The RPS blog

On the 25th. February, Rayleigh Primary School played Grove Wood Primary School away. It was a well contested game and t wo great goals by Archie Ambrose and a great penalty save by Brayden Burton gave Rayleigh the edge.  The end result was a 2-0 win for Rayleigh. Overall an amazing team performance !!!

          Dear parents,                     Please see the below flyer for an exciting new Easter activity being held at Rayleigh Primary School. More information can be obtained via the below link to the Kidz Camp website. www.kidzcamp.co.uk     

On Monday 22nd. February Year 6 netball team visited Glebe Primary School to play a league match. Our team started strongly with Fern scoring three goals in the first quarter. We continued to play well throughout the next three quarters to win 9 goals to 1. Well done to Isabelle, Alex, Robyn, Lily, Darcey, Zoe and Fern

                                                                      This Weeks School Award is presented for Best Research Homework.                                                                                                     Well done to all the nominees.

We ran a French c afé with the assistance of Miss Pouteau. We had to buy items from the  c afé by speaking French which included Bonjour Un Croissant Un pain a u chocolat Un biscuit S'il vous plaît                                                                                      Merci                                                                                   Au revoir                                     It was a great day and we managed to raised £204 for UNICEF                                                                   Use this link for more  Photographs

The Three Day Nanny    (Please use the above link for more information) RE: Channel 4 Television Show Dear Mums and Dads,     I’m writing to you to let you know that we are currently producing the third series of Channel 4’s The Three Day Nanny’. In case you missed the last two series, here’s brief summary of the show: The Three Day Nanny is a six-part series for Channel 4, offering expert help to parents. The programme is fronted by childcare expert Kathryn Mewes.  Kathryn has over 20 years’ experience of working with children and families (14 years as a Norland Nanny) and is a bestselling parenthood book author. The show follows Kathryn as she offers to help families who are struggling with common parenting challenges. She deals with everything from fussy eating and toddler tantrums through to difficult bed time routines.  Whatever the problem, Nanny Kathryn works closely with parents and children to offer bespoke trouble-shooting advice. We are cu

Year 6 investigating Circuits and Shadow Puppets Use this link for further photographs

Year 6 Children's research about dissecting and naming parts of a plant in science.

Please see below details of specific events being held at Braintree museum during the half term.

As part of French day 5JB have been studying impressionism and Monet.  Some of our efforts can be seen here.

Rayleigh Primary School children participated in, Forza Und 15's League Karate Championships (www.forzakarate.com) at the School Hall on Saturday Feb 6th. Well done to RPS Children who won many medals and Trophies..

Healthy School Status

Reception have been researching bears and as part of the module have collected approx 500 milk bottles to build an igloo in the classroom. Hopefully it will be stronger than last years.

This Weeks School Award is presented for Solving A Challenging Problem. Well done to all the nominees.

Over the last few weeks, the children in our Ladybirds and year 6 classes have been using a Skype session with other European countries to share a music lesson. The lesson involves singing a song to the school we are Skyping with, sometimes in their own language ! The children also ask questions between the two schools about their daily school routine and this has proved to be very informative. Please use the below link to see more photographs or m ore Erasmus project photographs can be found on our website front page under the 'Media Gallery' tab The Skype connection between Ladybirds and Croatia