A boys and girls team represented Roebuck Academy at the Stevenage Sporting Futures Table tennis competition, which was hosted at Barnwell School. Both teams went into their matches full of energy and enthusiasm and participated at a very high standard. The boys played teams from Giles, Peartree, St Ippolyts and Ashtree and came third in their pool with a win, draw and two losses, whilst the girls beat Ashtree, St Ippolyts, Peartree and lost to Giles.  The girls qualified for the third and fourth play off with a possible medal hope. Two of the girls lost and two won their games and the bronze medal was decided by points scored, with Bedwell scoring 3 points more over the 4 games. Despite losing out on a possibility of a medal the girls, and boys teams competed with wonderful attitudes and were a credit to the school and received the Value award for determination. Boys team, Harry, Sean, Oliver, Harrison. Girls team Eloise, Amelia, Holly, Anisa.

On Thursday, we were lucky enough to be joined by Ron, a Community Support Officer, and Danny, a Police Officer from Stevenage. We listened carefully as we discovered that writing and reading skills are very important if we have a desire to be a Police Officer as they have to write lots of reports for the magistrates! Many of us were eager to ask questions and find out more about the life of a Police Officer and what kind of arrests they make. Thank you very much to Ron and Danny for giving up their time.

Dream Catcher assemblies are definitely becoming very popular here at Roebuck with one child saying, "I absolutely love Dream Catcher assemblies! I can't wait until the next one!"

Harvest Festival was celebrated today in school, with Reverend Kate leading the assembly, which taught us about the importance of sharing.  A big thank you goes out to everyone who donated food for todays assembly, as this will be donated to Stevenage Vinyard, a local food bank , providing food for local families.

We were visited by Affinity Water as a result of last Years, Year 6 class winning a competition about sustainability.  Last year as part of their trip to Affinity Water, the children completed a lunchbox challenge, where they were tasked with making sure that their luncboxes contained little or no non-recyclable waste. As one of only 6 six schools that managed to successfully complete the task , Roebuck were presented with a  trophy to celebrate the achievement.

Congratulations to Gryphon House who won this summer term's House Point competition. They had led throughout most of the term. It was a great achievement, winning with 252 House Points in total. The House Captains for Gryphon, Lexi (Y6) and Harry (Y5), have chosen to not donate the winning money to their charity RSPCA, but they wanted to donate the money to Scott Everett's stem cell treatment instead - a great gesture.

On Wednesday afternoon, Year 1 enjoyed a maths workshop. We practice counting in multiples of 10 and applied this when playing games such as 'Buzz'. We then used Numicon and diennes apparatus to make two-digit numbers. After this, we played number bond tennis and used ten frames to make number bonds. Mrs Elson was very impressed with the positive attitude to learning and the love for maths seen during the afternoon. It was a pleasure working with Year 1. Thank you to all the older Year 2 children who were helpers.