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Date: 30th Mar 2020 @ 11:42am
Today's challenge is to draw your own sunshine then in the middle of it write or draw all the things that make you happy.
I've done one if you would like to look at it for ideas (although your drawings may be a little better than mine! 
) and have focused on all the things I can still do or see, even while we're in this strange situation 
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Stay safe everyone,
Mrs Glover
Date: 30th Mar 2020 @ 11:34am
Hello again Year 6, I hope you have all had a great weekend and are feeling refreshed and ready to do some more learning this week!
Here are some ideas for your learning today:
Maths
Have a look at the code-breaker that I have attached at the bottom of this blog.
It is all to do with fractions so make sure that you check back to Miss Thornton's ShowMes or use your red book to help you.
Email us in your answers so we can check them
I will be posting the answers tomorrow and will give a shout out to any correct answers!
English
I have been reading through your Rose Blanche stories and have been blown away by how interesting and creative they are - you really are fantastic at descriptive sentences!
I will be posting some of these to twitter and on the blog over this week so keep checking back to see if yours is there.
Have you started any of the writing challenges from your pack yet? Pick one for this week and have a go! Send us in what you have written so far, Miss Thornton and I love reading what you have written and we can offer suggestions for where to take your writing next.
Play this game:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/skillswise/punctuation/z7b247h
Use this to start editing any writing you have done already - see if you can use any higher level punctuation such as dashes or parenthesis.
Taskmaster
Over the weekend, I was sent a challenge by a friend and I thought I'd challenge you all to see if you can be more creative than we were (I bet you can!)
Have a look at the challenge and have a go - email or tweet us your entries and we will choose our favourites over the next couple of days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tJCKtyz47E
There are no limits to what you can use or who can help you (get your whole family involved!)
Don't forget to check out Miss Glover's Wellbeing Challenge! It's so important to make sure that you are staying positive and looking after yourselves while you're at home - send us in your ideas, I'll post mine later today!
I think that's it for today.
As always, stay safe and keep washing those hands!
See you tomorrow,
Miss Kenwell
y6homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
@Year6Ravensbur1
Date: 30th Mar 2020 @ 10:42am
Good Morning Year 4! I hope you have all had a good weekend.
Get your brains going this morning with these wake up activities! Work out the answers, and then explain to someone at home HOW you have solved them!
Fluent in 5:
A. 362 + 30 = B. 1/3 of 45 = C. 83 x 3 =
D. 2354 - ? = 1766 E. 54 divided by 9 =
Sentence of the Day
1. Add all the missing punctuation and capital letters in this sentence (total 5):
is anybody there the boy whispered anxiously
2. Add the plural possessive apostrophes to these sentences:
The lions cubs played in the sun.
Unfortunately, the childrens lunch boxes were left on the train.
The wolves howls echoed eerily through the dark night.
Date: 30th Mar 2020 @ 10:25am
Hello,
How is everyone? Did everyone manage to do some good home learning last week? Remember if you would like to get in touch and tell us how you're doing (we'd absolutely love it!) then please e-mail your home learning address and the teachers can pass on any messages.
Today's top tip:
As well as English, maths and reading, why not do a bit of daily music too?
Myleene Klass is doing daily music lessons at 1pm on this Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQh2wgJ5tOrixYBn6jFXsXQ (if that link doesn't work for any reason then just type in Myleene's Music Klass into Youtube)
Fun for the whole family!
Don't forget to let us know how you get on.
Mrs Glover and Mrs Harriott
Date: 30th Mar 2020 @ 10:14am
Good morning everybody! I hope you had a lovely weekend.
It's the start of a new week so I thought I would give you some tasks to do.
1. Sentence of the day - CL, SP, FS are shown to you. There are 6 unmarked errors. Can you find them?
there was a brutal bloody battel but boudicca and a few of her men survivd. She saw no over way out than to drink the poisen like I had planned to do with her daughters _
2. Have a go at this picture below and work out the missing number BUT be careful... look closely at the picture and do not be fooled by how easy you may think it is. Good luck!
