On the back of the half term Ranelagh hosted our Parents Maths Mornings, which saw an incredible amount of our parents and carers come into school to take part in a variety of Maths lessons and workshops with their children.
Every year, in the Autumn term and as part of our learning in the Ranelagh Curriculum, our wonderful students put together their own Community Action Projects, with the vision of making the world a better place. We have been running our action projects for over 6 years now, and every year they get better and better. The children have once again taken action to raise global awareness about a variety of planetary issues - from melting ice caps to deforestation of the rainforest - and were keen to help as best they could.
Each year group researched a charity to support, linked to their studies, and planned an action that they could carry out to raise awareness and garner support from the local community. Stalls were then set out spanning the Key Stage One playground and manned by children and members of the PTA who tirelessly promoted and campaigned for their causes. Year 6 decorated canvas bags with stunning artwork to support Greenpeace, Year 4 made and sold lemonade with proceeds going to Water Aid, Year 2 made frosted ‘ice cakes’ to raise awareness of the melting polar ice caps and reception made stunning key rings in support of the Marine Conservation Society, to name but a few of the many exciting actions that took place on the day.
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Every year our fantastic Year 4 students take part in the Festival of Voices. The show this year was held in July at the prestigious Hackney Empire, and consisted of multiple Newham schools across the Creative Arts Partnership, who came together to sing as one amazing choir.
On Monday and Tuesday Year 1 visited the wonderful Natural History Museum. Inspired by their learning in the Ranelagh Curriculum, the children visited many different galleries and took in the breath-taking sights. “The blue whale is enormous! I never knew it was so big,” Yusuf commented. “I really liked the polar bear. It is so white but it has black skin and I didn’t know that,” Anastasia explained.
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On Friday morning Ranelagh’s fantastic PTA organised a Macmillan coffee morning in our school hall for the local community. Parents, carers, staff and children were thrilled to come into school Friday morning to the sweet scent of cakes, biscuits and hot chocolate.
Macmillan Coffee Morning is the world’s biggest coffee morning and aims to raise proceeds for UK cancer research, a truly noble cause. The morning was a great success and Ranelagh was able to raise over £200, which will help make a difference to those in need.
