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Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 11:48am
Good morning year 6, I hope you all a great weekend! I had to venture out to the shops yesterday and it was not very busy so I could get around quickly and get back home safely. We made different smoothies too with frozen fruit and they were delicious.
Have you seen the Heart Video? If not it is on the website and Twitter. It was great to see everyone's faces again.
NOW IT IS YOUR CHANCE!!!
Take a photo of yourself making your heart shape-be creative. Either send it to us via the email or Twitter. Mrs Thewlis has set a challenge to see which year group can get the most responses so let's do this year 6!
@year6ravensbur1
y6homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
An extra challenge for you this morning!
Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 11:21am
It's me again!
Last week, the staff at Ravensbury School decided to make a video creating hearts with our hands. Mrs Thewlis has had a brilliant idea that we should ask the Ravensbury children to create one too - after all, we are all one big family! You could even include the adults and children in your household too! The picture you decide to send in will be posted on the twitter page and on the school blog so don't forget to have a big smile on your face (and maybe even brush your hair).
I have attached my photo so you have an idea of the kind of photo I am expecting :) Dont forget to send your pictures in to y2homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
I have been told that the class with the most photos sent in will win a prize! We all know how competitive I can be!
Miss Hamer
Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 11:12am
We have an exciting challenge for you this week....
All the staff in school have made a little video where we are using our hands/fingers to make a heart shape to show how much we are missing you all.
The video is posted on Twitter but in case you haven't managed to see it I have attached it to this blog. I have also attached a photo of all the EYFS staff making a heart shape to give you ideas.
Your challenge is to create a heart shape using your hands/fingers and send us a photo via the email address: receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Please note that we will be posting these photos on the class blog pages online and on our school Twitter account, so please make sure that you are happy for us to post your photo on these online platforms before sending it to us.
We can't wait to see your photos!!!
Love Mrs Iqbal and Miss Williams
Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 10:58am
Good morning Year 2,
I hope you all had a lovely weekend - I know I did in the sunshine.
It has been great hearing from you all through y2homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Here are a few adjectives (and nouns) I wrote down to describe the bear on Friday:
Hairy, Huge, Scary eyes, black nose and sharp claws.
English challenge of the day
Can you think of some conjunctions to complete the sentences?
I like the rain _______ I can jump in puddles.
I like mash ___ I do not like chips.
I brushed my teeth ___ I went to school.
I am happy ______ my sister bought me flowers.
Maths challenge of the day
Sam invites 20 friends to his birthday. A quarter of them were girls. How many were boys?
Can you think of your own fraction word problems and test an adult in your house?
Weekly reading challenge
This week, I would like you to choose 3 of your favourite books - they could be online or from around the house. I would like you to read them to an adult in your house. Whilst reading, don't forget to look out for conjunctions (and, because, when, so etc) and suffixes (-ly, -ed, -est ect).
Weekly vocab challenge
Last week I asked you to find out the meaning of the words reuse, waste and composting. I would love to hear how you got on. This week I would like you to find out the meaning of the words biodegradable, Global warming and environment. I would like you to write the words down on seperate pieces of paper, put them in to an envelope or fold them up and while you are having your breakfast, take turns with an adult to choose a piece of paper and see if you can make as many sentences as you can with that word in.
Miss Hamer's connected curriculum challenge
Whilst I was on my daily walk this weekend, I felt very upset to see how much rubbish is left scattered around the environment. I decided to take some pictures to share them with you all. With an adult, I would like you to discuss the pictures and decide what objects you think are not biodegradable and why. Can you take pictures of objects on your daily walk?
Miss Hamer
Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 10:55am
As you may have seen on the school twitter, or website, the staff at Ravensbury have created a video of us all creating a heart with our hands. Doesn't it look amazing? I was so happy that I had just straightened my hair when Mrs Thewlis asked for a photo! It was very good timing.
Now it is your turn. Can you send a picture of yourself (or yourself with your family!) creating a heart with your hands? I've attached one of some of the year 5&6 team to give you some ideas (you may not recognise me with my hair down! I'm the middle one on the right hand side 
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If we get enough photographs, Mrs Thewlis hopes to create a 'heart video' for each year group, or perhaps the entire school, so that we can see our friends again.
Please note, that the picture you send will be posted on the class blog and twitter page, so make sure that you are happy for it to go on there before you email us.
y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
I can't wait to see what you send us!
Miss Brookes
Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 10:38am
Good morning Mrs Harriott and everyone,
I had a nice weekend thanks. I had a few Zoom chats with different friends, went on some nice walks with my husband and even did a bit of sunbathing. I also made some lemon and orange creams which I've added a picture of below. I've been learning Spanish too and it's getting better but it's very tricky! I've always thought our EAL children were amazing but I'm now realising how very clever you all actually are!
