Willow Class debate

As part of our focus on British values, we have discussed the important role of democracy in our society, which has linked in with our English topic on persuasive language and debating. Beofre holding our own class debate, we discussed how to argue a point effectively, using facts, acknowledging opposing arguments, and maybe just a … Read more

Rowan Class get competitive!

This week has seen a number of different areas of learning come to a conclusion with particularly exciting endings. In games lessons within PE, we have been progressing our tag rugby skills. As all our games modules at William Ransom do, we ended this 6 week unit with a competitive class tournament. Rowan class are … Read more

Rowan’s first PE tournament of the year!

At the end of every games PE unit, every class should take part in some some of competition specific to the learning that has taken place across the 6 week block. Learning competition skills in PE is so very important; we work on winning and loosing well, team work, motivation, resilience, fair play and sports’person’ship. … Read more

Year 5 School Council Hustings

Year 5 have been discussing the importance of British Values, and how we can be mindful of these at school and in our everyday lives. As such, both classes recently appointed their School council representatives, who were democratically elected. Each class held a hustings, where candidates put forward their pledges to improve school life, in … Read more

We are a Values Based School

William Ransom is a Values Based School. This means we learn about the core values we have in life. We discuss them and try hard to exemplify these values to help to make us better people. Each half term, we introduce a new value and hope that the children will make an extra effort to … Read more

Values Based Education – an update

At William Ransom Primary School we introduced the Values system three years ago with great success.  We have recently reviewed the values we have chosen and have adapted our scheme.  We now focus on one value per half term (as opposed to one value every month) so we can give the children plenty of opportunities … Read more

World Values Day 2018

William Ransom Primary School celebrated World Values Day on Thursday 18th October.  Our Achievers that day were all based around the Values we have covered and our lessons were focused on relevant values, for example cooperation in any pair work, respect in History and perseverance in PE.  Here are some photos from the day.

Values Based Education – an update

At William Ransom Primary School we introduced the Values system three years ago with great success.  We have recently reviewed the values we have chosen and have adapted our scheme.  We now focus on one value per half term (as opposed to one value every month) so we can give the children plenty of opportunities … Read more

World Values Day 2018

William Ransom Primary School celebrated World Values Day on Thursday 18th October.  Our Achievers that day were all based around the Values we have covered and our lessons were focused on relevant values, for example cooperation in any pair work, respect in History and perseverance in PE.  Here are some photos from the day.

The value for January is KINDNESS

As we have moved into a new month it is time for us to focus on a new value.  The value for January is kindness.  Mrs Driver introduced this in a whole school assembly on the first day of term.  She gave the children many examples of how they could demonstrate kindness around the school.  … Read more