<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436</id><updated>2012-02-16T01:08:57.508-08:00</updated><category term='Teachers'/><category term='Teachers News'/><category term='PTA'/><category term='China'/><category term='Traditional Dress Day Poster work'/><category term='School Council'/><category term='News'/><category term='diary'/><category term='Spotty Day'/><category term='International School Award'/><category term='Christmas Fair'/><title type='text'>Redbridge Primary School</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>41</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-1083312563522974407</id><published>2012-02-05T03:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-05T03:26:07.180-08:00</updated><title type='text'>DATES FOR YOUR DIARY - February 2012</title><content type='html'>8th Year 4 meeting  about Kingswood trip next academic year &lt;br /&gt;9th Year 3 Tudor Day&lt;br /&gt;10th Wizard Stories visit to Year 3: Drama sessions on Tudors          &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HALF TERM: 13th to 17th February Inclusive&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22nd  Reception Parents’ Coffee Morning in the Artspace&lt;br /&gt;23rd  Wizard Stories visit to Year 5: Drama sessions on the Romans.&lt;br /&gt;24th Books for Breakfast from 8.30 a.m.  &lt;br /&gt;More details on Books for Breakfast next week!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-1083312563522974407?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/1083312563522974407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/1083312563522974407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2012/02/dates-for-your-diary-february-2012.html' title='DATES FOR YOUR DIARY - February 2012'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-6219040679551279378</id><published>2012-02-05T03:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-05T03:19:02.636-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Olympian Visits Redbridge Primary School</title><content type='html'>A big thank you to Chloe Wilcox who visited our school on Thursday morning. Chloe is part of the British 2012 Olympic Team. Her sport is water polo and she gave an inspiring talk to pupils in assembly. &lt;br /&gt;Good luck to Chloe for the summer!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-6219040679551279378?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/6219040679551279378'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/6219040679551279378'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2012/02/olympian-visits-redbridge-primary.html' title='Olympian Visits Redbridge Primary School'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-3899583847552230169</id><published>2011-05-17T13:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-17T13:59:04.160-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Friday Fruit Sale -Friday 13 th May 2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AZT2qd0OBTw/TdLhhew2jkI/AAAAAAAAAF0/9Tr42hl1Pyo/s1600/fruit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="94" width="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AZT2qd0OBTw/TdLhhew2jkI/AAAAAAAAAF0/9Tr42hl1Pyo/s320/fruit.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First of all, thank you to all those people who donated so much money for The Cancer Research Fund!  Overall, we raised about £70 from selling fruit.  Appreciation goes to all of the people who spent as much money as they could, even when they weren’t buying any fruit!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think that Fruity Friday was a very successful event! Everyone was dressed in yellow; there were over 100 people willing to buy our fruit: it was a lot of fun!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am sure that the School loved fruity Friday as well, since our fruits couldn’t last!&lt;br /&gt;It was very hard being a money collector but in the end it was worth it.  I had to go collect as much money as possible and it was hard but on the bright side, so many people with cancer will hopefully get better!&lt;br /&gt;I hope we will raise enough money to help enough people with cancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By School Councillor, Sharmeen&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-3899583847552230169?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/3899583847552230169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/3899583847552230169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2011/05/friday-fruit-sale-friday-13-th-may-2011.html' title='Friday Fruit Sale -Friday 13 th May 2011'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AZT2qd0OBTw/TdLhhew2jkI/AAAAAAAAAF0/9Tr42hl1Pyo/s72-c/fruit.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-4777469786522311712</id><published>2011-04-29T14:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-29T14:29:25.774-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cake Sale</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z9YyOguekuI/TbstrKPf5TI/AAAAAAAAAFk/kzTKKcuWTWs/s1600/DSCN0049.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" width="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z9YyOguekuI/TbstrKPf5TI/AAAAAAAAAFk/kzTKKcuWTWs/s320/DSCN0049.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you to all the Year 2 parents who were able to attend the cake sale on Wednesday 27th April in the KS1 hall. Together with the funds raised from the vehicle auction the year group has nearly £300 towards their trip this term. Well done to all parents and children for the fantastic cakes!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-4777469786522311712?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/4777469786522311712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/4777469786522311712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2011/04/cake-sale.html' title='Cake Sale'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z9YyOguekuI/TbstrKPf5TI/AAAAAAAAAFk/kzTKKcuWTWs/s72-c/DSCN0049.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-3134302519382772747</id><published>2011-01-17T14:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-17T14:02:56.977-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Dates for Your Diary 2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;January 2011&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;27th Annual General meeting of the PTA—details to follow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;February 2011&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3rd Chinese new Year&lt;br /&gt;4th Coffee Morning—parents can walk around the school and go into        classrooms. New Governors available to meet parents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Half Term 21st to 25th February Inclusive&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;March– This is Multi-Lingual Month in school&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7th Travelling Book Fair in all week&lt;br /&gt;8th Pancake day, Shrove Tuesday&lt;br /&gt;17th St Patrick’s day&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;April 2011&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;1st Coffee Morning&lt;br /&gt;3rd Mothers day&lt;br /&gt;5th Music Evening for Parents&lt;br /&gt;7th PTA Easter Trail&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Easter Holiday&lt;/b&gt; 11th to 25th April Inclusive&lt;br /&gt;26th April Staff Training Day , children return 27th April 2011&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-3134302519382772747?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/3134302519382772747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/3134302519382772747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2011/01/dates-for-your-diary-2011.html' title='Dates for Your Diary 2011'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-3568638343405572454</id><published>2010-12-03T10:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-03T10:10:55.178-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PTA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christmas Fair'/><title type='text'>On Friday 10 th December Christmas Fair  organised by the PTA</title><content type='html'>Everybody is welcome to come to the school Christmas Fair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Its next Friday - 10 th December 2010 in the KS2 Hall after school.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-3568638343405572454?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/3568638343405572454'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/3568638343405572454'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-fair-organised-by-pta.html' title='&lt;strong&gt;On Friday 10 th December&lt;/strong&gt; Christmas Fair  organised by the PTA'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-7561357369269374328</id><published>2010-12-03T09:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-03T09:59:44.693-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spotty Day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='School Council'/><title type='text'>Children in Need -  Spotty Day</title><content type='html'>So far the School Council have raised £645.99 for Children in Need with  sponsorship money still coming in!