Like Mrs Harriott I've also been discovering some new places that I didn't know existed including some lovely green spaces and pretty canal walks. It's definitely one of the positives of this lock down as well as having more time to bake, exercise, learning new things and being able to relax more with my husband and my bunnies (I've added a recent picture of them too below). Of course the main negative is not being able to go to school every day and seee all of our fantastic children and we really are missing you all.
Oh dear, Mrs Harriott asked me about the different birds I can see or hear near my flat but I'm not very good at identifying birds at all! I do like hearing them through the window when I wake up though and sometimes they like to perch on my balcony, especially since I've planted some lovely flowers on there. I think I've seen and heard robins, blackbirds and pigeons (we have a lot of those in Manchester city centre!) but I daresay there'll have been a fair few others as well, expecially on my walks.
Exciting news!
We've asked our technical expert Mrs Thewlis about setting up an EAL home learning address which you can use to keep in touch with me and Mrs Harriott and she's going to set it up for us hopefully this week so look out for updates about that as we would absolutely love to hear from you all!
Stay safe,
Mrs Glover
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Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 10:02am
I hope you watched ‘What’s in the box?’ last week. If you didn’t get chance then take a look now to see if you can use the clues to guess our new theme!
Can you think of any books that we might be looking at?
Did you have a guess? Well done if you did!
Our theme for the next couple of weeks is planting and growing!
Here is a picture of the front cover of the book we will be looking at this week.
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With your adult have a look at the front cover of the book and talk to your grown up about what you can see (Remember to speak in sentences ‘I can see…’)
Can you point to the title and read it by pointing to the words (Remember to point from left to right)
Talk about the picture: Who is the character? What is he holding? What do you think he is going to do?
Amazing!
Now click on the link below and listen to Miss Heritage reading the story to you!
Following the story, use the photographs and vocabulary mat below to talk about and respond to the story:
Talk about what Jasper wanted to do.
What did he need (tools/gardening equipment)?
What did Jasper do first, next etc?
Encourage your child to talk about what Jasper did on each day.
Talk about how Jasper felt at different parts of the story e.g. happy, excited, bored, sad etc. How do you know he was feeling that way? Can you find a picture to show how he was feeling?
What did Jasper do at the end of the story? What was he looking for?
Do we know any other stories about beanstalks and giants?
Think about what you would like to see at the top of the beanstalk.
Can you draw a picture of what you would find at the top?
Fantastic! I hope you enjoyed this book. I have put another link here for you to watch, listen and join in with the story again. You can repeat the words after each picture!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da6lxY_8jmU&t=18s
Have fun!
Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 8:50am
Morning everyone ! Hope you have had a lovely weekend and were able to get out and enjoy the sun on a walk, bike ride or in your garden if you have one.
What did you get up to over the weekend? I explored the paths around my house with my family - we went on a walk on Saturday and on Sunday we went on a bike ride. We found some amzing new places that we never knew existed!
I also sat in my garden and listened to see how many birds I could see or hear like Mrs Glover suggested. How many birds can you hear or see where you live Mrs Glover ? I could see 12 different types of birds (a robin, a blackbird, a jay, blue tits, long tail tits, a crow, jackdaws, magpies, a song thrush, a dunnock , a nuthatch and surprisingly a few sea gulls).
How many birds can you see or hear near where you live ? Let us know - we love to hear from you!
New Covid 19 section on Website
Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 8:28am
Good Morning Nursery and Reception,
We just wanted to show you a new section on our website...If you go to the home page at the top you will notice a tab called Covid 19. You can see it in this image:
When you hover over the top of the tab you will see different sections called:
Home learning Nursery and Reception
Home Learning KS1 (Year 1 and 2)
Home Learning Lower KS2 (Year 3 and 4)
Home Learning Upper KS2 (Year 5 and 6)
Click on the section called Home Learning Nursery and Reception. This will take you to a part of the website where it will give you lots of information about how you can support your child at home in these year groups. As you scroll down this section you will find the nursery and reception email addresses so that you can continue to send in your photos and work to your child's class teacher.
At the bottom of this section you will see images like this:
When you click on a image it will take you to that website where you can play games and find other activities to keep your children busy during this time of home learning.
There is a new website called 'Oak National Academy' which is made up of about 40 teachers teaching lessons in various areas. When you go into the website click on schedule and choose reception to see the lessons that are on offer. These web links are additional things that you could use alongisde the daily activities that we are putting up each day on the class blogs.
