: Blog items
Date: 10th Nov 2023 @ 11:48am
This morning we learned about why we use the poppy as a symbol for Remembrance Sunday and what this day is. The children were facinated by the video we watched. They cheered loudly when the poppies started to grow again after the war. This video is a great way of talking about Remembrance Sunday with young children. Would you like to watch it too?
Our faces reflected the different emotions we felt as we watched. The children were so excited when the poppies started growing they cheered.
"Make it go away," said one child during the war scenes. "A shining light!" excalimed another as the darkness parted. "It's growing up," one child told us as the poppies grew in the field
Date: 10th Nov 2023 @ 11:41am
We really enjoyed learning about bonfire night, naming different types of fireworks, learning a new song and creating artwork to put in our learning books. Do you know a song about fireworks? this is the one we learned
Date: 6th Nov 2023 @ 7:58pm
Today was the Great Ravensbury Bake Off in year 6 and I had the difficult task of tasting each one and then judging the top three. I had to Enlist help in the staffroom of my top six and together we decided 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.
Well done to everyone who took part and thank you for helping your child to make the shortbread over the weekend.
Date: 5th Nov 2023 @ 9:51pm
Welcome back to Autumn 2!
We have had an amazing start to the second half term. The children are raring to get stuck into their learning for our next topic.
Last Wednesday we invited our parents and carers to come into school and help us launch our new topic. The topic question that we are trying to answer is 'Could the three little pigs use a better material to build their houses?' In this topic we will focus on science knowledge about materials, design & technology and geography skills.
The building challenge was to work as a team using our learning powers to make a strong house for the three little pigs. We used large cardboard boxes, masking tape, selotape, paper and other boxes/tubes for our creations.
The teams worked really well and the houses looked fantastic! Some of them even had a swimming pool, a lab to make potions, a garage and a garden with animals.
Thank you to the fabulous parents/carers who came and helped us!
Date: 5th Nov 2023 @ 2:46pm
What an exciting week back!
This week, year 3 have begun to explore their new geography topic, all about the Amazon Basin. We used 'now press play' to experience a Rainforest journey through our headphones. We also read the story 'The Great Kapok Tree' and began to identify which animals we hope to use in our own dilemma stories next week.
In maths we explored additive and multiplicative equations for 3-digit numbers! This was challenging at first, but we persevered until all of us were feeling confident.
Date: 4th Nov 2023 @ 7:16pm
Hello 2KW and Welcome Back!
The children are super excited to be back and are excited to learn about our new topic 'The Great Fire of London'
The classroom is looking good and we even have a role play bakery!
As part of the Launch, the fire Service came into school and talked to the children about Fire safety. The children had an opportunity to look at the equipment the Fire Fighters wear when they are rescuing people. They loved it!
The children learned about STOP! DROP! ROLL ! and the fire fighters said that they will bring the truck in for the children to see towards the end of half term!
Hope you have a lovely weekend
Miss Wolfenden and Mrs Cooper
Date: 4th Nov 2023 @ 8:14am
We launched our topic of the Three Little Pigs by inviting our parents and carers into school to help us create large houses! We decorated large boxes with the features of the outside of a house using card, sellotape, tubes, straws and pens. Afterwards we labelled the features of the houses. We had lots of fun making the houses and it was the best day ever!
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Date: 3rd Nov 2023 @ 4:04pm
What a week! Its been a busy return to school and the holidays already feel like a long time ago but it means that we're nearly at Christmas!
In reading, we introduced our new text: inventions that changed the world. We enjoyed reading about lightbulbs and telephones whilst identifying what features help readers navigate the information in non-fiction texts.
In writing, we have had a go at using parenthesis. Next week, we will be having a go at applying this to the context of our new genre - explanation texts. It wasn't easy but we had some funny sentences about a boy riding a bike:
The boy, who had a parrot on his shoulder, rode his bike to school.
The boy, who was 440 feet tall, rode his bike to school.
The boy, who shouted hello, rode his bike to school.
In maths, we have been learning about negative numbers and how they are laid out on a number line. I was so impressed with their attitude to their learning that they earned lots of golden time in their lessons this week!
We have finished sketching different Victorian inventions for the front of our CC books so next week we will be able to launch our new topic properly!
Please remember to take a look at the parent overviews on the class page so you can see what year 5 will be learning about this half term and support your child with it.
