This page will show you a snapshot of the events that take place at Round Diamond. To keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment check out our Facebook posts on the home page.

• Cross Curricular Days - Summer Term 2018

  Fri 22 Jun 2018

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  For the summer term we decided to focus our cross-curricular learning days on 'The World Cup'. 
  Across Thursday and Friday the children took part in a range of activities including football themed maths, writing a match report for the 1966 World Cup final, creating flags, researching countries around the world, finding out about the details of 1966 and much more! The highlight for many children was the mini World Cup event led by the PE team. The overall winners of the tournament were: IRAN!

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• Race for Life 2018

  Thu 21 Jun 2018
  On Thursday we held our second Race for Life event. Again it was a huge success and we had a great turn out from Round Diamond children and parents. 
  This video shows perfectly the amazing atmosphere that could be felt as each of the runner were cheered on around the circuit. 
  Please remember to keep collecting your donations both online using our online page https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/rounddiamondrace2018 or using the donation form and collecting cash. 
  The deadline for all donations is WEDNESDAY 4th JULY. Let's try and meet our target of £1000! 

  

• Teaching Schools

  Thu 24 May 2018

  Round Diamond Primary School headteacher

  chosen for key school support role

   

  The headteacher and staff at Round Diamond have been selected for top roles supporting schools in challenging circumstances and training new teachers.

   

  Zoë Phillips is one of more than 50 headteachers to be appointed to the role of national leader of education in the latest recruitment round.

   

  National leaders of education along with staff in their school – appointed as national support schools – use their knowledge and experience to provide additional leadership capability in other schools in need of support. 

   

  The type of support provided is flexible and tailored to meet the needs of each individual school. National leaders of education also have responsibility for developing the next generation of NLEs and national support schools.

   

  Round Diamond is also one of over 40 schools that has been selected to become a national teaching school in the latest recruitment round, taking a leading role in recruiting and training new entrants to the profession.

   

  Introduced in 2011, teaching schools are excellent schools that work with partner schools in an alliance to provide high quality school-led initial teacher training and professional development opportunities for teachers at all stages of their career.

   

  They raise standards through supporting other schools, especially those in challenging circumstances, and ensure that the most talented school leaders are spotted and supported to become successful headteachers.

   

  Zoë Phillips, Head teacher at Round Diamond Primary School said: “After the recognition from Ofsted as an ‘Outstanding’ school we are excited to begin this new journey. We will be maintaining high quality provision for our own pupils as well as providing opportunities for advancement for other schools and professionals within the education sector. ”

   

  Lord Agnew, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the School System, said:

   

  “I’d like to congratulate Round Diamond Primary School and Zoë Phillips on being appointed as a teaching school and a national leader of education. They should be very proud of this achievement.

   

  “Teaching schools and national leaders of education are supporting other schools, attracting and training the best new teachers and developing the next generation of leaders.”

   

• TES awards shortlist

  Thu 26 Apr 2018
  We are pleased to announce that we have been nominated under the 'Employer of the year' category at the 2018 TES Schools Awards. We are very proud and are looking forward to the awards ceremony which is being held on June 22nd. #TESawards

  

• The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

  Fri 16 Mar 2018
  Round Diamond children were treated today to another amazing performance from M & M productions. This time we were transported into Narnia in 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe'. This performance is the start of our Cross-curricular learning days which will take place on Monday and Tuesday. 🌲❄️🦁🚪

  

• National Sing Up Day

  Wed 14 Mar 2018
  Today we joined in with the national SING UP event. Schools across the country have been rehearsing this song in preparation for today's performance. To view the video of our entire performance please follow the link on the homepage to our facebook page. 🎶
  #SingUpDay #BeTheChange

  

• British Values Afternoon

  Fri 09 Feb 2018
  On Friday 9th February we celebrated British Values Afternoon. 
  We took the opportunity to celebrate together that all children share our British Values. The children discussed the 5 values: Respect, Tolerance, Individual liberty, Rule of the law and Democracy. 
  Every child then created a person that represented themselves which will be displayed in the main hall as part of our British Values display.

  

• Music festival

  Thu 29 Jun 2017
  A lovely afternoon was enjoyed at the music festival today at RD. Look at our Facebook page for more photos and videos. Thank you to all parents and carers who joined us in celebrating the musical talents for RD! The children were thrilled to be joined by the Mayor of Stevenage, Councillor Pam Stuart and Mr Tony Turner. 

  

• Cross Curricular Days - The Farm

  Tue 28 Mar 2017
  🕷🐷Cross curricular days - The Farm! 🐷🕷
  A fantastic production of Charlotte's Web was enjoyed by children from Reception to Year 6! All the children had a great time joining in and singing along with the actors. 
  The children have then had the opportunity back in class to write their own versions of the story focusing speech. 
  This production has formed part of our cross curricular learning this week where we have been thinking about the farm with a focus on Maths, English, Geography, PSHE and Science.

  

• Round Diamond's Very First House Afternoon

  Tue 07 Feb 2017

  This afternoon, the children enjoyed a range of activities based on the '50 things to do before you are 11 and 3/4' challenge. The children moved around in mixed age groups and took part in activities including : rolling down a hill, dancing like no-one is watching, learning kick boxing with a world champion,  animal encounters and kite flying. At the end of the afternoon, organised by the P.E, P.S.H.E AND R.E faculty, the children came together to  share some of their experiences. Romano said that it was his 'best day ever' and gave it a score of 1 million out of 10,  whilst Ollie reported that he 'really enjoyed making bird feeders' and told us that he 'couldn't wait to see which birds would come in to his garden to feed from it'.

   

  We are very thankful to all of the visitors for coming along and sharing their skills, to the staff for their support and hard work and,  as always, to the children for their exceptional behaviour and demonstrations of the Round Diamond Values.

  Well done everyone.  Keep going with the project and do let us know if you complete any more of the activities at home.