Great fun was had last Monday as 7 children travelled to London on the train to support Maddie (yr 3) as she performed in the Poetry By Heart finals at The Globe Theatre in London. She looked very small on the huge stage but her...
This year we decided to turn the tables and take the dressing-up pressure off the parents and instead invite some of the teachers to dress up. At Rode the children moved around the classes to visit three different book themed workshops. Mrs Opie's book was...
Across the whole school children thrilled us with their writing and ideas last week. Monday was poetry day and we learnt poems by heart, to perform on Friday, along with writing our own. Elmer Class wrote a fabulously scary wolf poem. Ask them to recite...
On Wednesday 4th October, author/illustrator Gina Rees came to visit the whole school and captivated us all with her enchanting tale of a magical place full of wonder and surprise. The children listened beautifully, thoroughly absorbed in Gina's stunning illustrations as she brought her 'ocean farm'...