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-7561357369269374328?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/7561357369269374328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/7561357369269374328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/children-in-need-spotty-day.html' title='Children in Need -  Spotty Day'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-5655514524742041936</id><published>2010-12-02T08:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-03T09:57:17.741-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='International School Award'/><title type='text'>International School Award</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/TPkuIUIOhTI/AAAAAAAAAFE/rkfSQ3tecJQ/s1600/P1010046.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/TPkuIUIOhTI/AAAAAAAAAFE/rkfSQ3tecJQ/s320/P1010046.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546515136460522802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Friday 12th November  Redbridge Primary School pupils celebrated achieving the International School Award.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; To mark the occasion, representatives from each class attended a special event together with guests to see an exhibition of the international school project work . During the event our  school choir entertained everyone with three International songs  and Councillor Weinberg  presented pupils with the award.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We developed our school curriculum to enable us to plan at least ten different activities with an international theme.  These included special days such as European Day Celebration when the children learnt about food and cultures of Europe.  Different classes focused on different countries and made flags, tasted food, read stories in different languages and listened to music.  &lt;br /&gt;We also took part in a postcard exchange with schools in 54 different countries in the world.  The children took pride in designing their own postcards and writing about life in the Uk.  Equally their eyes lit up when we received postcards from  many countries including, Russia, Australia, New zealand, USA and India.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;We have taken part in a project with a school in Italy and this enabled the staff and the children to focus on the culture and lifestyle of that country.  Children worked on The Sleeping Beauty project and reflected on their learning.  Art work across the two schools was shared as was a video of a role play of the story.  The children learnt to evaluate each other's work and give positive feedback.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Year 4 pupils took part in a project with a school in the USA.  The pupils compared their own lifestyle with that of the children in the USA using a monitored email system.  They learnt about each other's interests, hobbies, likes and dislikes and compared a day in their lives as well as exchanging notes on their cultural backgrounds.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Working towards this Award has helped us to develop valuable local, national and International links giving us opportunities to enable our pupils to not only to excell academically but to see themselves as  global citizens.  By increasing an awareness of the wider world we feel our pupils will grow up to be responsible citizens with a strong sense of their own identity, respecting others and valuing our world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Report by Mrs Kambo&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-5655514524742041936?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/5655514524742041936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/5655514524742041936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2010/12/international-school-award.html' title='International School Award'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/TPkuIUIOhTI/AAAAAAAAAFE/rkfSQ3tecJQ/s72-c/P1010046.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-7094160129561061870</id><published>2010-11-18T14:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-18T14:29:06.293-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Spotty Day 19th November 2010</title><content type='html'>Our School Council pupils want to support Children in Need this year. I know it is short notice but the pupils are very keen to hold a SPOTTY DAY this Friday the 19th November. Children can wear spotty clothes to school and pay £1 for charity. There will be sponsor forms going home also for the more enthusiastic children.&lt;br /&gt;Mrs Buxton&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-7094160129561061870?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/7094160129561061870'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/7094160129561061870'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/spotty-day-19th-november-2010.html' title='Spotty Day 19th November 2010'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-2400291733070475992</id><published>2010-11-18T14:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-18T14:21:47.848-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Coffee Morning 26 th November</title><content type='html'>Friday the 26th is Coffee Morning. Come and meet our Pupil Advocates and School Councillors and tour the school.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-2400291733070475992?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/2400291733070475992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/2400291733070475992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/coffee-morning-26-th-november.html' title='Coffee Morning 26 th November'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-5003072999205045684</id><published>2010-11-08T14:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-08T14:30:44.035-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hidden History Art Club Work</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://widget-3b.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=gn&amp;il=1&amp;channel=2810246167518630459&amp;site=widget-3b.slide.com" style="width:426px;height:320px" name="flashticker" align="middle"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div style="width:426px;text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=gn&amp;at=un&amp;id=2810246167518630459&amp;map=1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-3b.slide.com/p1/2810246167518630459/gn_t016_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=gn&amp;at=un&amp;id=2810246167518630459&amp;map=2" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-3b.slide.com/p2/2810246167518630459/gn_t016_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=gn&amp;at=un&amp;id=2810246167518630459&amp;map=F" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://widget-3b.slide.com/p4/2810246167518630459/gn_t016_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-5003072999205045684?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/5003072999205045684'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/5003072999205045684'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2010/11/hidden-history-art-club-work.html' title='Hidden History Art Club Work'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-3817813532027143115</id><published>2010-10-14T13:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-14T13:40:30.596-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PTA'/><title type='text'>PTA DISCOS</title><content type='html'>The next PTA organised event will be Back 2 School Disco on 22nd October. Tickets cost £4:00 and slips must be returned to school by 15th October 2010.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-3817813532027143115?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/3817813532027143115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/3817813532027143115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2010/10/pta-discos.html' title='PTA DISCOS'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-625683054980692173</id><published>2010-10-14T13:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-14T13:29:06.470-07:00</updated><title type='text'>School Coffee Morning</title><content type='html'>Thank you to everyone who managed to attend the school coffee morning last Friday. We have had excellent feedback from parents who enjoyed looking around the school and seeing learning in action. Thank you to the Pupil Advocates who did such a good job of making everyone feel welcome. Our next coffee morning is on the 26th November and will involve presentations from pupils on how they learn in school and what strategies they use to improve their performance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mrs Buxton&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-625683054980692173?