First newsletter of the Spring Term

Dear Parents, Welcome back and Happy New Year! 2014 looks to be a very busy year for us in school. There are lots of exciting trips and visits being planned as well as some different events in school. Please check the dates of things that are happening this term on the diary of events. We … Read more

Christmas Photographs

We have put together a CD containing about 100 of the photographs taken of the Christmas performances. If you are interested in buying one of these CD look out for the letter coming home with an order form during the first week of term. The CDs will only cost £1 as we are copying these … Read more

Christmas Newsletter

Dear Parents We have now reached the end of an exhausting term and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the support you have offered this term. The School performances of ‘A Christmas Full of Eastern Promise’ and The Reception’s ‘The Origins of Christmas’ went very well and I am pleased … Read more

Latest newsletter from Mrs Driver

Dear Parents, As we creep ever closer to the end of term I thought I would keep you informed about a few details: Rehearsals are in full swing for the Christmas performances and everyone is looking forward to performing in front of an audience. Class R are presenting their Origins of Christmas on Friday afternoon … Read more

Santa Lucia arrives at William Ransom

Christmas celebrations started in earnest today with the celebration of Santa Lucia. Mrs Brown told the whole school the story of Santa Lucia and why this is a special day for people who live in Sweden. Lucia was a young Italian girl who lived hundreds of years ago. She felt very sorry for the Christians … Read more

A very busy weekend

Hitchin Gala Day is a lovely occasion for people to get together to start their Christmas celebrations and William Ransom School Choir played their part in this by singing on the market square to get us all in the holiday spirit. They sang a selection of 5 songs and looked resplendent in their Choir sweatshirts. … Read more

Christmas Displays

Have a look at the Christmas Displays that have been put up around the school. This year our theme was Christmas is … and every class chose a different way to illustrate this. They could choose their own medium and their own design and I hope you agree that the results are fantastic! We have … Read more

Inspiring our writing across the school.

We spent 2 days with Tim Rylands, an inspirational teacher who makes fantastic use of ICT and computer games to inspire children across the curriculum. On the first day Tim worked alongside all our teaching staff to introduce new ideas, techniques, programmes and gimmicks to helps us find new ways to inspire children to write. … Read more

What a great day we had at The Winter Wonderland!

What a great day we had at The Winter Wonderland! Saturday saw our second major fund raising event of the year – The Winter Wonderland! And guess what? Santa turned up and read stories to many of the children before giving them a present! It was extremely busy from the moment the doors opened at … Read more

An exhausting week in 5/6A

This week has been very eventful once again. On Tuesday we went to Cadburys World. We had a very early start so we were all very tired on the coach some of us even fell asleep. We had to go to Birmingham so it was a long trip. When we got there everyone was so … Read more