A huge well done to our greta netball team who played in the Stevenage Schools' tournament on Tuesday this week. The A team played in a round robin event playing against the top six other school teams from across the town. This included many larger schools. Our girls won the first two games, scoring fourteen goals and only conceding two. We then lost narrowly 4-3 to Peartree School and were beaten by Knebworth and St Vincent de Paul. In the final game, our girls drew 6-6 with St Margaret of Clitherow School who this year won the Stevenage league. This was a great performance and a great way to finish the season. It was a wonderful tournament and we are very proud of all eight girls (pictured above) who have been terrific competing at this level all season.

Our amazing Year 3 and Year 4 children performed Cinderella Rockerfella in the last week of the spring term. It was a fantastic productio with top quality singing and some really good acting, speaking and dancing. The children looked great in their costumes and had a fabulous time working as a team, putting on the show for a large audience. Performances were in both the afternoon and evening and one family left saying, 'Wow! I am blown away. What talented children. What a great performance!'

A big thank you to all families for their support. A big thank you to all of the staff who put the show together and a big thank you to the amazing children who excelled and did themselves so proud.

Last Thursday, children and staff celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as their favourite book characters as part of our themed week based around a class book. We even had a bunch of 'Wallies' as staff dressed up as the favourite character from the picture book 'Where's Wally?' The week ended with excitement as our book fair arrived and all of the classes enjoyed time browsing through the books and creating their wish lists.

During Parents' evenings this week, the book fair has been open and we have been overwhelmed by the support from children and parents. Roebuck school has raised a whopping £1353.76 which means Scholastic will give the school £752.26 back to spend on books. Over the next few days, children and teachers will be busy writing down their wishlists and Mrs Thomas is getting very excited about spending all of the money on lots of lovely new books!

A huge thank you to everyone who supported our book fair - happy reading!

We did it! The school has raised enough money to buy a new kit for our local First Responders. Well done everyone and thank you!

Back in January, all of the children took part in a sponsored bounce to try to help a local charity buy a new First Responder First Aid pack. The target was set and with everyone's help, we have raise £1800. This is amazing! A cheque was presented to the First Responders at the end of our whole-school Code of Conduct assembly on Wednesday. They were delighteed to say the least. After the assembly, a very kind parent donated a further £200 to take our total up to £2000. We have been blown away by the effort and generosity of all the children and their families. The First Responders and all school staff can not thank you enough.

On Monday, our newly revamped library opened for parents and children to use together. Many children were collected from school early so that they could visit the library with their parents and take out one of our new books. Children were inspired as they read information frames about all of their favourite authors; found cuddly toys representing characters from their favourite stories; searched through hundreds of new books filling the shelves; spent time looking at classes and teachers' recommended books; and found new genres such as Graphic Novels. Watch this space as our library is still going through some develpmental work - new furniture and wall paintings arrive soon.

The library now opens to families both after school on a Monday and before school on a Wednesday. we also have a team of superb Year 5 Librarians who will always be o hand to help you and guide you so that you can easily find a book of your choice and one that excites you.

A big thank you to Mrs Thomas and a team of TAs and parents who helped revamp the library and give you what you see today.