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Date: 1st May 2020 @ 4:36pm
This week I have been amazed at all the home learning that has been happening in Reception children's home.
Well Done children and grown ups!!!! 
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 4:16pm
What a wonderful week of work from 5HW! We have had SO many emails this week, all celebrating learning and showing off different skills!
We love receiving your emails, it makes us so proud to see your motivation and dedication to work even when you can't be in school.
Our outstanding learners this week are:-
Ganesa, Rhianna, Kyro, Mert Deniz, Yoel, Ini and Aden
Have a look below to see what they have been doing!
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 3:20pm
Good Afternoon Year 5!
Even more of you went on Reading Plus this week - well done! Mrs Hodges, Miss Wendt and myself are so proud of you all. This weeks winners are:
Most Lessons Completed: Denico (at 10 books! Well done)
Most Words Read: Sam (6,675 words!)
Both 5HW and 5CB now have 5 wins! Who will take over next week?
Don't forget to check your individual class blogs, where we will announce who has successfully completed this weeks reading challenge.
Well done everyone,
Miss Brookes
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 11:20am
Have a look at this superwork. Both children have tried to work hard on the presentation of their work. They have been trying to write the long date. They have been writing the days of the week and months correctly. Look at how fantastic and so grown up their work is. These children are getting ready for Year 2!
Well done !
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 10:58am
Good Morning 3RH,
I hope you're all doing well and loving your time at home (even though the sun isn't out anymore)!
Just wanted to show you some things:
First of all, 2 weeks ago, I set a challenge for you to create your own Roman shield. I have had some fantastic pictures back. Here they are!
How amazing are they!!!!! I'm sooooooo impressed with each and every single one!
Secondly... We have some certificates for Lexia. Well done to these children who have been working hard and completed a level.
Nabel, Dereck, Megan and Shawnakaye have all moved up a level! I have emailed your certificates to your adults! WELL DONE!
Thirdly, I set you a challenge to read in as many random places as you could, here are a few of the pictures I've recieved! Keep sending them in to y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
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Finally, I said yesterday about sending a message to the rest of our class to let them know that youre missing them. Here's mine and Theodosia's below. If you want to send a picture of yourself with a drawing or message to our class then email me on y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
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Speak soon,
Love
Miss Humphreys :)
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 10:54am
Well done, 5CB! I am so proud of all of you, for trying so hard with your work this week. We've had some amazing Connected Curriculum challenge responses:
Look at Denico's paper mache Earth!
And look at Victoria's guide to living in Space!
They are both amazing! Thank you so much for sending in all your work, it puts a huge smile on my face. This weeks outstanding learners are:
Akin
Denico
Ivory
Jennifer
Jessica
Victoria
Zana
I've attached some of their work below so you can take a look!
This weeks reading challenge winners, who managed to read a total of 5 books (well done!) are:
Dencio (10 books)
Sam (6 books)
Even though not all of you managed to read 5 books and score 80%, more of you took part in Reading Plus this week - which is what the important part is. I am so proud of you all.
Miss Brookes
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 10:41am
Huge well done to Hao Yu for being our Lexia superstar of the week. Well done Hao Yu!
(Please feel free to print off your certificate at home).
Miss Hamer
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 10:39am
A huge congratulations this week to all of the children who have been working so hard from home!
Education City
Oliwia and Ofure are soaring through the maths and coding activities we have put on and have completed 5 and 6 of the 8 objectives respectfully - Well done!
Well done as well to Oliver (both of you!) Michelle, Zarak, Dylan, Blaiyze and Malachi for also logging in and having a go.
Let's see how many people we can get on next week - remember to email us to get your login and password.
spag.com
Huge congratulations to Dian, Zarak and Arion who are doing an amazing job on spag.com - keep it up!
Well done as well to Charlie, Michelle, Blessed, Dylan, Sophie, Cindy, Liam, Haya and Hafiz for logging in and getting the activites done.
Attached are some pictures of the fabulous home learning we have been sent in to our email - who can you spot?
I've also included a fantastic Powerpoint about Climate Change made by Charlie (see if it helps you with you CC work) and the start of a wonderful Rose Blanche story by Timi that might give you ideas with your own writing.
Keep sending us in what you have been up to and check back next Friday to see who's made it onto our Stars of the Week Blog Post!