3. I would love to see some pictures, so anything you've drawn or are going to draw over this week, please email it over so I can upload it onto the blog for everybody else to see and take inspiration from. Maybe you could draw me a Roman shield?
4. Learn a magic trick. Ben Hanlin is doing live videos on how to learn magic every day Mon-Fri at 3:15 on his Facebook and YouTube pages @benhanlin. Why don't you try and film yourself doing a trick and send it to the email!?
I look forward to getting lots of emails from you all showing me what you've been up to. Remember, the email is y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Speak soon!
Miss Humphreys :)
Date: 30th Mar 2020 @ 9:26am
Good Morning Reception,
This week I want you to start making your creative model linked to one of the stories below:
The Ugly Duckling
The Odd Egg
Chicken Licken
Look at the ideas on the sheet to help you, I have attached it to this blog. Remember it doesn't have to be finished you may just paint the boxes you need to make your model, or you might paint the background of your paper.
Good Luck!
Mrs Iqbal
Date: 30th Mar 2020 @ 9:15am
Good Morning Reception!
I hope you all had a relaxing weekend and you are ready for another wonderful week of home learning with your grown ups.
Today I want you to look at the story called 'The Egg.' Miss Williams asked you to look at this story last week and you did some predicting work and listened to the story online. Today I want you to listen to the story again using the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEyD_JX5x84
Next play the game 'I can see...' Use the picture of the dragon attached to this blog and tell your grown up all the things you can see. For example, you might say...
I can see a green, big dragon.
I can see a boy flying a huge dragon.
I can see wide wings that make the dragon fly.
Then I want you to think of a sentence about the dragon and write it. I want some fantastic sentences describing the dragon. Use the show me video below to help you think about what we need to remember when writing a sentence. Grown ups if the children are writing the words in their sentence phonetically then that is great. The spellings have to be what sounds the children can hear. Do encourage them to spell the tricky words correctly by looking at the tricky word mats in your phonic packs.
Miss Cogger's phonic group you might want to draw the dragon and label it using some describing words like...
pointy teeth
sharp claws
green skin
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=FF23TuK
I can't wait to see some fantastic writing.
Love Mrs Iqbal
Date: 30th Mar 2020 @ 8:58am
Good morning 5HW!
Here we are - the start of homelearning Week 2! We hope you had a lovely weekend - Jon, Livvi, Asaph and I did some baking (rhubarb and apple crumble), video-called some friends, played games and watched a couple of films. Miss Wendt spent a lot of time this weekend learning Portuguese (I said hello and good morning to my Mum when we Facetimed, she was very impressed!) and trying a few new recipes that I have been wanting to have a go with. Miss Wendt also did lots of reading!
Aden sent an amazing photograph of the Lego Space Station he built! We think it looks fabulous!
What did you get up to?
We hope you're ready to do some fantastic learning today...we're starting off the day with PE with Joe - which is starting in precisely 2 minutes, so GO GO GO!!
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Mrs Hodges here!
Right, the first of our Sentence of the Days! This week, they're all going to be connected with life on the International Space Station, which is a floating laboratory orbiting Earth (in fact, did you see it in the sky over the weekend? It passed over the UK twice on Saturday and Sunday! It looks like a quickly moving star!). Check out this cool YouTube video from an astronaut called Chris Hadfield, who's showing us how the astronauts sleep in space:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyFYgeE32f0
Then, have a look at today's sentence. Remember to email me across a photo of your corrected sentence!
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=RvbrjKi
See you later for the corrected sentence!
Right everyone, we've done some Egyptian map-making (Livvi) and dinosaur fact collecting (Asaph) in my house today, as well as some Maths - how did you get on with today's sentence? ANOTHER special shout out to Rhianna for being the first person to email across her corrected sentence, as well as some brilliant Maths and GVP learning! Rhianna, you're such a superstar learner!
Here's today's corrected sentence!
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=0n76csq
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Miss Wendt here!
