Easter Traditions Assembly

In today’s assembly, we talked about Easter traditions here in England — and then some of our pupils did a wonderful job of telling us about Easter traditions in other countries. We learnt about Scottish egg-rolling, Hungarian egg decorating, a giant French omelette and much more! A big well done to the children who took … Read more

Spring Issue Out Now!

Look out for the Spring issue of the William Ransom Orbit magazine coming home in your children’s bags this week. Full of news, reviews and interesting articles!

World Book Day

What an exciting day we all had on World Book Day again this year! Our wonderful local author – Lucy Plunkett – came in to read her story with every class throughout school. Dexter is a school dog who has a natural way of helping children through the school day with things like: the first … Read more

Ramadan and Eid Assembly

On Thursday this week, we were lucky enough to have some of our pupils who celebrate Ramadan and Eid share about their traditions during assemblies for both Key Stages. The children spoke beautifully, and many of their families were kind enough to send photos in so that we could see some of the food, decorations, … Read more

Science Week at William Ransom

It’s been an exciting week of Science in school this week. Science Club set up an investigation to see how food changes over time. Everyone was able to visit the display over the week to see what happened. We found that some foods went hard while others went soft. Some went mouldy although the whole … Read more

Science Club

The Year 3 Science Club has been busy with a range of activities and investigations. We investigated chromatography in sweets by separating out the colours in the coating of different types of sweets. We explored forces and aerodynamics by testing different types of paper plane and paper helicopters to see how they flew and which … Read more