Enterprise in the Mercury
Thank you to the Hertfordshire Mercury for writing a great article in today’s paper.
Year 8 Business Enterprise
To read all about Business Enterprise Week, please click here.
RS Pupils turn Pros!
Four lucky pupils from the School Newspaper group were very lucky to spend a morning at the Herts Mercury
office.
Charlotte, Maisie, Sadie and Lamis sat in on an editorial conference with the Editor, Julie Palmer and her reporters, to discuss the newly released papers and whether the stories printed were good choices. Tips were given on how stories are chosen and placed within the paper, that page 3 is always a happy, cheerful story with a good image, and what a DPS is (double page spread but several stories about the same subject).
The girls were then tasked to interview staff around the office and then write an article about their visit.
The article appeared that morning on the Herts Mercury website, Twitter and Facebook – click here to read the article.
Helpful tips were gathered to take back to fellow Ralphie Reporters and ideas of how to improve our school paper were written down.
All staff at the Herts Mercury were very friendly and accommodating and gave the girls an experience they will not forget. We thank Julie and her team for giving our pupils this fantastic
opportunity.
Click here to view some photos of the trip.
Herts Mercury Editor pays our Ralphie Reporters a visit.
On Thursday 26th May, the reporters of the school newspaper welcomed the Editor of the Herts Mercury, Julie Palmer.
Eager to soak up as much information and tips as they could from the expert, the reporters came armed with pads of paper and pens and listened intently to everything Julie had to say.
Julie explained what each part of the front page of a newspaper is called – for example, the main story is called the ‘splash’. She
demonstrated some shorthand and gave handy tips on how to research and write a great story.
Four lucky reporters have been invited to the Herts Mercury offices in June for an opportunity to sit in on an editorial meeting and help decide on what stories will run. We will report more on that trip next month.
A huge thank you goes to Julie for giving
up her time and for giving us a lot to think about for our school newspaper.
Welcome back to an old friend!
On Wednesday 25th May, staff and pupils welcomed back Mrs Hinton, who wanted to present an assembly to talk about her first year of retirement.
Her assembly highlighted the opportunities that are out there for all of us to seize, that inspiration always starts with something small that has caught our attention, and that we can all inspire each other.
Mrs Hinton shared the variety of photographs that she has taken as part of her City and Guilds course, her trips to Duxford and back to France, and finally her bike ride in Pembrokeshire which raised £350 for the RSA.
She did admit to feeling slightly out of her comfort zone hosting an assembly after a year of retirement, but she quickly settled in to her flow and gave a positive, encouraging and uplifting presentation to show our pupils that the world is their oyster!
Thank you Mrs Hinton, it was lovely to see you.
Our new Minibus is finally here!!!
Our new minibus has arrived in school today. We are very proud to have such a smart looking minibus to transport our pupils.
Years of fundraising has gone in to achieving the funds for this and we thank all parents, pupils, staff and the RSA for all their efforts.
Bake Off 2016!
There was a very pleasant aroma of cake, cookies and lots of chocolate wafting around Ralph Sadleir School on Thursday 17th March.
The Ralph Sadleir
Bake Off 2016 had kicked off with an abundance of fantastic and impressive culinary creations.
The School Council, led by Mrs Hesketh, had the task of tasting and judging the cakes to decide on winners in four categories: Best
Tasting Cake, Best Biscuit, Best Looking Cake and Overall Showstopper. The winners were:
Best Looking Cake – Fre
ya W (Year 6)
Best Tasting Cake – Olivia R-B (Year 7)
Best Biscuit – Emelia G (Year 6) and Jess F (Year 8)
Overall Showstopper – Charlie A-S (Year 7)
Well done everyone, whether you entered cake or biscuit or whether you bought a piece of cake (or two??!!).
We raised a brilliant £270 for Sport Relief.
You can see photographs of each entry on our Gallery page.
U13 Boys Football Update!
Well done to our U13 boys football team who this week have made it through to the last 8 of the English Schools National Cup with a 3-0 win. Come on boys, you can do it!!!!
We will keep you updated on their progress.
C5 Cake Sale – 28th Jan 2016
The dining room
became a little extra busy this week when C5 launched their Cake Sale. The class have worked together baking cakes to bring in to school to raise money to adopt a panda.
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As you can see from the photos, there’s nothing like a Cake sale to bring in hoards of children (and staff) to raise a few pennies, and there was so much choice, from cookies to cupcakes to panda cookies and large cakes. Everyone was happy but no one more than C5.
They managed to raise a fantastic £121.75, enough for not just one adoption, but several. The class have chosen to adopt a panda, snow leopard, doormouse and a barn owl.
Well done C5 for fantastic team work.
Year 8 Football
Our Year 8 football team is currently in the last 16 stage of the English Schools National Cup for small schools which is the furthest we have ever progressed in the competition.
This team currently hold the NEH District Football title, they are in the Quarter Finals of the Bishop Stortford District Cup and are unbeaten this year.
Keep going team – Proud to Achieve!
