World Book Day in Year 5

Another year, another exciting World Book Day at William Ransom! We had a great discussion about where we like to read; what makes a great ‘book nook’ for us to curl up with a great book, leave our real lives behind and escape into another world? Where is your favourite place to read? Year 5 … Read more

Next Page Books visit

A few lucky children were chosen to visit Next Page Books as part of our World Book Day celebrations this week. They enjoyed learning about the bookshop, making some World Book Day bunting and spending their book tokens. There was a great selection of books to choose from and the children really enjoyed having some … Read more

Our Christmas Reading Champions

Well done to all the families who managed to complete the 12 Challenges of Christmas. We were absolutely astounded at how many certificates we gave out in Keystage 1 and 2 assemblies this week. We hope you all enjoyed taking part. Here are photos of some of our Christmas reading champions and a couple of … Read more

World Cup Slip Up!

On Friday 18th November, Year 6 (along with the rest of the school) were involved in a very exciting day of writing. Some children from Eco Club were out litter picking, when they found the World Cup! They reported this to Mrs Driver straight away and we had an emergency assembly, with a visit from … Read more

William Ransom’s Exciting Writing Day

Friday 18th November was a day our children will never forget! Eco Club met up early with Mr Carmody to start the day with litter picking on the school field. To their utter amazement, they found the World Cup! The children ran in immediately to voice their astonishment to Mrs Driver, who rushed out to … Read more

Useful Documents for Parents

The National Curriculum for English: Accessit online catalogue for fiction and non-fiction https://uk.accessit.online/wll15/#!dashboard Top 100 books by Year Group:

Olaf Falafel – Author Visit

Olaf came to read to us and entertain us! Olaf introduced himself and his most recent books: Blobfish and Trixie Pickle – The Art Avenger. The children couldn’t stop their giggling at Olaf’s jokes, film clips and songs. Then, the best bit of all … Olaf read us all an extract from Blobfish (ks1) and … Read more

Reading Survey Results

Thank you so much for your time completing our reading survey. We were very pleased to have so many participants. Please see the attached information, which gives you some feedback regarding your general comments about reading within our school. Parent Reading Survey Results Spring 2022 Additional Ideas and Suggestions Book club – we don’t currently … Read more