Ramsgate Arts Primary School

Pupils’ Passionate Public Speaking Challenge

For The Better Of The World, We Should Change…was the thought-provoking and challenging theme that children explored in the first annual Viking Academy Trust public speaking competition. The theme tested pupils at each of the Trust schools – Upton Junior, Chilton Primary and Ramsgate Arts Primary – who held a range of heats to select speakers who presented their arguments to their schools to select the top three from each...

Let the Trust Games Begin

Pupils are taking part in the first ever Viking Academy Trust summer games in Thanet all this week. The contest features children from each of the Trust schools – Upton Juniors in Broadstairs, Ramsgate Arts Primary, and Chilton Primary School at Pegwell – competing in mixed teams. It means the individual ‘house colours’ from each school are combining to face each other just for this sporting challenge. Each...

New Outdoor Learning Centre is Awesome Say Pupils

An outdoor learning centre is the latest addition to Ramsgate Arts Primary in its first year since opening its new school complex. Parents and children enjoyed a picnic lunch on the all-weather grass after an official ribbon-snipping ceremony by pupils heralded the multi-use facility officially ‘open’. Children then had the chance to test out the many and varied learning and play stations that will be used for a range of activit...

Celebrating Diversity from Around the World

Global traditions and beliefs ranging from Maori warriors to Chinese dragon art have been explored by children at Ramsgate Arts Primary School. Pupils worked in mixed age groups in teacher-led workshops to celebrate World Day for Cultural Diversity, initiated by UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. Here is a taster of their programme for the day. Texan line dancing - pupils learnt about the origin...

Thank you to the entire 'RAPS family' for your support across this week. We look forward to sharing our first Ofsted report with you very soon!

Dynamic Duo Inspire Young Artists

The adventures of crime fighters Batman and Robin have been inspiring the creative talents of pupils at Ramsgate Arts Primary School. The superheroes lives in Gotham City have been put under the microscope by young artists who have been challenged to come up with their own artistic interpretation of the dynamic duo from comic books, television and film. Art leader Mike Brown said: “It really caught the imagination of the children...

Author Launches Literacy Festival

Ramsgate Arts Primary School was holding its first literacy festival.  The week-long event celebrates books, stories, the many and varied styles and types of writing, artwork and illustrations, and reinforces creativity and communication skills.  Children’s book illustrator Charlotte Cooke launched the festival with a special assembly on Monday (February 26) and she held a series of creative writing workshops with all y...