Who is our school named after?

This half term in History, Year 3 have enjoyed investigating who William Ransom was!

The children worked together with teachers to collate information from a range of sources and began to create fact files about Ransom’s life. Mrs Driver spoke to Jane Ransom, who shared her knowledge, which we added to the information we had collected from the internet, Hitchin Historical Society, Ransom Pharmaceuticals and the Hitchin and British Museums.

Building upon our learning from Year 2, we compared William Ransom to Joseph Lister, who lived in Hitchin at a similar time. Both men have more in common than you might think!

Some of us chose to reconsolidate our learning by sharing our new found knowledge with adults at home and making some short videos.

The children also worked in school to create a short presentation. With help, they turned their facts into a script which they can be seen reading below – check it out!

We hope you enjoyed learning about William Ransom as much as we did!