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/625683054980692173'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/625683054980692173'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2010/10/school-coffee-morning.html' title='School Coffee Morning'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-8750295698127811414</id><published>2010-09-30T14:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-30T14:32:59.408-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pupil Advocates</title><content type='html'>Around the school and in the playground you may have noticed that several of our Year 6 pupils are wearing smart blazers. These are the school’s Pupil Advocates. These children have been interviewed by staff and governors for this role and had to apply and meet a job selection criteria. We were looking for good interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively. These pupils give up half of their free time and support other pupils in the dining hall and playground. They are paid £10 per term in the form of gift vouchers . We expect this scheme to have the following impact:&lt;br /&gt;· Help new pupils settle into the school quickly and make friends at playtime&lt;br /&gt;· Help younger pupils adapt to the dining hall routines&lt;br /&gt;· Help younger pupils remember table manners and etiquette&lt;br /&gt;It also supports the Pupil Advocates personal development and instils attitudes of responsibility as a preparation for secondary school. The Advocates compliment the  work of the School Council whose role is to listen to the views of children and represent those views ensuring teachers take those ideas into account.&lt;br /&gt;Watch this space for news from the Advocates and the School Council.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-8750295698127811414?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/8750295698127811414'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/8750295698127811414'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2010/09/pupil-advocates.html' title='Pupil Advocates'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-7969420125657291840</id><published>2010-09-23T13:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-23T14:10:27.963-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Autumn Fair</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/TJvAngnCe1I/AAAAAAAAAE8/Yi9c92UguPQ/s1600/IMG_0687.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520217553273781074" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/TJvAngnCe1I/AAAAAAAAAE8/Yi9c92UguPQ/s320/IMG_0687.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Message from Mrs.Buxton&lt;br /&gt;Thank you very much to everyone who was able to attend the autumn fete last Saturday. It was good to see so many parents with their children enjoying the sunshine. A particular thank you to the PTA who worked so hard to make the afternoon successful. My thanks also to the staff of the school who gave so freely of their weekend. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-7969420125657291840?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/7969420125657291840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/7969420125657291840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2010/09/autumn-fair.html' title='Autumn Fair'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/TJvAngnCe1I/AAAAAAAAAE8/Yi9c92UguPQ/s72-c/IMG_0687.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-8668482873952595661</id><published>2010-09-16T14:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-16T14:02:52.719-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Autumn Fair - PTA News</title><content type='html'>Our first PTA event for this year is the autumn fair on Saturday 18th September 2010 from 1.00pm until 3.00pm. By holding the event on a Saturday we hope that you will be able to attend with your family and friends. We have lots of stalls and activities lined up so there will be something for everyone no matter what age.&lt;br /&gt;The PTA will be providing a variety of food and selling it in the school dining hall.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-8668482873952595661?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/8668482873952595661'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/8668482873952595661'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2010/09/autumn-fair-pta-news.html' title='Autumn Fair - PTA News'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-8948953885230411761</id><published>2010-06-24T03:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-24T03:34:19.758-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sports Day</title><content type='html'>We are holding our sports mornings next week as follows:&lt;br /&gt;Tuesday 29th June key stage 2&lt;br /&gt;Thursday 1st July key stage 1&lt;br /&gt;Parents can stay after dropping off their child in class. This event is always dependent on the weather. However, we will use group call on the sports morning to remind you. During these events it is a good idea to put high factor sun cream on your child and send them to school in a sun hat or cap.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-8948953885230411761?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/8948953885230411761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/8948953885230411761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2010/06/sports-day.html' title='Sports Day'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-7321735025499016649</id><published>2010-06-22T14:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-22T14:37:54.109-07:00</updated><title type='text'>An International Evening</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/TCEs7136FlI/AAAAAAAAAEs/qEFrZeYTL84/s1600/international+evening+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485715227699451474" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/TCEs7136FlI/AAAAAAAAAEs/qEFrZeYTL84/s320/international+evening+005.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An International Evening was held at Redbridge Primary School on Thursday 17th June 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About one hundred children took part in a celebration that was aimed at bringing together Dance, Music, Drama and Traditional costumes from across the world.&lt;br /&gt;The programme included African drumming, Traditional Tamil Dance, Recorders, Drama (The Sleeping Beauty), Bhangra, Chinese Ribbon Dance, Choir, Sitar, Street Dance and a Traditional Dress Fashion Show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The evening bore fruit of the children’s hard work and commitment over the past few weeks. Children proudly wore their traditional costumes and shared with the audience their thoughts on how they felt when they wore these costumes and why the costumes were important to them. Indeed, some of the costumes were specially made for the evening as everyone wanted to produce their best. Parents commented favourably on the high standard of the children’s work and they enjoyed seeing the cultural variety in the performance.&lt;br /&gt;During the short interval, parents had an opportunity to taste food from different parts of the world. The food had been contributed by the school staff for the parents. It was great to organise an event that brought the school community together.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Report by Mrs Kambo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-7321735025499016649?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/7321735025499016649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/7321735025499016649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2010/06/international-evening.html' title='An International Evening'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/TCEs7136FlI/AAAAAAAAAEs/qEFrZeYTL84/s72-c/international+evening+005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-1000895083897071086</id><published>2010-06-21T13:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-21T13:30:43.338-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sleep Over -11th June 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/TB_LzINURkI/AAAAAAAAAEk/PSl6jVR2CW4/s1600/sleepover+038.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485326950397658690" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/TB_LzINURkI/AAAAAAAAAEk/PSl6jVR2CW4/s320/sleepover+038.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Our Friday sleepover for year 3 and year 4 pupils was a great success. Over a hundred and twenty pupils stayed and there was a fantastic range of activities organised for them including sports and arts events. We also had a camp fire and singing. We know some children organised their own midnight feasts! These sort of events help develop a wide range of life skills including independence and teamwork. A thank you to all the staff of the school who gave up their time so readily. Also a special thank you to Mr and Mrs Baig who organised security through their company, Zenith Business Services Limited. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-1000895083897071086?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/1000895083897071086'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/1000895083897071086'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2010/06/sleep-over-11th-june-2010.html' title='Sleep Over -11th June 2010'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/TB_LzINURkI/AAAAAAAAAEk/PSl6jVR2CW4/s72-c/sleepover+038.