Four Countries of the United Kingdom

Date: 11th Nov 2023 @ 7:23am

We have been learning about how the UK is made up of four countries! We have been exploring globes, maps and Atlases. We were able to look at a map of the United Kingdom and locate England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland then we created and labelled our own maps. We have also begun to learn about the capitals of these countries by looking at photographs and locating the places using Atlases. We have also learnt a fun song to help us recall the names of the countries and capitals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvDIZoQLgIE

Click on the link and listen to the song!

Three Little Pigs Launch!

Date: 4th Nov 2023 @ 8:14am

We launched our topic of the Three Little Pigs by inviting our parents and carers into school to help us create large houses! We decorated large boxes with the features of the outside of a house using card, sellotape, tubes, straws and pens. Afterwards we labelled the features of the houses. We had lots of fun making the houses and it was the best day ever!

Evil Pea Maths!

Date: 29th Oct 2023 @ 10:35am

Supertato needed to split up 5 Evil Peas because they were causing so much trouble! We explored how to split 10 into two parts using a part whole model. We used Playdoh peas on part whole models, Evil pea characters, bean bags in part whole models outside and different types of maths counters. We found many ways to split the Evil Peas!

 

ESCAPEEEEEA!

Date: 14th Oct 2023 @ 8:27am

One Day at Ravensbury Community Primary, there was something strange going on! In Year 1HB there were many crimes committed! Oh No! There's a Pea on the loose! 

Year 1 have been reading the story Supertato and have been describing the character of the Evil Pea. We have been using adjectives to describe his naughty behaviours such as sneaky, cheeky, unkind and devilish! Take a look at the terrible crimes he committed in Year 1!

 

Freestyle Football!

Date: 13th Oct 2023 @ 12:40pm

Yesterday, we had a very exciting visitor come to visit our school and he was a freestyle footballer called Raz! In our assembly, he demonstrated his amazing tricks which were very exciting to watch! He explained that he trains for 3 hours, 5 days a week! He told us that he never gives up and always keeps trying and that's what we should do when we want to be really great at something! In the afternoon, we all had a chance to learn some super football tricks and we had lots of fun!

   

 

 

 

Evil Veggie Characters

Date: 4th Oct 2023 @ 7:34pm

In writing, we have been reading the story of Supertato! We have been exploring the characteristics of the Evil Pea! We have found lots of prefix words to describe him such as unkind, unfair, unpleasant and unstoppable! We have also generated lots of adjectives to describe his behaviour such as nasty, naughty, greedy, sneaky and cheeky! One of our favourite challenges this week was in the construction area, where we made models of evil characters and then written adjectives and prefix words inside speech bubbles to describe them. Check out our Evil character models!!

Colour Mixing!

Date: 26th Sep 2023 @ 7:54pm

We had our first art lesson with Mrs McGaffer today which was really exciting! We recapped what the primary and secondary colours were and then experimented with mixing the paints using a variety of techniques. First, we chose two primary colors of paint and splodged them onto large sheets of paper and then we used heavy metal rollers to mix the colours. The rollers made exciting mixes of colour on our sheets. Afterwards we chose 3 secondary coloured paints and then used a paint brush to add layers of shapes and patterns over the top. We had lots of fun exploring the mixes of colours and made colourful abstract artwork!

 

Settling into 1HB!

Date: 18th Sep 2023 @ 3:56pm

We have had a fantastic first full week in Year 1! The children are becoming more settled and familiar with our class routines which is great! We have had more time to get to know the children and the teachers have really enjoyed spending this time with them. The children are also getting to know the teachers and majority are checking in as happy or excited on our feelings chart each morning which is wonderful to see!

June 3rd - #30DaysWild – Whole School Challenge 3 🌧☔️

Date: 3rd Jun 2020 @ 8:01am

As you know this month our school is going WILD! Here’s today’s challenge. I found this challenge on the free 30 Days Wild app. You can download it on the App Store or Google Play Store.

Just because it’s raining out there it doesn’t mean you can’t go wild! Get your Peppa on and pull on some wellies to dance in the rain.

Send your photos or short videos in and I'll put them up on our school blog

nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk 

PLEASE BE CAREFUL and make sure you complete the challenges with an adult. 

STAY SAFE, BE ACTIVE, GO WILD!

From Mrs Ganner 

 

Connected Curriculum challenge - How does your garden grow?

Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 10:41am

How does your garden grow?

Last term our Connected Curriculum challenges were all about plants and how they grow.

