World Mental Health Day
Today is ‘World Mental Health Day’ – In school we have had an assembly to explain what mental health is and about the various ways we can start to care for our own mental health.
Cake Sale Friday 5th October
Don’t forget our delicious cake sale on Friday 5th October to raise funds for the new Science Lab. Donated cakes can be brought into the school on the morning and children will have the opportunity to purchase them at break time.
Open Evening September 2018
This years Open Evening proved another great success with a record number of prospective parents viewing the school.
Exhibition Evening June 2018
Exhibition Evening was another great success with Ralphie’s proudly showing their work and taking part in various demonstrations in class.
Ralphie Fest 2018
Fun was had by all at the RSA’s first ever Ralphie Fest with live music from the very talented Lisa Martin as Adele.
Ralphie Raisers Awards Evening 2018
Well done Ralphie Raisers and Muscle Warriors from Freman College who won three awards, one being the most money raised. Everyone who took part in the Dragon’s Challenge was amazing raising a lot of money for charity.
The KS2 Creative Writing Club has entered its first competition!
Members of the KS2 Creative Writing Club have entered the BBC 500 words competition!
500 Words is open to any child who is aged between 5 and 13 years old on 8th June 2018, and is a full time resident of the UK.
There are two age groups in the 500 Words competition – one for children aged 5-9, and another for children aged 10-13.
There are Gold, Silver and Bronze prizes up for grabs in each age group!
1st Prize – Chris Evans’ height in books!
The Gold winners in each age group will win a pile of books as tall as Chris – that’s 1.88 metres! – and 500 books for their school library.
2nd Prize – HRH’s height in books!
The Silver winners will be awarded a stack of books as tall as our Honorary Judge, Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall!
3rd Prize – Your own height in books!
Our Bronze winners will walk away with their own height in books!
Chris Evans created the competition to celebrate imagination and creativity – not spelling and grammar! – so all children of all abilities are invited to enter.
Our entrants will find out in March if their stories have made it through the first round of judging – how exciting. all entrants are entered into a random ballot to receive tickets for the competition final at Hampton Court palace in June!
Watch this space – and wish our Ralphie entrants Good Luck!
Debating Club use props from the Houses of Parliament
Thanks to the Houses of Parliament for lending us these resources. Debating Cub have been discussing and arguing about controversial issues all term and it is good for our Speaker to have the correct clothing to keep order.
Ralphie Raisers final total
Well done to Ralphie Raisers for raising £803 for the charity Guideposts.
Ralphie Raisers hosted a presentation to all of our pupils explaining how they raised the funds and to thank everyone for their support. Representatives from CVS and Guideposts came along and a cheque was presented. Guideposts were very appreciative of the funds raised and they explained to the children how the money would be spent. A big thank you to our KS2 pupils for all their hard work and commitment to raising funds, they are a credit to themselves and an absolute pleasure to work with.
New KS2 Creative Writing Club
New opportunity for your child
KS2 Creative Writing Club – Starts 12th January 2018
Is your child writing in their spare time?
Do they like creative writing?
If so, encourage them to come along to the KS2 Creative Writing Club and share their ideas, their creativity and their work.
They will receive support and be encouraged to help others at the same time – Sound good?
Fridays at 12.50 in C6 with Dr Collins
Starts 12th January 2018