Have a great weekend and stay safe around any bonfires or fireworks!
Date: 3rd Nov 2023 @ 1:46pm
This week, we have begun our new CC geography unit about California. As part of this unit, we will learn lots about our planet. This week we discovered that there are four main layers to the Earth. The crust, which is the layer we live on, is the thinnest layer, then we have the mantle, then the outer core and finally the inner core. The inner core is around 5000-6000 degrees celsius hot.
As part of our CC learning, we have begun to read a new core text called I survived the San Francisco earthquake 1906 which contains fictional characters, but it is based around real events. This week have written similes and methaphors as well as using a range of sentence starters.
In in our science lesson, we have begun to learn about the digestive system, which is how food travel in, around and out of the body.
Next week we will be visiting a Hindu Temple on Thursday. Please return your letter if you have not brought it yet.
Our assembly today was presented by two firefighters who told us all about their work and how we can keep safe around bonfires.
Homework has been sent home today, and spellings/timestables will be tested next Friday.
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 2:10pm
Today in Reception, we have been exploring different ways of making fireworks. Which is your favourite?
Date: 1st Nov 2023 @ 2:56pm
Yesterday we found some paw prints on our Literacy book stand. We thought it was odd because there wasn't a book! We followed the paw prints to a basket that was left in the shared area. There was a cat, a pair of shoes, a guitar and a pair of cool sunglasses. Who sent them? It was a mystery until today, when we found a brand new book. We learned all about Pete the Cat and how much he loved his white shoes. It was a fun story, he kept stepping in things and it changed the colour of his shoes. Do you know how he made them white again?
Here's a link to the story if you want to find out
Date: 29th Oct 2023 @ 10:35am
Supertato needed to split up 5 Evil Peas because they were causing so much trouble! We explored how to split 10 into two parts using a part whole model. We used Playdoh peas on part whole models, Evil pea characters, bean bags in part whole models outside and different types of maths counters. We found many ways to split the Evil Peas!
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Date: 28th Oct 2023 @ 8:39am
What a busy first half term we have had in 1AI!!!
We are very settled into the routines and timetable of Year 1 and have really enjoyed answering our topic question - What makes us Incredible? We launched this topic with a superhero day and finsihed it by creating a padlet page describing how we have changed over time. We recorded our thoughts and sent the padlet page to Miss Higgins who is the histiry lead in school. She was very impressed with our historical knowledge of changes in our lifetime!
Next half term will be another busy one with the lead up to all things Chrismassey!! Ho, Ho, Ho!!!!
Attached is the parent overview for Autumn 2 so you can have a look at what we will be doing in our next topic question. Don't forget the first Wednesday after the half term holidays we have invited parents/grown ups from home to join in with our next topic launch. 1AI grown ups are invited on Wednesday 1st November at 2pm. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Date: 20th Oct 2023 @ 2:29pm
This week, we invited parents and carers into school to make our maya tortillas! We first wrote our instructions using imperative verbs, fronted adverbials, numbers for listing and bullet points.
We followed these instructions carefully and had to explain to the parents/carers who visited how to make a Maya tortilla. The recipes have also been sent home in a Maya-inspired cook book. We're sure that over the half term, lots of parents will want to make the Maya tortillas at home!
Holiday homework is being sent home today, and the autumn 2 overview for parents.
Have a great break!
Date: 20th Oct 2023 @ 1:55pm
This half term we have been learning all about special celebrations 🎉
The children have been learning about big world celebrations as well as celebrations that we celebrate just with our friends and friends at home.
This week the children have been preparing to celebrate Rosie, our home corner baby's, birthday. They have been counting down the days on our calendar, making party hats, party menus and shopping lists and decorating our classroom.
Today we finally ended the countdown and celebrated Rosies birthday. We sang, danced, played games and had a great time.
4RJ Final week - Maya Tortillas
Date: 20th Oct 2023 @ 1:49pm
This week, we invited parents and carers into school to make our maya tortillas! We first wrote our instructions using imperative verbs, fronted adverbials, numbers for listing and bullet points.
We followed these instructions carefully and had to explain to the parents/carers who visited how to make a Maya tortilla. The recipes have also been sent home in a Maya-inspired cook book. We're sure that over the hal term, lots of parents will want to make the Maya tortillas at home!
