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Riversdale Primary School provides
a happy, stimulating learning environment where every child is valued.
We seek to develop the attitudes, skills and knowledge which will help
pupils achieve their true potential through praise, encouragement and
high expectation of work and behaviour.
We aim to:
Provide
a broad and balanced curriculum with a sound grounding in the basic
skills of literacy and Numeracy together with the independence and
confidence to apply these skills.
Foster lively, enquiring minds and enthusiasm for learning by treating children as individuals and building on their success.
Make
children feel valued and respected so they can be confident and secure;
willing to seek help in the understanding that overcoming difficulty is
part of the learning process.
Develop,
through example and explanation, a sense of responsibility, self
discipline and respect – for one another, the school and community.
Show the importance of socialising and collaborating with sensitivity, consideration and humour.
Encourage aesthetic and spiritual awareness.
Allow children, staff, parents, governors and the community to share in our achievements
and take pride in our school.
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Where is Riversdale on the planet?
Featuring the beautiful singing voices of the children, the film explores the feeling of unity and the specialness of Riversdale, and shows you whereabouts on the planet we are!
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Riversdale have a wonderful 'station' on the schools networking website 'Radiowaves'. Named as Radiowaves 'Best Primary School 2011' our students can sign up as 'reporters', write stories and blogs, and see what other schools are doing. Radiowaves - safe school podcasting, video and blogs for young people to report on their world. Click on the 'Hello' to visit our station!
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Supporter to Reporter trip
They
say that the early bird catches the worm, and it is also true that the early
journalist catches the scoop. So at 0630, three bright eyed Year 6 students and
two bleary eyed adults met at Southfields underground station to become
reporters for the morning.
Riversdale has just been named a
Champion School of Radiowaves for 2011, the safe online community for school
pupils, and the excellent sports reporting by some of Year 6 resulted in the
school being selected for the one place made available to junior reporters at a
press event relating to the unveiling of the Olympic rings at St Pancras
station. Click on the picture to watch the video!
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Riversdale Primary School celebrated the Royal Wedding in style. Over the Easter holidays, the children and their families designed and made wedding carriages. These were extremely detailed and decorative, and whilst most were doll sized, two children actually came to school in theirs! All the children arrived at school dressed as princes and princesses from around the world and had royal wedding themed lessons. In the afternoon, there was a “street party” in the playground which had been decorated with bunting, balloons and Union flags. Even the party food was red, white and blue! Games included pin the tail on the corgi and traditional country dancing. Click here to read a Radiowaves story about the day - and watch our THREE great Smileboxes of our wonderful celebrations (photos and music, links under the story).
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Riversdale Media The Riversdale Digital Elf has been hard at work creating our online media library! Here you will find all our visual media collected together in one place - Smileboxes, videos, wordles etc. Enjoy exploring and viewing those visual delights you may have missed the first time round and look forward to seeing many more .....
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Riversdale held a Pakistan Day on 19th October 2010. All the different classes took part in activities about Pakistan.
Year 6 took part in experiencing how people felt in Pakistan and India when India was partitioned and Pakistan was created in 1947. They also did an activity where they picked traditional Asian sweets and then wrote an advert for it.
Lots of people, both children and staff, had a henna pattern painted on their hands, (for a 20p donation towards the flood relief fund) and everyone could wear Pakistani clothes or wear green and white if they wanted!
Report by Shoaib - year 6
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Ofsted Wordle
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. This is a Wordle of our Ofsted letter to parents. Try making one yourself at www.wordle.com.
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The Second World War experience
Year 6 have been learning all about WW2. We have made our own gas masks and we all experienced the rush to get to shelter when the air raid siren starts! Click on the picture to watch our Smilebox - at the end of it you can watch a short video and hear the same bombs that we did.....
Wandsworth Museum visited us and brought with them lots of interesting artifacts. Click here to read a report of what happened that day, and to watch another Smilebox of our day being historians!
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Year 6 have their own set of blog pages now - an interesting interactive site for the whole class to get involved with. Amy (year 6 teacher) often posts questions to the class (one of them being 'tell us one fascinating fact about yourself'), and the children can comment online. We hid the names of the commenteers and had a great time guessing which fascinating fact belonged to who! Click on the photo of the frog to be taken to our site.
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Bollywood Dancers
As part of the lovely assembly that Year 3 presented to the school, a team of our own pupils showed us some Bollywood style dancing. The whole assembly was full of colour and imagination, this is just one small part of it! Click here to watch the video.
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At the Car WashTo raise money to pay for a 'new brain' that would help us continue our good work on Radiowaves (our school networking site), we had a grand car wash event! Click here for the Smilebox.During one school afternoon, Year 6 had a totally great time getting rather damp, whilst cleaning cars in the staff car park at school. They cleaned and cleaned (I heard tell that Davids car was the dirtiest, and all the kids reckoned he should pay double!). Well done for everyone for taking part, and thank you to the staff who trusted us to wash your cars!
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Meeting the Mayor of Wandsworth
The Ginger Party, the Sports Party, the Happy Party, the Magic Party, the SuperHeroes Party and the Riverservative Party leaders all visited Wandsworth Town Hall to have a chat with the Mayor of Wandsworth. She had heard all about our amazing elections in school, and invited us over to sit with her in the 'Mayors Parlour' and chat and have refreshments. We shared party political themes with her, and she told us how much she had enjoyed watching our Youtube video of our election process!
