There has been a lot of reading in year 1 this week! We have been spending time reading with and to our friends, enjoying stories on our Toniebox and exploring some of our Rocket Phonics books too! Well done year 1
45In geography we began our new unit with some field work. We worked collaboratively as we made our way around school, identifying key landmarks within our school on a simple map as we went! #RPGeography
31In PE our aim was to how the body moves differently when running at different speeds.
32Our golden broom award went to a child in year 1 this week who has displayed fantastic team work at tidying up time! He has been making an effort to help tidy all areas, even ones he hasn’t been playing in! Well done!
36A huge thankyou to all of our KS1 parents who came to our @JuniorDukeAward workshop this week. It was lovely to see all the children so enthusiastic about choosing their challenges and we cannot wait to see how you all get on!
41We’ve had the best OPAL afternoon with parents – engaging in play with children across our school from nursery to year 6 and being able to show our adults all of the exciting things that we can get up to during our break and lunch times!
49We’re looking forward to you all attending our @OPAL_CIC play afternoon 1.30-3pm today. Come and discover what play looks like at Roby Park and if you’ve been to any of OPAL play afternoons before come and explore our new additions and have fun in the sun with your child/ren.
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For reading time today, our class picked Chocolate Cake by @MichaelRosenYes from the library. We loved it SO much, we wanted to see it read by the author himself…and just look how much it was enjoyed! Definately a new favourite! #RPReading
49What a first forest school session! We kept warm in an emergency shelter, practised our fire lighting, worked collaboratively to made bug houses and used ropes to make various shapes – all activities towards stamps on our forest school skills! #RPEnrichment
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Check out our latest newsletter #RPNews
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47We’re looking forward to welcoming parents & carers to our @JuniorDukeAward workshops. All workshops start at 9am and parents/carers will be working alongside their child to decide what challenges they will complete over the next academic year.
50After seeing how we can group animals based on their characteristics, we have moved onto grouping them by their diets. Today we completed venn diagrams to groups animals into omnivores, herbivores and carnivores
48We have been discussing how we thought characters in our new text would be feeling when their efforts to rescue Old Bear from the attic were unsuccessful. We created freeze frames to show these feelings from worry, upset, anger and determination!
37We had our first DEAR time session this week when we dropped everything and choose a book from our library to read either independently or to share with our friends! Well done year 1!
41It is time to apply for your child’s Reception place. Deadline – 15th January 2025. Being in our Nursery does not guarantee you a place in our Reception so be sure to get your applications in on time.
Link to school admission webpages: https://www.knowsley.gov.uk/education-and-schools/school-admissions/apply-primary-school-september-2025/apply-primary-school
Link to application portal: https://parentportal.knowsley.gov.uk/web/portal/pages/parents/admissions
37Please make sure you have downloaded and interact on the Class Charts Parent App to keep up to date with letters, newsletters and updates. Physical letters are not sent home. Don’t miss out on all of the incredible things that happen at Roby Park…
40Today we came to dressed as rock stars for our session with @RockKidzUK. We had so much fun rocking out, dancing, singing but most importantly learning about perseverance to achieve our goals #RPEnrichment
38We can’t wait to see all of our rock stars today! Children will enjoy a powerful message from @RockKidzUK about perseverance, aspirations and reaching for their goals.
43Check out our latest newsletter #RPNews
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32Today is going to be a hot one! Please leave jumpers and cardigans at home. Thank you
40Our extra-curricular clubs go live tomorrow at 8am on Parent Booking. Clubs run from 3-4pm and children should be collected via the Easton Road gate. Please make sure they have trainers with them in a bag, if needed. There will be no clubs on: 12.9.24, 2.10.24, 9.10.24
40This Tuesday, we look forward to welcoming @RockKidzUK back to Roby Park! Children can come to school dressed as Rock Stars! See the letter attached for more details from Rock Kidz
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44What a lovely start to year 1! It was lovely to see big smiles and positive attitudes from all the children and to see them working collaboratively when getting to know their new learning environment. #BackToSchool #RobyPark
35What a fantastic first day back! It is wonderful having all our children in school, old and new
45Today we had our celebratory forest school session when we were awarded our certificates for our fantastic achievements this past year as well as celebration marshmallows on the fire!
102We have been looking at materials and their properties in our final science unit and ended with designing three outfits for different weather conditions. We needed to ensure we considered the materials we would need to make the outfits suitable! #RPScience
120We had a brilliant Olympic dance workshop with @educationgroup. We focused on Spain and came to school wearing Spanish colours before learning some Spanish style dancing! #RPEnrichment #Olympics
113Have the most wonderful Summer and we look forward to seeing you all in September!
123Well done House of the Year – Slytherin! We hope you enjoyed your ice creams
156We have lots of surplus uniform in our uniform swap shop. Please help yourself save money and reduce preloved uniform going into landfill
121Today we had our final celebration assembly of the year, where our Stars of the Year awards were given out. Well done to everybody nominated!
137Check out our latest newsletter #RPNEWS
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101We love reading in Year 1 so much that we have started getting excited and enthusiastic to read stories to our whole class! Well done for showing resilience, confidence and displaying your love for reading – we are very proud of you! #RPReading
108We had such a great day at Laurel’s Wood today. We climbed trees, worked collaboratively and showed resilience while using a saw to cut bamboo to make necklaces, made a fire, toasted marshmallows & even had a go on the rope swing! #RPEnrichment
117We had a fantastic visit from @CurtisWatt who is a performance poet. He told us about the journey he has been on to get to where is he now and got us all engaged with his djembe drum that we couldn’t resist dancing to!Resilience and working hard were our key words! #RPCareersWeek
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120To end careers week, we all came to school dressed as what we aspire to be when we are older. From doctors to policemen, soldiers to vets, footballers, princesses and zoo keepers – I am so excited to see what the future has in store for you all! #RPEnrichment #RPcareersweek
87Playtimes have never been so good! We have made the most of the sunshine at playtimes and our opal after school clubs! #OPALSchools
149Today in PE our aim was to develop my understanding of how exercise helps my brain. Well done year 1!