The Year 6 Team
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 10:31am
Hello,
Well done you made it! You are on the last maths challenge of the week.We hope you haven't found the work too tricky. We are going to continue learning about finding half and quarters.
Today I want you to find a half and a quarter of an amount. Remember to find a half, you need to share an amount into two equal groups and finding a quarter is sharing an amount into four equal groups.
Challenge 1
We want you to use objects in the house to solve these problems. Maybe you could use fruit, sweets, bricks, cars, dolls,shoes or cans of food to help find the answers,
Can you find half of ............
a..8 b.2 c.4 d.6 e.10 f.12 g. 16
Can you record your answers as a picture in your books.
Challenge 2
We want you to use objects in the house to solve these problems. Maybe you could use fruit, sweets, bricks, cars, dolls,shoes or cans of food to help find the answers,
Can you find quarter of ............
a..8 b.20 c.4 d.12 e.16
Can you record your answers as a picture in your books.
If you want more of a challenge then have a go at the activities below. Just click on the blue bars and then will open up for you to see.
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 10:28am
This is my favourite part of the week. I get lots of pictures sent to me daily and I love looking through them all. This week, you are all superstars! I have attached some photos for you to have a look at what your friends have been up to.
I also want to give a HUGE shout out to the adults who are helping you learn at home. I want you to try and do something helpful this weekend to say thank you. Why don't you try and tidy your room? Can you make your own bed? Can you tidy away your toys? You could even make a thank you card!
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Hamer
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 9:58am
Good morning Year 2,
I hope you are all excited for a well-deserved break this weekend. I know I am :)
English Challenge
It was brilliant to read some of your sentences yesterday. They were very imaginative! I did notice though, that many of you are forgetting to include adjectives in your work. Adjectives are a great way to make your sentences more interesting. Today I would like you to write 5 sentences about the objects below and don’t forget to describe the objects using adjectives:
Plant, bath, floor, clothes.
Here are my examples:
The tiny plant started to grow.
The large bath was filled with water and lots of white bubbles.
Jack spilled a fizzy drink on the dirty floor so Miss Hamer had to clean it up.
John always wears bright clothes so he stands out.
Maths Challenge
Give these word problems a go. I know you can do it!
My pencil is 12cm long. Tom’s pencil is 6cm longer. How long is Tom’s pencil?
Sara has 12 packets of crisps. She must share them equally between her four friends. How many crisp packets will each friend get?
Eggs come in boxes of 6. How many eggs would I have if I bought four boxes?
Miss Hamer
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 9:52am
Lets celebrate! 
We have had so many pictures and email this week! Lot's of you have sent your love heart pictures but we're still waiting on some more, don't forget to send them in! It has been so lovely to see all of you so busy and doing lots of exciting things. Here are our super star learners this week. Well done everybody!
We miss you too! This picture really did brighten our day!
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Don’t these pancakes look delicious! It’s great to see you all learning new skills like baking and cooking!
Look whose looking very busy with her phonics learning! There’s lots of concentration going on here!
Another busy bee practicing her numbers! You’re doing a fantastic job!
Wow look whose working independently on his phonics! Wow and with a new haircut!
What a great handmade guitar! Have you managed to play a tune on it yet?
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Concentrating hard on his learning this week! Well done!
It took me a second to figure out who was who on this picture! You are all looking so grown up!
Keep being amazing year 1. We are so proud of you all!
Friday sentence of the day and phonics
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 9:36am
Can you believe another week has flown by and it’s Friday again! We’ve had some great pictures through this week of you all busy with your learning! We can’t wait to show you them on our celebration blog later!
Sentence of the day
All of yesterday’s sentence were all questions, so they all needed a question mark at the end of them. We know that they are questions because they are asking something and they have our special asking words at the start of the sentence.
Will lots of bugs come to the bug hotel?
Do you like bug hotels?
Why do the bugs like the bug hotel?
What is the bug hotel called?
Well done YuXiang and Kaya you managed to find them all! Brilliant detective work!
Here is today’s sentence. How can you describe the bug house and make it more interesting to read.
I have made a _________________bug hotel.
How many adjectives can you think of to describe the bug hotel?
Phonics
Put a timer on for a minute, how many ways can you think of to make the ee sound from yesterday. Write them down. If you still have some time left, think of some words that are spelt with the different ee graphemes.
ee ea e-e ey y
Today’s phonics focusses on the igh sound family.
