Week beginning 11/9/23 | School Council Elections | In individual classrooms | Whole school | Children have the chance to run for the position of School Council Rep. 2 children are elected after they make speeches to the class. Votes take place in secret. |
12/9/23 | Friends: Uniform Sale | Outside school hall 08:30 – 09:15 / 15:00 – 15:15 | Whole school | Half-termly second hand uniforms have been organised by the Friends of Ridgefield. An opportunity to pick up a nearly new item of uniform, or recycle the kit your children have grown out of! |
22/9/23 | School Photos | School hall | Whole school | Brush your hair! Get that mud off your shirt! It's time for your school photo! |
Week beginning 25/9/23 | Harvest Collection | Outside the school hall | Whole school | We make an annual collection of food and produce and then donate this to a local charity. In the past we have supported Jimmy's and The Cambridge Foodbank. We will be supporting the Foodbank again this year. |
Week beginning 25/9/23 | Meet the teachers | See below for individual class teacher’s timings | Year 1 - 6 | This is a chance for you to meet your child's new teacher in their classroom. The teachers will give a short presentation about the curriculum for the coming year, as well as outline any routines that they operate in the classroom. |
26/9/23 | Flu vaccinations | Library | Whole school | We are hosting the NHS vaccination team as they offer seasonal flu vaccinations to children from all year groups. |
Week beginning 16/10/23 | English Week: Ridgefield’s 20th Birthday focus | Across the school | Whole school | Ridgefield is 20 years young this year! We will be celebrating throughout the week with a kind of mini-literature festival. |
17/10/23 | Parents evening | School hall | Whole school | A chance to meet your child's teacher one to one and discuss how your child has settled in and the progress they are making. |
18/10/23 | Parents evening | School hall | Whole school |
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21/10/23 – 29/10/23 | Half-term |
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7/11/23 | Friends: Uniform Sale | Outside school hall 08:30 – 09:15 / 15:00 – 15:15 | Whole school | Half-termly second hand uniforms have been organised by the Friends of Ridgefield. An opportunity to pick up a nearly new item of uniform, or recycle the kit your children have grown out of! |
10/11/23 | Remembrance Service | 11:00 in the Courtyard | Whole school | Our annual act of Remembrance. Poppies will be on sale before the event itself. We observe a 2 minutes silence and members of Year 6 read poems. |
Week beginning 13/11/23 | Anti-bullying week | Across the school | Whole school | A week of events focussed on this really important message. |
13/11/23 | Odd Sock Day | Children’s feet | Whole school | Children wear odd socks (i.e. 2 different ones, not ones that are a bit peculiar!) to show their solidarity with anti-bullying. |
17/11/23 | BBC Children In Need | Across the school | Whole school | Annual Pudsey-related antics! |
25/11/23 | Ridgefield Winter Fair | School Hall | Whole school | Watch out! It's back! For the first time in years, Ridgefield will be holding a Winter Fair again this year. |
8/12/23 | Reindeer Run | Field | Whole school | Raising money for Arthur Rank Hospice, we don antlers and run around like crazy things all morning. |
11/12/23 | Flu vaccinations | Library | Whole school | We are hosting the NHS vaccination team as they offer seasonal flu vaccinations to children from all year groups. |
Week beginning 11/12/23 | Christmas performances | School Hall (specific performance times to be agreed) | Nursery – Year 2 | I'm not sure what they are, or when they are specifically, but we will be performing something for your delight this winter! Performances will take place during the school day (with at least one in the morning and one in the afternoon) and there will be plenty of opportunity to come along and be mesmerised by your children! |
18/12/23 | Christmas Day Lunch | School Hall | Whole school | The children experience the full festive traditional meal with their friends in the school hall. |
19/12/23 | Visit to the pantomime | The Cambridge Arts Theatre | Years 1 – 6 | Oh no they aren't! Oh yes we are! We are taking (nearly) the whole school to the Pantomime again this year. This year the Cambridge Arts Theatre is putting on Mother Goose, so this will be a chance for everyone from Year 1 to Year 6 to go to the theatre!
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