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Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 3:55pm
Hello!
We had amazing week last week in Year 2 which ended with our fantastic trip to Portland Basin Museum. The children started their day in a 'Put to Work' Victorian workshop where Hannah the housemaid. The children immersed themselves in role play, pretending they were working as cleaners in an estate home, in the coal mines and in a cotton workhouse. The children were shocked when they learnt that Victorian children had to do such tough jobs such as picking for coal in the mines, scrubbing floors and having to quickly get under cotton machines, all for a 25p wage or less!
Following the workshop, we were able to walk through the Victorian street. The children were able to dress up, play with Victorian toys and explore a Victorian school room with playground, a green grocers, fish and chip shop, dressmaker's, Doctor's surgery, chapel and pub. The children had a lot of fun in the classroom, learning the Victorian school rules and comparing how different school is today. It was lovely to see the children exciting in their learning and applying what they have learned in their activity booklets. Take a look at some of the photos below to see what we got up to!
Miss Hindle :)
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Date: 30th Mar 2025 @ 6:22pm
Happy Mother's Day to all of you mums!
The childtren and I hope that you like your mother's day cards and have a lovely day on Sunday!
Date: 30th Mar 2025 @ 12:21pm
This term the children have been learning about Queen Victoria and as part of the learning the children visited Portland basin in Ashton to find out what is was like to live in Victorian times. During the day, the children got to explore a victorian town, dress up in Victorian clothing, find out what it was like to learn in a victorian school, explore victorian artefacts and what it was like to work in as a child in victorian times.
The children were shown how to cook and clean. They were told not to give eye contact ad keep their heads down when an adult was speaking to them. Some of the children were very scared.
They experienced what it was like to work in the mills and in the coal mines. All the children worked hard because they didn't want to a nail in their ears for poor work!
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They looked closely at artefacts. They described them and then had a go at working out what they were and what they were used for.
They loved pretending to live in victorian times
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They all had a wonderful time and learned so much!
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Wolfenden
Date: 30th Mar 2025 @ 11:59am
This week, we have been learning about 3d shapes and have used 2d shapes to make them. We have been identifying, naming and sorting the shapes and then using the correct mathematical vocabulary to describe them. It has been tricky, however as the week as progressed the children have become better and better at describing thier properties.
The children used sentence stems and the hard to read and hard to spell words from the working wall to help them.
This is how they described their shapes.
This is a cube. It has 6 square faces. It has straight sides and It has vertices. It has squared cornered vertices. It has no sharp points.
They found 3d shapes in the environment and talked about the shapes that they could see in school and at home.
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Wolfenden
Mother's Day and fun with fractions!
Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 3:48pm
Year 5 have had fun this week applying their times table knowledge in order to simplify fractions, it's a tough one but they've all worked really hard to get the method right.
In preparation for Mother's Day this weekend, they have had the opportunity to make cards to bring home and they look amazing!
Date: 27th Mar 2025 @ 2:44pm
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Date: 25th Mar 2025 @ 5:17pm
This weekend will mark the end of Ramadan and the beginning Eid celebrations around the world. To mark the occasion and to celebrate in our own Ravensbury way we were visited by Faz. Faz brought along his violin and his amazing beatboxing talents and shared them with the children in a very exciting assembly. The sounds of beatboxing were echoing around the building all day!
This afternoon, Year 1 and Year 5 were lucky enough to have a beatboxing workshop with Faz. It has been a great day and the children have really looked up to Faz as an inspirational muslim person coming to our school!
Which will material will be waterproof for Bunting's umbrella?
Date: 23rd Mar 2025 @ 8:10pm
In science this week we have been testing out different materials to see which one would be suitable for Bunting's umbrella from the story 'Lost in the Toy Museum.' We used learnt how to pipettes and a few different materials and tested them by dropping water on each one.
We went through the science investigation process by predicting which material would be waterproof, carrying out the investigation using the correct equipment, gathering the results and discussed what we found out.
We found out that foil or plastic would be the most suitable materials to use for Bunting's umbrella!
Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 5:34pm
It's Red Nose Day!
Everyone looked amazing their red clothes today, some with their red noses on too. We did some fun activities at the end of the day such as designing our own red nose, making some fantastic face masks and some children even organised their own cake sale! We had an amazing time.
Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 5:31pm
Year 4 have been fantastic this week doing their assessments. We know that these assessments can be quite tricky but they have tried their best and have done an amazing job! We are looking forward to speaking to grown ups about their progress next week.
Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 4:35pm
Nursery had a fun filled challenge Friday!
We created a face with a red nose, played musical statues and the 'keepy uppy' game with red balloons.
Enjoy looking at some of our Red Nose Day photos🔴☺️
Year 5’s Fun-Filled Red Nose Day!
Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 2:32pm
Year 5 had a fantastic time celebrating Red Nose Day, raising money for charity while having lots of fun! The children wore red accessories and funky noses, took part in fun games and challenges, and even shared jokes to spread laughter. They learned about the importance of helping others and how their donations make a difference. It was a day full of kindness, fun, and smiles! ❤️
Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 1:14pm
Year 5 had an exciting science-meets-cooking lesson, making delicious smoothies using dry ice and fruit juice! As they poured the juice over the dry ice, a cool mist swirled around, creating a magical effect. The children learned about states of matter and how dry ice turns straight from a solid to a gas. It was a fun, hands-on experience, and the smoothies tasted amazing too!
Date: 18th Mar 2025 @ 3:15pm
This week in science, year 3 have been learning all about the role the stem plays in plants. We learnt that it is the xylem that is reponsible for helping transport water through the stem of the plant, but we wanted to see how well it worked.
In order to test the xylem, we added blue food colouring to a jug of water that contained tulips. To our surprise and delight, the petals of the tulips turned blue!
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 4:08pm
We had a very special delivery come into nursery on Monday!
Our very own Hungry caterpillars!
We have enjoyed watching them grow over the week. We discussed how they hached from an egg and what we predict to happen next from learning all about the life cycle of a butterfly.
We are all very excited to see them turn into beautfiful butterflys!
We even thought of some names for them so please enjoy looking at some pictures of Keith, Chris, Cookie, Wriggle and Grey!
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 12:32pm
This week the children have been noticing signs of Spring! They spent time looking for buds, new flowers and plants in the garden.
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 12:26pm
The children celebrated pancake day by having a flip the pancake competition, singing the pancake song and making their own delicious pancakes.
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 12:15pm
The children celebrated Valentine's Day by making different valentines crafts and gifts for their loved ones. They used their phonics skills to read and follow instructions. The children loved Valentine's Day and talking about all of the people in their families and lives who they love very much!
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 11:05am
This week in school we have been celebrating British Science Week. This year's theme was all about change and adapt. On Wednesday we had a visitor called Katje who came from Science Boffins and started the day with an amazing assembly. She showed us some investigations and explained the science behind them. We saw water that changed into foam, exploding liquids and liquids that turned into a solid! It was lots of fun!
Back in the classroom we discussed proeprties of materials and went on a hunt. Then we thought about how some materials can change into a solid and conducted a freezing liquids experiment. We predicted which liquids would freeze and then put them in the freezer for one day. Then we looked at each container to find out the results!
British Science Week - Change and Adaptation!
Date: 13th Mar 2025 @ 12:02pm
Hello
This week we have celebrated British Science Week. On Wednesday, we spent the day celebrating Science and all of the amazing things that we have been learning.
We started the morning with a Science Boffins assembly where we learned all about hydrogels that absorb water and make it 'disappear' as well as experiments with household items such as washing up liquid.
In class, we have been learning all about living things and their habitats. We finished our morning by completing our habitat investigations, investigating the rainforest habitat and the animals that live there. The children chose different rainforest animals and drew these in their books, labelling the different features and how these help the animals to survive.
In the afternoon, we then made all of our different habitats. We used sand to create the Sahara desert, water to create the ocean, broccoli to make trees for our rainforest and even made our own snow for the Artic. The children then used different materials and tools such as play-doh and lego to make the different animals and features of the different habitats. The children were all so absorbed in the activites and really used their learning to discuss and create the habitats. Look at the photos below of our Ocean, Artic, Rainforest and Desert habitats.
Date: 10th Mar 2025 @ 7:49pm
On Friday we celebrated World Book Day with our theme of 'Get Comfy and Read.' We had a wonderful day of activities starting with some of our grown ups joining us to read with each other in the hall. It was a lovely time for us to share our favourite books with others. We made wooden spoon puppets of our favourite book characters and did a puppet show. We also had an amazing time reading to the reception children. It was a fantastic day and we all looked great!
Date: 9th Mar 2025 @ 8:45pm
On Friday we celebrated World Book Day with our theme of 'Get Comfy to Read.' We had a wonderful day of activities planned which started with our grown ups from home joining us for a read/share a book session. Back in class we used our whole school chosen picture book called 'Flotsom' to predict what the story might be about, we learnt the meaning of the word flotsom and created some fabulous under the sea artwork using oil pastels and collage materials. They looked fantastic!
History turning into a Games Afternoon!
Date: 9th Mar 2025 @ 8:40pm
Last Wednesday we had a Games Afternoon in our History lesson. We brought in toys and games from home and shared them with our friends. We talked about how they were different to toys in the past and what we enjoyed the most about the toys that we played.
It was great fun sharing and working together to play a game or with a toy!
Date: 9th Mar 2025 @ 6:40pm
We had lots of fun doing our toys topic this week. We brought in our own toys and shared them with our friends! There were so many variety of toys such as teddies, dolls, action figures and remote control cars! We loved showing them off and talking to the class about why we like them. We also explored the materals that atre used to make our modern toys and of course the most popular material was plastic.
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Y3 visits Nursery for World Book Day
Date: 7th Mar 2025 @ 4:28pm
During our world book day celebrations, year 3 visited Nursery to share some stories.
The year 3 children created their own picture books, which they brought with them to Nursery. They then showed these to the children, and talked through the story. The children loved hearing all of the different stories shared with them.