131We had a lovely visit today from author and illustrator Lauren Mather who read her book Paws and Claws to us. We enjoyed asking questions about writing a book and each got our own signed copy too! #RPCareersWeek #RPReading
135We LOVED our visit from @MerPolMounted today for careers week! We learnt that you don’t already have to be a rider to become mounted police, how to become a mounted officer, how valuable horses are to the police force and what the best part of the officers job is! #RPCareersWeek
108A big thankyou to @RobertsRecycle who paid us a little visit to tell us all about their company! We learnt all about their business and how it started, what they do day to day to support recycling and spoke about what the best thing about being a business owner is! #RPCareersWeek
112A huge thankyou to @MerPolKnowsley & @MerseyPolice who visited us for careers week this morning and told us all about their jobs and answered lots of questions for us! We were lucky enough to sit on their bikes, turn on the sirens and see what’s it’s like in the back of a van!
115Check out our latest plans for Careers Week taking place this week. YR – Y2 have author Lauren Mather visiting on Wednesday and she will be signing copies of her new book Paws & Claws for children which is available on Parent Pay for £3 for anyone wanting to purchase
48Check out our latest newsletter #RPNEWS
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57Summer camp places can now be booked on Parent Pay. Sessions run from 9am – 3pm and cost just £12.50 per child, per day. Summer camp runs from Monday 22nd July – Friday 9th August. Children need to bring with them a coat, packed lunch, snack and water bottle.
53Our Summer Fair is back this Friday 1-4pm! Children can wear their own clothes to school. Purchase your tickets on Parent Pay and collect your wristbands from the office for priority access. Join us for fun in the sun…
School will finish at 12.45pm on the day so all children can attend with their families.
EYFS children should be collected from the Easton Road gate and KS1 & KS2 from their Western Avenue exits. All children and families should make their way around to Easton Rd for entry to the fair. All children are to be supervised by their adults.
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We have had a fantastic day at @Smithillsfarm today. Benji took us around and we were able to feed & meet the animals, watch the cows being milked, enjoy donkey rides & tractor rides to feed the animals! One of the children said “I’m having the best day ever!” #RPEnrichment
42Check out our Careers Week plans with more visitors to be added… Aspirations Day will take place on Friday 28th June and children can come dressed as something they want to be or do when they are older. #RPPSHE #RPPERSONALDEVELOPMENT
57 Check out our latest newsletter #RPNEWS
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67We had a wonderful forest school session that led to lots of forest stamps & badges! We worked on our knot tying before working collaboratively to collect leaves and create decorations from them…some of us even got the chance to cut wood with an axe and mallet! #RPEnrichment
50Thanks to everyone who attended our very special assembly. The children did us all proud & were superstars. Thanks for getting involved with our quiz fun and tie tying race. The children loved it and your Disney knowledge was surprisingly good! #RPAssembly
60Check out our latest newsletter #RPNEWS
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55We used sketchpad to insert text boxes to create a list of materials we would need to make a rocket we could then launch to be able to record the distances they travel in a spreadsheet. After this we created our rocket designs and used click and drag to label them!
46Our final clubs of the school year go live at 9ma tomorrow. Head to Parent Booking to book your child on. Thanks to our incredible team who devote their time to putting on clubs. Without them, we wouldn’t have been able to offer 58 clubs with 900+ places taken up!
60The weather is looking better for our @OPAL_CIC parent play day this Thursday afternoon. If you’re free, why not come and play with your child/ren? Sign up here if you would like to join us for some outdoor fun: https://t.co/6yb7zT52bM
66⭐️ Father’s Day Celebration Assemblies – Friday 14th June ⭐️
?If you haven’t emailed your photos in, please email them to robypark@knowsley.gov.uk by 3pm this Thursday to be included in the assembly.
#RPEnrichment
#RPFamily
63We did a some acting today and created a series of freeze frames to show a part of our vehicle text ‘The Secret of Black Rock’ by
If you haven’t emailed your photos in, please email them to robypark@knowsley.gov.uk by 3pm on Thursday 6th June to be included in the assembly.
67As part of the Million Steps Challenge, @cashforkidsliv teamed up with publisher Simon & Schuster to offer all participating primary schools the chance to win a Library Pack of 20 books. Following the end of the challenge all schools that signed up were put into a draw, and…we’re thrilled to let you know that our school is a winner! Books are on their way to us and will go into our reading shed for our children to enjoy
80Sadly our @OPAL_CIC parent play session was rained off with an amber weather warning but it has been rescheduled for Thursday 6th June. Fingers crossed the weather is better! Sign up here if you would like to join us for some outdoor fun: https://forms.gle/ZZwWy2KaX7bapKPo7
78Check out our latest newsletter #RPNEWS
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60Our annual careers week is back and it is one of the events our children look forward to most. We are looking for members of our school and wider community to come and chat to our children about the brilliant and inspiring jobs they do.
Also, if there are specific careers you would like shared with our children pop it below and we will see what we can do.
Would you or somebody you know be interested in being part of our careers week? If so, please email us at robypark@knowsley.gov.uk with your availability and for more information. Please share with any contacts you may have.