Any questions please don't hesitate to email us.
From Nursery & Reception Staff
Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 8:25am
Good Morning Reception!
Whilst we are learning about minibeasts, I thought it would be a great idea to build our wriggly friends a WORM HOTEL!
You will need:
Large glass jar
Sand
Potting soil
Dark paper
Sellotape
3-4 big healthy earthworms
Water
Method:
1. With an adult create a layer effect in the jar, using sand and soil.
2. Start by pouring about 1 inch of sand into the bottom of the jar.
3. Then alternate between 1 inch layers of sand and soil until the layers reach the top of the jar.
4. Pour some water on top of the layers and then put the earthworms on top.
5. The earthworms should start to burrow downwards straight away.
6. To keep the outside of the jar dark, stick your dark paper around the outside of the jar.
7. Leave the top off the jar so that the worms can get some air.
8. Leave the jar to 3-4 days then pull the paper off.
Have the worms moved through the jar?
Can you still see layers of soil and sand?
As the worms have travelled, they have mixed all of the layers together!
Have fun! I cannot wait to see your creations! The worms will love them! 
Monday sentence of the day and phonics
Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 8:21am
Good Morning. I hope you all had a lovely weekend! We are really looking forward to all of your learning this week and can’t wait to see all of your pictures of you busy with your activities!
Sentence of the day
Here is Friday’s sentence of the day. I quite enjoyed improving this sentence with my purple pen.
Here are some examples of children who improved their sentences too…
Today you are going to be a detective, get out your magnifying glass and put on your detective hat. You are going to go on a capital letter and full stop hunt! Where does it need capital letters and full stops? Are there any capital letters and full stops in the wrong places?
Send your new answers to the email at the bottom so that we can post them on the blog tomorrow!
Phonics
Today’s phonics is all about those tricky words again. In your home learning packs you have all of the tricky words that you need to have a practice. Practice reading them, writing them and playing games with them.
There are lots of tricky words games on https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/tricky-word-trucks like the tricky words trucks game.
If you don’t fancy going on your tablet or computer today why not try and make a game of tricky word hopscotch. Play with your family, who can cross the words out the quickest?
Hope you have a lovely day. Don’t forget to send your learning into us – y1homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Miss Riley and Miss Wolfenden
Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 8:14am
Good Morning Reception!
I hope you have had a lovely weekend and had lots of fun enjoying the warm weather!
Who is ready for some Monday Maths??
Let’s begin with our maths warm up songs….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TgLtF3PMOc&t=3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGetqbqDVaA
Now that we are all warmed up for our maths learning, let's have a go at the starter questions below.. (If you completed the doubling activities on Thursday you should be an expert at working out the first question!)
Well done!
Today we are going to focus our learning on HALVING and SHARING.
Halving is when we share quantities into two equal groups! We use the words ‘fair’ and ‘not fair’ to work out if our quantities have been shared equally.
Take a look at the ‘Show Me’ video below to help you understand halving a little bit better!
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=LGWMJXc
With your adult at home, can you work out how to help Jenny and Penny half the pears so that it is fair?
There are also links to other halving challenges below for you to take part in at home (a lot of them involve food – yum!!)
Have fun and don’t forget to send in pictures of your learning at receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk!
Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 7:19am
Are you ready for some Maths learning today?
Let’s remind ourselves of the shapes we know and spot the shapes in the pictures using the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJhfl5vdxp4
Now that you have listened to the shape song, take a look at the ‘I spy’ picture below:
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I spy with my little eye… can you find a circle, square, triangle, oblong?
What other shapes can you see?
Did you spot lots of shapes? Fantastic!
Today’s challenge is to go on a shape hunt around your home or outside and try to find:
A circle
A square
A triangle
An oblong
Maybe you could take a picture of your shape hunt and the objects you find and send them to: nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Happy hunting!
Date: 26th Apr 2020 @ 9:33pm
Good Morning everyone!
Our Connected Curriculum this half term is Climate Change, and more specifically, ‘How is Clayton connected with the global community?' This is a really exciting topic looking at the world and how we can find a way to do our part to help…I’m sure that you will all find out lots of interesting facts to share.
I will post a different CC activity each week on the blog for you to complete at a time that suits you best during the week.
This is also a chance to get creative in how you want to present your work… draw pictures, make posters or mind maps, write letters of fact files, make models or create PowerPoints and videos to showcase your learning!
So… TASK 1
This week’s task is to research climate change-What does it mean? How does it affect our world? What are the main causes? Is there anything being done to combat climate change?
