All pupils from the school took part in our annual Nativity Service in Ransboro Church on Thursday December 18th. Parents, grandparents and friends joined us in the church to watch the pupils retell the story of the Nativity. This year, we decided to tell the story of the birth of Jesus through verse. Interspersed with the verses, traditional and modern carols were sung. Jacob
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On Wednesday afternoon this week, all the pupils in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th class went to the hall to take part in an Advent Table Quiz. Most of the teams consisted of one pupil from each of the classes. There were eight rounds with six questions in each round. All of the questions were based on the theme of Advent, the birth of
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Pupils in The Glen have been busy helping to create some great pieces of art on our theme of Winter/Christmas. Firstly. they dipped their feet into black paint to create this great Footprint Penguins display. They really enjoyed painting with their feet! Next they cut out handprints to make this display based on the Frosty the Snowman seasonal song. They then decorated their own
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Pupils in Rang II got the opportunity to get an advance copy of the new Zig and Zag book, “The Fridge in a Denim Jacket” and do some reviews on it for the Seomra Ranga website. These are their reviews: This was a great book. It was hilarious because it had lots of jokes. I thought the speech bubbles were very funny. The pictures
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On next Saturday, November 22nd, a Fun Run/Walk will take place on the roads around Ransboro in memory of the late Don Goodwin, whose first anniversary takes place around this time. Don’s family, past pupils of the school, have organised this Fun Run/Walk in his memory and have generously decided to donate the proceeds to The Glen which houses our autism unit. The run/walk
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Many thanks to all of you who participated in the Christmas Shoebox Appeal. This is an annual event in the school which gives pupils the opportunity to give a gift to a child in a poor part of the world at Christmas, either in Eastern Europe or Africa. The appeal is organised by Team Hope every year. It was great to see such a
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Progress continues apace on the development of our new building. Parents and pupils can’t help but notice the gradual appearance of the shape of the new building on the landscape. Over the last week, work has continued on the installation of the windows and doors and the installation of the roof. The images give a brief glimpse into the interior of the building, which
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Pupils in The Glen have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes over the past couple of weeks. We learned the names of the different shapes and did some work on them. We also made some of the shapes using polydron. Today we constructed some 3D shapes using mini marshmallows and cocktail sticks. We made cubes, cuboids, square pyramids and triangular pyramids. We ate
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Oxford Reading Tree (ORT) is one of the reading schemes we use in the school for supplementary readers. With systematic phonics at its heart and ORT’s well-loved characters, it is a graded reading scheme which builds on the skills and vocabulary learned by reading books in previous levels. There is now an iPad/Android app called “Read With Biff, Chip and Kipper”. This app is
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Pupils in The Glen recently did some workshops with ceramic artist Gráinne Mc Loughlin in Breeogue Pottery. They created these decorative ceramic plates which were then glazed and fired in the kiln. They have also created, with Gráinne’s assistance, a unique sun-dial which will be displayed in the garden of the new Glen building when it is completed in the Spring of 2015. The
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