61Check out our latest newsletter #RPNEWS Check out important information about parent @OPAL_CICplay day on @OutdoorClassDay
and sports day also #RPNews
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72Our @SSCCTY meetings are pupil led and so this was a perfect chance to find out what they would like the reward to be for the house with the most house points and to share all of their ideas! Lots wanted bouncy castles but Taylor Swift and water parks were suggestions too!
73We were very lucky to have had a little surprise treat this morning…some time spent on year 6’s end of SATs inflatables! Happy faces all round – what a fantastic way to end the week. One of our children said “This has been my favourite day ever!”#RPEnrichment
56We have been focusing on the end of our story ‘The Secret of Black Rock’ and considering how Erin may have felt when none of the adults believed her that Black Rock was a sea creature! We created freeze frames showing the characters feelings
64We have begun looking at plants in science. We revisited what we already know and created a storyboard of how to plant seeds. We were then were able to plant our own using these…we don’t know what our seeds will grow into yet but we are excited to find out!
59Summer Fair tickets are now available to purchase on Parent Pay. Tickets cost £2.50 per person.
*Meet and greets with unicorn ponies
*Birds of prey display
*Inflatables
*Fair rides
*Stalls
*Princesses
*Face painting
*Food & drinks
68Check out our latest newsletter #RPNEWS
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62Please make sure children are wearing factor 50 sun cream when the weather is predicted to be hot. Please leave jumpers/cardigans off. Children need a water bottle to stay hydrated & a hat to protect them from the sun. Children will be encouraged to play in shaded areas
72Our Summer Fair is back on Friday 21st June @ 1-4pm! Tickets will be available on Parent Pay from tomorrow. Entry will cost £2.50 and wristbands given out. Join us for fun in the sun… School will finish at 12.45pm on the day so all children can attend with their families.
*Meet and greets with unicorn ponies
*Birds of prey display
*Inflatables
*Fair rides
*Stalls
*Princesses
*Face painting
*Food & drink
66Three of our year 1 children were awarded our Golden Broom Award this week for demonstrating an excellent attitude towards tidying up our resources and equipment ensuring it is well looked after and ready for the next children to use! Well done girls!
66Please see the letter attached for all the details of our father’s day celebration assemblies on Friday 14th June
59Check out our letter for sports day on Monday 20th May
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61Don’t forget to check out the letter detailing all end of year trips. Payments are live on Parent Pay. If you would like to attend the trip as a volunteer, click on the link to express your interest. robyparkprimary.co.uk/wp-content/upl#RPEnrichment
61Come and join us TODAY for our SEND Coffee Morning. Mrs Ryan, our Specialist Outreach Teacher, will share some tips and ideas on supporting your children with reading and spelling. Come and have a pastry and a chat, we look forward to seeing you then.
82We had a wonderful morning spent with @Littlefoothq in forest school From identifying trees, compass points, bug hunts, camouflaging ourselves, fire lighting & knot practice, we had a very busy morning with lots of stamps towards our forest school badges! Well done year 1!
56For this week’s DEAR time, we dropped everything and chose a book from our library to either read alone or share with a friend! We love reading in year 1 and especially enjoy exploring our library filled with books from a huge variety of genres!
67Thank you so much for a brilliant day today. We pledged 242,000 steps as part of @hitsradiolv and @cashforkidsliv challenge and we have raised an incredible £1347 already! Thanks to our incredible team for pulling off a brilliant event.
And thank you to every parent and carer who showed up, participated and donated. Lots of videos and photos pending….but first a hot bath and bed! It’s not too late to donate and every penny makes a difference: https://www.cashforkidsgive.co.uk/campaign/sam-thompson-million-steps/fundraisers/roby-park-primary-school/
61We are looking forward to @hitsradiolv joining us tomorrow for our colour run for @cashforkidsliv. Don’t forget your trainers
74Year 1 love making the most of our Rocket Phonics books at any opportunity! We have enjoyed reading ours this week as we have been coming in of a morning! Well done Year 1 for all being remarkable readers! #RPReading
66Following launching our new @OPAL_CIC playtimes, this weeks @SSCCTY meeting was focused on the impact that OPAL has had on our playtime in school. Promoting the British Value of democracy and tolerance, it was lovely to see what the children are enjoying most! #RPBV #RPPSHE
57Our new Reading Shed has arrived in our quiet zone. Children will be able to enjoy a range of fiction and non fiction books purchased with money raised through our reading sponsored event. We have also purchased Tonies for children who want to enjoy audible stories
75For the third year running, @NextEnergyUK are sponsoring our PE kits which means every child will receive a FREE PE tracksuit and logo tshirt for the next academic year. Thank you so much for all the support this incredible company shows us
66This week in PE, our aim was to develop throwing for accuracy. Well done year 1!
55In PE our aim was to develop power and speed in the sprinting technique.
55To celebrate #StGeorgesDay2024 we had a visit from @PastProductions and St George himself who taught us lots about who he is. We turned ourselves into dragons that St George wanted to slay, went on treasure hunts and acted out key words linked to his story. #RPEnrichment
61Today we had our first KS1 Spanish extra-curricular club. With the help of Language Angels Lucy, we looked at the unit En la selva – learning animals, playing spot the wrong animal part & singing a song before doing some colouring! #RPExtraCurricular #RPSpanish
54For St George’s Day, children can wear red and white to school tomorrow. Children will enjoy workshops with Past Productions. Keep an eye on our socials to find out what we get up to…
60Our annual colour run is back and all in aid of @cashforkidsliv who do an incredible job to support children in our school community cashforkidsgive.co.uk/campaign/sam-t
Please share the sponsor link far and wide to raise as much money as we can for this wonderful charity! Thank you for your support!