You can present you work as you wish... perhaps a powerpoint or mind map or maybe video your own newsround clip to present your ideas for your younger viewers!
Here are some useful video clips to help get you started…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z849q6f/articles/z7dkhbk
(try the little quiz after the clip- see how you get on)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/34961514
I have also attached a ppt to give you extra information- good luck!
Don't forget to send pictures or videos of what you have created to y6homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk or our class twitter page we love to see what you are doing- it really makes our day!
Have a lovely day,
Mrs Ranyard, Miss Kenwell and Misss Thornton
Date: 24th Apr 2020 @ 4:20pm
Good afternoon everyone!
What a lovely way to celebrate the end of the week - showing off some amazing learning! It has been so nice to hear from so many of you via email this week. Please keep it up, both myself, Mrs Hodges and Miss Gallery miss you all very much and it's lovely to see what you are doing!
Thank you to Maddison, Lilly-Anne, Alissia and Rhianna for your emails!
Well done to those children who have been completing reading challenges on Reading Plus! A very big well done to Rhianna who has read over 12000 words! Keep it up Rhianna!
We have a whole range of activities that have taken place - growing tomatoes, learning Spanish and science and writing postcards!
Have a look below and see what 5HW have been doing!
Date: 24th Apr 2020 @ 4:01pm
It's time to celebrate all of the hard work you have done this week. Well done 5CB, I'm very proud of you!
We are winning timestable rockstars so far - we're just over 2,000 points ahead of 5HW! Well done!
A huge congratulations to the children who completed this week's reading challenge by managing to read 3 or more books! You are all owed a hot chocolate when we go back to school.
The winners are:
Sam (with 10 books!)
Denico (with 8 books!)
Dylan (with 4 books!)
Victoria (with 3 books!)
Tia (with 3 books!)
You only had to read 3 books, so well done everyone. Remember, the aim is to try and score 80% in all of the comprehension questions.
Thank you for everyone who has emailed pictures of their to me this week - and it's lovely to see some of you completing the wellbeing challenges as well!
I have to say, Jennifer's GVP made me laugh because all of her sentences were about the spider that attacked me! (Thankfully it was very small, and I didn't drop the IPad!) Below are some pictures of the amazing work I have seen.
Well done to the following children, who are also oustanding learners this week:
Jessica
Jennifer
Angelica
Jackson
Denico
I can't wait to see more of your wonderful work next week!
Have a fabulous weekend 5CB, you thoroughly deserve it!
The Boy at the Back of the Class Chapter 8
Date: 24th Apr 2020 @ 3:48pm
Good afternoon year 6! What a lovely day it is. Well here is your final instalment of the story for this week and I think it is starting to get really exciting. This chapter is very long and to be honest I found it quite tricky reading it all in one whole recording!! Sorry for any mistakes I made, I was getting slightly distracted by my tortoise scratching away next to me. I think he likes the story too! 
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=9Bkkejg
After reading/listening, can you write down any similarities in this chapter to our last book 'Once' and Felix's life? (Text to Text)
Prediction- What do you think will happen the next day at school? (A clue- The next chapter is called 'The Big Fight'.
Remember to share your answers with us on our year 6 Twitter page or using our year 6 email address, we'd love to hear from you!
Have a lovely weekend-Stay Safe and Stay at Home!
Date: 24th Apr 2020 @ 12:15pm
What a start to the Summer term in Reception!!!
We are amazed at all the things that you are doing with your grown ups. Well Done everyone!!!
Find the video below and watch some of our Superstars and their work... Why not dance along to our celebration song from our Friday Celebration Assembly!!!
Date: 24th Apr 2020 @ 11:54am
Hello,
We hope you are ready for another maths challenge today. Today we are going to focus on counting in steps of 10. Remember to put the date in your workbook and use a ruler to underline it!
Follow this link to help you remember how to count in steps of 10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gmEe0-_ex8&vl=en
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftati8iGQcs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd5DBkP9avw
Challenge 1
10+10= 20+10+10= 30+10+10= 40+10= 50+10= 60+10= 80+10= 100+10=
Challenge 2
80-10= 90-10= 100-10= 40-20= 50-10= 20-10= 30-10= 60-10= 70-10= 10-10=
Challenge 3
Tom bought 20 oranges and James bought 10 more. How many altogether?
Jenny saw 10 planes and 10 trains. How many altogether?
There were 40 puppies in the vets. Ten more came. How many altogether?
Miss Wolfenden bought 60 cakes and then ate 10. How many left?
Date: 24th Apr 2020 @ 11:33am
Lets celebrate!