For today’s challenge I want you to make your own giant roll and read. You will need 6 rows all with 5 words on. A bit like this…
Your words need to have all of the igh sound family graphemes in them. Once you have written the words you can play! Maybe play against one of your family, who can read the most words? Or play on your own, time yourself and see if you can beat your time.
Remember there are also lots of phonics games on https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/ for you to play and practice your phonics skills.
Hope you all have a brilliant day. Don’t forget to check back on the blog later for our weekly celebration!
Miss Riley and Miss Wolfenden x
Try something new this weekend
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 9:03am
Happy Friday everyone!
How has your week been? As well as doing my school work, I decided to try some new activities this week; I went on some new bike rides and walks with my family, baked some new recipes and tried out some online dance courses. I really enjoyed them - especially eating the brownies, even though they didn't turn out quite as they were meant to !
Why don't you try doing something new this weekend and tell us all about it by emailing :
Ealhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
We can't wait to hear all about it!
Have a great weekend.
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 9:02am
Good morning year 6! Can you believe it is Friday already? Today’s sentence of the day is a short piece of dialogue to show characterisation and how to organise speech.
“I really do’nt like the look of this place Tom,” whispered Ahmet. That strange symbol reminds of something I’ve seen before and it is giving me a bad feeling about this place.”
“Oh stop being a scaredy-cat as usual Ahmet; honestly we will be in and out as quick as a flash, once we get proof that we went in all of the rooms. Come on!” insisted Tom.
Can you find the two punctuation errors. One is a piece of punctuation that is in the wrong place and the other is a missing piece of speech punctuation.
I would also like you to look at the word ‘bad’ and see if you can use an improved word which still fits in with the sentence.
EXTRA! EXTRA!
Write the next DAD sentences as they enter the house.
Describe what they see as soon as they enter.
Explain an action-how or what do the characters do?
Dialogue- What do they say to one another?
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 8:14am
Good Morning Reception!
Today is Friday yay! So you know what that means….. CHALLENGE FRIDAY!!!
I have posted four challenges below for you to take part in, see how many you can complete!
Challenge one: Numbots!!! Why don’t you log-in to Numbots and see how many levels you can complete?? Try and beat your high score!
Challenge two: Double Ladybirds! Draw a ladybird template, fold it in half and open it again. Paint spots on one side of the folded paper – make sure you count how many there are! Then, fold and press the page together! Open it back up… have you doubled your spots? How many are there all together now?
Challenge three: Doubles scavenger hunt: Can you hunt around your house or garden and DOUBLE your items? For example…. double one sock! Double two apples! Double three shoes! Can you write the number sentence underneath?
Challenge four: Tube and cars experiment: Using plain white paper, can you create a number line 1-20 just like on the picture above? All you need to do is find an old tube of kitchen roll, place it above the paper and send some toy cars down it! Simple! Test how far your car can travel! What number did your car reach? Can you use another car and reach a larger number??
I hope you enjoy your challenges!
I can’t wait to see how many you can complete… have fun!
🌟 Outstanding Home Learners! 🌟
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 8:11am
Another week of Outstanding Learning at home!
Well done to all the children who have been busy completing challenges and work from their home learning packs.
You are all 🌟 Outstanding Home Learners! 🌟
Well done, keep up your good work and keep sending your pictures to: nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Miss Heritage & Mrs Ganner
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 7:28am
Hi everyone,
Let's start our day by singing a days of the week song (a different one today!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loINl3Ln6Ck
What day is it today? Thats right... It's Fantastic Friday! What day will it be tomorrow?
This week, in our Maths learning we have been ordering and sequencing events.
For today's challenge you will need a teddy or toy (doll)!
You are going to help one of your teddies or toys to get ready for bed, by talking through the order and sequence of what they need to do.
What do they need to do first? What do they need to do next?
Talk about all the things your toy needs to do before they go to bed – Have they brushed their teeth? Have they put on their night clothes? Can you read them a bedtime story?
Take a look at the picture below.
With your adult see if you can make a list of the sequence. You can help your teddy by drawing pictures and talking about the order, what comes first? What do they need to do next?
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You could also have a go at this extra challenge this weekend too!