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Early Years visit
The Tropical Zoo
In The Early Years we have been learning about mini beasts, so we went to visit The Tropical Zoo at Syon Park to see if we could learn more. We travelled by coach to Syon Park. On arriving at the zoo we went into a room where we could look at and hold 2 stick insects, a cockroach, a millipede, a tarantula and two lizards. They were amazing. The millipede had LOTS of legs! The spider was enormously huge.The ladies who showed them to us were very kind and answered lots of our questions.We had lunch on the grass outside the zoo. After lunch we had time to run around before we went back inside to look at the fish, turtles, snakes and other fascinating animals in the zoo. Some of the fish we saw were huge. Most of the animals we saw come from countries with a tropical climate so it was very hot inside. When we had finished, the coach was waiting to take us back to school. We were all very tired (some of us fell asleep on the coach!) because it had been a very exciting and special day for everyone. Click here to watch our lovely Smilebox - and see the wonderful beasties!
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London’s
Burning! London’s Burning! Year
2 have busy learning all about the Great Fire of London. We were
interested to know how fire fighting has changed over the years. To
find out we invited the Wandsworth Fire Brigade to our school.
It
was an exciting start to our week when four fire fighters arrived in
their bright red fire truck with the lights flashing. They told us
lots of information about their role in the community and then they
let us explore the fire truck. We were allowed to sit in the back of
the truck and wear their special helmets. They also let us play with
the big hoses.
We
had a great time and learned lots of information that you can see
displayed on our classroom walls. Thank
you to the Wandsworth Fire Brigade for taking time out of their busy
day to help us learn.
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Election Special
Click here to watch out new Youtube video, all about the engrossing Riversdale Elections. We had lots of film footage, so this is just a very small slice of the action! The Mayor of Wandsworth herself told us how much she had enjoyed watching this video, when we visited her in Wandsworth Town Hall.
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Riversdale Revels in Electrifying Election
Normally school age children find the election of a new prime minister a
boring process. Their television programmes are taken from the schedule
and instead are replaced with dry political debate. However, at
Riversdale Primary School every child is eagerly participating in the
election process. Each child wrote their own manifesto as to what their
policies would be if they were elected Prime Minister. These ranged
from Felicity in Year one stating that she would make sure that
everybody who had to go to hospital would have someone to hold their
hand, to Cate in year 6 who would personally fill in every pothole in
the country. Children elected an MP for every class and then the
hustings were held. Each MP and their team have produced banners,
posters, badges and
flyers. Every child will visit the ballot box on Thursday May 6th and
cast their vote! Will it be - the Happy Party, the Sports Party, the
Ginger Party, the Riverservatives, the SuperHero Party, the Magic Party.
We wait with debated breath!
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Maths Magic video In Year 6 we had a great time this week, singing and dancing our way through a maths lesson. As part of our work on percentages, we needed to refresh ourselves on the procedure of doing long multiplication - and we did that by 'dancing' our way through the mathematical steps we needed to take! If you want to know more, ask any member of Year 6, they will be delighted to tell you!
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Sports ReliefOn Friday 19th March, Riversdale had a great day supporting Sports Relief. We wore sporty clothes, had crazy hair, and ran a mile. It was our chance to join thousands of people as we rose to the challenge, and raised cash to change lives, and have a great time too!Click here to see our Smilebox of the day.
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Pop ups - the video
Following on from the assembly in which Yr 4 showed the school their pop up books, here we have a video of the children reading their books. They had to learn a lot of different techniques to create their books, and be very precise in the construction of them. Click here to watch the video!
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Riversdale - The Movie Year 6 storyboarded and filmed
this wonderful movie, all about Riversdale. This was our entry for the
Teaching Awards 'Film Your School' competition, which was sent off in
time for the deadline of 1st March.
Groups of children went around the school armed with video cameras,
their storyboards and their imagination, to film glimpses of life in Riversdale School.
Click here to
watch it on our YouTube channel.
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Pop Ups with Year 4
All the chidren had such a fun time making these pop up books. They used many different methods of construction to put them together, and although it was quite hard work at times, they all made fantastic books. We will be making a video, with the children showing you other pages in their books, with a demonstration of how they work!
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Flixtime FunWe have been exploring more new software this week. Flixtime.com offers a great (free) way of combining word, images, and video, into a neatly packaged entertaining presentation. In ICT lessons, year 6 explored various ways they could use Flixtime - many of them enjoying it so much they rushed home and made some more! We will be enjoying using this in future projects, as it is a great way of presenting our work throughout the variety of different topic subjects we will be covering in the curriculum. Click here to see our dedicated Flixtime page.
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Paper Mache Heaven
Yr 5 had a fantastic time making paper mache constructions around a balloon. Sandra Ruffini took some great photos of them totally engrossed in their project, although it was David (Yr 5 teacher) who stood on his desk to take the arial shots! Well done everyone - we will create another Smilebox of you when you get to paint them, and we shall enjoy seeing your finished results....
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Riversdale has its own video channel. Check out our performance poetry, animation videos, and other exciting vidoes.
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Life in Year 4
Working away in the classroom, a look at the display work, and a glimpse of the lovely book corner! Also, an interesting peek at some of the dramatic poses they get up to during...........drama!
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African Adventure
Year 2 shared some of their excellent work with us in our good work assembly on Friday morning. They have compiled a book on Africa - every child had a different letter. Here is a lovely Smilebox presentation of their hard work.
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Riversdale News - Issue 5
Click on the newspaper, right, to read the latest issue, hot off the press!
Back issues of the newspaper, and our other Smilebox presentations, can be found on the 'Our Smileboxes' page...
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