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-4044846884469183367</id><published>2010-05-13T13:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-13T13:22:14.863-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Visit by Anthony McGowan</title><content type='html'>I am pleased to inform you that Anthony McGowan will be in school on the 28th of this month to launch his new book, ‘ Einstein’s Underpants’. During the  afternoon junior pupils will hear Anthony read from his book and there will be an opportunity to purchase from a range of titles. Any child wanting to buy a book beforehand for Anthony to sign on the day, please bring £5.99 in an envelope to the school office. Our new library has now been refurbished and             Anthony will carry out the official opening at 3 p.m. Parents are invited in from 3.30 p.m. to see the library and meet Anthony.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am very grateful to our school PTA who have  provided us with £1,500 to purchase books for classrooms and the library itself. We have bought a fantastic selection of books and these will be on display for you when you visit on the 28th.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C.Buxton, Headteacher&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-4044846884469183367?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/4044846884469183367'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/4044846884469183367'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2010/05/visit-by-anthony-mcgowan.html' title='Visit by Anthony McGowan'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-133053390897702745</id><published>2010-05-13T13:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-13T13:25:15.125-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Coffee Morning</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"&gt;Coffee Morning on Friday 21st May in ks1 hall at 9am&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Come along and be entertained by singing and music provided by our pupils.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-133053390897702745?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/133053390897702745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/133053390897702745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2010/05/coffee-morning.html' title='Coffee Morning'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-4308087486545787715</id><published>2010-04-29T14:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-29T14:50:18.551-07:00</updated><title type='text'>St.Georges Day - 23rd April 2010</title><content type='html'>St. Georges Day on PhotoPeach&lt;object width="445" height="296"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://photopeach.com/public/swf/story.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="photos=http://photopeach.com%2Fapi%2Fgetphotos%3Falbum_id%3Dt1el5f&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;embed=1"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://photopeach.com/public/swf/story.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="296" flashvars="photos=http://photopeach.com%2Fapi%2Fgetphotos%3Falbum_id%3Dt1el5f&amp;autoplay=0&amp;embed=1"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-4308087486545787715?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/4308087486545787715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/4308087486545787715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2010/04/stgeorges-day-23rd-april-2010.html' title='St.Georges Day - 23rd April 2010'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-3049296822291663748</id><published>2010-04-17T09:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-20T14:40:31.461-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Summer Term Events</title><content type='html'>We look forward to an exciting summer term. Just to&lt;br /&gt;inform you of an event during the first week back.&lt;br /&gt;We will be celebrating St George’s day on the 23rd of April.&lt;br /&gt; St George is the patron saint of England and on the 23rd&lt;br /&gt;we will be asking children to come into school in&lt;br /&gt;uniform with a splash of blue. This could be a blue&lt;br /&gt;shirt, a blue ribbon or blue shoes. In the playground&lt;br /&gt;pupils will be taught to play traditional English games&lt;br /&gt;such as jacks, clapping games and rhymes, skipping&lt;br /&gt;and so on. If any parent is able to support the&lt;br /&gt;playground activities please let the school office know&lt;br /&gt;your availability.&lt;br /&gt;Thank you.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-3049296822291663748?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/3049296822291663748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/3049296822291663748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2010/04/summer-term-events.html' title='Summer Term Events'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-2775437274158026697</id><published>2010-04-15T13:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-15T13:52:52.869-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Traditional Dress Day Poster work'/><title type='text'>Our Belonging Posters</title><content type='html'>This is a small sample of the posters were created by groups of pupils accross our school on the theme of belonging and community&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Belonging Posters on PhotoPeach&lt;object width="445" height="296"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://photopeach.com/public/swf/story.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="photos=http://photopeach.com%2Fapi%2Fgetphotos%3Falbum_id%3D124wdi2&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;embed=1"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://photopeach.com/public/swf/story.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="296" flashvars="photos=http://photopeach.com%2Fapi%2Fgetphotos%3Falbum_id%3D124wdi2&amp;autoplay=0&amp;embed=1"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-2775437274158026697?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/2775437274158026697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/2775437274158026697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2010/04/our-belonging-posters.html' title='Our Belonging Posters'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-2840567450693339790</id><published>2010-03-18T12:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-18T13:14:44.449-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Traditional Dress &amp; Multilingual Day -         Friday 19th March 2010</title><content type='html'>Our pupils will have the opportunity to come to school in Traditional Dress. The children will prepare oral presentations about their dress and will explore their own identity and think about what it means to belong somewhere- especially as they live in the UK. From each other they will learn about the diverse nature of our world and develop greater awareness. The children will then work together in groups and each class will produce posters on the theme of belonging. Prizes will be awarded to the best posters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We value our rich linguistic diversity and promote the love for language learning. Therefore we have organised a whole school multilingual event in the afternoon. The children will have taster sessions in different languages of the world. This may be in the form of a dual language story, a song, or a game organised by the staff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our very supportive parents will provide samples of food from a variety of cultures. All children will have the opportunity to taste foods from different parts of the world making it a truly memorable international experience.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-2840567450693339790?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/2840567450693339790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/2840567450693339790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2010/03/traditional-dress-multilingual-day.html' title='Traditional Dress &amp; Multilingual Day -         Friday 19th March 2010'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-1006453667164941070</id><published>2010-03-11T13:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-11T14:25:32.227-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Our Chinese New Year Celebrations</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/S5lrTy1ADNI/AAAAAAAAAEU/x4NDG4zs61k/s1600-h/vc+small.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 225px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447503212087086290" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/S5lrTy1ADNI/AAAAAAAAAEU/x4NDG4zs61k/s320/vc+small.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Chinese New Year celebrations have taken a firm place in our cultural calendar especially with a link being established with a primary school in Beijing. Staff are preparing for our second exciting study visit to our partner school in Beijing. Study visits such as this enrich the teaching and learning experience and help instill respect,understanding, tolerance and build community cohesion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Earlier in the week children from our school took part in a live Redbridge- Beijing Videoconference held at the Teachers' Centre. They were thrilled to meet the Mayor of Redbridge who first addressed the vidoeconference and then spoke to the children about their presentations.