Children's Mental Health Week 3rd February - 9th February 2025
The week beginning 3rd February 2025, launches Children's Mental Health Week. Ranelagh and the nation will be learning about having good mental health and ways we can achieve this.
We will be discussing, debating and deliberating about our mental health and wellbeing during the week.
On Friday 7th, we will be having a non-uniform day to celebrate all of our learning around this. On this occasion, there is no donation or cost - just be happy!
Parents and carers can also get involved too. Just click on the link
https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/families/
On Friday 26th January, residents of Newham gathered at East Ham Town Hall to remember the victims of the Holocaust as part of the international Holocaust Memorial Day. Held annually, the event provides an important opportunity for us to remember those who suffered and died in the Holocaust.
The hard working librarians from Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 went to support our local library at Plaistow. They were shown how the library, now known as a Community Neighbourhood, works and the services it offers. They also got to use the computer system to join the library and issue books to themselves.
Children from Year 4 braved the elements on Wednesday to visit the Queen Elizabeth Park, intrigued in their learning about famous buildings and bridges. Through wind and rain they battled. They had a look at the world famous Aquatics Centre, designed by Zaha Hadid, the London Stadium, the Accelor Mittal Orbit and the many bridges of the park. Children looked at the different bridge designs in the park, and those they encountered on route.
There are always so many exciting events happening at Ranelagh, one of the most recent being a ‘Design your own T-Shirt’ competition aimed at celebrating a love of Literacy. Tasked with creating a T-Shirt design that demonstrated their adoration of reading, children from across the school were transformed into budding fashionistas, creating their very own decorated garments highlighting their favourite books.
Last Friday, Ranelagh held its annual Spelling Competition Final. After many rounds, spelling dozens and dozens of supremely difficult words, Ms Tsui and Ms Scott found the final four - Diamond, Gabriel, Manar and Sarisha.
The four of them competed against each other with words such as hyperventilate, exasperated and philosophical. The audience were able to join in, sitting in anticipation of whether they chose the correct spelling rule.
Tate and Lyle has a long history of supporting its local communities, dating back to the 19th Century and the philanthropy of the co-founders Henry Tate and Abram Lyle.
Today, this is translated into donating space at the refinery site for the Junior Citizens Programme run by the Metropolitan Police and organised by our very own Mrs Lawrenson. Other agencies involved include the Fire Brigade, St John’s Ambulance and the Environment Agency. Children are taken through potentially life-saving scenarios such as ‘stranger danger,’ contacting the emergency services, fire awareness and safety.
Last month, the whole of Ranelagh’s Year 5 visited the Tate and Lyle factory at the Thames Refinery. The children learned an incredible amount of information about keeping themselves safe and as Mrs Barzoi, Ranelagh’s Year 5 Lead, stated, “This is an important event for Year 5 children, it makes them develop the skills that will allow them to make the right choices in risky situations.”
Back in the Autumn term pupils at Ranelagh were rigorously travelling to and fro on Newham streets, all in the name of the annual Beat the Street competition. Beat the Street, delivered on behalf of Diabetes UK, the British Heart Foundation and the Borough of Newham, is a competition aimed at inspiring millions of people to eat better, get active and be healthy by walking, cycling or running.
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Children at Ranelagh were all given their very own exclusive Beat the Street ID cards which were then tapped a plethora of times on Beat the Street boxes, fastened to street lamps, trees, fences or anywhere of interest across the borough. This year the competition stiffened, with schools competing against each other across the whole of East London rather than within the borough. Ranelagh is very proud to have placed 7th overall, with an amazing 64,395 points (a near 50,000 increase from last year). Ranelagh was also the only Newham school who placed in the top 10! Well done Ranelagh! |
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Ranelagh pupils have a passion for penmanship, demonstrated by their love of writing both in and outside of the classroom. Shree, a pupil in Year 3, put pen to paper last term and entered the Young Writers poetry competition, crafting a beautiful and poignant piece titled ‘Fire and Water.’ His poem was recognised for its brilliance and awarded with a place in the Young Writers Anthology, which will be publicised this term. Young Writers is an organisation that works with schools, parents and young writers across the world and has been doing so successfully for over two decades. Their aim is to promote a love of poetry and creative writing by running annual competitions aimed at celebrating young writers and young voices. Shree’s poem was submitted for entry into this year’s poetry competition, titled ‘Rhymecraft,’ and was selected for publication; an amazing and prestigious accomplishment. |
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On Friday 12th January, Ranelagh will be having a Nursery Open Day for all prospective parents and children from 9:00 to 10:00 AM. You are cordially invited to attend, to witness firsthand what a wonderful place Ranelagh Primary is. Beginning school is an exciting event for you and your child, and it won’t be long before your child will be starting with us at Ranelagh Primary School.
There will be lots of new things to learn and of course you will want to ensure that your child is well prepared for this important event. At Ranelagh Primary School our motto is `Be the Best You Can Be’ and this value is the foundation of everything we do. We strive to provide an environment and curriculum that underpins our ethos and our 5R values – Respectful, Resilient, Remarkable, Responsible and Right Choices.
For more information on our Early Years provision please click here.
Last week Ranelagh was transformed into an elegant castle bustling with Kings, Queens, Princes, Princesses (and everything regal in between) as Key Stage One held their own Royal Banquet. Festooned with Tudor and medieval decorations, our very own ground floor lunch hall became quite the site to behold.
All of Year 1 and 2, inspired by their learning in the Ranelagh Curriculum, created and attended their very own 'Royal Banquet' complete with music, drink and dancing. The 'Ranelagh Royals' enjoyed medieval and Tudor dancing while they dined and were waited on, hand and foot, by their servants and paiges Mrs. Sheikh, Mrs. Begum, Mrs. Patel and even our Deputy Head Mrs. Welburn.
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On Friday, along with the entire nation, Ranelagh raised awareness for Children in Need. Dressed to the hilt in spotty clothes and dotted outfits, the staff and children alike enjoyed contributing to such a noble cause. Children in Need, A BBC charity, maintains a vision that every child across the UK should have a childhood which is safe, happy, secure and allows them to reach their potential.
A huge congratulations to all our Times Table contestants for their hard work and team spirit. On Wednesday, they competed against 4 other schools. They had to solve reasoning problems; answer times tables questions; take part in a quick fire round of mental arithmetic and represent and present number bonds in creative ways.
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