Please see the letter detailing the arrangements for the day: robyparkprimary.co.uk/wp-content/upl
77We are excited to see all of the chn back for an exciting start of term tomorrow. Doors open at 8.40am. Just a polite reminder to send chn into school in their school PE tracksuit, trainers and warm coat for our @OPAL_CIC launch day tomorrow.
Chn will get to experience and enjoy all of our new resources. Chn must have their wellies with them to go on the field. Wellies will stay in school so please wear trainers and bring wellies in a bag. Keep an eye out on all of our socials to see what fun the children get up to.
65If you want a Nursery place at Roby Park for September please apply now to avoid disappointment. We have very limited places remaining.
For those who have secured a place in our Nursery for Sept, all your paperwork & transition plans will be sent over the coming two weeks
76Don’t forget the deadline for our @OPAL_CIC bingo competition is this Mon. Please feel free to get friends, family & neighbours involved! The more, the merrier. Please send all resources through to class with your child so your child’s class teacher can mark them off.
73To launch all of our exciting new @OPAL_CIC resources, we are going to host a launch day this Mon for the chn. All chn need to come in to school wearing their PE kits and trainers, with their wellies also to keep in school. Children are only allowed on the field with wellies.
Check out all the new resources your children will love to play with as of this Monday, in our latest newsletter: https://robyparkprimary.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/OPAL-Newsletter-April-2024-2-1.pdf
The weather is predicting a few showers throughout Monday but rain doesn’t stop us so please make sure your child has a suitable coat with them.
79We have been so busy getting ready for the upcoming term that we couldn’t wait to share with you feedback from our
Our latest @OPAL_CIC newsletter is out now. Check it out here: https://robyparkprimary.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/OPAL-Newsletter-April-2024.pdf
81As part of growing up week we talked about where money came from. This lead us to discussing what we want to be when we grow up to earn money and then dressing up as this career! From footballers to doctors, ballerinas and vets – we all have high aspirations! #RPGrowingUpWeek
72Thank you to our HSA & our staff for making Easter happen at Roby Park. They’ve collected Easter eggs & organised an Easter Egg Hunt that the children thoroughly enjoyed. Our Easter discos were a great success also & today there will be visitors to class with more egg surprises
71As part of growing up week, we looked at a variety of activities, foods and drinks and then worked collaboratively to rate these from healthy for us, to unhealthy. We said that even though some things are unhealthy, it’s okay to have them sometimes! #RPGrowingUpWeek
57In science we have been looking at materials. We began by identifying what material various objects were made out of before exploring different objects to work out the properties of different materials!
71For our latest @SSCCTY meeting we discussed what ways we can be proud of our school and ourselves. We used our British values of respect and democracy to ensure that everybody had a say in our discussions before casting our votes! #RPBV #RPWellbeing
64For forest school with @Littfoothq we had to build structures that were strong enough to withstand challenges of Joe trying to knock them down. We discovered that the strongest towers aren’t always the tallest and need a really strong base! #RPEnrichment
64Don’t forget tomorrow children can come to school in their own clothes to enjoy an Easter egg hunt. Easter disco tickets are available on Parent Pay. Tickets must be purchased before discos. Please see our letter sent on Class Charts for timings and details
65Summer term extra curricular clubs are live on Parent Booking at midday today. Please note our @OPAL_CIC play sessions are family events and parents/carers are to accompany their child. Younger siblings are welcome but are the responsibility of parents/carers
69In PE our aim was to develop stability and control when performing balances
52Another fantastic term working with so many families across Merseyside, giving them an insight into what their children are learning at school and helping them to support learning at home. Love how enthusiastic, knowledgable and confident parents/carers are.
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55Research consistently emphasizes the significant influence parents have on their child’s school education. It’s wonderful how involved parents are
Parents helping their children to thrive
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59For #WorldWildlifeDay we learnt about oceans and waters. We located waters that surround the UK, created posters to stop plastic pollution and save our oceans before creating under water scenes with wax after seeing the amazing colours in oceans around the world!
75A MASSIVE thankyou to @Year6RobyPark who spent some time with us today for #WorldBookDay2024. We really enjoyed you reading stories with us and you made reading our new books lots of fun. We have already been asking when we can do it again! #RPEnrichment
74Our Easter discos are taking place this Wednesday. Please see the letter attached for more details. Tickets are available to purchase on Parent Pay only.
69Please make sure your child has wellies to keep in school, no later than Mon 15th Apr. Children can only go on the field in wellies if the grounds are wet and we do not want anyone to miss out on all of the exciting play opportunities coming this Easter.
72Did you hear about our involvement in the @cashforkidsliv one million steps challenge this May? Listen to Mrs Allen having a chat with @SamThompsonUK on @hitsradiouk
63As part of The Great Big School Clean we have been collecting litter from the school grounds and local area. The children have loved looking after their environment. #TheGreatBigSchoolClean
71WOW! We have raised £379.20 for brand new books from our sponsored reading event and £104 for @comicrelief. Books will be going into our new reading shed for children to enjoy at playtimes. Thank you so much! @OPAL_CIC
65We hope the children enjoyed their sponsored reading event & we look forward to finding out how much sponsor money we receive in which will go back into the children receiving books to take home & keep through our ‘Remarkable Reader’ initiatives. Thank you for your support.
82Just a polite reminder that tomorrow is Comic Relief. We will be collecting donations via Parent Pay only.
64To celebrate #WorldBookDay2024 we came to school dressed in our pyjamas! We enjoyed spending time reading with
We are excited to participate in @OutdoorClassUKI on 23rd May and coincide this with our first parent @OPAL_CIC
parent play day.
79Save the date! Parents & carers get limbering up and ready to get filthy! Our colour run is back for the 4th year running and again this year, we are choosing to support @cashforkidsliv and @hitsradiouk with @SamThompsonUK
More details to come around Easter.
