Ripon Cathedral School Update

As part of the children's STEM work, each class developed products to grow their money. Every class decided on what they would create and they set up their stalls to sell to their peers and parents and carers on their special Enterprise Fair. The children really enjoyed exploring how they need to work out costs and consider the profit that can be made from sales of products and services. They had a fun afternoon and there was a wide range of products available. Well done to all the children and staff - what a super effort.

Thank you so much to everyone for their fabulous support for our recent Colour Run. We are able to reveal that we have raised over £4000 for recommended reading books. This is a wonderful amount and is already being used to order new books to improve classroom provision. Thanks again to Dagger Diving Services for their incredibly generous sponsorship. Next year we will share book lists for each class and we hope children will really enjoy delving into a good book!

The weather was much kinder this week when the Friends ran the annual Duck Race. A huge thank you to Dan, Isaac and Matt who braved the water to help the ducks swim along down the river. Thanks particularly to Wayne who worked hard on selling ducks and even ended up in the river (unintentionally) rescuing ducks who managed to sneak past our net. A great event enjoyed by all.

We started our week of worship with our last Open the Book story of the year. The team did a wonderful job of retelling the story of Daniel in the Lion's Den with a little help from six Year 3 lions. The children always enjoy the mix of drama and stories from the Open the Book team. A huge thank you to all members of Open the Book for their fabulous worships that they have presented to the children over the year.

Dr Krippner came into worship on Tuesday to tell the children all about being a chorister at the Cathedral. He also brought along some of the pipes from the Cathedral's organ to help the children understand how different sized pipes can make different pitched sounds. After the worship a number of children auditioned to be a chorister. They all did brilliantly at their auditions.

On Wednesday Sports Reach from Bethel Church came into worship. They shared information about their summer football and netball camps the children can participate in over the summer holidays. They played a quick game with the children and let them know about the competitions and events that take place at a Sports Reach camp.

On Thursday we were once again joined by a member of the Cathedral team for worship. This week they looked at finding Wally and thought about sometimes it isn't always easy to spot people who need compassion and help. But Jesus was always on the look out for those in need.

At the end of the week we had our enterprise worship! Our budding entrepreneurs promoted the products that they would be selling at the Enterprise Fair. These ranged from dog treats, to key rings and energy bars. As always we then shared the stars of the week and announced our Class Dojo winners. This week Reception won a non-uniform day. Well done Reception.

We always enjoy sharing who our Stars of the Week are in our special Celebration Worship on Friday.

Nursery

Oliver for great independent learning.

Reception

Alfie for challenging himself to explore different areas of provision and trying hard to to complete new activities.

Year 1

Ruby for her excellent ideas when brainstorming for the enterprise project.

Year 2

Felix for his incredible writing about the trip to Whitby, He used time conjunctions and amazing adjectives and included lots of details. Super.

Year 3

Phoebe for her fantastic insights into the meanings and lessons that could be taken form the 'The Fall' in RE.

Year 4

Max for being so helpful and responsible whilst making energy bars for the enterprise fair.

Year 5

Charlotte for her excellent enterprise skills in obtaining fruit through discussions with the Aldi manager! Well done.

Year 6

Freddie for showing resilience and determination when working with Mrs Mence.

For the majority of year groups the teacher assigned will remain unchanged next year. In Year 2 we will be welcoming a new teacher to the school, Miss Mayes. She is joining us from a school in Huddersfield and is very excited to be joining the Cathedral School team.

Staffing 2024 - 2025

Nursery - Mrs Powell

Reception - Mrs Linkins

Year 1 - Mrs Pitt

Year 2 - Miss Mayes

Year 3 - Mrs McIlmurray and Mrs Spencer

Year 4 Miss Brown

Year 5 - Mrs Beckett and Mrs Babington

Year 6 - Mrs Shawcross

Thank you, we have had a lot of voting envelopes returned already. Please send in your ballot paper following the instructions on the letter by Monday 1st July, thank you.

Monday 1st July - deadline to return ballot paper for parent governor election

Tuesday 2nd July - Early Years and Key Stage 1 production of the Litter Muncher (2.15pm and 6.15pm)

Wednesday 3rd July - Early Years and Key Stage 1 Production of the Litter Muncher(2.15pm)

Thursday 4th July - Year 6 go to Crucial Crew Roadshow

Tuesday 9th July - In school transition day

Wednesday 10th July - Pupil reports to be sent home

Thursday 11th July - Reception visit Newby Hall

Thursday 11th July - Year 6 Leavers Event at 6.00pm

Tuesday 16th July - Key Stage 2 Production of Return to Pantomime Planet (1.30pm and 6.30pm)

Wednesday 17th July - Early Years and Key Stage 1 Celebration Worship

Wednesday 17th July - Key Stage 2 Production of Return to Pantomime Planet (6.30pm)

Thursday 18th July - Key Stage 2 Celebration Worship

Friday 19th July - School closes for the summer holidays

Tuesday 23rd - Thursday 25th July - Oscar's summer holiday club (booking essential)

Tuesday 27th - Thursday 29th August - Oscar's summer holiday club (booking essential)

Our dates for diaries includes events that we currently have planned. As a school we try to communicate these in advance to support families, however at times dates and times can change due to a range of circumstances. We will add more dates over the term so please do check each week for new events.

Email: admin@riponcathedral.n-yorks.sch.uk
Website: www.riponcathedralschool.org.uk
Location: HG41LT, United Kingdom
Phone: 01765 602355
Facebook: facebook.com/riponcathschool
Twitter: @riponcathschool