Ripon Cathedral School Update
Week ending Friday 15th May
Friendship Messages from Year 5
Year 5 friendship messages
Friendship Worship - The Paralysed Man
Open the Book
The Blessing KIDS
Opening the school for more children
We are working hard on our school risk assessment and staff are fully engaged in supporting me in working out how to ensure that whatever we put in place will minimise risk, allowing groups of children to safely return.
I will write to parents and carers again next week with further information about our progress.
Thank you again for your on-going understanding and support. It is very much appreciated.
Mr Holmes
Creating natural art
Fabulous Home Learning
A Message of Hope
Olivia has typed the following message for you about what she learnt when talking to her Great Grandma about VE Day. Well done Olivia, what an inspiring conversation and thank you for sharing it with us all.
On VE Day I spoke to my Great Grandma about the war. She said she was 13 when the war started and she lived in Sheffield which was bombed quite heavily. My Grandma's school was a Grammar school and was right in the centre of Sheffield, it was one of the only buildings that didn't get bombed and remained standing right in the centre. We talked about homeschooling and the work that I have been doing during lockdown and how it all works. Great Grandma said it was too dangerous to go to school during the bombings so she told me about their homeschooling in the war. If you lived in a big house that had a spare room then a teacher would come and use that room to teach a small group of children. You got to go once a week. She said she enjoyed seeing her friends but missed going to proper school. My Great Grandma was a teenager and was able to get her qualifications using this homeschooling. However she signed up at age seventeen and a half and joined the hundreds of Sheffield women serving their country during the war.
While she was speaking I realised how she felt is similar to some of the feelings we have now because we are not seeing our friends and neither was she when the war was going on. We don't have the same kind of danger or fear because it is not a war we are fighting now, it's a disease. I feel lucky I have my family around me whereas children in the war will have seen their immediate families split up as men and older brothers went off to fight.
I believe that we can all get through this like my Great Grandma and everyone else did in the war. We may be nervous but we are all safe and have our families. Great Grandma said hope got them through it and we all have hope.
I hope that you are well and we get to see each other at school again soon.
Olivia (Year 4)
Care Provision
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Provision should only be used where it is essential and necessary and we would not expect a child to be sent into school if a key worker is able to work from home, or if another adult is working at home.
Friends Virtual Duck Race
This year the race will be put on slightly differently due to the current situation.
Lily has been working hard on trying to keep events running as much as they can and she has managed to find a website that does Virtual Duck Races!
So this year we will hold a few races with 20 ducks in each race for 2 minutes long.
You can still pick your duck number and even pick as many ducks as you want for each race.
Good luck everyone, and thanks Lily!
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