66We need parents and carers to take 2 mins to complete our playtime survey!
Click here: https://forms.gle/ysHDq715T95rwe827
The class with the most responses will win an incredible prize!
66For #WorldBookDay2024 today, we spent time with another class and having a story read to us by Mr Couling. We really enjoyed sharing stories with year 4 and having stories read to us too and it was made even better by all being cozy in our pyjamas! #RPEnrichment
62For #WorldBookDay we came to school in our pyjamas! Miss Clarkson shared her favourite book with the class then we took our reading books outside to read, finally we shared the reading books from our library with the children from
64Our Mother’s Day Celebration Assemblies take place today and the children are very excited.
Assembly times are as follows:
• EYFS @ 9 – 9.45am
• Y3 & Y4 @ 10.00 – 10.45am
• Y1 & Y2 @ 1.10 – 2.00pm
• Y5 & Y6 @ 2.10 – 2.50pm
65in PE our aim was to develop quality when performing and linking shapes.
63We are looking forward to all the special women in the lives of our children joining us on Wednesday. Please see the letter attached with all the information needed: https://robyparkprimary.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/19.2.24-Mothers-Day-Celebrations.docx
64We discussed animals that live in our oceans as part of #WorldWildlifeDay & some asked how big some of the animals were. So, along with @Year2RobyPark we did some research and used ourselves to make the length of blue whales and orca. We were amazed at their size!
66Our Easter Holiday Club is back for YR-Y6, running from 2nd-12th April. Sessions run from 9.00-3.00pm and cost £12.50 per day. Children need to bring a packed lunch, water bottle and raincoat. Select your days and make payment on Parent Pay #RPEnrichment
69Thank you for your positive and supportive feedback. It is greatly appreciated
64Congratulations to this week’s Remarkable Readers We hope you love your new books from our machine Who’ll be our winners next week? #RPRemarkableReaders
67SMOOTHIES! After tasting fruits and veg in our last lesson, we were ready to make a smoothie with our favourite ingredients! We made sure we washed our hands, practiced cutting safety and followed a recipe to create our very own smoothies
59We promoted the British Value of democracy today in our @SSCCTY meeting ensuring everyone had their say! As this year is a leap year, we discussed how we would best like to spend an extra 24 hours. Most of us said we would like to spend it having fun with friends #RPBV #RPPHSE
62A little bit of rain didn’t stop us from completing @_thedailymile this week! We ran with our friends, at our own pace and most importantly returned to class motivated and ready for our learning!
53The deadline for photos for Mother’s Day celebration assemblies is 3pm today. Thank you #RPEnrichment
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We look forward to parents/carers joining us tonight & tomorrow for our Spring Progress Meetings. You’ll find your appointment times on your account & you’ll have received an appointment email. If you are yet to book on, please head to Parent Booking to find any remaining slots
53Today in PE our aim was to develop and combine travelling movements.
66We are looking at our playtimes and thinking about how we can improve them by introducing the @OPAL_CIC
Programme. Can you help? We really want to know what you think of playtimes now – please complete this 2 minute survey. Thank you. forms.gle/dsLcU5m7AB3ea6
72We are looking for a team of parents/carers to really galvanise the HSA and lead on exciting events for the children & wider community. Come and join us for a drink, pastry and chat to find out how you can make a difference to our school community!
57Congratulations to this week’s Remarkable Readers We hope you love your new books from our vending machine
Who will be our winners next week? #rpremarkablereaders
In English we have started our new book ‘Where The Wild Things Are’. Today, we worked collaboratively to recreate freeze frames of scenes from the story, thinking carefully about the characters feelings and actions
68We are making smoothies in DT but before we can we needed to explore fruits and veg! We were surprised to find that some foods we thought were vegetables are actually fruits and we know this because they have seeds! After we grouped the foods, we tried some too!
56Today in PE our aim was to explore travelling movements using different body parts to travel on.
58We looked at digital imagery today and started by planning photo stories that we could then recreate using an iPad to take photos with our friends. We then edited these using tools to help us to crop, change the colour, add filters and resize!
57Looking forward to the half term ahead helping families to support high quality learning at home, helping their children thrive #inclusion
56We’re excited to have @Scholastic book fair back @RobyParkSchool this week. Come and have a look at the books on offer after school. Payment can be made using both card & cash. For all books purchased, we receive rewards which can be used to purchase books for our school.
68We are looking forward to seeing all of our children tomorrow, after their half term break. Doors open at 8.40am. See you then!
53Our Mother’s Day celebration services are back on Weds 6th March. We are looking forward to inviting in all of the wonderful women who make a difference in the lives of all of our children. See the letter below for all of the details:
70We had lots of fun today at our valentines disco, dancing with our friends, playing games, enjoying some treats and singing some of our favourite songs! #RPEnrichment #ValentinesDay
49We had a fantastic session with @Littlefoothq this week – working collaboratively to build hammocks from sticks, building hammocks between trees we could spend some time in with friends and then showed our resilience when working on our knot tying skills. Well done year 1
64We are thrilled to be able to offer the It’s Your Child’s Life Parental Engagement Programme which runs for 5 weeks starting Mon 19th Feb, for parents/carers of children in Reception & Y1. Please see the letter and leaflet for more information and to sign yourself up
59We are looking for a team of parents/carers to galvanise our Home School Association (HSA). We are looking for parents/carers who have ideas and want to lead our HSA. To find out more and/or come share your ideas, join us for a drink, pastry and a chat.
67Today in PE our aim was to develop sending a ball using a racket
55Spring Progress Meetings are now live on Parent Booking for you to select your appointment time. Progress meetings will take place on 28th and 29th February between 3.15 – 7.30pm.