 

You learned all about how to take care of plants and the things that they need to grow and survive. Some of you also made mini beast hotels and used natural things from your garden to help the mini beasts have a home during this warm weather. You have been able to observe the seasons changing from winter to spring to summer and watch all of the trees and flowers and plants growing and changing with the spring weather.

 

Now it’s your chance to show off what you know and the things that you have learned. It’s up to you how you show us, here are some ideas…

. You could make a poster or an information booklet

. You could make a model garden

. You could plant something outside and do a report on its growth

. You could make a model of a tree showing the seasons changing

. You could draw different trees and flowers and label them

 

It’s up to you what you do, be creative and have fun! Don’t forget to send pictures in of your creations to y1homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

 

Tuesday's maths

Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 9:32am

Today's maths Challenge-Comparing volume and Capacity

We thought it would be a really good idea to take advantage of the last of the sunshine for this week and take the maths learning outside. Today we are going to use water and containers to learn about capacity. 

When we are learning about capacity-how much liquid is in a container, we use words like full, half full, nearly full, nearly empty and  empty to describe how much liquid we can see in a container

Follow this link to find out about the learning for today!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zmytpg8

Challenge 1

Find some containers in the house e.g. pans, cups, dishes and tubs. Fill them up in the paddling pool or in a bowl of water.

Draw the container you have used and how much water it contains. Write the words empty, full, half empty, half full, nearly full and nearly empty to describe how full or empty the container is.

Challenge 2

Ask an adult to write the words empty, full, half empty, half full, nearly full and nearly empty on a piece of paper. Ask them to hold up the words, randomnly . Read the word and fill up the container to match the word.

 

Challenge 3

Which container holds the least and most water in your house? Draw a picture of each container and how much liquid it held.

Thanks

Miss Wolfenden and Miss Riley

Tuesday Sentence of the day and phonics

Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 9:29am

Good Morning everybody, it was lovely seeing all of your learning yesterday!

Sentence of the day

Today’s sentence of the day focusses on our phase 5 phonics. Use the sound mat below to make the correction where I have used the incorrect grapheme.

 

 

One bright mondai afternoon three little snayks slithered and slid through the thick green leeves whilst the boiling sun was shayning down.

Have you managed to correct all of my mistakes? Open the answers box to find out!

 

Phonics

Before you find out todays phonics, let’s recap yesterday’s tricky words. See how many words you can remember from yesterday by playing a quick game of look, say, cover, write.

Look	Look and say	Cover and write	Check
Mr
People
Called
Asked
Their
Oh
Could
Looked
Mrs

 

For our phonics for the next few days we are going to recap our phase 5 sounds. Look at your phase 5 sound mat and go through the different sounds. If you need a little help remembering the sounds then watch the video below and listen carefully to the sounds.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPW-ZkhRUPY

 

Challenge one – Word sort. Today we are just going to practice words with ay sounds in them – so with an ay, a-e, ai.

Here are some words below. Some are in the ay family and some are not. Can you sort the words so that you have a collection of words that have the ay,a-e or ai grapheme and collection of words that do not.

Crayon	Grew	Snakes
Cloud	Baker	Rainy
Trainer	Yesterday	Toenail
Evening	blame	cube

 

Challenge two – Scavenger hunt. Here is a list of things that I would like you to find. Have a look around your house or maybe keep an eye out if you go on a walk. Which things can you find?

Something that looks like a snake
A cloud that looks like it might rain
People playing a game
A pair of trainers
Something you could use as a sail
A female
Something that has been baked
Something with a tail
A snail trail
Something as small as a grain of rice

 

Challenge three – Did you see anything with the ai sound in that wasn’t on my list when you were on your scavenger hunt? Use your phonics to write them down

 

Good Luck! Don’t forget to send any home learning that you are proud of to y1homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

 

Miss Riley and Miss Wolfenden.

Wellbeing challenge check in

Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 9:14am

Good morning!

How did day 1 of our exercise challenge go ? Here's one of our exercise superstars playing basketball.

Well done to you if you also did some exercise !

If yesterday didn't quite happen for you, that's ok . Today is your day ! Let me know how you get on:

Ealhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk 

Mrs Harriott

 

June 2nd - #30DaysWild - Whole School Challenge 2 🐛🌲☀️🕷🐾

Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 8:09am

Hello again,

Just a reminder - This month our school is going WILD! Here’s today’s challenge

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WILDLIFE TRUST WEBSITE

I found this challenge on the free 30 Days Wild app.

