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Hubble Bubble Halloween Potions
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 8:07pm
The spooky fun continued this week as we created halloween potions and held relay races to explore and compare capacity cauldrons. There were a lot of witches and spiders in the school today!
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 8:02pm
To learn about how people celebrate Halloween, we had lots of fun bobbing for apples this afternoon. It's very tricky and we needed to be patient and also very careful. Holding the apple in your teeth at the end was both funny and very rewarding.
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 7:57pm
You don't know about Go Noodle? Where have you been? Even our grown-ups come in for a physical session to start our day on Friday Challenge Day. By doing Go Noodle activities we help to make our minds and bodies grow up healthy and happy.
To sign up for free click here and get earning rewards for your champ.
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 7:44pm
After our first sports day was cancelled due to the fabulous Manchester weather, we finally got to show off our physical skills to our parents this morning. We have been practicing with our teachers so we could run the relay, complete the obstacle course, play the parachute game and ride the bike track using imagination and skill and of course doing so safely. Oh and don't foret the amazing fun run our adults joined us for at the end! Afterwards, we invited our grown-ups in to cool down in front of the whiteboard with a mindfulness Go Noodle session.
Find fun indoor active sessions and mindfulness sessions click here to sign up for free.
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 7:35pm
When we are learning, our teachers think it important that we have choices about how we create representations of objects we are learning about. This week we have we spent time choosing from lots of different craft activities. We could choose to create a leaf owl, a popcorn tree, a harvest hen and a clay hedgehog. Some of us chose to make all of these things! We also decided it would be good for us to display some our our work too, on the seasons board in Miss Wolfenden's classroom.
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 7:26pm
On Fridays we are very lucky to have Sean visiting us. He plays games and helps us to use our imaginations to improve our Physical Development skills. The best bit is that even if it's raining, we don't stop our sessions because of our awesome new Physical area. Take a look at some of the games we played today.
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 7:21pm
To continue our healthy food choices, today we created our own Autumn Salad by tasting and talking about what we had eaten. We were very adventurous, trying new and interesting foods that we don't usually eat at home. This is an important part of our learning - to try new things and have a go.
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 7:09pm
Today we created a yummy and healthy favourite - Harvets Soup! Using a variety of seasonal vegetables and some seriously safe knife skills we cut, cooked and then ate our very own creation. You can see how much we loved it. If you want to know how, just pop in to class and ask us 
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 6:59pm
We'd just like to say a great big thank you to all of our amazing parents who came in this week to find out how to help us read at home. We love to read and now we will be able to share our love of reading very soon at home too.
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 5:18pm
My first ever blog. Watch this space for my weekly update.
What an amazing afternoon I have had today teaching maths in year 6.
The children worked really hard to secure their understanding of negative numbers.
I wonder what we will succeed at next week????????????
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 4:52pm
How long would it take you to complete the blank multiplication square? We are working on developing our multiplication fluency this year and this challenge is a great way to practice!
Have a go at home!
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 4:52pm
We have been investigating bridges as part of our CC topic.
For our lauch we were given this brief:
Which of our bridges do you think worked?
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 4:49pm
We had a story delivered to our school by a secret visitor. We read the book and it was all about Daddy bear being kept awake by lots of different sounds. We thought maybe we had been given this book because we have been learning all about our sounds.
We acted out all the different sounds in the book. Can you guess what action we are doing?
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 4:48pm
In year 4 we are having a real push on children learning their times tables and division facts and we need your help at home! We are starting with 4,8,3 and 6. Please try and learn them at home and include the division facts. The children need to be really quick when they recall the facts. We will be having 10 minute practice times every day in school and a test each Friday where they will be able to achieve a bronze, sliver or gold level certificate. Remember repetition is the key! Keep on learning.
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 4:44pm
Have a look below at 5HC's amazing reasoning with area. They worked out that in order to solve the problem they needed to find the area of the different squares.
For example a square with 4cm sides would have an area of 16cm2.
After that they worked out the area that the rectangle would be and then put some squares together to find possible lengths of the side of the rectangle. They knew they had to be able to divide the total area by the length of a side exactly, and checked that.
Oliver said "When we put the 15x15 square next to the 18x18 square we got a length of 33cm and found this was a factor of the total area and that the other side had to be 32 cm, so we rearranged the squares until we had made that rectangle"
Have a look at our solutions!
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 4:44pm
We have been thinking about how to make our sentences super!
We know we need:
A capital letter
Finger spaces
Segment the sounds (use our phonics)
Get a sound mat to help
Stretch out all of the sounds
Full stop
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 4:44pm
This term we are going to be learning about Nelson Mandela in our Connected Curriculum lessons, so to get us prepared we have been listening to the song 'Nelson Mandela' by the Specials and have been creating our very own dance moves to match.
Can you make a bridge using spaghetti and marshmallows?
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 4:33pm
We had great fun launching our new topic, "Why are bridges built in different ways?" last week.
The challenge was to build a bridge - using only spaghetti and marshmallows - that could hold the weight of the car for at least 10 seconds without falling over. Have a look at the photos to see how successful we were! (answer: not very!!)
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 4:31pm
FIRE! FIRE!
In 1666 there was a huge fire which destroyed most of London. We learnt it started in a bakery on pudding lane.
For our launch we made bread. It was delisious, maybe we will all be bakers when we are older.
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 4:31pm
This year at Ravensbury we are thinking about developing our times tables. We will be practising our tables in a variety of different ways. One of the ways we can practise is by using a range of online games and activities.
Click on the links below to practice! All of the activities work on a laptop, some may not work on a tablet.
In Year 3, we are learning the 3, 4 and 8 times tables and revisiting the 2, 5 and 10 times tables from Year 2.
Hit the button
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Mental Maths Train
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train
Coconut multiples
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples
Daily 10
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Maths Fishing
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/306/Maths-Fishing-Multiplication
Tommy’s Trek
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/318/Tommys-Trek-Times-Tables
Magical Maths Mission
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/383/Marlons-Magical-Maths-Mission-Multiplication
Connect 4 Factors
http://www.transum.org/Software/Game/Connect4/
Sum Sense
http://coolsciencelab.com/sum_sense_multiplication.html
Number Fact Families
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 4:29pm
We've been learning all about the parts of the body. We had to stick labels on our friends for each part of the body. It was so funny!
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 4:26pm
We have been investigating the area and perimeter of different shapes. Have a look at the problem below and try to solve it! We will show you our reasoning in a later blog!
Nine squares with side lengths 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15 and 18cm can be fitted together with no gaps and no overlaps, to form a rectangle.
What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 4:24pm
This year we have been practising tricky words during our phonics lessons, we have really enjoyed listening to songs to help us learn how to spell.
If you want to help us with our spellings at home the links to our favourite songs are on this page.
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 4:21pm
To launch our Mayan topic we tried some typical Mayan food. The children were really brave and even tried the chillies that were on offer! The enjoyed the chocolate even though it was dark. They were excited to find out that he Mayans were so in favor of corn that they even had their own corn god! 
Why Can't we Just Eat Chocolate?
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 4:21pm
We asked 'Why Can't we Just Eat Chocolate?' to help the children in Year 2 learn about taking care of their bodies.
We launhced our topic with chocolate tasting and learning where chocolate came from.
The children learned about what to eat and comapred the sugar in popular foods. They experimented with exercise and learned about the impact on our bodies. They even made their own fitness videos!
The children learned about keeping themselves rested and clean as part of a healthy lifestyle. We went back in time to learn how Florence Nightingale changed hospitals.