In September, the children at Ranelagh Primary School were invited to attend the Lord Mayors Fund breakfast celebration. The event helped to showcase Ranelagh’s pivotal role in supporting other schools across London in setting up their very own Maths clubs.
Once again Ranelagh has outdone itself. Every September we collect various non-perishable food items for donation as part of our Harvest Festival, and this year was no exception. Children across the school could be seen unloading heaps of food items, from pasta to baked beans, when they entered their classrooms in the morning. The collection was celebrated in our Friday assembly and very well received by our chosen charity, Newham’s Renewal Programme, whose aims are to help improve the lives of disadvantaged people and homes across the borough. They were delighted with our generosity and the amount of food we collected – well done Ranelagh!
Ranelagh School Council play a vital role in the development and continued improvement of our school. In early October, they held their first meeting with the Leadership Team over lunch. They discussed their agenda for the upcoming school year and what they hope to achieve for Ranelagh.
On Thursday October 13th the Ranelagh halls were filled with song and joy as the children and the community joined together to celebrate the lasting legacy of Ms Angela Tapscott.
The children insisted that there could be an event to reflect and celebrate all the great things that Ms Tapscott left to them. Her vision was that all children leave Ranelagh having had amazing experiences and developed everlasting memories, ensuring they achieved a love of learning.
| The school choir sang True Colours in front of moving tributes to Angela. The whole school joined in with a heart-rending performance of the Welsh Classic Ar Hyd y Nos (All Through The Night) in honour of her Welsh roots. Parents from the PTA and the Friday Club, who were inspired by Ms Tapscott, wrote and shared their own poems to mark her memory. They also celebrated the diversity that Angela embraced at her school, sharing their message of 'Many Languages - One Voice' as a final goodbye. |  |
They had been inspired by their learning in the Ranelagh Curriculum. This half term the topic has been Our Planet Earth and it has seen every year group learn about a different region of the world - from oceans, seas and deserts to ice worlds, the rainforest and natural disasters! The children learnt how they could get involved to help protect these environments and the creatures therein. Each year group researched and chose a charity to support, linked to their studies, and planned an action that they could carry out to raise awareness and garner support.