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;A Chinese performance arts group also visited our school. Children thoroughly enjoyed watching the performance and taking part in the Lion Dance and the Ribbon Dance workshops. "The workshop was really good. It was like a behind the scenes thing of the lion dance. Next time I see a Chinese lion dance Iwill think of this workshop." (A quote from one of our year 6 pupils)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We have had a whole school focus and every class has been involved in the celebrations. It gives&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;us an opportunity to bring real first hand experiences that children can learn from - ranging from making dragons and taking part in a dragon dance,making stirfry, calligraphy, tangrams, making lanterns, lucky money envelopes,Chinese fans, taking part in Tai Chi and choreographing &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a sequence of ribbon dance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-1006453667164941070?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/1006453667164941070'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/1006453667164941070'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2010/03/our-chinese-new-year-celebrations.html' title='Our Chinese New Year Celebrations'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/S5lrTy1ADNI/AAAAAAAAAEU/x4NDG4zs61k/s72-c/vc+small.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-2200555175168857316</id><published>2009-09-18T06:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-18T06:26:58.690-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Welcome back to the new academic year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;P.T.A -Autumn Fair  Saturday 26th September 2009 from 11am until 2pm.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We hope you and your family will be able to attend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;Activities include;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;"&gt; Go-Karting, Face painting, Bouncy Castles, Balloon race, Food Stalls .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#33ff33;"&gt;Books , toy , jewellery and clothing Stalls.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ff33;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-2200555175168857316?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/2200555175168857316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/2200555175168857316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2009/09/welcome-back-to-new-academic-year.html' title=''/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-597906442096425382</id><published>2009-02-02T06:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-02T07:11:13.926-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>School News&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello everybody, my name is Riya and I am going to tell you about year 6’s trip to the Bloomsbury theatre last week on Thursday to watch the Jungle Book. Well at the theatre we sat down and waited for 20 minutes for the show to begin, when the show started a lady wearing a black robe came in with a puppet which I think was Mowgli and started acting after that Sheer Khan came bla bla bla then they kill him in the end, but one of the songs they did was cheesy because they sung soldierboy but converted it into Jungle boy kinda cheesy right? Anyway after that we went back to school and went home so confusing.&lt;br /&gt;But this week it was Chinese New Year and 4 Chinese people came to our school Redbridge Primary School. 3 people did a flexible dance and 1 girl played an instrument that took her 13 years to learn, I don’t think I could play that. Just to finish I want to wish all you Chinese people out there a &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Gung Hay Fat Choy&lt;/span&gt; which means for you English people happy new year Bye!&lt;br /&gt;Riya (Year6)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-597906442096425382?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/597906442096425382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/597906442096425382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2009/02/school-news-hello-everybody-my-name-is.html' title=''/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-8672866726787852711</id><published>2009-01-15T08:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T08:27:37.569-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;What’s happening in Redbridge Primary School&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Year 6’s are going on a trip to see the Jungle Book at Bloomsbury theatre which we already went to but that time we saw Danny the Champion of the World. It was a very exciting and dramatic production where lots of props were used. Next the Year 3 and 1’s had a road safety show, I was told it was very funny but they learnt how to cross the road safely. The Year 5’s are visiting the William Morris Museum to learn more about William Morris wall paper design. The Year 2’s went to the Museum of London to find out about the Great Fire of London. They were lucky as they got to dress up and role play. The Year 4’s went to see the Jungle Book on Wednesday and they had a great time. On Thursday next week, there will be no podcasting because of the trip but I will tell you more about my trip next time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kristy Islam 6SJ&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-8672866726787852711?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/8672866726787852711'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/8672866726787852711'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2009/01/whats-happening-in-redbridge-primary.html' title=''/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-5588996634474704251</id><published>2008-12-18T08:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-18T08:19:33.243-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Upcoming Christmas Events By Prem</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ø Making Christmas cards – 17th December&lt;br /&gt;Ø Christmas lunch – 17th December - Mmmmmmmmm&lt;br /&gt;Ø Children Parties – 19th December&lt;br /&gt;Ø Last day of school – 19th December&lt;br /&gt;Ø Holidays – 20th December to 6th January&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-5588996634474704251?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/5588996634474704251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/5588996634474704251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2008/12/upcoming-christmas-events.html' title='Upcoming Christmas Events By Prem'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-1724228517574110057</id><published>2008-12-18T08:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-18T08:09:42.764-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Performance</title><content type='html'>On the 10&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; and 11&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; of December 08 we had a Christmas show called ALL AROUND THE WORLD. Our show was about celebrating Christmas in different country’s such as Spain, Africa,China,America  and India.&lt;br /&gt;The Christmas performances were a huge hit and heaps of people turned up and everyone enjoyed it. The infants performance was on Tuesday, the year 3 and year 5 performances were on Wednesday and the year 4 and year 6 ( featuring 3&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;JJ&lt;/span&gt; ) performances were held today on Thursday. Thanks for coming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Report By Prem and Kieran&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-1724228517574110057?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/1724228517574110057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/1724228517574110057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2008/12/performance.html' title='Performance'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-7618888215222358007</id><published>2008-12-18T07:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-18T08:00:29.214-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;Christmas Fair&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are pleased to report that our Christmas fair on the 5th December 2008 was a complete success, and we had a host of people showing up. We would like to give a huge shout out of thanks to those people who showed up, and hope that you all enjoyed it.&lt;br /&gt;Which was the best fair ever?  They had a great lucky dip, they had wonderful prizes. The best thing they had was the food, my favourite  food was chocolate cake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Report By Kieran &amp;amp; Prem&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-7618888215222358007?