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Date: 15th Mar 2024 @ 2:09pm
Last week at Ravensbury, we celebrated World Book day. The staff in year 5 came in dressed as characters from our current text - Toro! Toro! It was lovely to see the childrne in costumes celebrating their favourite book characters and others who came dressed for a comfy day of reading.
We began the day by moving all the tables and chairs to the side of the room to make space for lots of arts and crafts! We made book characters from cardboard tubes, including an excellent superhero and cats. We then went downstairs to take part in a parent session of get comfy and read. Thank you to all the parents who joined us. We even saw some groups of chidlren reading to one another which was really heart warming to see.
We also visited year 1 to share some books with the younger children. 5HC always impresses me by their ability to think from the younger children's points of view. They are calm and welcoming and are very happy to read to little ones and engage them as best they can.
Many of the children began the day saying they don't enjoy reading but I think we might have been able to change their minds!
Date: 15th Mar 2024 @ 12:17pm
Friday morning, we took part in a fantastic workshop. We used glue, food colouring, bicarbinate soda and an activator. The first time we picked it up, it was soooooooooooo gooey! Then, after a while of rubbing it in our hands, it turned into a ball of slime!
Have a look at the pictures!
Busy, Busy, Busy in Reception!
Date: 15th Mar 2024 @ 11:24am
Reception have had a very busy week! We celebrated science week with a fun and messy workshop by Sublime Science. We got to make slime and even take it home! We ended our science work celebrations by learning about the seasons of the year and creating our own seasons wheel to show what we learned.
We also enjoyed our CC learning where we explored the works of Andy Warhol. We used stencils and colours to create our own pop art with paint and crayons.
It was busy, busy, busy, but lots of FUN!
Date: 11th Mar 2024 @ 7:56am
On Friday, year 3 celebrated World Book Day!
We begun the day by inviting parents and carers to the hall, to join us in reading lots of different stories. The children loved being able to share their favourite story with the different grown ups.
When we returned to class, we began a puppet challenge - we had to use a cardboard tube, paper and felt tips, to create different animals from the Kapok Tree - which we studied in the Autumn term.
The day ended with a visit to Nursery. We were able to share a story with the nursery children, and listen to a story together. We really enjoyed spending time with different children.
Attached are some photos of our wonderful day.
Date: 10th Mar 2024 @ 4:52pm
On Friday we celebrated World Book Day in great style!
We came to school dressed in our comfy clothes or a dressing up costume. We met our Year 5 buddies from Mrs Caine's class and shared our library books with them. Our grown ups came in the afternoon to share some stories. It was great to see them all enjoying reading for pleasure with their child. In class we used the story 'Where the Wild Things are' to create some clay wild thing faces, we wrote some alternative versions of the story and drew some wild things on a forest background. We also created some book characters using a cardboard tube and craft materials. Phew! We did a lot!!
It was an amazing day focussing on reading for pleasure and understanding the enjoyement reading can bring to our learning.
Date: 9th Mar 2024 @ 3:12pm
Reception have had a jam-packed World Book Day! We all wore amazing costumes, welcomed our grown-ups in to make a whale puppet (from our favourite book, A Storm Whale in Winter) and read some books, and had a visit from the year 4 classes for some more reading. Lots of fun and excitement all day!
Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 4:08pm
We have had a fun-filled World Book Day by celebrating our love of reading in Nursery. This morning we got comfy and listened to stories with our grown ups and the teddies, we have made puppets and this afternoon Y3H came to read us some stories.
Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 3:51pm
Thank you so much to all of the parents who came to school to read with us this morning!
We have had a fabulous day, filled with all the wonders of reading!
We especially enjoyed having Year 4 come to read their stories to us this afternoon.
Have a look at our fantastic costumes below!
Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 1:02pm
We have had a fantastic morning making puppet characters, reading our favourite stories with parents and reading with Reception.
Have a look at the attached pictures and have a wondeful weekend!