This week I want to start with a little maths recap. Before we finished for this break, we looked closely at fractions, decimals, percentages and the links between them. There are lots of fractions activities in your home learning pack, and I have got a fractions challenge to start today with!
Have a look at this one! Remember our rule when using the < > = symbols - We point at the smallest number and eat the largest number!
As promised here is the follow up maths! Like Mrs Hodges I am so very proud of Rhianna and her amazing home learning she is sharing with us. Don't be shy 5HW, email us your work! Or even just a message to say hello and let me and Mrs Hodges know how you are!
See you tomorrow!
My Super Me Booklet - I am Grateful for...
Date: 30th Mar 2020 @ 8:02am
Good Morning Reception!
This past week has been very strange, it has made me think about how much is taken for granted throughout our ‘normal’ daily lives and what I am incredibly grateful for in these difficult times.
In your ‘Super Me’ booklet – there is a page that focuses on all that we are grateful for. (See page below) Can you have a real think about what you are grateful for? Can you write this down and draw a picture? I would love to see some of your ideas! :)
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Week 2 Activities - Easter Maths Booklet
Date: 30th Mar 2020 @ 7:59am
Good Morning Reception!
I hope you have all had a lovely weekend and are ready for a week full of learning and fun!
Today I would like you to have a go at some of the activities in your ‘Easter Maths Activity Booklet.’ I know that some of you have different booklets, so if you have ‘Easter Maths Activity Booklet,’ I would like you to complete page 1. If you have ‘Easter Maths Booklet to 20,’ I would like you to complete page 4. (See both pages attached below.)
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I have posted a ‘show me’ link to support you in completing these activities:
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=Y2YNpVA
** TRICKY CHALLENGE **
I know how speedy some of you have been throughout the past week and have already completed your maths booklets! If so, I have attached links to a ‘Spring I-spy.’ There is an option to count to 10 or 20, so choose whichever one you feel more comfortable with! You need to carefully count all of the different spring items and write the total number of each item. You can show your working out by writing the total number of each item and labelling/drawing a picture of the item.
** For an EXTRA TRICKY CHALLENGE challenge: **
Can you make a number sentence using the spring items?
How many items would you have if you added one more or taken away one less?
Have fun! Don’t forget to send pictures of your work to receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk - we love to see your work!! Parents please feel free to contact for any questions/any area or learning you would like to see! :)
Date: 29th Mar 2020 @ 11:20pm
Good morning year 5!
Below is a video on Grammar.
Can you work out what this jumbled up year 5/6 spelling word is?
r i e c s i c t i
Don't forget to email your answers to y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Miss Brookes
Date: 29th Mar 2020 @ 11:00pm
Good Morning Year 5! And Happy Monday!
Today's maths is all about fractions. Remember, the denominator stays the same when adding or subtracting fractions.
It also looks at turning improper fractions into mixed numbers - something we haven't done much of in class.
If you want to practice some more, here are some additional questions for you to work out:
Turn the following improper fractions into mixed numbers.
1. 3/2
2. 6/4
3. 12/7
4. 15/6
5. 9/4
Don't forget to email your responses to y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Miss Brookes
30.03.20 - Sentence and Number of the Day!
Date: 29th Mar 2020 @ 10:46pm
Good morning everyone!
I don't know about you, but that lovely sunny weather turned to cold and wind for me at the weekend! Hopefully it will be much better today.
I've attached the sentence and number of the day - don't forget to email me your answers on y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Miss Brookes
Weekend Home Learning Star!🌟
Date: 29th Mar 2020 @ 8:13pm
What a lovely surprise to receive some home learning photos and a video over the weekend. This time as well as the scavenger hunt, we have a great example of fabulous cutting skills. You can see how the scissors are being held pointing away and both thumbs are on top. Just like how we taught you to hold scissors in school. Well done!
🌟You’re an Outstanding Weekend Home Learner 🌟
Happy Monday! Phonics and literacy
Date: 29th Mar 2020 @ 7:26pm
Good Morning everyone! Can you believe it's week 2 of our home learning! Well done everyone for all of your hard work last week! We hope you also took some time to enjoy the lovely sunshine!