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/7618888215222358007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/7618888215222358007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2008/12/christmas-fair-we-are-pleased-to-report.html' title=''/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-4059413060343327040</id><published>2008-10-16T11:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-16T11:58:15.216-07:00</updated><title type='text'>More Photographs - 16 October</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPeOvA31PEI/AAAAAAAAAD0/MvrYI0lQt1k/s1600-h/Miss%2520Lambri%2520rewarding%2520a%2520child%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257828028317514818" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPeOvA31PEI/AAAAAAAAAD0/MvrYI0lQt1k/s320/Miss%2520Lambri%2520rewarding%2520a%2520child%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPeOvbpTbEI/AAAAAAAAAD8/lIlOrgCSnnk/s1600-h/Miss%2520Lambri%2520teaching%2520Literacy%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257828035504335938" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPeOvbpTbEI/AAAAAAAAAD8/lIlOrgCSnnk/s320/Miss%2520Lambri%2520teaching%2520Literacy%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPeOvYx1y_I/AAAAAAAAAEE/QDJTpKZ6cRg/s1600-h/Mr%2520Spriddle%2520and%2520Partner%2520class%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257828034734836722" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPeOvYx1y_I/AAAAAAAAAEE/QDJTpKZ6cRg/s320/Mr%2520Spriddle%2520and%2520Partner%2520class%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPeOvgFNWEI/AAAAAAAAAEM/pUal5GKNcQc/s1600-h/Mr%2520Spriddle%2527s%2520Literacy%2520lesson%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257828036695119938" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPeOvgFNWEI/AAAAAAAAAEM/pUal5GKNcQc/s320/Mr%2520Spriddle%2527s%2520Literacy%2520lesson%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-4059413060343327040?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/4059413060343327040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/4059413060343327040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2008/10/more-photographs-16-october.html' title='More Photographs - 16 October'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPeOvA31PEI/AAAAAAAAAD0/MvrYI0lQt1k/s72-c/Miss%2520Lambri%2520rewarding%2520a%2520child%5B1%5D.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-7828102248439185947</id><published>2008-10-16T11:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-16T11:55:45.471-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Teacher Diary from China -Thursday 16th October</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPeOHOdgyLI/AAAAAAAAADM/OCExNzGDfcI/s1600-h/An%2520excellent%2520English%2520lesson%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257827344770451634" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPeOHOdgyLI/AAAAAAAAADM/OCExNzGDfcI/s320/An%2520excellent%2520English%2520lesson%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPeOHbjbnZI/AAAAAAAAADU/5fL_kOJZNs8/s1600-h/An%2520excellent%2520Maths%2520lesson%5B2%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257827348284939666" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPeOHbjbnZI/AAAAAAAAADU/5fL_kOJZNs8/s320/An%2520excellent%2520Maths%2520lesson%5B2%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPeOHVMPNlI/AAAAAAAAADc/Y3B3gFaCR-k/s1600-h/Farewell%2520Chao%2520Yang%2520Primary%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257827346577045074" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPeOHVMPNlI/AAAAAAAAADc/Y3B3gFaCR-k/s320/Farewell%2520Chao%2520Yang%2520Primary%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPeOHsEvRZI/AAAAAAAAADk/V9HMAz8TpE8/s1600-h/Farewell%2520gifts%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257827352719607186" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPeOHsEvRZI/AAAAAAAAADk/V9HMAz8TpE8/s320/Farewell%2520gifts%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPeOHgqlyJI/AAAAAAAAADs/nbAvRFgprl8/s1600-h/Miss%2520Lambri%2520and%2520Partner%2520class%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257827349657143442" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPeOHgqlyJI/AAAAAAAAADs/nbAvRFgprl8/s320/Miss%2520Lambri%2520and%2520Partner%2520class%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thursday 16 th October&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dear Diary&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Another glorious day in Beijing, clear sky and warm sunshine. Unbelievably today is our final day at Chao Yang Primary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As scheduled, we went to observe an English Language lesson being delivered by an English speaking Chinese Teacher. She demonstrated fantastic use of the interactive whiteboard and her skills to teach English as an additional language. We saw stimulating use of the features and tools found on the interactive whiteboard in order to achieve the learning outcomes. She used team games, point systems and lots of surprise elements. The team game in particular allowed for use of repetitive language from peer to peer. We also saw children using the interactive whiteboard independently and with great confidence and enthusiasm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We then had the opportunity to observe a maths lesson delivered in Chinese to a Grade 1 class (6-7 Year olds). The teacher’s warm manner was evident throughout this session. She smiled at the children and clearly had very high expectations. Again the use of visual images on the interactive whiteboard was successful in meeting the intended learning outcome. The children were fully engaged and used practical apparatus to enhance their grasp of number pairs to ten.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In our opinion both of these teachers showed elements of excellent teaching within their field.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was then our turn to deliver English Language lessons in the style in which we would normally deliver a literacy session back in the UK.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At lunchtime we were pleasantly surprised with traditional Chinese dumplings served with broccoli and vinegar. Very tasty they were too.&lt;br /&gt;Another excuse to practice our chopstick skills! Redbridge Primary staff, be ready for your first INSET in the use of Chopsticks!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later important dialogue took place between our partner teachers and ourselves. This was a great opportunity for us to reflect on our practise. We have also developed a promising plan for the future development of this project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was incredibly overwhelming when the headteacher of Chao Yang Primary entered the staffroom, laden with huge gift bags, to wish us farewell. The subsequent photo sessions and fond goodbyes from the staff touched us deeply.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Off to Silk Street tonight, to barter and avoid being conned…….&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-7828102248439185947?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/7828102248439185947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/7828102248439185947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2008/10/teacher-diary-from-china-thursday-16th.html' title='Teacher Diary from China -Thursday 16th October'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPeOHOdgyLI/AAAAAAAAADM/OCExNzGDfcI/s72-c/An%2520excellent%2520English%2520lesson%5B1%5D.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-3886629644860319764</id><published>2008-10-15T14:40:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-15T14:49:50.899-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='China'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Teachers News'/><title type='text'>Our Diary  for Wednesday 15 th october</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPZktkUe4BI/AAAAAAAAACk/7ucYreQP1v4/s1600-h/Children%2520at%2520Work%2520Art%2520Lesson%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257500349008109586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPZktkUe4BI/AAAAAAAAACk/7ucYreQP1v4/s320/Children%2520at%2520Work%2520Art%2520Lesson%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPZkuKxZ7bI/AAAAAAAAACs/WQVMh1iXdRY/s1600-h/Children%2520Learning%2520with%2520Mr%2520Spriddle%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257500359329967538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPZkuKxZ7bI/AAAAAAAAACs/WQVMh1iXdRY/s320/Children%2520Learning%2520with%2520Mr%2520Spriddle%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPZkuY1pV1I/AAAAAAAAAC0/iP6TJUGS3EA/s1600-h/Morning%2520Exercise%5B2%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257500363105851218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPZkuY1pV1I/AAAAAAAAAC0/iP6TJUGS3EA/s320/Morning%2520Exercise%5B2%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPZkuozDzSI/AAAAAAAAAC8/uZf3uLtPef8/s1600-h/Mr%2520Spriddle%2520Teaching%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257500367389969698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPZkuozDzSI/AAAAAAAAAC8/uZf3uLtPef8/s320/Mr%2520Spriddle%2520Teaching%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPZkulWCMsI/AAAAAAAAADE/K9hXMiZIAY4/s1600-h/Mrs%2520Kambo%2520Teaching%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257500366462923458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPZkulWCMsI/AAAAAAAAADE/K9hXMiZIAY4/s320/Mrs%2520Kambo%2520Teaching%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wednesday 