Ramsgate Arts Primary School

The Gentle Touch Means So Much

Children are helping to soothe each other with basic massage techniques at Ramsgate Arts Primary School. The serene sessions have become a favourite with pupils in Reception and Year 1 who have learned a number of basic ‘gentle touch’ elements. Under guidance from staff, they apply their hands-on system to one another at varying times of day, notably after break and after lunch. Seated and against a back drop of tranquil ambi...

RAPS Urges Parents to Keep Children Safe Online

Ramsgate Arts Primary School is urging parents not to let their young children have access to social media. As part of the school’s ongoing e-safety campaign, Head of School Nick Budge has written to families appealing to them to support the school’s stance on unrestricted use and to make sure that children do not go online to any site that is not age appropriate. It follows a survey among Year 6 pupils about their social media...

Inspirational Literacy Festival

Children have explored and enhanced their love of the spoken and written word in the second annual Literary Festival at Ramsgate Arts Primary School. A packed week of activities and learning has seen pupils of all ages engage with a range of workshop sessions hosted by visiting authors as well as creating their own stories and poems. One of the most popular features of the festival was reading books by torchlight in the darkened main hall...

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From Idea to Showtime in Six Hours

Children at Ramsgate Arts Primary have created a mini musical that spotlights the creation of their school. Working with the arts curriculum support team, from Years 3 to 6 took up the challenge to create a ‘play in a day’ – and their own story was the one that inspired them the most. In workshop sessions they decided on a storyline and dialogue, worked out dance moves and stage positions, and decided what music would be m...

Charity Boost from RAPS Numbers Day and Cake Sale

Can you crack a code, create a graph showing world pollution levels, make 3D shapes, and explore the history of Egyptian numbers? These were just a few activities in a packed programme of Maths sessions enjoyed by pupils at Ramsgate Arts Primary School who took part in their first national NSPCC Number Day. A structured programme of learning ran across all year groups all day, co-ordinated by RAPS Maths Wizard Hayden Stevens, resplendent in...