Don't forget that Joe Wicks is doing a P.E lesson to wake up our brains and bodies every morning at 9am (It's definitly helped me wake up!). I have been trying to get us a shout out most mornings so keep watching and keep your fingers crossed, he might just mention us!
https://www.thebodycoach.com/blog/pe-with-joe-1254.html
Sentence of the day
This week we are going to do our sentence of the day a little differently.
Here's the challenge...
Everyday I will give you a sentence, it will have no mistakes but it will be a little boring. I want you to make the sentences much more exciting! They will need WOW words (adjectives) and maybe even some connectives (and,but,because). When you have made my sentence better I want you to take a picture and email it to y1homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk and I will put as many pictures as I can on to the next days blog.
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Todays phonics focuses on the ai vowel family - ay, ai, a-e
In your homelearning pack you have lots of words with these sounds in them and some worksheets to go with them. These are just a starting point- be creative, invent your own games. Here are a few good ones I've seen online -
phonics shoot - read a word and try and score a goal
Phonics splat - find the words and splat them
Phonics hunt - grown up says a word you need to find it in the time limit
I wonder if anyone can create their own phonics games and send them on to me.
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SPAG
Todays SPAG focuses on adding the suffix -ing to words. In your homelearning packs you have a worksheet to go with this, but like with the other learning this week let's remember to get active, moving around keeps your brains healthy and will stop you becoming bored (save the worksheets for then!)
Look at the different root words in your pack, what will they become when you add -ing?
Play a game of simon says can you do the actions and say the new word?
Simon says jump - I am jumping
Simon says skip - I am skipping
Can you write the sentences to match what you did?
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Dont forget to take some pictures of all the fun activities you're doing and send them to y1homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk we'd love to see your smiling faces ! Also if you have any questions please email us !
Here are our stars of the week this week! Well done boys, it's lovely to see you so busy with smiles on your faces and learning in the garden!
See you again tomorrow for some more home learning!
Miss Riley x
Date: 29th Mar 2020 @ 11:53am
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Hi everyone, Last week school was closed to the vast majotiy of our pupils and it was really strange. The building just didn't seem the same. It is true what people say that a building is only a shell made of bricks and mortar and it is the people in it who make it a special place. How true they are! . |
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I know it must be really strange for you too doing your learning at home but you are doing a brilliant job. I've missed each and everyone of you but I have loved reading about what you have been up to on twitter and your teachers have been giving me daily updates about all of your amazing learning. I've loved seeing pictures of the things you've being doing; painting rocks, baking, doing yoga and reading outside so keep send them. Hopefully if everybody does what they have been asked to do and stay at home, it won't be too long before we are back in school but until then keep checking the school website and your class blog page. Your teachers are putting on lots of activities and messages to keep you busy. Mrs McAffer is setting a weekly art challenge, last weeks challenge was about Magpies; well done Melissa I loved your picture. I am sending a great big thank you to all your grown ups who are helping you with your learning, it isn't easy for them too so make sure you do what they ask. Remember it is difficult for every one but we need to do this to make sure everyone stays safe. Remember we are always only a phone call or email message away! Take care and stay safe Mrs Hughes |
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Date: 29th Mar 2020 @ 9:57am
Show your family how much you love them and say thank you by singing this song. can you remeber we learned it a few weeks ago?
Date: 29th Mar 2020 @ 9:55am
Hello children,
Mrs Ganner here. Hope you’re enjoying the break over the weekend. I forgot to say on Friday, you need to say thank you to your grown-ups for helping you this week. They’re not used to home schooling you and I think they’ve done a terrific job. Think of all of the things they have done for you this week and tell them, ‘Thank you for helping me with my colouring.’ ‘Thank you for taking me on a scavenger hunt.’ ‘Thank you for checking the blog every day with me.’ You can say thank you for everything your adults and big brothers and big sisters have done to help you this week.
Parents/Carers,
I would just like to say thank you too. Thank you for keeping in touch. Thank you for helping your children focus on the fun learning activities and thank you for being there for your children in these difficult times. You are truly amazing people.
Mrs Ganner
Date: 27th Mar 2020 @ 8:02pm
Well, we've made it through our first week - well done ! Tomorrow ,it's the weekend and we can relax after all the hard work we've done this week.
Top tip for the weekend :
Try and make your weekend a bit different to the week days; take a break from school work, watch a film with your family or play a board game.
You could try making your own board game using a cereal box like these ones I found on the internet.
Have a lovley weekend !
Date: 27th Mar 2020 @ 7:53pm
It’s been a busy week on our blog. It’s been an unusual week for everybody. Well done to all of you for getting through it.
If you haven’t received your NUMBOTS login details remember to email us over the weekend and we’ll send them out. If you’ve already got yours we’ll be posting an update on Monday to see who’s played the games so far. Just 5 minutes a day to support your child's number learning is all that's needed.
Send your photos of home learning to:
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Stay safe and look after each other. In times like these we need to focus on the good things.
Join in with this days of the week song to welcome the weekend! We’ll see you again on Monday.
Mrs Ganner
The Learning Journey Continues 🌟
Date: 27th Mar 2020 @ 7:43pm
This is the third day we’ve received photos from this exceptional young lady. She clearly loves learning!
As a reward, Mum told me she was going to watch Peter Rabbit and eat some yummy treats. This was a well earned golden time.
Thank you so much to everyone in the family for supporting her and being part of the joy that is learning.
🌟You’re an Outstanding Home Learner 🌟
Date: 27th Mar 2020 @ 6:12pm
Loving seeing all the wonderful work you are sending to y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk. Please keep it coming as it is great to see what you have all been up to!
Megan has been busy doing lots of learning including sentence of the day and times tables challenges.
Billie has been enjoying her learning outside in the sunshine!
And finally,Grace has been busy writing her Roman letter.
Thanks for keeping me updated. I hope you're enjoying your learning at home and the sunshine. Keep emailing me whatever you are doing! Looking forward to seeing your pictures!
Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Humphreys :)
Date: 27th Mar 2020 @ 4:20pm
Dear Reception,
Seeing as it's Friday and we usually have a celebration assembly I wanted to share my...
Star of the Week
Ferdows!!!! Yay!!! 
Ferdows has emailed me his work/photos/videos every day this week. I have felt a bit strange being at home and not seeing all of you but Ferdows has kept me smiling. Look at his videos about all the ICT he has found in his home. Mrs Cooper is very proud of you!!!
I just want to thank all of you (including grown ups) who have emailed me and made me smile. I am extrememly proud of you all in this very strange time in our lives.
Make sure you have a great weekend and keep safe!
Get ready for more home learning next week.
Love From Mrs Iqbal
The Boy at the Back of the Class Chapter 1
Date: 27th Mar 2020 @ 3:42pm
Good afternoon everyone! Here is a 'Showme' of Chapter 1 from our new book The Boy at the Back of the Class.
There are some questions to answer at the end and it would be great to see your answers either on the blog, sent to our y6 email or on Twitter...
Health and wellbeing challenges from Mrs Glover
Date: 27th Mar 2020 @ 2:59pm
Hello, Mrs Glover here!
I hope everyone is staying safe, having fun and working hard on your learning. I'm going to post a Health and Wellbeing Challenge every day for people to do if they choose to. I'll be doing them all too and posting pictures where I can. Please feel free to e-mail any pictures or comments to your home learning e-mail addresses!
Challenge number 1: Go on a mindfulness walk. Write or draw 5 things that you can see, hear, feel, smell or touch (make sure you have an adult with you if necessary and stay far way from people you may see when you're out, although you can still say a friendly hello!) You could even do this in your garden if you have one!
Here's a picture of my mindfulness walk that I went on at lunch time today!
I saw trees and water, I heard birds and rustling, I could smell different plants and I could feel the sun on my face :-)