15 th October&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dear Diary,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our day started early. We left the hotel at 7:25 am and arrived at the school twenty minutes later in time for the morning exercises. It was amazing to watch the whole school perform the routine in unison. They all completed a series of exercises in tight rows at the same time without a single child putting a foot wrong. The children were all very enthusiastic and proud. A PE teacher lead the whole school via the use of a microphone and a raised platform. A little while later we were all escorted to a conference hall within the school. This was very grand and layed out in anticipation of a lot of visitors. Little did we know that Mrs Kambo and Miss Bellis from Fullwood Primary were going to deliver their art lesson there!! School officials from around Beijing arrived to watch a traditional Chinese art lesson delivered by the Chao Yang art teacher who is graded as excellent, then immediately after to watch the English art lesson, and to compare the two. They were focussing on the use of the Interactive Whiteboard within the lesson. Mrs Kambo and Miss Bellis did an amazing job and did the Borough of Redbridge very proud. Lunch was….. different! The pre-packed meal came in a sectioned tray and consisted of vegetables, rice, egg with tomato, meat and a heart shaped item which we were told was made from wheat. We were also served a vegetable soup and a very refreshing yoghurt drink, which tasted much like the Indian yoghurt drink called ‘lassie’. It tasted so good that Mr Spriddle had two!! After lunch we presented our school to a selected group of children who had a very strong grasp of the English language. The children watched a PowerPoint presentation which introduced our school to them. They got to see Mrs Buxton the Governors and all the exciting things that happen at Redbridge Primary School such as the summer fair, sports day and our after school clubs. Mrs Kambo also discussed the bookmaking sessions that we have at Redbridge. The children were flabbergasted that this entailed parents coming into the school to work with their children. Miss Lambri then presented our use of PSHE within the curriculum showing the children the use of the circle time egg. She also presented the photographs of the school council which the Chinese children were desperate to look at. She also illustrated how we allow our children to empower their own learning through the use of self evaluation and other reward systems such as smiley faces. You’ll be pleased to know that we have also observed a use of reward systems such as having group leaders and start charts. Finally Miss Lambri showed off work samples from the children in class 2SL, they were very impressed indeed. Meanwhile Mr Spriddle was teaching his grade 5 class. This involved the Chinese pupils watching the pre-recorded messages from Redbridge students in 5RS and 2SL and then responding to these questions in English whilst being recorded. Mr Spriddle delivered this lesson to a class of 60!! Well done Mr Spriddle. Later that day we were given the opportunity to observe our partner teachers. They were working from textbooks to teach the children English. This was fascinating as the children will automatically repeat any sentence spoken by the teacher back in English. We finished the day by planning with our partner teachers ready for our literacy lessons that we will be delivering tomorrow……. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-3886629644860319764?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/3886629644860319764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/3886629644860319764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2008/10/our-diary-for-wednesday-15-th-october.html' title='Our Diary  for Wednesday 15 th october'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPZktkUe4BI/AAAAAAAAACk/7ucYreQP1v4/s72-c/Children%2520at%2520Work%2520Art%2520Lesson%5B1%5D.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-4261057872754529019</id><published>2008-10-14T13:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-14T13:48:27.063-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tuesday 14th October - Extra Pictures from China</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUFj305tnI/AAAAAAAAACc/eYQzjvHejHQ/s1600-h/Food%2520Glorious%2520Food!%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257114253864318578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUFj305tnI/AAAAAAAAACc/eYQzjvHejHQ/s320/Food%2520Glorious%2520Food!%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUFIwnmMGI/AAAAAAAAACE/WY7OeD9zq8g/s1600-h/Mrs%2520Kambo%2520in%2520Conversation%2520with%2520a%2520Child%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257113788072996962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUFIwnmMGI/AAAAAAAAACE/WY7OeD9zq8g/s320/Mrs%2520Kambo%2520in%2520Conversation%2520with%2520a%2520Child%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUFI2yZVaI/AAAAAAAAACM/XW0MNX5nQn0/s1600-h/Our%2520First%2520Meeting%2520with%2520Chao%2520Yang%2520School%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257113789728904610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUFI2yZVaI/AAAAAAAAACM/XW0MNX5nQn0/s320/Our%2520First%2520Meeting%2520with%2520Chao%2520Yang%2520School%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUFIyWbwCI/AAAAAAAAACU/ERbTR20-1LM/s1600-h/What%2520a%2520Spread%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257113788537880610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUFIyWbwCI/AAAAAAAAACU/ERbTR20-1LM/s320/What%2520a%2520Spread%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-4261057872754529019?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/4261057872754529019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/4261057872754529019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2008/10/tuesday-14th-october-extra-pictures.html' title='Tuesday 14th October - Extra Pictures from China'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUFj305tnI/AAAAAAAAACc/eYQzjvHejHQ/s72-c/Food%2520Glorious%2520Food!%5B1%5D.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-8276421466416098396</id><published>2008-10-14T13:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-14T13:43:47.173-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Teachers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='China'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='diary'/><title type='text'>Tuesday 14 October - Teachers Diary -Trip to China</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUEbamQ0DI/AAAAAAAAABc/3NF6b14TtME/s1600-h/Giving%2520of%2520Gifts%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257113009067708466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUEbamQ0DI/AAAAAAAAABc/3NF6b14TtME/s320/Giving%2520of%2520Gifts%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUEbZX5d0I/AAAAAAAAABk/yWL8gEru3iM/s1600-h/Group%2520Photo%2520with%2520the%2520Head%2520Teacher%2520of%2520Chao%2520Yang%2520School%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257113008739022658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUEbZX5d0I/AAAAAAAAABk/yWL8gEru3iM/s320/Group%2520Photo%2520with%2520the%2520Head%2520Teacher%2520of%2520Chao%2520Yang%2520School%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUEb_VJyrI/AAAAAAAAABs/EjFFNl20Qjo/s1600-h/In%2520the%2520Classroom%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257113018928057010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUEb_VJyrI/AAAAAAAAABs/EjFFNl20Qjo/s320/In%2520the%2520Classroom%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUEb60VE8I/AAAAAAAAAB0/cpMmDLFD-vU/s1600-h/Mr%2520Spriddle%2520Meeting%2520the%2520Children%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257113017716642754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUEb60VE8I/AAAAAAAAAB0/cpMmDLFD-vU/s320/Mr%2520Spriddle%2520Meeting%2520the%2520Children%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUEbwf5htI/AAAAAAAAAB8/nLuyf9L02HI/s1600-h/Mr%2520Spriddle%2520using%2520Chopsticks%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257113014946596562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUEbwf5htI/AAAAAAAAAB8/nLuyf9L02HI/s320/Mr%2520Spriddle%2520using%2520Chopsticks%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tuesday 14 th October &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dear Diary, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;A very exciting and eventful day! We began by meeting the Deputy Head and the English speaking teacher from our partner school – Chao Yang Experimental School. Teachers from Fullwood Primary and ourselves awaited their arrival in the hotel restaurant. Everybody was ready to give their best impression to our hosts and this created an atmosphere of great importance. We were chauffeur driven to Chao Yang through the very busy, noisy and jammed Beijing roads. The school has three buildings and today we were shown some parts of one building. We saw classrooms for children