Year 1 had so much fun on our trip to Aldenham Country Park, when we visited the local farm as well as the homes of Winnie the Pooh and friends. It was a fun-filled day for all!
The day started with an assembly in the hall to learn all about the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. We all dressed in red, white or blue to celebrate the occasion and some of the children and adults even wore crowns which looked beautiful.
The hall and dining tables were emblazoned with union jacks as lunch time staff served school lunches. The playground was adorned with bunting made by children from every class.
During the afternoon, we had a whole school picnic where children brought in de licious food and ate it on the top playground in a picnic. Year 3 classes even made royal cupcakes which looked scrumptious!
What a spectacular day!
Archery Assembly - On Wednesday 22nd June, KS2 were very lucky to have a talk and demonstration all about the sport of Archery with Keith Burton, who teaches archery in several schools in Middlesex, Berkshire, Aylesbury, and Hertfordshire. Keith currently holds six UK National records in Field Archery and won Silver at the 2019 World Bow Hunter Championships. Some children were able to have a try during the assembly, but if you are interested in taking up the sport outside of school, please contact Keith on info@bgarchery.org
Athletes in Year 5 and 6 enjoyed a Borough Sports Athletics Competition at Bannister’s track on Monday 13th June. They competed in a 75m Sprint, a 600m long distance run, standing long jump and a vortex throw. Other competing schools were Kenmore Park, Weald Rise, Stag Lane and Marlborough. Special mention to Naomi and Tiahni who finished first and second in the sprint overall, Angel finished third in the 600m, Isabela finished second in the vortex throw and the relay team of Moufid, Benaia, Naomi and Tiahni came second. The team were: Benaia, Moufid, Naomi, Tiahni, Noah, Emmanuel, Sade, Angel, Arganta, Harriet, Prasit, Isabela. They all showed wonderful sportsmanship and a great team ethic.
On Thursday June 9th some Year 6 pupils attended the Harrow Junior Book Award 2022 Ceremony at Pinner Park School.
This is an annual prize giving ceremonyfor the best children’s fiction book decided by pupils in Year 6 in schools across Harrow.
There were 16 Harrow Primary Schools at the event.
The 8 pupils from Roxeth School who took part were Pearl, Giuseppe, William, Tomike, Yasmeen, Ruby, Ryan and Benaia.
All pupils had read the six novels, over the last 7 months, on the shortlist and had voted for their favourite.
This year the guest of honour was the prize winning children’s author Elizabeth Laird. She spoke about all her books and her life story and then answered questions. The Roxeth pupils spoke to this famous novelist and she signed copies of her books.
The Roxeth pupils who took part in this event were pleased because the book they voted as their favourite won the overall award, the Junior Book Award 2022– this book is called The Night Bus Hero by Onjali Q Rauf.
Taking part in these awards promotes reading in the school and also encourages readers to broaden their reading experience.
The pupils enjoyed the ceremony and have written book reviews of all the novels. Copies of the 6 books shortlisted are now in the school library.
Year 2 attended Chessington World of Adventures which they thoroughly enjoyed. There were a lot of exciting rides which we went on, including the The Gruffalo River Ride and The Scorpian Roller Coster. We also had the opportunity to visit the farm where we saw the goats being fed, we rode on the safari truck where we could see giraffes close up and we visited the zoo and watched the lions roar very loudly! Year 2 were extremely sensible on the trip and listened very carefully to instructions. They should all feel very proud of themselves for brilliantly representing Roxeth School.
Year 5 enjoyed a wonderful trip to Kew Gardens this month where we learnt a lot about our science unit: living things in their habitats. We braved the Treetop Walkway and encouraged the grown ups to keep going when they complained of their legs hurting! We took part in workshops exploring flowers and grouping them; looking at plants under microscopes; dissecting plants and exploring plants from different habitats. We were lucky to have glorious weather that day and enjoyed a picnic under a humongous tree. We really loved exploring the Children's Garden where we climbed, giggled and had fun with our friends!
At an assembly on ‘Ramadhan and Eid’ in April, the presenters, Iqra, Sara P, Danyal, Noah, Abdurrahman and Shoaib, revisited the true meaning of Ramadhan Eid, and explored some of the rituals around Ramadhan, focussing mainly on the Eid celebration. Ramadhan is the 9th month of the Islamic Lunar calendar. Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) had a very important role during this month because some 1400 years – the Qur’an, the Islamic Holy Book, was revealed to him in Ramadhan. As part of the Five Pillars of Islam, Muslims are required to fast for 29 to 30 days depending on the sighting of the moon. This year’s Ramadan started on Saturday 2nd of April. The presenters explored the reasons why Muslims fast during Ramadhan and who was exempt from fasting.
They went on to show how Eid is celebrated throughout the world. Roxeth experienced a visual tour of culinary delights! They discovered that Eid al-Fitr is sometimes referred to as the Sugar Feast because large part of the meal one eats at the festival is desserts. However different countries around the world have different favourites. In Turkey classic Turkish sweets such as Baklava and Turkish delight are given to friends, family and neighbours as a present during Eid, or Seker Bayrami as it’s commonly known in the country. In Yeman Bint al sahn is the favourite Yemeni sweet. In English it’s sometimes called honey cake, and is topped with nigella seeds. In Russia they prefer to give savoury dumplings called ‘Manti’.
These are filled with seasoned meat. In Bangladesh, a meat Korma is traditionally eaten, as well as various savoury pittas that are shared with family and friends.
Children at Roxeth then took an active part in a ‘Ramadhan and Eid Assembly Quiz’. The Quiz Masters were ‘The 4 S’s’ Safa, Sana, Safa and Sara P. The girls conducted a quiz on Kahoot and the children were totally engaged in their quiz. It was a lively finale to the assembly!!