It's Friday which means it's time to celebrate! We are so so proud of all the amazing learning that you are doing at home. It is so lovely to see your pictures and your smiling faces sent to us every day.
Here are our Super star learners this week...
Look who lost their tooth this week! You look like you have been working very hard, maybe it's your new haircut!
Look whose busy with their home learning! Great job!
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Another busy bee doing all of his home learning! We love your picture of a Spring chick!
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Another child with a big smile on his face! That cake does look yummy!
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Wow look at all of those number sentences! What a superstar!
Look who looks so grown up doing her home learning! Amazing!
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Another person enjoying this lovely sunshine and taking his learning outside! I hope you saved that penalty!
Don't forget to send us pictures of you doing all your amazing home learning and different activities at home and you might be one of our Superstar learners next week!
Well done everyone,
We miss you, stay safe
Miss Riley and Miss Wolfenden xx
NEW LINKS!!! The Oak National Academy
Date: 24th Apr 2020 @ 11:22am
Hi year 6, I really want your opinion on this new link we would like to try. Today I am going to post one English reading task and a maths task and would really like you to have a go and see what you think.
https://www.thenational.academy/year-6/maths/representing-fractions-year-6-wk1-1/
Don't worry I will still put on Chapter 8 from The Boy at the Back of the Class!!
Date: 24th Apr 2020 @ 11:00am
This is my favourite part of the week!
Firstly, I want to thank you ALL for all of your hard work this week. You have all been superstars!
I have had some brilliant pictures sent in this week from Queenster, Hao yu, Oscar, Andrew, Kimora and Tianah so well done for sharing your at home activities. Here are a few examples of what you have all been up to this week. It is great to see that some of you have started your recycling and science challenges. Keep up the hard work Year 2.
Miss Hamer
Date: 24th Apr 2020 @ 10:18am
24.04.20 Good Morning Year 4
Morning Activities
Write down your work in your exercise book. Remember to check your answers tomorrow!
Yesterday’s Answers:
- “It is such a long way,” sighed Oliver. (total 6)
- Miss Bryce asked, “Has everyone completed their homework?” (total 7)
- Lilly whispered urgently, “We’ve got to go now!” (total 6)
Now try: Fluent in 5:
Sentence of the Day
Add the missing punctuation and capital letters in these sentences and correct the Year 3/4 spellings:
- my faverate flavour of ice cream is caramel chocolate and vanilla (total 4)
- this is a very inporrtent announcement (total 3)
- that partikuler tree is over one hundred years old (total 3)
Date: 24th Apr 2020 @ 10:06am
Good Morning Year 5!
Every week I am seeing more and more of you on Reading Plus! Well done to you all for working so hard. The winners this week for reading the most books, and the most words are:
Most Lessons Completed: Sam (at 10 books! Well done)
Most Words Read: Rhianna (12,596 words! Goodness me! Is there a favourite 'new' word you discovered?)
5HW have 5 wins so far, whereas 5CB have 3. Come on 5CB!
Don't forget to check your individual class blogs later today, where we will announce who has successfully completed this weeks reading challenge.
Well done everyone,
Miss Brookes
Friday sentence of the day and phonics
Date: 24th Apr 2020 @ 9:29am
Can you believe it’s already Friday? This week has flown by and we have loved getting back onto the blogs and seeing all of your amazing home learning! Check back on the blog later and we will have our very own Year 1 celebration of all the fantastic things you have been doing at home!
Sentence of the day
Here are some pictures of children who managed to find the nouns in yesterday’s sentence. Well done! Here is a picture of the sentence with all of the nouns underlined. Remember a noun is a person, a place or an object.
Today’s sentence is going to have a little bit of everything we have done this week. I want you to find ways that you can make my sentence better. It might be missing capital letters, it might need some question marks. Maybe you could add some adjectives in before the nouns to make it more interesting.
Phonics
I loved seeing your phonics activities from yesterday. Watch the tricky word video again to check if you can remember them today …
Today’s phonics focuses on the oo sound family.
In your home learning packs you have some games and activities which all focus on the oo sound family. There are also lots of games on https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/ (your username and password is in the home learning pack) Use these activities as a start point and then I have a challenge for you.
I want you to design and make your own game. The game must be all about those oo sounds. You could have a snakes and ladders game with different oo words on the different squares. Maybe you want to write down as many words with the different oo sounds in them and play a game of snap or pairs. You could even play oo sound bingo!
I can’t wait to see the games that you have made! Just remember they must have the oo sounds in them!
Good Luck and don’t forget to send pictures of you playing your games to y1homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk