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#HelloYellow

Published 16/10/19

On Friday 11^th October, Ranelagh was awash with different shades of yellow as the children and staff showed their overwhelming support for World Mental Health Day.

The event allowed us to learn how important it is to look after our minds as well as our bodies. Resilience is one of our 5Rs and we recognise the importance of knowing sometimes ‘it’s okay not to be okay.’

The children know they can talk about their feelings and that teachers at Ranelagh as well their parents/carers are here to listen to them.

Lessons throughout the week helped the children to understand why they are feeling how they do and what they can do to try and make themselves feel better.

And that only be a good thing!

Bake-Off for Macmillan - Teachers v Parents
Published 14/10/19
There were no soggy bottoms, only yummy cakes as Mrs Lawrenson , Miss Welburn , members of the governors and the school council judged the feast of sweet delights made to raise funds for Macmillan Charity. Parents and teachers donated and baked a huge range of cakes . Mrs Sheikh made her famous lemon drizzle, Mr Hurrell a light delicious victoria sponge with Mr Jenkins showing a gentle touch with his moist carrot cakes and Miss Trina delighted our palates with not one , but three scrumptious cakes.

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Ranelagh is a Forest School
Published 30/09/19
The Teaching Assistants and Teachers are absolutely overjoyed that Ranelagh is a Forest School. In June and July, the teachers learned how to bring the curriculum alive with outdoor learning and at the beginning of September every adult hiked over to West Ham Park for training delivered by Miss Begum in how to use the part of the park given over to Ranelagh. Our Science Lead ,Miss Begum, has been trained to lead the Forest School at Ranelagh.

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End of Year Concert-The World We're Going To Make
Published 26/07/19
' A million dreams for the world we're gonna make' were the apt lyrics of the finale of the annual end of term concert. It was sang by all the children of Ranelagh and there was not a dry eye in the hall.&
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Newham Harmony and the New Youth Voice Choir
Published 12/07/19
This week, our KS2 choir put on an incredible performance in collaboration with Newham Harmony and the New Youth Voice Choir. Children learned 10 songs from cultures all around the world and performed them in conjunction with choirs from other schools, young musicians and a live orchestra.
“I love performances. Everyone was so happy to watch us and there were all of these people who conduct and put in all that effort. The parents weren’t joining in at first and at the end all the parents were joining in and that made me happy. And I like our t-shirts,” Aicha (4T3) said.
It was a long event on Monday, but Ranelagh children showed continuous enthusiasm and top-notch show biz attitude!

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Summer Fair
Published 12/07/19
A huge thank you to you all for making our Summer Fair one of the best yet. An extra special thanks to Ranelagh’s wonderful PTA and Mrs Sheikh- Ranelagh’s community Cohesion Leader (pictured at the right) for making it all possible.

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Ranelagh Attends 2020 Olympic Games Event
Published 28/06/19
Parents and children travelled to The Olympic park /Lea Valley sports arena to a launch event for next year's Tokyo Olympics. The legacy of the 2012 Olympics hosted by Britain continues. The Travel to Tokyo challenge is a new ‘getting active’ programme for young people aged 5–11 from Sport England, Team GB and Paralympics GB.

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When I grow up, I want to be a.......!
Published 21/06/19
Children from Ranelagh took on the role of teachers in our school last Friday. The children were absolutely amazing.

Adele in Year 3 (Mini Mrs Lawrenson) hosted Friday’s celebration assembly. Mrs Lawrenson’s job is so difficult she had 3 Mini teachers – Sasha and Saffron from Year 3.

The children enjoyed being in the staffroom during break where they were treated to hot chocolate.

In the afternoon, bankers, doctors, police, dentists and scientists came to show children what they could be in the future.

"I am going to work very hard practising my times tables, "said a child from Year 4, "because I want to be a banker."

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In Remembrance
Published 14/06/19
Reporters - Skye and Kelvin

On Thursday 24^th May 2019, Year 6 children travelled to Ypres, in Belgium to lay a wreath at the Menin Gate for all the unknown soldiers that sacrificed their lives for our freedom.

Ruqqayah, Jobelle and Kelvin showed incredible respect and reverence as they were chosen to lay the wreath. They were the youngest there and showed amazing maturity.

This incredible and moving event ended a day’s long travel to the trenches and the Tyne Cot Cemetery where there lay dead the bones of thousands of soldiers.

This enriched the children’s understanding of the sacrifice people made in order to give all people the opportunities that they have today.

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Up the Creek
Published 10/06/19
Children in Year 5 donned cagoules, wading boots and long walking sticks to clamber through a river. Deptford Creek or ‘Deep Ford’ was named after its tidal Creek. As the tide falls each day it exposes almost a kilometre of riverbed. As you can see, the children loved wading across it.

As part of developing the children’s skills of geographical enquiry, Year 5 found out about the many stories the river bed can tell. The Creek has a long history of fishing, ship building and dockyards. Trades and industries from chemical works to tidal mills and slaughterhouses have all used its banks. There is still evidence on these river beds and Year 5 were keen to discover.

“It was amazing, “said Nasim “We were able to see many live animals such as leeches, shrimps , flounders and we even found a crab’s exoskeleton .”

“The water level was high but we were able to see things beneath the water. There was even a pair of old trousers.” Brian stated “But it was able to teach us about how we need to keep our rivers clean. We have come a long way since the Victorians used to throw horseshoes and old meat carcasses in to the river. I will definitely be recycling all my waste.”

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AUTHOR INVADES OUR LOCAL LIBRARY
Published 10/06/19
Reporter: Yusuf

Matt Brown is the award-winning children's author of the Compton Valance books. His new series includes Aliens Invaded My Talent Show, Mutant Zombies and The Killer Vending machine .Last week, Year 5 pupils had the amazing opportunity to meet up with him and ask a few questions.

Matt Brown talked about how he became an author and shared his ideas about how to write comic adventure stories. Yusuf, a pupil from 5T9, explained Matt Brown’s inspirational way he goes about writing a book. Wherever he goes, he finds something peculiar that catches his eye to put it together at a later time to make a thrilling story. The way he names characters in his book is pretty nifty. You think of a name of your pet and the road that you live on and put them together, for example Yusuf's character would be Roger Holbrook.

Yusuf went on to explain how he was chosen by the author himself to assist him with a maths' trick- which flummoxed the audience. Another incredible trick he did was with cards that left the audience breathless. Not only did the children run home to try out his tricks, they were also inspired to write stories. Matt has a new book coming out in 6 weeks called Killer Vending Machines wrecked my Lunch.

Yusuf will be the first in the queue when the book comes out.

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Bienvenido a nuestros fabulosos visitants.
Published 24/05/19
This week we enjoyed a visit from our sister-school, Ciep Las Salinas. Arriving on Tuesday, they were greeted by a festoon of British and Spanish flags in our whole school assembly demonstrating our long-term friendship. Spanish, as chosen by the Ranelagh parents, is the Foreign Language we study form Nursery to Year 6. Year 1 children sang Spanish songs and our visitors were amazed. The Spanish children teamed up with buddies from Ranelagh and they took them on a visit to the Olympic Park and for a cruise down the River Thames. The visitors ventured to our local street with the finest restaurants- Green Street, organised by Mrs Aisha Sheikh.
“It is such an important time in our calendar,” said Jose, Head of the Bi-lingual department, “it is extremely important that we continue this wonderful partnership.”

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