On Saturday, the Choir was invited to attend a 'Singing Playgrounds' event which involved learning five songs with actions in the morning and then performing these during a concert in the afternoon. The children were a credit to the school with many people commenting on their good behaviour and enthusiastic and dynamic performances.

We are hoping that the children will now be able to teach other children the songs they have learned adding a different dimension to playtimes. Miss Whitfield and Mrs Thomas are incredibly proud of all of our children.

Our school netball team have got the season off to a winning start. The girls beat Ashtree School 9-0 today, putting on a very impressive performance for their first game. For many of the girls, it was actually their first ever game of competetive netball. Millie scored 4 of the goals and Ella scored 5 and there was some excellent build up play by the attacking players. We defended strongly too, leaving Ashtree without a single shot at goal until only the last second of the match. It was tough in the cold conditions and we are incredibly proud of all nine girls - well done!

Team: Eleanor, Kasey, Lexi (c), Amelia, Lois, Isabelle, Tia, Ella, Millie

Thursday started with rain dampening the ground but not our spirits.  With both groups being very active outside during the day, energy was flowing from the children. After another cooked breakfast and a flying visit to the gift shop the groups went their separate way, with group M dangling from the abseiling tower whilst group N braved a very wet and muddy nightline course. Taking turns to be leaders the children battled their way through the rain and the obstacles - and managed to emerge with very muddy clothes but a great sense of achievement.

With the weather improving slightly the groups swapped activities. Miss Carter seemed to get into the spirit of Nightline without too much prompting - after mentioning how she had remembered what it was like when she visited Kingswood many years ago. At the same time Group N were showing what they were made of on the abseiling tower with every member of the group managing to visit the top, even if some just looked at the amazing view.

Zip Wire saw Roebuck pupils soaring through the Norfolk skies at a rate of knots although no one managed to achieve the target of touching the tyre at the end.

Well Kingswood 2016 has definitely started, with the excited children really rising to the challenge in the afternoon with their first taste of life at West Runton. After a lovely journey the children settled well into the routine of making their beds, with some impressive efforts especially from Archie B- very efficient! With a lot of collaboration going on, eventually everyone managed to complete the task.

The children then enjoyed their first activities of Caving and Archery. Group M sunk to new depths in the caving system, which had quite a bit of water, after some rain in the week. Miraculously some children managed to stay relatively dry. Apparently a new technique of crab scuttling through the cave was demonstrated by out PE specialist (Miss Carter) and others followed suit. Not everyone however managed to stay as dry with two boys, whose names are rather similar, demonstrating effective army crawling through the obstacles and puddles underground.  All children went through the cave, and came out the other side without too much fuss.

Meanwhile group N managed to master the art of archery in the indoor shooting range. All children managed to hit the target on numerous occasions, with some expert shots really showing others how it should be done.

Evening entertainment saw the children enjoy a rather wet pool party followed by hot chocolate and a relatively early night.

Roebuck took part in the annual Stevenage Rugby festival hosted by Stevenage Sporting futures and Stevenage Rugby club at King George V playing fields. With a young and inexperienced squad competing against the best that Stevenage Primary schools could muster. Playing against larger schools, the team showed great spirit and determination and never gave up in keenly fought games, Despite losing four and winning only one of our pool matches, we were placed fourth in the league due to our superior try scoring record having consistently scored over 7 tries a game. Three of the games were only lost by one try and notable perfomances included a very close 9-7 loss to the eventual finalists St Vincent de Paul in which the lead changed hand on numerous occasions. Having then moved forward to the frendlies pool, Roebuck seemed to get rid of their inhibitions and managed to win two and draw their last three games scoring a total of 49 tries in the process.

The whole team contributed to some great running rugby and we managed to just be pipped at the post for the fair play award by Round Diamond. A huge well done to the team of: Archie B, Logan A, Amelie B, Eloise B, Zohul H, Freddie G, Harrison M, Max A and Harry C