William Ransom v St Ippolyts – home wins!

Thursday 5th March saw a league win for William Ransom A-team and a win for the B-team as both teams played at home against St. Ippolyts. In the A-team game, a great cross past the goal mouth by Archie was finished brilliantly by Oliver. A second goal came from Archie who  took the ball around the keeper and … Read more

William Ransom netball teams away at Our Lady

Both of the William Ransom netball teams were over at Our Lady this week. Conditions  for play were difficult with a freezing cold wind blowing across the court and bright sunlight obscuring vision. The girls played four quarters of four minutes, rotating positions at the end of each quarter. The A-team game was really tough … Read more

The North Herts Tag Rugby Festival

The North Herts Tag Rugby Festival run by the Saracens, was held at Letchworth Rugby Club on Tuesday 3rd March 2015. On an exceptionally cold, windy afternoon there were 26 teams split into 5 ‘pools’. Only the winner from each group and the highest scoring second place team out of the five pools were to … Read more

Speed Stacking Success!

On Saturday the 14th of February I entered the UK Sport Stacking Championships.                 We arrived early at The Nobel School in Stevenage and warmed up with some of the world record holders! There was supposed to be another girl in my age category but she didn’t turn up!                  After warming up for a … Read more

Zone Finals for English Schools’ Table Tennis Association

We had won through as County Champions to the Zone Finals for Table Tennis held at Morpeth School in Bethnal Green on Saturday 31st January. Our four players, Ilyssa, Catherine, Sana and Megan went up to London with Mrs Light and Mrs Driver for a very exciting day. There were 5 schools in the finals … Read more

Indoor athletics at the Priory

The indoor athletics team consisting of 13 girls and 14 boys competed in the first round of the Sports Hall Athletics last night. With some strong competition from larger schools like Pixmore we knew that it would be extremely competitive! Everyone did their best and really enjoyed the events for which they had been chosen … Read more

Competition Winners

Well done to everyone who entered the latest Orbit competitions. Key Stage 1 produced some wonderful colouring. The winner was Elena, Will came second and Kanishk third. In Key Stage 2 the winner of Srihan's Impossible Quiz was Andrew and George came second.

The William Ransom Orbit

Welcome to the fifth year of The Orbit, our school newspaper. The Orbit began in 2010 with a team of nine Key Stage 2 pupils who have now all left William Ransom and gone to Secondary school. We were lucky enough to have Adam Mills (Mrs Mills’ son), who was a pupil at Hitchin Boys … Read more