: Blog items
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 11:54am
Welcome back 5HC! We hope you have all had a lovely holiday.
Yesterday was the launch of our next connected curriculum topic – Bridges! At first glance, this may not be the most interesting of topics but we have lots of exciting opportunities and activities planned to enhance the children’s understanding.
We will still be linking this to our previous topic of the Victorians. The Victorian period was full of amazing inventors and many created ground-breaking bridges. As part of this, we will be visiting Quarry Bank Mill to research the Industrial Revolution.
Our launch involved making sturdy bridges from spaghetti and marshmallows. The class had a go at creating bridges using triangles – the strongest of all shapes but they children found them harder to create than expected. They may need a little more exploring of bridge types!
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 11:53am
What a fabulous day year 5 had yesterday. We had a very knowledgeable visitor in school to tell us all about the Victorian period and how there were great changes in science and industry.
In the morning, we looked at Victorian inventions such as the electric telegraph and how it was used to send Morse code messages. We found out that people first had their photo taken during that era and we had our photos taken on a lens which was 137 years old!
In the afternoon, we learned about how the steam engine was developed and how everyone was involved in finding the most efficient and safe design. We saw a model of the winning engine called ‘the Rocket’ and we powered it around a small model railway.
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 11:47am
To practise your Spanish at home, why not login into www.linguascope.com?
Ask Mrs.Caine for login details.
Enjoy!
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 11:42am
Year 4 and 5 at Ravensbury School are very lucky to have been given the opportunity to help decorate a bench which is going to be placed in Manchester city centre to encourage people to enjoy and discuss different stories. Yesterday, year explored the book ‘Lost Happy Endings’ with Mrs. McAffer and sketched out some pictures from it. We obviously have some budding artists in this class! Everyone considered the feelings and events in the book very carefully and we had some fantastic discussions about different theories we came up with.
Next week, we will be moving the sketches on to the bench. Watch this space!
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 11:37am
This half term, 5HC are learning about Spain in the connected curriculum. They are realising that it is a fantastic country with lots of exciting and interesting cultural aspects to it.
To give them a ‘flavour’ of Spain and what their learning might include this half term, we started it all off with a super learning afternoon of making patatas bravas. Here are some of the things the children said about it:
“It tasted amazing!”
“I wish I lived in Spain!”
WWII EVACUEES- Mantle of the Expert
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 11:16am
On Thursday, we welcomed a special visitor, Tim Taylor, to school who helped us with our “Mantle of the Expert” exploring through our Connected Curriculum how evacuees would have felt being sent away during the Second World War. Our ideas inspired some descriptive writing as journalists reporting the chaotic scenes from the train stations as children were evacuated. We also acted as a billeting officers to persuade host families to take in evacuees. What a great afternoon in role!
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 11:08am
On our visit to the Stockport Air Raid shelter and museum we went back in time…we arrived as confused evacuee children waiting to be billeted and sent to new host families…but the ARP showed us all the ropes and with plenty of singing and asking questions we were ready!
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 11:03am
Well done to Year 6 who organised fun games and activities for the rest of the school to have a go on to raise money for Children in Need…the final total is still being counted! Watch this space!
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 11:01am
Today we practised asking and answering questions about school subjects in Spanish…what brilliant accents and confidence we are developing! Muy bien.
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 11:01am
Autumn is here! We have really enjoyed collecting materials from the school grounds. Using nature to inspire us to make our own Andy Goldsworty inspired collages. Take a look below.
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 10:59am
We have had a wonderful time using nature to inspire us to make art in the style of Andy Goldsworthy.
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 10:58am
Year 6 we work hard but always make time to play hard too! This week’s Golden Time was great fun! We enjoyed making pom-poms and biscuits; what a treat!
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 10:54am
As part of our Connected Curriculum theme of Survival, we have been acting out the events of our unfortunate cruise: crashing our luxury liner, falling overboard and arriving on a strange uninhabited island. How will we ever survive?
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 10:51am
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Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 10:45am
ON Wednesday we enjoyed the best day ever at Blackpool Zoo! We visited as part of our Science topic on Evolution and Inheritance and we even dined in the Darwin Centre named after the famous scientist Charles Darwin who we have been studying in class. Click the link to find out even more about him. We hope you enjoy our photos!
