First Prize at Emerging Writers Conference

Ten boys today attended a Creative Writing Conference at Redborne Upper School in Ampthill.  The day involved sessions led by Year 13 A Level English students and secondary school English teachers and each team of boys had a Year 10 assistant to offer support and encouragement. The first session was ideas on how to create more interesting … Read more

Information from Mrs Driver

Mrs BrownYou will all remember that Mrs Brown is retiring at the end of term in July; after 41 years at the school she will be greatly missed by us all. We are starting to arrange various events to celebrate her years at William Ransom, the main one being an Evening Celebration on Friday 1st … Read more

Were the new classrooms arriving?

I started to get really excited today as it looked like some of the modules for the new classrooms were arriving! Looking out of my office window a very large lorry with an even bigger block had stopped in the car park! It really was very big and I wondered if it was the start … Read more

The Mobiles have gone!

Work is continuing and the old mobile classrooms are just a pile of rubble! The diggers are now on site to clear away all the rubble so there is a clear area to start the ground works. But work has started on a new area! The back of the hall is being knocked down to … Read more

Well, there’s no going back now!

Today was the day I thought I would never see – the mobile classrooms were demolished! A large crane arrived on site just before lunchtime and in no time at all they were busy demolishing the mobile classrooms! It seemed quite slow at first as they had problems getting water to the site to reduce … Read more

Information from Mrs Driver

Welcome back! Hasn’t it been lovely to see some sunshine throughout the holiday? I hope you have all had a lovely time! Hopefully the weather will continue to warm up and we will be able to enjoy a summer term full of all our usual outside activities! There are lots of exciting projects planned for … Read more

Information from Mrs Driver

End of termSuddenly we have reached the end of another term and the Easter holidays, if we can call them that, are upon us!It has been another exciting term in school with lots of different things happening and all of the children have been involved in a wide range of experiences. There have been an … Read more

Building work about to start!

Here we are at April 2016!  There are 63 teaching days left until the end of the summer term and then we take in 60 new reception children! None of us can wait until we move into our new building, and we are all much happier now that things have started to happen! Over half … Read more

Information from Mrs Driver

Dear Parents, EasterPlease remember the School is closed on Friday 25th March and Monday 28th March. We are then open for 4 days and then finish for the 2 week break on 1st April.  CleanerWe are still looking for a cleaner to work in school for 2 hours a day, 3.30 – 5.30. If you … Read more

Key Stage One take part in a Book Quiz!

To round off an exciting Book Week in school, all of Key Stage One took part in a Book Quiz on Friday afternoon. The children were split into groups according to their houses with a mixture of year groups in each group.  They answered a variety of questions on well known children's books.  Everyone received … Read more