57All Spring term 2 clubs are now live on Parent Booking. Please only book one space per club. We have freed up lots of extra spaces due to multiple bookings. Please be on time to collect your children at 4pm. Thank you.
66Today we had our latest @SSCCTY meeting. As it is national story telling week, we discussed how we could encourage more reading during the school day. Through discussion, each group could then cast a vote to contribute towards the whole school results! #SmartSchoolCouncil
68We are raising money for NSPCC. We will be collecting £1 donations and children can wear clothes with numbers on or patterns. We will also be hosting a small cake sale after school, on the main playground
88We welcomed our R – Y2 families today for a phonics workshop to demonstrate how phonics is taught at Roby Park. We modelled lessons to show how these look, provided resources to use at home and shared the fantastic resources our children have in school!
82We have being look at seasonal changes in science and have been recording rainfall over the past few weeks. Today we used the data that we had collected to create a graph so we could see which weeks had the most and which had the least rainfall
60We were joined by our wonderful families for our phonics workshop today. We shared the exciting Rocket Phonics resources our children use in school. We modelled a short lesson and children loved reading with their grown ups. #RPReading #RPPhonics
70If you are struggling financially, with no other means of support, you may be able to apply for some help. Please see the post below for full details:
81Check out the letter below regarding our Valentine’s discos on Thursday 8th February #RPMemoryMakers robyparkprimary.co.uk/wp-content/upl
75Thanks to the @Year1RobyPark & Y2 families who joined us for book & a brew! We talked about the benefits of reading for pleasure, how reading looks at Roby Park & our amazing new book areas, before the children joined us for some shared reading
65Today year 1 and @Year2RobyPark welcomed in our families for book and a brew! We talked about the benefits of reading for pleasure, how reading looks at Roby Park and our wonderful new book areas, before having the chance to share our favourite book with our adults
60Congratulations to this week’s Remarkable Readers! We hope you love your new books from our vending machine. Who will be our winners next week? #RPRemarkableReaders
77So much fun was had today in the snow All children enjoyed today, building snowmen and having snowball fights with their friends. A special shout out to Mr Lyon, Mr Couling & Mr Swatman who were the dream team moving the snow & making sure school was safe
69We absolutely LOVED spending some time on the field in the snow today! We built snowman, made snow angels, threw snowballs at the teachers but most importantly had lots of fun playing with our friends!
61Please send children in wrapped up warm in thick coats, hat, gloves and scarves with wellies so we can enjoy the snow together! Please send children in with spare socks/tights
64In history we are looking at the monarchy. Today we began discussing chronology and then used base ten to represent the ages of some of the Royal family that we have been learning about. This helped us to see who has been alive for longer! #RPHistory @SI_Liverpool
54We are all really enjoying playtimes with our new role play area as well as scooting and lots more area’s to get creative to make playtime more fun for all!
66Congratulations to our first Remarkable Readers of 2024. Children can win a book from our vending machine which is full to the brim of the best titles or the weekly Remarkable Reader bag by showing a great effort with reading at home & school. Who will be next week’s winners?
77A mural capturing everything the community loves about #Huyton has been unveiled at Huyton Train Station.
We spent the morning at Space World as a treat for being the class with the highest attendance in Autumn! Laughing, playing and having fun with our friends – what a great way to start the week! Well done year 1, keep it up!. #RPEnrichment
65We looked at algorithms in computing – starting with inputs and outputs before decomposing instructions to see the importance of these being in the correct order to get the right result. We then followed an algorithm correcting any bugs along the way! #RPComputing
52We came back to school to an amazing new reading area within our classroom. We feel very lucky and are really excited to have an amazing range of brand new, high-quality texts that we can explore independently or with friends! #RPReading
67We stumbled across a suitcase this week, filled with clues to help us to make predictions about what our new English book may be about! Our ideas were fantastic and we used the clues to explain our predictions!
77Every month, we upload online safety newsletters to our website. Check them out for hints and tips on how to keep your children safe: robyparkprimary.co.uk/parent-informa
63Check out what is coming up this Spring term and save the key dates in your diary #RPEnrichment #RPMemoryMakers
73Last few places for clubs are remaining on Parent Booking. All clubs begin week beginning Monday 8th January. Please note: NO CLUBS ARE ON 30th JANUARY AND 8th FEBRUARY
74Welcome back to school! This Spring term, we have more incredible plans in place which we can not wait for! #missschool #missout
69We have an incredible range of extra-curricular clubs on offer in Spring term 1. Booking opens on Parent Booking tomorrow at 8.30am. Booking closes at 8.30am on 8th January. Places are subject to availability #RPEnrichment
72Congratulations to our final Remarkable Readers of 2023 Enjoy your new books
What a fantastic show at @TheatreRoyalStH! The children thoroughly enjoyed Aladdin. Our children always make us proud with their exceptional behaviour! Well done!
79Mr Couling kindly organised visits to Whitestone Lodge & St Bart’s Nursing Home where our children sang festive songs, chatted & played with residents. We look forward to our next visit next term. We wish all the residents a very merry Christmas
72Here is a little taster of what a spectacular time our Winter Wonderland was for all of our families Our school hosted this wonderful festive event for free, for all to enjoy.
77Check out our latest newsletter #RPNEWS
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90KS1 you were AMAZING! During rehearsals for our Fireside Nativity and in your performance you have shown resilience, motivation and fantastic team work. We are very proud of each and every one of you!
69We hope you all had a fantastic time at our Winter Wonderland event. It was a huge success. Thank you to all of the staff who worked hard to put on such a festive event for all of our community. Thank you for your dedication, hard work and effort #RPMakingMemories
85Well done to our most recent Remarkable Readers. You have all shown positive attitudes towards your reading. Keep it up!
