Science Week 2020 was launched on Friday with a presentation and demonstration based on this year’s theme ‘Our Diverse Planet.’ In the whole school assembly, children heard about what makes our planet so amazing and the diversity on it; from landscapes to animal life, materials obtained from it and products created and the weather subjected … Read more
Shrove Tuesday comes round more quickly every year. With this year, it being just after half term, the house captains had plenty of time to pick their teams! Mrs Hall was in charge of providing the pancakes and she was determined that her pancakes were not going to fall apart during the course of the … Read more
Every half term a pupil is chosen to receive the Kindness Award. All adults working in school can nominate children for the award and they will all receive a certificate. The pupil with the most nominations is awarded a certificate and the award for the next half term. These pupils all received a highly commended … Read more
Willow was wowed by today’s Festival of Languages as it gave them the opportunity to learn so much about countries around the world. First stop was the Punjab in India. The children learnt that 1.2 billion people live in India. They also found out that the Langar (lunch) at the Golden Temple in Amritsar feeds … Read more
Last week, Willow Class and the Yr5s from Cherry and Chestnut were invited to Hitchin Girls' School to listen to inspirational speaker Phil Williams. Phil talks about envionmental issues and what we can do to help protect our planet. The topic was 'Green Planet'. Below are some of the children's blogs. On 26th March, my class … Read more
Last week, Willow Class and the Yr5s from Cherry and Chestnut were invited to Hitchin Girls' School to listen to inspirational speaker Phil Williams. Phil talks about envionmental issues and what we can do to help protect our planet. The topic was 'Green Planet'. Below are some of the children's blogs. On 26th March, my class … Read more
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
With a varied range of characters from The Girl Savage to Billionaire Boy, Willow Class showed what a well read bunch they are! The classes outfits were fantastic with lots of home-made effort and thought (thank you grown-ups!). Today was dedicated to World Book Day. We read, we listened, we watched, we wrote, we used … Read more
This year's STEM K'Nex challenge saw our Year 5s designing and building a futuristic flying machine. On Wedsnesday afternoon, the children came down to the hall where they found tables with boxes of K'Nex ready and waiting for them. After our STEM Ambassador explained this year's challenge, the children spent a short while jotting down their design … Read more
