Makewaves || YouTube || Main web site || Guestbook || Year 6 Blog ||
...............................................................................................................
On these page you will find a wide variety of media, including the films we have made, our Smileboxes, and other examples of our work throughout Riversdale. Everything has, at some point, been featured on our main school site, however here you will find the complete collection gathered together in one place. Enjoy!
........................................................................................................................
.ebsafd
Click to play this Smilebox slideshow: British Museum Trip

Year 3 paid a very interesting visit to The British Museum to learn all about The Romans and The Aztecs. They travelled by underground from Southfields to Russell Square and then walked to the museum. When they arrived at the museum they put their lunch boxes in a large cupboard and then wfound their way through the museum and upstairs to where the Roman artefacts were on show. They made sketches of some of the things in the glass cabinets including glass bowls, jewellery, statues and coins - there were some really beautiful interesting things....

The room with The Aztec artefacts in was downstairs so they walked through the museum again to find them. The room was quite dark so sketching was a bit tricky, but everyone mangaged!

Before leaving the museum there was time to go into the shop. Some bought replica Roman soldiers, others bought pens and pencils. After collecting their lunches it was time to leave the museum and go into the lovely park to eat their yummy lunches, then it was back to the station to return to school......


Click to play this Smilebox slideshow: 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.  
Enjoy the wonderful beasties!



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!




At the Car Wash


To raise money to pay for a 'new brain' that would help us continue our good work on Radiowaves (our school networking site), Year 6 had a grand car wash event! 
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!

Click here to watch the Smilebox.


Click to play this Smilebox slideshow: London Fire Brigade visit

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.


Click to play this Smilebox slideshow: Town Hall meeting the Mayor

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!


Click to play this Smilebox slideshow: Riversdale Elections
  
    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!


School website page links