Run Ranelagh Run

A chance to watch an Olympic inspired parade at the start of Ranelagh Primary School’s annual sports day. Children will share their inspiring slogans and banners with the community, accompanied by African drumming from IROKO.

There will also be the opportunity to view the amazing art work by the pupils and created with artist and illustrator Salvatore Rubbino working with the “archive investigators”

Come and join us at Ranelagh Primary School which is a vibrant school at the centre of the community that provides opportunities like this to help every child to be the best that they can be.

This event is the end of a six-month project for Newham Heritage Month that has run throughout the school.

Eleven year 5 pupils at Ranelagh Primary School in West Ham, have been chosen to be “archive investigators” finding out all about the Olympics. These pupils, who were born in 2012, are researching how the Olympics shaped the landscape. They uncovered medals at the British Olympic Archives at UEL, sketched the Olympic Torch at Museum of London and interviewed local people about their memories working at the Games.

A beautiful work of art by the pupils and created with artist and illustrator Salvatore Rubbino working with the archive investigators will be revealed at the end of Newham Heritage Month as a lasting legacy for the project for the community in the school.

Salvatore Rubbino trained at the Royal College of Art and works from his home in Stratford as a successful children’s book illustrator. A Walk in New York, his first picture book, began as a series of paintings that was short-listed for the Victoria and Albert Illustration Awards, and was followed by A Walk In London and A Walk In Paris (published by Walker books).  These titles celebrate city living & the landmarks that make places special.

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