90We had an amazing time at our Christmas party with Elfie. We danced, threw snowballs and played some games too! We were quite surprised when the Grinch came in but he just wanted to make friends and join in the party! #RPEnrichment
70Family dining wouldn’t have been possible without the kitchen team for cooking the delicious food; Mrs Allen and Mrs Lyon for organising everything; and all the grown ups who took time out of their day to enjoy the festivities with the children #thanks #RPenrichment
85Check out our latest newsletter #RPNEWS
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A HUGE thankyou to Cllr Walsh who secured funding to extend our pool for an extra week! We were so happy to find out we had another week of fun & it’s amazing to see how much the children’s confidence has grown in just 5 weeks. We’re very proud of you all
79#LiteracyCountsLoves Shout out to @Year1RobyPark @RobyParkSchool and @MrsListerStJ @StJamesCEsth
for sharing photos of their children using the planning circles. Do you use #ReadySteadyWrite? We’d love to be tagged in your Tweets so we can see all the exciting learning you get up to. Find out more: https://t.co/QE3eWDKFtm
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82See the article below about our fantastic curriculum offer for our children at Roby Park!
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Tomorrow is Christmas Jumper Day. Children can wear their festive jumpers/clothes to school. All donations go to supporting the work of Save the Children
We can not wait for our annual Winter Wonderland which is set to be an incredible community event #RPMakingMemories
80Don’t forget to book your child’s class party on Parent Pay ahead of this Friday. We are looking forward to Angels & Scallies hosting our Christmas parties with great games, competitions, prizes and their famous red carpet! Festive clothes can be worn to school
77Check out our latest newsletter #RPNEWS
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77A huge well done to this week’s Remarkable Readers. We hope you enjoy your books. #RPReading
93Thanks to the hard work & generosity of Cllr Walsh, who has secured us additional funding, we are able to have the swimming pool on site for an extra week! This means all children will be able to enjoy additional swimming lessons next week #RPPE #RPMakingMemories
86WOW year 1! Your resilience the past couple of weeks has been amazing and it’s been lovely to see how much your confidence in the water has grown! Today we had our final session with @ELITE_Swim_UK and put all of our skills into practice and even went underwater! #RPPE
81We have been really enjoying having our Rocket Phonics reading books on our tables so that we have opportunities to read throughout the day and to use our phonics knowledge to help us to segment and blend and to read new stories!
84Christmas parties are now available on Parent Pay. Cost £2.50. Parties take place on Friday 8th December and children can wear their Christmas party clothes to school on Friday
80Mrs Clause will be visiting Roby Park on Tuesday 12th December. Children can enjoy Christmas songs, Christmas story and write their Christmas wishes to go on the tree with Mrs Clause. Please make payment of £2.50 on Parent Pay by Tuesday 12th. Thank you #RPEnrichment
76Year 1 were very excited to see Lucy the @LanguageAngels_fairy as the fairy on the top of our tree this morning, watching over us as we practice our Spanish number song for our class assembly on Friday! Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cincooo ….
91Check out our Anti-Bullying chant from last week when we took part in Anti-Bullying Week
#AntiBullyingWeek #RPWellbeing
85Why not have a sort out and donate anything you no longer need? You can donate clothes to our @robertsrecycle
clothing box in school #cutyourcarbon
90Each week our confidence is growing in the water and our smiles say it all! Today we worked on moving around the pool with floats, practised floating on our backs and also had a go at breast stroke and backstroke too! You make us very proud!
66Today in PE our aim was to copy, repeat, create and perform actions that represent the theme. Well done year 1!
71We have been looking at humans and our senses and today was taste! We tried lemon juice, lettuce, popcorn, chocolate and apple before discussing its taste and rating it too! We discovered that everyone has different tastes! Next up…smell! #RPScience
71If you haven’t yet booked on for Christmas Family Dining, you have until Friday to reserve your place. Any new bookings we are asking for Weds 6th or Thurs 7th Dec Check the letter out for more details: https://robyparkprimary.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/17.11.23-Christmas-Family-Dining-2023.docx
73We have been busy today planning our own twist on a traditional narrative after looking at Rapunzel by @bethanwoollvinWe used our planning circles and then spent a little time reading back the stories we have planned before we start writing them! @LiteracyCounts1 #RPEnglish
84Our Christmas Family Dining event is back this year but with a few changes. This year, parents and carers can choose the day they want to attend and book their whole family on together so siblings can sit together. Head to Parent Booking to reserve your seats.
79Today year 1 and @Year2RobyPark had their first after school @LEGO_Group club. The children enjoyed working collaboratively to create a variety of different structures from gardens to towers, whilst having fun along the way! #RPEnrichment #RPExtracurricular
78We have been busy today planning our own twist on a traditional narrative after looking at Rapunzel by @bethanwoollvin
We used our planning circles and then spent a little time reading back the stories we have planned before we start writing them!
87We LOVE @ELITE_Swim_UK Today we worked on our arm movements and leg kicking in the water before practising floating on our backs and some ball games too! Our confidence is growing each week and year 1 is showing such resilience. Well done!
72Rock Kidz visit @RobyParkSchool every year and it NEVER disappoints Thanks for ROCKING with us AGAIN
68Today in PE our aim was to copy, remember and repeat actions that represent the theme. As our theme was pirates we finished with a class favourite WALK THE PLANK! Well done year 1!
