Welcome to William Ransom - we are a two-form entry (60 children per year group), state-funded, non-selective community primary school for children of Reception age (4 years old) through to Year 6 (11 years old) in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

WR is a happy, ambitious and inclusive school. Our teaching team is characterised by its dynamic, creative and caring approach. We are always seeking to learn and improve and we go the extra mile for our pupils to have the opportunity to do the same. We have a very strong sense of community here and we work hand-in-hand with our parents, as partners, to offer every child as many opportunities as we can.

We believe that enjoyment is the key to academic and personal success. We do our very best to ensure that our children enjoy their learning journey, that it inspires and comfortably challenges them. We regularly reflect on what the children are learning and why, to ensure that we are preparing our children, as best we can, for the world that awaits them and for types of employment that may not yet exist.

We want every child who attends WR to leave with strong academic achievement and high levels of self-confidence, self-worth and self-belief. We build in regular opportunities for our children to be able to engage with the world outside of school, be that through visitors to the school, trips and experiences, or competing against or collaborating with local schools. These varied experiences shape our children, but in order to take as much as they can from them, we fundamentally believe that every child has to feel as though they belong. We want every child to leave WR at the end of Year 6 having had a rich range of experiences, to have achieved a high level of academic success and to have a strong sense of belonging, that they have been listened to and heard and that staff and children at WR really know them as individuals and understand them.
 

Tony Plunkett
Headteacher