Kindness Award

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’s World Tour

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

‘Green Planet’ talk at HGS

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

‘Green Planet’ talk at HGS

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

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

Willow’s World Book Day

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

K’Nex Challenge 2019 – Year 5

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