4RJ puppets for World Book Day
Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 12:20pm
What a wonderful World Book Day! We started the morning by creating puppets from our favourite texts that we hae either read this year, or read at home! We also had parents/carers reading with us in the hall. We shared a story with RCW. Have a look at the picture of our puppets! Remember to read at home!
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 1:38pm
We had such an amazing day yesterday on our visit at the Manchester Airport Viewing Park!
We climbed aboard the Monarch aircraft and explored inside, we were even invited to the flight deck and pretend to fly the plane like a pilot! We also learned about other roles and responsibilities of the people who work at the airport and got to try on some of their uniforms.
Next we went to see the impressive Concorde, it was huge! We walked underneath it and counted how many wheels it had. We also found out that it flew faster than the speed of sound!
Later on, we loved watching the aeroplanes taking off and landing on the runway. There were alsorts of different colours and they were all very noisy!
We had the best day ever and enjoyed our visit very much!
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Manchester Airport Runway Park visit!
Date: 6th Mar 2024 @ 9:28pm
Today we had an amazing day at Manchester Airport Runway Park. We saw planes landing and taking off on the runway. We went inside some aircrafts and learnt all about the different jobs inside an airport. Whilst on board the Monarch aircraft we were able to imagine we were pilots and sat inside the flight deck.
Our favourite part was going to see the amazing Concorde. We learnt lots of facts about this supersonic aircraft and went up close to the different parts and stood under the Concorde's body.
It was an amazing day and we learnt so many facts about modern air travel.
Date: 3rd Mar 2024 @ 9:28pm
Welcome back after the half term holidays! I can't believe we are half way through Year 1 already!!!
Week 1 was a busy start where we started to look at our new topic called 'How did we learn to fly?' We started to think about what we already knew about transport or flying and created our front covers using drawing skills. In Reading we read the story 'Naughty Bus' and started to think about using our prediction skills and tracking the text. In writing we started to think of questions we would like to ask Naughty Bus and wrote some sentences to match some pictures from the story.
We can't wait for next week when we visit Manchester Airport's Runway Park and celebrate World Book Day on Friday.
Attached is the curriculum overview for this half term.
Date: 3rd Mar 2024 @ 9:20pm
In the last week of Spring 1 we designed and made some hand puppets. We looked at Punch and Judy puppets from the past and thought about how they were made. Then we discussed how to make a hand puppet and chose one design from a bear, dinosaur or princess puppet.
They all looked amazing!!
Date: 3rd Mar 2024 @ 11:47am
Welcome back! Can you believe that we are already half way through the school year?
This week, we begun to explore our new Geography unit "Where are the World's Greatest Waterways?" by exploring many maps and atlases, to locate the rivers 'Yangtze, Amazon, Volga, Nile, Thames, Mississippi.' Can you remember which countries these are in?
Sadly, we were unable to visit the River Medlock due to poor weather - but will make sure to try again over this half-term.
In maths, we begun to explore angles - and identified right, acute and obtuse angles. We particularly enjoyed using our right angle finders, to identify different right angles within our classrooms.
In english, we begun to read 'Tara Binns Mighty Mountain Ranger' and have started to explore persuasive vocabulary in preparation for writing a persuasive letter.
Dates to remember:
Don't forget - on Friday we celebrate World Book Day. You can either come to school wearing something comfy, or dressed as a character from a book.
Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 4:09pm
Welcome back Reception!
We have had a wonderful this week starting our brand new topic 'What comes from an egg?'
We have been looking closely at different types of eggs and the animals that lay them. We have been using information texts to research as scientists! Then we used this information to write Fact Files to share with our friends.
If you would like to find out more about what we will be learning this term, check the Files section to download the half termly overview.
Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 1:22pm
4AK have had a wonderful first week back in school full of learning!
We are so proud of our Sketchbooks so far, have a look at the attached pictures.
Homework has been sent home, please make sure it is completed and returned by Friday 8th March. Continue to read at home and practice your times tables.
Have a lovely Weekend!
Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 11:38am
This week a visitor left us a note asking us to look after some ducklings. The problem was we didn't have any. A farmer called Jeff appeared on Tuesday afternoon with an incubator, brooder, heat lamp, food and a water dispenser. He also had 5 eggs.
What do you think happened? Look at the photos to find out
Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 7:52am
This week, we have begun exploring our enquiry question for this half term's history unit: When and why did the Saxons come to Britain?
We've completed some Anglo-Saxon inspired weaving. These were the design specifications:
- Create and use a card loom.
- Your loom must be A6 sized.
- Your weft and warp must include at least 2 different colours.
- The weft must be made from wool.
- Each weft must be the same size.
Take a look at the results!
Date: 16th Feb 2024 @ 4:20pm
And just like that, the half term is over and we are half way through the year!
This week, we finished editing and improving our non-chronological reports. The children were so knowledgeable and eager to share their learning.
We have also finished multiplying decimals by using our knowledge of place value and have briefly moved on to dividing decimals. I have been so impressed with their understanding of place value and how they can apply it to this type of question. It was a pleasure to teach it!
And we also enjoyed a visit from some Ancient Greeks! We had a full day with them which included a short play about Hades and Persephone, making some clay tiles and learning about the two city states of Athens and Sparta. Surprisingly, most children said they'd prefer to join Athens. We seem to have a class full of actors, philosophers and artists!
Wishing everyone a very enjoyable but restful week off!
'The great wave'-Paolo Terdich
Date: 16th Feb 2024 @ 1:16pm
4AK have had a fantastic learning journey in Spring 1, they are all so proud of their work and achievements. We've been working with Miss Mcaffer this week on some water inspired artwork. We took inspiration last week from 'The Great Wave'. This week, we were inspired by an artist named Paolo Terdich to create some oil pastel artwork and some sketching. Have a look at a few of the amazing pieces that we created.
Holiday homework and the spring 2 overview have been sent out today. Please continue to read and practice your times tables.
Have a great holiday!
Date: 16th Feb 2024 @ 12:14pm
What a busy final week of the half term. We've been working with Miss Mcaffer this week on some water inspired artwork. We took inspiration last week from 'The Great Wave'. This week, we were inspired by an artist named Paolo Terdich to create some oil pastel artwork and some sketching.
Take a look at our pictures on the attached document: you'll agree that it is simply amazing!
Holiday homework has been sent home today too so make sure you get creative!
Remember over half term to stay safe, responsible and respectful, even outside of school!
Date: 16th Feb 2024 @ 11:02am
This week the pirates visited our Nursery. They sailed in on a giant ship and brought treasure and books and clothes for us to learn with.
This morning we realised the pirates had taken all of their things back and they'd stolen our learning from the boards!
We think they've buried the treasure on a sandy desert island. Can you follow the the trail on our treasure maps to find the treasure? Two of the children even created a pirate treasure island in the fiddly fingers area.
Just before you look at the photos, why are pirates called pirates?
Because they arrghhhh! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Date: 15th Feb 2024 @ 8:28am
This week, Reception read the story 'Mr Wolf's Pancakes' by Jan Fearnley.
Just like Mr Wolf, we very carefully wrote our own shopping lists with all the ingredients we would need to make our perfect pancake! We designed out pancake and labelled the toppings we would like. We worked as a team to make the pancake batter smooth. We really enjoyed counting our Numicon to make sure we had enough to 'buy' the toppings for our pancakes! We tasted our pancakes at the end of the day and they were delicious!
Date: 14th Feb 2024 @ 8:09pm
This week in Nursery they discovered a pirate ship in the outdoor area and a big jolly roger flag. The children were very curious as to how it ended up in our playground and had lots of questions to ask. This week we have been learning about under the sea and what animals live there and what a pirate does. The children have enjoyed role playing in the pirate ship and walking the plank. They have also had fun taking part in a floating and sinking challenge and creating their own pirate hats and flags.
A polite reminder that we are a nut free school. Please enure that you do not send your child to school with any snacks etc containing nuts of any kind or nut products in their packed lunch as we have some pupils with severe allergies.
Thank you for your understanding
