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
The children have enjoyed using traditional tales in their learning this half term – The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Three Little Pigs and Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Here are just a few of the things they got up to. They created story maps, built bridges and ‘brick’ houses out of large construction and … Read more
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
As they continue to learn about the history of flight, Hazel class had a go at making their own paper aeroplanes. The followed the step by step instructions to fold their paper into an aerodynamic shape. We then went into the dining room to see whose plane would fly the furthest. Our winners were Spence, … Read more
What a busy half term we’ve had in Holly class. In English, the children learnt all about non-fiction books and the children wrote their very own Owl fact books. We also made a parliament of owls to fly in our classroom! We have also been learning about puppets and made some finger puppets and stick … Read more
The children have enjoyed learning all about Lunar New Year this week. The week ended with a visit from a parent who talked about why Chinese New Year is important to their family and how they will be celebrating. They gave all the children a lucky red envelope and a fortune cookie! They enjoyed looking … Read more
As part of our printing work this term Maple class have created these amazing paintings based on The Goldfish by Paul Klee. Children used carbon paper to print fish. Throughout the activity children used their sketchbooks to experiment and explore the skills needed to create their piece of art. They loved lifting the carbon paper … Read more
The children across Pine and Cedar classes finished their English units last week looking at instruction writing. In class, we read the book ‘Instructions’ by Neil Gaiman – a fantasy story made up of sentences that are largely command (or instruction) sentences. The children were tasked with creating maps for their own fantasy lands as … Read more