62Today we raised money for @DiabetesUK and showed our support by wearing blue! We spoke about what diabetes is, that anybody can get it and most importantly, what it means for those who have it #WorldDiabetesDay #diabetes #RPEnrichment
64Extra-curricular clubs are now live on Parent Booking. Clubs will not run on the following dates so please make a note before you book: 14th Nov, 24th Nov, 15th Dec, 18th Dec, 21st Dec. Thank you to all of our staff for dedicating their time for free clubs
We are taking part in CUT YOUR CARBON this November. Children will be coming home with checklists they can use to work as a family to cut carbon. Those who return their checklist will receive a certificate! @EcoSchools
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Thank you members of @Year6RobyPark who led our poignant and reflective Armistice Day service. Thank you to @Knowsley_Leader and Cllr Frank Walsh for your attendance and laying a wreath in our Remembrance Garden
83Rock Kidz Day! We loved dressing as rock stars today and singing and dancing like one too! @RockKidzUK reminded us to be kind to everyone and also how amazing we all are #RPEnrichment #RPWellbeing
76Thank you to all of the parents/carers who have attended our Progress Meetings this week. Staff have enjoyed meeting you & taking the time to discuss how your children are thriving. Your feedback is incredible & we really appreciate it. Thank you.
78Tomorrow is our annual @RockKidzUK Day which will be teaching the children a positive message about mental health, self esteem and wellbeing, Children can come dressed as rock stars or if they do not want to dress up they can wear their own clothes or uniform.
72WOW! Today we had our first swim session with @ELITE_Swim_UK We worked on entering the water, using our arms to move around, floating on our backs…and had some noodle races too! We were very brave and showed lots of confidence and resilience! #RPEnrichment #RPPE
69Today in PE our aim was to explore speeds and actions in our pirate inspired dance. Well done year 1!
68Year 1 Today in PE our aim was to use a change of direction and speed to make your dance look interesting. ? ?
60In art we have been looking at different types of line, shapes and also colour. Starting with shape, we then moved onto lines and then combined our learning to create abstract art made up of overlapping shapes, colour and a variety of lines!
#RPArt
63Our workshop with @AnimalsTakeOver today allowed us to meet and hold some of the animals we have been learning about in science -amphibians, birds, reptiles and mammals! We spoke about their habitats, diets and sleeping habits too!????? #RPScience #RPEnrichment
53DEAR TIME ?Drop it and read this week has given us the opportunity to take time out of our day to read, share and explore new books, and books linked to our topics, with our friends ?? @OpenUni_RfP #RPReading
63In continuous provision this week, we have used areas in our outdoor and indoor classroom for independent learning. Accessing activities linked to our learning and working collaboratively with our friends to challenge ourselves and consolidate learning we have done in class ??
52@Year1RobyPark Today in PE our aim was to use counts of 8 to move in time and make my dance look interesting. ? ?
66Today we wore yellow for #WorldMentalHealthDay2023 and spoke about what we can do to make ourselves and people around us happy. We explored @ZumosUK , enjoyed some meditation and created positive posters to make people smile! @YoungMindsUK #HelloYellow #RPWellbeing ??
52We have been looking at animals in science that are both wild and those that are pets. We discussed these with our friends, grouped them and then worked collaboratively as a class to complete the interactive quiz on what we have been learning ??? #RPScience
64@Year1RobyPark Today in PE our aim was to take our time and not give up when we find something hard. Well done year 1!
66We have been looking at animals in science and today we learnt that we can group animals based on their diet. We worked hard in groups to discuss what animals eat and to then identify which are carnivores, omnivore and which are herbivores ??? @DevelopExperts #RPScience
52A massive thank you to 4 times Olympic Medalist @BeckAdlington who visited us today to highlight the importance of learning how to swim. We were able to hold & see her medals and have the opportunity to ask lots of questions about the Olympics and also her swimming career ?
54Year 1 Today in PE our aim was to explore changing direction and dodging.
61SPANISH DAY Today was a day of all things Spanish! We learnt colours and numbers, played interactive games, matched colours with words, danced, sang, drew self portraits in the style of Picasso and even completed spanish colour by numbers! ? @LanguageAngels_ #RPSpanish
60We had a brilliant day today at @MuseumLiverpool learning all about toys over time, materials they may are made of and worked together to order toys from oldest to newest! Well done year 1 for a fantastic day!?✨ #RPEnrichment #RPHistory
64Drop everything and read!?? We dropped what we were doing on Friday and chose a book of our choice to explore by ourselves or with a friend #RPReading
71In English we have been immersing ourselves in our new book ‘Old Bear’. Various items had been left in our classroom for us to explore and we used these to help us to come up with some fastastic predictions about what could happen in our story!?
65We worked together to recreate scenes from the book ‘Old Bear’, using what we have already read to show how the characters may be feeling and what they would be doing. We even rescued Old Bear from high up in the classroom and were very excited!?
63@Year1RobyPark Today in PE our aim was to explore how the body moves differently when running at different speeds. ?♂️ ?♀️
65FOREST SCHOOL ? We learnt how to do overhand knots, matched natural objects to colour swatches, practiced letters and numbers with rope and finally collected natural objects to make our very own magic wands! ??? #REEnrichment
57Today we had a special visit from @AlldaysFarm and had the chance to hold, pet, feed and brush a pony, sheep, goats, chickens, a chinchilla and even a snake! all the children were very brave and gentle with the all of the animals. Well done year 1? @CAHKnowsley #RPEnrichment
58A MASSIVE well done to our first stars of the year?It was very hard choosing our stars of the week this week as everyone has had such a fantastic first week! Keep on shining year 1, we are all very proud of how well you had settled in✨?
55It was lovely welcoming back our new year 1 class today who were all very excited to be back with their friends and are looking forward to the exciting year that they have ahead! ✨ #FirstDayOfSchool
61Great first PE lesson of the term! Today our objective was to explore balance, stability and landing safely. Well done year 1!