Miss Thornton’s literacy group-Haunted House Sentences.
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 10:39am
Here is one of our super sentences we wrote together yesterday.
Cautiously, I tip-toed into the silent, shadowy basement because I wanted to find the mysterious, golden key.
We also had a go at writing our own.
Inquisitively, I hurried up the old, spiral staircase but I heard a noise, froze and charged upstairs!
Slowly, I crawled up the old, creaky staircase to find the Ruby Heart.
Quietly, I crept up the old, narrow staircase but when I reached the top a strange force pushed me down.
Cautiously, I ran up the creaky staircase but an old bony hand reached out and pushed me down.
Slowly, I crept up the old narrow stairs but when I reached the top, a pair of hands pushed me back.
Quickly, I crept up the old, narrow stairs but when I reached the top, a dark figure was waiting for me.
Anxiously, I crept up the narrow , creepy stairs but when I reached the top a wolf leapt out and pounced on me.
Silently, I crept up the spiral, narrow stairs, but straight after I had reached the top, the stairs collapsed behind me. I was trapped forever!
Courageously, I crept up the old, putrid-smelling staircase, and when I reached the top, there was a huge Egyptian mirror, with an eye-ball staring straight back at me.
Suspiciously, I tip-toed up the creaky, old stairs because I heard a strange noise coming from the attic.
Cautiously, I stepped into the huge Master bedroom, collapsing at the sight of a ghost! Whist I was unconscious, I dreamt that I stumbled to my grave and was buried alive.
Slowly, I sneaked up the giant, spiral staircase, but suddenly I plummeted down a disguised trap door.
I hope you liked our sentences. Look out tomorrow for our spooky embedded clauses and three part sentences…
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 10:38am
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 10:38am
Here is a copy of an email that we have sent to our favourite author, John Boyne. We hope he writes back soon!
Dear John Boyne,
We are a Year 6 class in Clayton, Manchester and so far we have been enjoying one of your books. It is called The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. We are currently writing playscripts based around your story.
We have several questions what we would love to know the answer to:
1. Who is YOUR favourite author and who inspires YOU to write?
2. Which is the novel you are most proud of?
3. How long did it take you to write The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas?
4. How do you come up with the ideas for your books?
5. Were any of your family involved in the Second World War?
We loved some of your ideas, like when the boys discover they have the same birthday and communicate. We also liked how you talked about Gretel as a Hopeless Case and the name for Father’s study.We also enjoy how the book becomes more intense and emotional.
We look forward to hearing your answers!
Year 6
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 10:36am
Finally, the weather was lovely enough for our kind teachers to take us to Phillips Park as a well-earned treat for all our hard work during the SATs! It was a great morning and we so much fun, including: a lovely game of cricket, playing on the climbing frames and crazy swings as well as just generally relaxing on the grass- catching up and making daisy chains and dandelion puffs! What a fab morning- it made all our hard work worth it!
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 10:34am
Wow what a busy World Book Day!! We started the day with a special assembly so we could all enjoy the different characters that everybody dressed up as…even the teachers dressed up too! We also split into teams and had a fun book quiz while we were there. Then, we returned to class and just enjoyed reading books with our friends as well as enjoying a “special challenge”- Miss Foord always tells us that the most exciting part of a book is supposed to be P.117 so we decided to investigate different books and find out if that page really was the thrilling part of the story. In the afternoon, we took some time to read to the children in Year 3- it was really fun to share books with the younger ones- I hope we get to do that again!
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 10:15am
We have been on a trip to a Hindu temple, we learnt lots about the religion. We saw statues, heard prayers and got to ask lots of questions. We had lots of fun!
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 10:15am
Here we are showing our adults all our reading strategies so they can also help us with our reading!
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 10:14am
In reading and writing we are looking at Rama and Sita, a traditional Indian Story. As us to tell you about the story, we know lots about it!
Date: 15th Mar 2018 @ 10:14am
We have been looking at co-ordinates and using them to translate shapes, find points in all 4 quadrants and even to work out missing co-ordinates on a grid without numbers!
Play these 2 games at home for extra revision. Can you work out the missing co-ordinate?
Can you find the alien? What do you notice about the co-ordinates in each quadrant?