Extra challenge: Draw pictures of activities you do this weekend. Can you use the words first, next, after that and finally to describe the order of what you have done?
Amazing! Well done for all of your super work this week! Keep sending pictures of your learning to: nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
I hope you have a fantastic weekend!
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 7:11am
Good Morning Nursery...Happy Friday!
We have been very busy this week learning about rhyme and completeing lots of rhyming activities.
Today I would like you to play a game with me!
The game called 'I spy'.
CLICK HERE TO PLAY 'I SPY' GAME
Fantastic! I hope you were able to make a rhyming pair by matching my word with the picture that rhymed with it!
It would be great if you can have a go at playing this game at home with your grown up. You could draw some pictures or find some objects and ask your adult to play.
Your grown up can say 'I spy with my little eye, something that rhymes with...(bat)'. Then you can find the picture or object that rhymes with their word (cat)!
I have also attached a rhythm and rhyme home learning challenge sheet for you to have a look at. See if you can complete some of these fun rhyming activities over the weekend too!
Have a great day!
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 3:51pm
Hi everyone, I was just wondering how you are getting along with the CC activity for this week. Look back through the blog if you missed it. Miss Thornton and I are completing a vocabulary course online and one of our tasks this week is to write up what we have understood so far and to use as many key words as possible… so we are having a little competition! Here is a little challenge for you too… how many of the words below you can include in your writing – remember you can present your writing as you wish or maybe you could make a GLOSSARY of this key vocabulary instead.
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 2:53pm
Hello,
I hope you are ready for a challenge. Today we are going to build on the skills from yesterday and focus on finding a quarter and half of an amount. Finding a quarter is even trickier than finding half. Have a look at these links they might help you remember how to do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryGvCNDoAR0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMWa6dDoicc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLxbPQRIyjw
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/go/resource/t-n-2545029-fractions-halves-video
Challenge 1
Draw a picture of a square, circle and rectangle. Can you use a ruler to count the shapes into a half and into a quarter. Colour half of a shape in red and a quarter in blue.
Challenge 2
Get a piece of fruit or a biscuit. break it into half then into quarters.
Thanks
Miss Wolfenden
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 1:59pm
Good afternoon Year 6,
I have just been chatting with Miss Thornton and Miss Kenwell and we are all missing your lovely faces so much! Thank you for sending us in your heart pictures and examples of your learning! You are all keeing so busy-well done!
Here is a little film from way back in November at the IWM -it seems so long ago now! How many familiar faces can you spot?
Missing you all,
Mrs Ranyard, Miss Thornton and Miss Kenwell
#Throwback Thursday!
The Boy at the Back of the Class Chapter 11
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 10:55am
Here is Chapter 11 for you to follow today. I think the narrator of the story is like Felix from 'Once' in so many ways!
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=k9oSlNI
Think about Chapter 12. Using the title as a clue, what do you think the next chapter will be about?
Will he get to ask Ahmet any more of his questions?
Do you think Brenden-the-Bully will play anymore tricks?
Thursday Sentence of the day and phonics
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 9:56am
Good Morning Year 1! Where has all of the nice weather gone! I do hope It comes back soon after all of the plants and birds have had a drink.
Sentence of the day
Here are the answers from yesterday’s sentence of the day
- First fill your flower pot with twigs and dried leaves
- Next find a shady area of the garden
- Then that put some stones in your flower pot to stop it flying away
- After that add some sugar to the pot
- Finally peek inside to see which bugs have visited your hotel
Well done to Kaya who found all of the answers!
Today I want you to look at these sentences and decide if they need a question mark ? or an exclamation mark ! at the end.
Will lots of bugs come to the bug hotel
Do you like bug hotels
Why do the bugs like the bug hotel
What is the bug hotel called
Phonics
Yesterday you had a look at lots of ai words. How many different ways is there to see the ai sound? Write them down and see if you have managed to remember them all. Watch the video to check your answers.
Today you are going to have a look at the ee sound family. Have a look around your house how many different things can you find with the ee phoneme in them? Can you draw and label them?
I have found lots of fun games for you to play on https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/phonics-frog?phase=5 Remember to practice the ee sounds today.
Have fun and don’t forget to send us your learning in, I love seeing all of the amazing things that you’re doing.
Miss Riley and Miss Wolfenden