Riversdale Media

Riversdale Year 6 pupils prepare to experience the thrill of a Lion King performance, at a London Theatre. They have already created colourful pictures, written letters and watched 'behind the scenes' DVD's. This is a short trailer in anticipation of their exciting trip.

Thanks go to the school voices of Bernadette and Zunaira....and of course, everyone else at Riversdale!

  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.

As part of the lovely assembly that Year 3 presented to the school last week, a team of dancers 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.

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 eagerly participated 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 produced banners, posters, badges and flyers. Every child visited the ballot box on Thursday May 6th and cast their vote!

Was it the Happy Party, the Sports Party, the Ginger Party, the Riverservatives, the SuperHero Party, the Magic Party. We waited with debated breath!
Watch our film and find out for yourself who won..... :)