Ripon Cathedral School Update

We have all enjoyed participating in Children in Need Day today to raise funds for children facing poverty, mental health conditions and other challenges. We loved this year's theme: Gladiators! Special thanks to our sporting staff members Hurricane Harriott and Power Puff Powell who put on the sumo suits for some gladiator themed activities in our whole school worship, and to Mrs Pitt for organising the day! The school hall was filled with laughter and competitive spirit as our two sumo gladiators took part in some tricky challenges, cheered on by the children and ably compered by Paige, Piers and Joshua.

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Well done to the Year 5 children, who took part in the football tournament on Thursday, held at Boroughbridge High School. They showed great resilience and determination throughout some tough matches. Ivy-Rose was awarded a certificate for her determination throughout the tournament! We are very proud of you all!

On Monday, Year 5 delivered a respectful and educational remembrance worship. To prepare for the worship, the children discussed what they would like to include. They wanted to research and present facts about World War 1 as well as Remembrance Day. They also wanted to explore the different coloured poppies in addition to including a game and a quiz. Children were split into groups to research, come up with games, write quiz questions and write a prayer. They did a fantastic job delivering their worship to the whole school and those parents, grandparents, friends who also joined us. At 11am the whole school gathered on the playground for 2 minutes' silence to show our respect. The children did this brilliantly and were a credit to our wonderful school.

Next week is Road Safety Week and in preparation we are grateful to PCSO Wright for coming into school on Thursday to speak with our younger classes. All the children were given a reflector pack. Please can we ask parents to encourage their children to use the reflectors so they can be spotted easily on the walk to and from school now that the nights are drawing in.

Our local Zero Carbon group has sent us this message:

Walk to School Days take place once every half-term, although many schools promote good transport habits on a daily and weekly basis, to improve air quality, reduce congestion and improve pupil health and wellbeing. Our next target day is Friday 22nd November in Road Safety Week.

Please consider allowing a little more time to take part. Enjoy the opportunity to walk and talk with your child. Teach them how to keep safe and don’t forget to say thank you to all the lollipop team, school staff and community police officers making your journey to school safe.

Be a ZERO HERO and simply swap the car for your feet!

Congratulations to this week's stars who were celebrated in our worship time this morning.

Nursery - Percy for his amazing oral blending during phonics.

Reception - Oliver and Sidney for challenging themselves to complete all our Star Challenges and working with their friends to encourage them to complete the challenges too!

Year 1 - Stella for fantastic fact family number sentences!

Year 2 - Ava for her partner work this week. She has been a super team player in History. She has been sharing and taking turns to complete activities and tasks with other members of the class. Well done Ava.

Year 3 -Rafi for a much improved attitude towards his learning and becoming more positive in lessons. Keep it up - we are proud of you!

Year 4 - Harvey for having a positive attitude in Maths and being a great helper to Miss Haslam!

Year 5 - Paige for her excellent resilience during our reading session when finding evidence from the text to answer questions. Well done!

Year 6 - Paige, Piers and Joshua for being great role models to the rest of the school and being a great help to Miss Haslam and Mrs Pitt!

We will report in more detail next week as Year 6 are still in London until later today, but we are delighted to let you know that the visit started well. On Wednesday they enjoyed looking at the fantastic artwork in the National Gallery, met a beefeater at The Tower of London and all went on the London Eye. Thursday's many activities included visiting the Houses of Parliament and the West End show Mrs Doubtfire.

Tempest Photography

Proofs have now been emailed out. Please be sure to order by the end of next week to get free delivery to school in time for Christmas.

Week commencing 18th November - Road Safety Week

Wednesday 20th November - Cross Country Championship

Thursday 21st November - Year 3 visit to Hindu Temple in Bradford

Friday 22nd November - Walk to School Zero Carbon Day

Thursday 28th November - Friends' Christmas Fair (in the school hall 3.00-4.30pm)

Tuesday 3rd December - Econ Goldie the Gritter Event (Year 6)

Wednesday 4th December - Year 4 Sound Day

Tuesday 10th December - 9am Reception and KS1 Superstars Worship

Wednesday 11th December - School Christmas Dinner, Christmas Jumper Day and Parties

Thursday 12th December - 9am KS2 Superstars Worship

Friday 13th December - Friends of the School Christmas Disco

Thursday 19th December- 1.30pm Nativity in the Cathedral

Friday 20th December - Break up for Christmas

Monday 6th January - Training Day

Tuesday 7th January - Return to school

The Friends of the School are kindly running the Christmas Fair again this year. A lot of stalls are already booked and there will be games for the children too (and maybe a visitor in red!). Please come along on Thursday 28th November - school hall 3.00 to 4.30pm.

If you are able to donate any children's books for the ever popular book tombola, please can they brought into the school office. Another big fundraiser at the event is the hamper raffle. Each class has its own theme and if you are able to bring in donations for the hamper, it would be much appreciated. These donations will be collected in the classrooms. Themes are as follows:

Nursery- Christmas

Reception- Sweet Shop

Year 1- Toyshop

Year 2- Yorkshire

Year 3- Indulgence

Year 4- Best of British

Year 5- Around the world

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