Ripon Cathedral School Update

Year 6 have produced a class portrait of King Charles III in the style of Chuck Close. They each took one section of the original picture and using oil pastels coloured concentric shapes. They made sure to use darker colours for the shaded areas of the picture and lighter colours for the highlights.

Today we had a special worship when the children across the school came together to share the work that they had been doing. We started our worship with a special Coronation Quiz. The team captains competed to see who had the best knowledge about the Royal Family and the upcoming coronation. Each team member was supported by a team staff member and at the end of the quiz Tigers were our winners.

In Year 5, we looked at the designs of British stamps and learnt that each stamp has to have the image of the monarch – usually the head – plus the value of the stamp. We investigated the Coronation Emblem, which contains the four national flowers of the United Kingdom: the daffodil; the shamrock; the thistle and the rose. Many of us included these within our stamp designs.

Reception have thoroughly enjoyed learning all about King Charles in preparation for his Coronation this weekend. The children worked together in teams to create silhouette artwork depicting one aspect of the King's life that we have learnt about. Amongst the many facts we have acquired, we were very impressed to learn that King Charles can play three instruments and is a keen landscape artist. Did you also know that he has two rescue dogs called Beth and Bluebell? We hope you like our artwork, we are very pleased with it!

To celebrate the King and Queen's coronation, Year 3 learned how to play 'God Save the King' on the Glockenspiel. They used their knowledge of staff notation to read, learn and perform the music. It has been quite the challenge to perfect their performance for the school this morning in such a short space of time. They loved playing on the glockenspiels and played with confidence and smiles on their faces.

This week in Nursery we have been learning about the Coronation of King Charles. We have been creative with making crowns and painting the portrait of King Charles. We have also been thinking about what the King may eat for his Coronation tea, making delicious meals in our role play area.

"I think the King would eat toast with chocolate spread for his Coronation tea." Robin

"I think he will have pasta with sauce and garlic bread for his tea." Rory

For the King's Coronation, Year 2 have made some lovely bunting with the union flag and a colouring of the King himself. We wrote letters of good luck to our new King and asked some questions that we wanted to find out about him - like - how heavy is your crown? How do you become a King? Are you feeling nervous for your coronation? We also designed some new pound coins as well as £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes. Finally we put together a Royal Family Tree showing all the relatives of our King.

Year 4 have been exploring how different shapes can be made with wire. They had to bend the wire to make shapes, and join the wire by twisting and looping it. The shapes they chose all celebrate the King's coronation and the finished sculptures look wonderful. Some children used smaller pieces of wire to add more detail to their sculpture. To ensure their sculptures stayed in the correct shape, we decided to glue them to some black card which is a fantastic way to showcase their amazing work! Well done Year 4! They look fantastic.

In Year 1, we have spent time this week thinking about the coronation and learning what the coronation is. We also spent some time creating union jacks through wool wrapping, linked to our current artwork. The children had a template and had to attach and wrap blue wool around it until it was covered. After, they created the cross sections of the union jack with white and then red wool. This required a lot of perseverance and teamwork, we are hoping to display our work as bunting in the classroom for the next couple of days.

We always love welcoming Open the Book into school. This week they worked with children in Year 5 to tell the story of Jesus and the marvellous picnic when he fed 5000 people with five loaves and two fish. The children enjoyed the engaging worship - particularly the interactive parts!

The children in Year 1 had a special card and flowers for Miss Dumbreck as she is going on maternity leave from today. We are all looking forward to seeing her new baby when it comes in the next few weeks.

The governors are holding a get together on Monday 22nd May, straight after drop off, in the school hall. As well as tea and coffee, there is bound to be some home baking on offer, we are sure! Under school age children are welcome too, so please do drop in for a chat.

Everyone with parental responsibility has been emailed today with details of how to order class photographs, so please do check your email inbox. A different link has been provided for each class. There will be a free “deliver to school” option open for approximately 14 days, otherwise home delivery is available for £5 postage and packing. If you need assistance, please call 01736 751555 (option 5) or click on contact on the home page of the Tempest website.

Thank you to everyone with parental responsibility who has already signed up to our new ParentApp. We sent out an email on Tuesday with full instructions and a link-up code to enable you to set up the app. Please could you look back over your emails if have not yet signed up (do let us know if you have not received the email).

Staff have already started communicating using our new messaging service. One piece of feedback you may find useful is to make sure you go to your phone settings to enable alerts for the app. This is mentioned in the instructions we emailed but is worth noting as otherwise you may not be aware that we have sent you a message. Thank you.

Monday 8th May - Bank Holiday for the King's Coronation

Tuesday 9th May - 12th May - Year 6 Statutory Test Week

Thursday 11th May - Year 4 Visit Bradford

Wednesday 17th May - Year 5 visit St. Peter's School, Leeds

Wednesday 17th May - Year 3 and Year 4 Multi-skills Festival at Outwood

Wednesday 17th May - Duck Race 5pm Fisher Green

Thursday 18th May - Cricket Festival

Monday 22nd May - Breakfast Natters in the School Hall for parents and carers (9am)

Wednesday 24th May - Year 6 Class Worship at 9am

Friday 26th May - school closes at 3.10/3.15pm for the half term break

Monday 5th June - school re-opens

Friday 9th June - Times Tables Rock Star Day

Wednesday 14th June - Year 3 Visit to The Yorkshire Park

Thursday 15th June - Sports Day

Saturday 17th June - Friends Summer Fair

Monday 19th June - 23rd June - Arts Week

Wednesday 21st June - Year 2 Visit to Whitby

Friday 23rd June - School Disco

Monday 26th June - Year 1 Visit to Yorkshire Wildlife Park

Wednesday 28th June - 30th June - Year 5 Residential to Lindisfarne

Thursday 29th June and Friday 30th June - Year 6 Bikeability

Tuesday 4th July - Early Years and Key Stage 1 Production (Afternoon and Evening)

Wednesday 5th July - Early Years and Key Stage 1 Production (Afternoon)

Thursday 6th July - Year 4 Ripon Workhouse Visit

Friday 7th July - Year 6 Leavers' Service at the Cathedral

Tuesday 11th July and Wednesday 12th July - In School Transition Days Year R - Year 5

Wednesday 12th July - Year 6 Leavers Event

Wednesday 12th July - Annual Reports

Tuesday 18th July - Key Stage 2 Production (Afternoon and Evening)

Wednesday 19th July - Key Stage 2 Production (Evening)

Wednesday 19th July - Early Years and Key Stage 1 Celebration Worship (9am)

Thursday 20th July - Key Stage 2 Celebration Worship (9am)

Friday 21st July - School Closes for the Summer

We endeavour to provide dates with suitable notice, however there may be changes to timings etc, as the term progresses.

Please check out our website by clicking the title button above for information about new opportunities to work in school. As well as the maternity cover post for Mrs Linkins, we also have a vacancy for a midday supervisory assistant. Please contact Mrs Rich in the office if you need further information.

Wednesday 17th May - Duck Race 5pm Fisher Green

Saturday 17th June - Summer Fair

Friday 23rd June - Disco

Ripon Cathedral Church of England Primary School

Email: admin@riponcathedral.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.riponcathedralschool.org.uk
Location: HG41LT, United Kingdom
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