Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Butterflies!

  Fri 20 May 2016 Mrs Blake

   

  After spending the last few weeks observing our caterpillars grow bigger, and change into a chrysalis and then butterflies, it was finally time to set them free so that they could go and start their life cycle again.

  The Nursery children went down to the woodland area and set two of our butterflies free, and the Reception children went into the Early Years garden. We were able to hold the butterflies for a short time before they flew away. 

   

  

• Year 2 fun - Rabbits, plants and flowers!

  Mon 09 May 2016 Mrs Rodger

  Year 2 had a visit from some rabbits. We learnt about how to care for animals and had the opportunity to ask the owner some questions.

   

  In Science the parents came in to explore plants and which food comes from plants. We tried different foods and rated them out of ten.

   

  A local florist donated some flowers to Year 2. We used them as a focus for our drawing in art and to dissect in science.

• Samba comes to Ranelagh.

  Tue 03 May 2016 Miss Felgate

  On 3^rd of May we had a visit from Jim Bernardin who runs the World Music Workshops.  He came to teach us all about Samba, the sounds of South American music and the massive carnival they are played at in Rio, Brazil. 

  We started the day with a whole school assembly where Jim played us a range of musical styles from around the world which had everyone moving and clapping along in no time!

  When it was time for our class session we learnt about beats and rhythms and how important it is to play and work as a team so we could play as a samba band.  We were able to explore and play instruments such as the Caixa (marching snares) the surdo (bass drums) and the agogos (two-pitched bells) to name a few. 

  We had so much fun singing, dancing and playing some amazing songs and rhythms, what a fantastic day!

  

• ITFC visit.

  Sat 30 Apr 2016 Mrs Hopper

  On 30^th of April 30 children from Ranelagh primary school went to watch a football match at Ipswich Town football ground. This was a reward for the children from Year 3, 4 and 5. Those children have made accelerated progress in English or Maths, some of them in both.

  It was fantastic match. Ipswich Town were playing against MK Dons and Ipswich won 3:2! We saw a penalty as well…

  What a game, what an experience!

  

• Farm visit for Year 3.

  Thu 21 Apr 2016 Mrs Seager
  On Thursday 21st April year 3 visited the Suffolk Farm Fair at Trinity Park. We all had an amazing time holding chicks, going on a tractor ride, watching bird displays, trying lots of different fruits and vegetables, tasting honey and learning about the air ambulance. 

  

• Easter in the Orthodox Church.

  Wed 23 Mar 2016 Mrs Venners

  As part of our Easter celebrations this year, we spent an afternoon learning about Christian Orthodox Easter.  In KS1 and KS2, the children learnt how symbols of Orthodox Easter such as Pascha baskets and pysanky eggs, express the joy of recreation and new life.  The children had an opportunity to look at what a Pascha basket would contain.  They also designed and painted their own pysanky eggs.  A Russian Orthodox priest also came in to school to talk to the children about how Easter is celebrated in his church.

  

• Hatching Chicks!

  Thu 17 Mar 2016 Miss Hyam
  Year 1 hatched 6 Rhode Island Reds from an incubator. They took 21 days to hatch and we learnt all about the life cycle of chickens. 

  

• World Book Day

  Fri 04 Mar 2016 Mr Seager
  On Friday 4th March we had a fantastic day celebrating our love of reading! The children enjoyed dressing up as their favourite book characters- even the local newspaper came to take pictures of us! The year 6 class also performed a special assembly, demonstrating why reading is so important!

• New Website Launched

  Thu 03 Dec 2015 Mr Seager

  Welcome to our brand new school website! We have created the website to keep parents up to date with school news and notices, and to showcase some of the great things our pupils are achieving. The website is extremely easy to edit by all staff at the school, so check back soon for new updates. Please let us know what you like about our website and anything we can do to improve it!

• Maths Puzzle Day!

  Mon 23 Nov 2015 Mrs Seager
  In November each class in the school had an opportunity to solve a range of challenging maths puzzles when Mrs Seager invited the 'Math Puzzle Company' into the school for a day. All the children reported that they had lots of fun trying to solve giant puzzles in teams. Take a look at a few photos from the day!