Oak children love their mums

How much do you love your mum and why? This was the writing task in Oak class yesterday. What did they say? My mum is extremely good at making balloons and my mum takes me to Space 2 Play. I love my mum. Noah My mum is brilliant because she takes me Gulliver’s Land. My … Read more

Oak children love their mums

How much do you love your mum and why? This was the writing task in Oak class yesterday. What did they say? My mum is extremely good at making balloons and my mum takes me to Space 2 Play. I love my mum. Noah My mum is brilliant because she takes me Gulliver’s Land. My … Read more

Willow’s Adele tribute

Willow wanted to give their red noses the opportunity to experience a music lesson!  We played an instrumental version of Adele’s ‘Make you feel my love’. Some children opted for the easier glockenspiel part whereas others chose the more challenging recorder part. We think it sounded pretty good! The song was written by Bob Dylan … Read more

A Smashing Science Week

British Science Week 2019 was a huge success at William Ransom School.   Every class took part in a number of activities from forensic science and fingerprinting to static electricity, water pipe networks, wingless planes and bee dances!   The theme was 'Journeys' to link in with the 25th anniversary of the opening of the … Read more

Science week in Oak class

Science week in Oak class has been exhausting but great fun! Monday morning saw the class attend a forensic workshop. This was a challenge for some children who could not stop themselves from touching all of the objects with their hands and contaminating the crime scene. Keeping all of the evidence within the crime scene … Read more

A Wonderful Week in Cherry & Chestnut Class

We've had a really busy time in Chesntut and Cherry Class with lots of exciting activities to make learning fun. World Book Day saw some wonderful costumes and we spent the whole day talking about books.  We played 'Who am I?' where the children had to work out which famous character from a book they were … Read more

Forensic Science Workshop

As part of our science week activities, Willow Class took part in a forensic workshop.  The class were split into four teams and given a crime scene to investigate. Clues were left by a pesky criminal who had stolen valuable items from a safe. It was up to the children to use their forensic science … Read more

Another busy week for Maple

It's been a busy few weeks at school for us all, with the excitement of World Book Day last week and Science week this week.  The children looked fantastic in their costumes for World Book Day last Thursday. They all had the opportunity to talk about their book and character, as well as describing their favourite part … Read more

Weekly update from Oak class

What's been happening in Oak class this week? Read on and find out.    Continuing our work on houses, on Monday we read and enjoyed ‘A Squash and a Squeeze’ by Julia Donaldson. In our afternoon lesson we started to make our clay houses using the drawing prepared over the half term holiday. A piece of … Read more