aged six to twelve years old. As well as normal classrooms this school also has rooms dedicated to arts and crafts. For example we saw rooms for model making, paper craft and clay work. The rooms were child friendly and set up with tables and bean bag seats so children could talk and enjoy this time together. These rooms are available during lunchtimes. A special vegetarian lunch was laid on for us and we are becoming quite expert at using chopsticks now. In the afternoon we had the pleasure of meeting the school’s headteacher. We presented the letter of invitation from Mrs Buxton along with all the maps, flags and other souvenirs of London to the head teacher. Everything was warmly accepted. She was particularly impressed with our school uniform, prospectus, policies and pupil workbooks. We were then introduced to our partner teachers, who were very enthusiastic about the project. Things certainly look good for the future of this partnership. Then it was time to think about lesson planning. Mrs Kambo has jointly planned an art lesson with Miss Bellis from Fullwood Primary. The lesson will have active use of the interactive whiteboard and will be delivered in English using our teaching strategies. Teachers from Chao Yang want to compare this lesson with that which would ordinarily be delivered by a Chinese teacher using their curriculum. The lesson that Mr Spriddle will be teaching involves collecting responses to the questions that our Year 2 and Year 5 children asked. Read our diary entry tomorrow to find out how these lessons went. Finally, we’ll tell you about the children we met today. They were happy, confident and welcoming, waving to us and saying “hello”. We also went into classrooms where children had the opportunity to practise their English by asking us questions. All the children were well mannered and seemed to really love being at school.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;To be continued ....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-8276421466416098396?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/8276421466416098396'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/8276421466416098396'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2008/10/tuesday-14-october-teachers-diary-trip.html' title='Tuesday 14 October - Teachers Diary -Trip to China'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUEbamQ0DI/AAAAAAAAABc/3NF6b14TtME/s72-c/Giving%2520of%2520Gifts%5B1%5D.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-8960736384606497299</id><published>2008-10-14T13:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-14T13:37:55.542-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Teachers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='China'/><title type='text'>Monday 13th October -Teachers Diary in China</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUC827G9dI/AAAAAAAAABE/FmO3fViP8x4/s1600-h/Airport.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257111384583763410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUC827G9dI/AAAAAAAAABE/FmO3fViP8x4/s320/Airport.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUC88j7SPI/AAAAAAAAABM/n91QlDToDa0/s1600-h/Mrs+Kambo+and+Miss+Lambri+infront+of+the+Forbidden+City%5B2%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257111386097142002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUC88j7SPI/AAAAAAAAABM/n91QlDToDa0/s320/Mrs+Kambo+and+Miss+Lambri+infront+of+the+Forbidden+City%5B2%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUC8xds4VI/AAAAAAAAABU/0560Wcz7xbU/s1600-h/MrSpriddle+Sight+Seeing%5B1%5D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257111383118242130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUC8xds4VI/AAAAAAAAABU/0560Wcz7xbU/s320/MrSpriddle+Sight+Seeing%5B1%5D.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Monday 13th October&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dear Diary, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;We had a pleasant and smooth flight, and arrived in Beijing on schedule. As we left the plane and entered the airport in Beijing we all agreed that its atmosphere was very calm, this was in no small way down to the calming music being played in the background. We even had to catch a train to collect our luggage. The four minute wait for the train seemed far longer maybe it was the effect of our ten hour long flight. We travelled to our hotel in a luxury coach with our first lesson in Mandarin. Watch the video in our Fronter China Room (coming soon!). Our hotel is fabulously stunning and immaculately clean as is most of Beijing City. We are hoping to recover from our long travel in our spacious and very comfortable rooms. After unpacking we went for a group meal in a traditional restaurant. Did you know that soup is the last item to be served in a Chinese meal? There are no knives and forks; so we are fast developing our use of chopsticks! Oh what fun it is to eat rice with chopsticks!! After our meal, to keep us awake we went for a fascinating walk around Beijing City. Check out the images we have uploaded. We saw The Temple of Heaven and walked around Tiananmen Square. Lots of soldiers marched around. We saw the Forbidden City from a distance across an extremely busy road. The weather is similar to London although there was a lot of smog in the air this afternoon. We must catch up on our sleep now. So make sure you read and keep up to date with our next diary entry tomorrow…&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-8960736384606497299?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/8960736384606497299'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/8960736384606497299'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2008/10/monday-13th-october-teachers-diary-in.html' title='Monday 13th October -Teachers Diary in China'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SPUC827G9dI/AAAAAAAAABE/FmO3fViP8x4/s72-c/Airport.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-7197472735535547020</id><published>2008-09-24T13:32:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-24T13:35:57.369-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Forthcoming China Visit!</title><content type='html'>I am looking forward to using this Blog in order to update and inform Redbridge Primary School on our up and coming visit to China. We will be visiting schools in Beijing and seeing how children in China are taught as well as visiting the famous landmarks of China. So watch this space...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-7197472735535547020?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/7197472735535547020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/7197472735535547020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2008/09/forthcoming-china-visit.html' title='Forthcoming China Visit!'/><author><name>Miss Lambri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14892719532338763381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-1326214793495385690</id><published>2008-09-11T13:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-11T14:14:28.292-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>I am looking forward to incorporating this blog into our ever widening use of ICT at Redbridge Primary School.  It will provide another useful method of communication with our ever widening school community.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-1326214793495385690?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/1326214793495385690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/1326214793495385690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2008/09/i-look-forward-to-opportunity-to-be.html' title=''/><author><name>Mr Spriddle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05778062685662298259</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001010759769969436.post-2618124069363988954</id><published>2008-09-11T08:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-11T10:16:30.122-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SMlSTvPJwXI/AAAAAAAAAA8/ZhW3JLpioDo/s1600-h/art+190.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244813740100665714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SMlSTvPJwXI/AAAAAAAAAA8/ZhW3JLpioDo/s320/art+190.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Welcome to Redbridge Primary School Blog! We intend to use the blog for:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pupils work,&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;School trips / visits,&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Teacher Cultural Visit to China (Beijing),&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Forthcoming events.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3001010759769969436-2618124069363988954?l=redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/2618124069363988954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3001010759769969436/posts/default/2618124069363988954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redbridgeprimaryschool.blogspot.com/2008/09/welcome.html' title='Welcome'/><author><name>Mrs Bailey</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QjLIp1COcF0/SMlSTvPJwXI/AAAAAAAAAA8/ZhW3JLpioDo/s72-c/art+190.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry></feed>
