: Blog items
Date: 11th May 2018 @ 2:49pm
Welcome to our new EAL blog. Watch this space for our latest EAL news!
Date: 11th May 2018 @ 2:49pm
We are busy practising our performance skills for our summer production ,’Through the Decades at Ravensbury’. We are looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday 12th July for the show !
Date: 11th May 2018 @ 2:49pm
We are looking forward to starting a new school year at Ravensbury. We have lots of exciting things planned and can’t wait to get stuck in!
Miss Smith & Mrs Harriott
What did you do during the holidays?
Date: 11th May 2018 @ 2:48pm
This week we got to play a game where you had to say what you did during the holidays using the past simple. We played four-in-a-row. Well done to all our players!
Working together on some new language for maths.
Date: 11th May 2018 @ 2:47pm
Date: 11th May 2018 @ 2:46pm
This week, we tasted different foods to help us think of words to use in our descriptive writing. Some foods were sour, some were salty, some were bitter and some were sweet. The Marmite smelt very strong so we only tasted a little bit of it. Our favourite foods were sugar and lime – delicious!
Reading and building sentences
Date: 11th May 2018 @ 2:46pm
We have recently been working on reading and building sentences with pictures and high frequency words.
We read the sentence on the board and found the words/pictures in the tray…
…then we put them in the right order…
…next we brought the sentence over to check…
…and finally we checked our skills against the success criteria!
We did some good looking, good pointing, saying what you see and going back to check. Great job!
Date: 11th May 2018 @ 2:44pm
This week, Year 6 have been reviewing their understanding about the Blitz.
First we looked and some pictures and had a discussion about what we think happened. We were able to use and practise our pronunciation of some new vocabulary, such as “Luftwaffe” and “Anderson shelter”.
We also matched some pictures and captions to consolidate our knowledge.
We did it! Well done, Year 6!
Do you know what the “Luftwaffe” was? Ask a Year 6 student!
Exploring the features of a newspaper article
Date: 11th May 2018 @ 2:44pm
This week Y6 have been exploring the features needed to write their own newspaper article. What do you think they found out?
Practising reading and spelling words with split digraphs.
Date: 11th May 2018 @ 2:43pm
Year 2 counting syllables and segmenting
Date: 11th May 2018 @ 2:42pm
Quick Quiz (answers at the bottom!)
1. Can you count the syllables in the word “alligator”?
2. Can you segment the word “frog”?
This week, Year 2 started working on animals in preparation for next term’s topic.
First, we counted the number of syllables on our fingers…
…or by clapping…
…and then we sorted the animal names into syllable groups.
We even fed the “box monster” some animals. Sometimes the box monster wanted 2-syllable animal names and sometimes it wanted 3-syllable animal names. What a hungry box monster!
Later in the week, we segmented the animal names by moving our hands to help us with our spelling.
Super work, Year 2!
ANSWERS:
alligator = 4 syllables (a-lli-ga-tor)
frog= f-r-o-g
Date: 11th May 2018 @ 2:41pm
Mrs Harriott and Miss Smith hope you have a safe and restful winter break. We look forward to seeing you in January 2018!
Date: 11th May 2018 @ 2:41pm
We have got some exciting learning planned for the start of 2018 including a workshop for parents !
Watch this space for further details…
Date: 11th May 2018 @ 2:40pm
Mrs Harriott and Miss Smith are pleased to announce the first EAL parent coffee morning!
Date: Wednesday 17th January 2018
Time: 9:00-9:30am
Place: Ravensbury Community Room
We are excited to meet you all!
Date: 11th May 2018 @ 1:59pm
This week, Year 4 have been reading a text about the Tudors called “Under the Rose”. There were lots of difficult words! First, we circled the words we didn’t understand, then we annotated them by writing notes about what they mean. Finally, we made a matching game to help us practise the new words. Super ideas, Year 4!
Date: 11th May 2018 @ 1:57pm
We hope you have an enjoyable and restful half term holiday, and everyone celebrating Chinese New Year has a wonderful time! We are looking forward to seeing you back on Monday 26th February.
Date: 11th May 2018 @ 1:56pm
We enjoyed seeing everyone dressed in their favourite book character’s costume today. Can you guess who we were?
EAL Coffee Morning: Home Learning Support
Date: 11th May 2018 @ 1:56pm
A big thank you to all the adults who came to our EAL Parent Coffee Morning. This week we talked about Home Learning Support. We shared some excellent ideas!
We look forward to seeing you at the EAL Home Learning Club withMiss Smith on Monday 26th April, 3.30-4.15pm in classroom 4LK.
The next EAL Coffee Morning will be Wednesday 25th April at9:00am.
Date: 26th Apr 2018 @ 2:03pm
As part of science week we investigated circuits as part of our electricity topic. We worked out how the brightness of the bulb changed by increasing the amount of bulbs and batteries in the circuit…
Denico:
“First we made a simple circuit and then we added another bulb and I noticed that bulbs became dimmer. When we added two batteries and one bulb, the light was much brighter. “
Date: 26th Apr 2018 @ 2:00pm
We spent an afternoon learning how to use oil pastels effectively to create stunning landscape drawings of Castleton. We are really excited that we’re going to be visiting this rural landscape next week as part of our Creative Curriculum work this half term.
Date: 26th Apr 2018 @ 1:56pm
We have had a fantastic time celebrating World Book Day today!
We were lucky enough to have some generous adults come in to read with us as part of our ‘Share a Story’ activity and we then got to go and share our stories with different children from around the school.
Check out our brilliant and creative outfits…
Date: 26th Apr 2018 @ 1:51pm
We had such a good day for World Book Day, we shared our favourite books and characters with other children in school.
In our class we had a quiz to test our book knowledge. It was so much fun competing against each other. Each group did extremely well and got more than 10 answers correct. The winning team was the princesses and the hero! well done!
Date: 26th Apr 2018 @ 1:50pm
Today 2JB went to Beijing.
We all had boarding passes and travelled on a plane, we had to go through security and baggage claim. Once we arrived in China we had a guided tour around the famous landmarks of Beijing. We visited the Great Wall of China, the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace and the Birds Nest Stadium. It was so much fun! We then took a quick flight home in time for our parents to pick us up at home time.
Date: 26th Apr 2018 @ 1:45pm
On Friday 16th March, Year 2 investigated what happens when you mix milk, food colouring and washing up liquid together.
Fist we carefully poured milk onto a plate.
Then we dropped different coloured food colouring on to the milk. We used orange, blue and pink food colouring.
Next we put a cotton bud the was covered in washing-up liquid into the centre of the plate.
Our Results
We observed how the food colouring moved around the plate when we touched the milk with the cotton bud. This is because the milk contains fat, the washing-up liquid bonds with the fat in the milk and the food colouring is pushed out because the bond is so strong.
Date: 26th Apr 2018 @ 1:42pm
In Year 2 we used our scientific enquiry skills to predict what would happen when we used food coloring in milk to make dancing fireworks. We investigated the impact of the amount of washing up liquid to really get things moving.