Jahmai said, "It was good, but I didn't like the avacado and the black beans."
Keira said, "The tortilla was tasty, I enjoyed putting the cocao nibs on the tortilla."
Isla said, "My mum hated the taste of the tortilla, but yum yum, I loved it."
Holiday homework is being sent home today, and the autumn 2 overview for parents.
Have a great break!
Date: 20th Oct 2023 @ 1:44pm
This week the children have been learning all about harvest. They learned about the different fruit and vegetables that will be harvested at this time of year and even learned a song about the combine harvester that the farmers use to harvest their crops.
The children made their own harvest fruit and vegetable crowns and worked together to make an amazing red combine harvester.
Nursery Autumn 2 Curriculum Overview
Date: 18th Oct 2023 @ 9:12pm
What are we learning about next half term?
Date: 18th Oct 2023 @ 9:37am
We have had a great time learning lots of new things this half term. We are so proud of the children and how much they have grown in the past 7 weeks.
Here is our overview for next half term so you can see everything that we are about to learn about.
Date: 15th Oct 2023 @ 6:01pm
In science this half term we have been learning about body parts and what our senses are. We learnt about the job of each sense and which body part it was associated with. We used this song to help us:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzqx39K2omc
We carried out a Smell Pot investigation where we predicted what was in each pot using our sense of smell. We smelt each pot and then discussed what it might be and whether we liked each smell or not. We recorded our findings in a table and discovered what each smell actually was. We predicted correctly for some of the smells!
Date: 15th Oct 2023 @ 5:54pm
Last week we had a visitor called Rebaz who came into school. He was a freestyle footballer who was amazing at doing tricks with a football. He showed off his skills in an assembly on Thursday and then we got a chance to work with him later in the day. He showed us four different tricks that we could do with a football.
It was lots of fun!!!
Date: 15th Oct 2023 @ 5:26pm
On Wednesday Rabaz came to visit us in reception! He performed his amazing tricks and the children were amazed!
Everyone had a go at performing a trick on the stage. We can see lots of football trick super stars in the making!
Date: 14th Oct 2023 @ 7:08pm
Hello,
I cannot believe how hard all the children have worked this week. They have made Mrs Cooper and I very proud!
In English, we have been learning about writing recounts and to help us write a personal recount we went on a walk around Clayton. The children used their big googly eyes to find human and physical features and local landmarks. They used their observation skills to sketch what they could see too !
They found; The National Bike centre, Asda, the canal, Philips Park, Flip out, two bridges, Decathlon, trees, bushes, cars, buses, roads, pavements and lots more!!!!!!!!!!!! We were so lucky with the weather too. It was a warm sunny day and the leaves were falling from the trees.We even got to play on a pretend tractor.
As part of mental health week. The children rehearsed and then performed It's a beautiful day. They also created some mental health mindfulness colourings that we are going to join together to create a mural for the wall outside the year 2 classrooms. Watch the video below to see our amazing Ravy children in action.
Rebaz, the freestyle footballer also came into school to work with the children. They learnt how to perform some football tricks and got to watch him demonstrate his skills! The children absolutely loved having him in school. Hopefully we will get to see him next year too
Photographs to be added!
Thanks
Miss Wolfenden and Mrs Cooper
Date: 14th Oct 2023 @ 8:27am
One Day at Ravensbury Community Primary, there was something strange going on! In Year 1HB there were many crimes committed! Oh No! There's a Pea on the loose!
Year 1 have been reading the story Supertato and have been describing the character of the Evil Pea. We have been using adjectives to describe his naughty behaviours such as sneaky, cheeky, unkind and devilish! Take a look at the terrible crimes he committed in Year 1!
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Date: 13th Oct 2023 @ 7:03pm
We have such a busy week this week in 6JT!
On Tuesday, we had a workshop about the Windrush. We found out some facts about the HMT Windrush Empire and acted out some events.
On Wednesday we had an exciting day as Rabaz, the freestyle footballer, came back into school to do a showcase assembly and a skills workshop after.
All week year 6 have been doing assessments in maths, reading and Grammer, today we looked at numbers up to 1, 000, 000 and were able to explore place value using a human numberline.
Also during our indoor PE slot we tried to beat the time from last year doing the 'Wall Sit Challenge. They all tried really hard and we stretched after to help the muscles recover.