Today why not look for signs of new life when you go out for a walk. I saw some ducklings at our local pond over the weekend (see short video) and look closely at the photo. What baby can you see? What is this baby animal called?

 

Send your photos in to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk and I'll put them up on our school blog. 

PLEASE BE CAREFUL and make sure you complete the challenges with an adult. 

STAY SAFE, BE ACTIVE, GO WILD!

From Mrs Ganner 

We have some fabulous photos below, just in from Alissia and Keira. Great bug spotting!

Reading activity

Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 11:12am

This weeks reading activity is to read and listen to one of the songs below. We want you to think about what the words in the song really mean. Look at the lyrics and read or sing them again. 

How is the character feeling in the song?

Are they angry, frustrated, excited?

We want you to to think about why the character is feeling this way.

 You might also find it useful to listen to the music, does that give you any clues about what the character is thinking and feeling. 

Choose one of the songs below and have a listen, you might want to listen to one every day but don't forget to try and read the words to the song as well - these are called lyrics. Don't worry about thinking about all of the words in the song. You can stop the song and talk about it in small parts rather than the whole song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnN6glKaWdE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i66p0_wZ9F0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvIq1aRRw6U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ivNpDnvEvA

Wellbeing challenge 1.6.20

Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 10:51am

Hello and welcome back to the start of our final half term of this school year !

As you know, Mrs Glover has been setting us wellbeing challenges to keep us feeling positive and productive over the last few months. It has been fantastic to look back at all the photos you have sent her showing your creative work!

For the next few weeks, Mrs Glover is lucky enough to be going into school each day to teach as we  start opening up the school to certain year groups, so I'll be setting your wellbeing challenge.

So, here's your challenge for this week:

Can you set yourself an exercise goal for the week and try and do a different  exercise each day? It could be going for a walk with your family, making up a dance , going on a bike ride, jumping on your trampoline, doing an online workout like Joe Wicks or doing 30 star jumps in your kitchen!

Use the chart below to record your exercise each day ( or just write it on a piece of paper if you do not have a printer) and send it in to:Ealhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk . If you would like to share  a photo during the week ,send it in too and I can post it on the blog for others to be inspired to try your idea !

I can't wait to see who can be an exercise superstar!

Mrs Harriott

Monday sentence of the day and phonics

Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 10:31am

Good Morning everybody and welcome back! We hope you all had a lovely week off home learning and took some time to enjoy being outdoors in the sunshine. It has been a lovely week for us, full of walks and reading books in the sunshine but now we are definitely ready to carry on our home learning and see what the next few weeks bring!

 

Sentence of the day

Today’s sentence of the day focusses on our tricky words. I have put a poster below so that you can check the green for growths and make sure all of the tricky words are spelt correctly.

“Oa what a beautiful day, the sun is shining and the birds are chirping” sed Misurs Potts.

In the park the noisy peepul were chatting and they lucked like they were enjoying thair scrumptious picnics from home.

 

Click on the folder to find the answers from today’s sentence of the day!

Sentence of the day answers

Phonics

Todays phonics focusses on the phase 5 tricky words, just like our sentence of the day! Let’s get your brains warmed up and ready for some challenges. Have a look at the words below and play a game of fastest finger with your grown-ups. Ask them to say a word and you need to point to it as quick as you can. Don’t worry if it’s a bit tricky at first, with practice you’ll make progress and get faster and more confident!

Challenge one – Rainbow writing! If you have a dice in your house, nows the time to get it. I not don’t worry, you can write the numbers 1-6 onto pieces of paper and close your eyes and pick a number instead of rolling a dice.

 

Challenge two – This is the quick write challenge! Now that you have practiced reading and writing the words your challenge is to see if you can spell them correctly without any clues. Watch the video below and when the video says a word it’s your job to write it down as quickly as you can. You can check if you have spelt them properly at the end by going back through the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbcZnb2iz1c

 

Challenge three – For challenge three I want you to make me some sentences using the phase 5 tricky words, just like the sentences I made for our sentence of the day. You can make them silly, funny, serious or if you’re really up for a challenge you could see if you can make a story using the different words.

 

Good Luck! We are excited to see your home learning again!

 

Miss Riley and Miss Wolfenden.

Welcome back Year 1

Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 10:16am

Good Morning and welcome back year one! We hope you all had a lovely week off and had a chance to enjoy the sunshine! It has been a lovely week for us, full of walks and reading books in the sunshine but now we are definitely ready to carry on our home learning and see what the next few weeks bring!

 

The home learning will be exactly the same as before the holidays. We will post a maths challenge, a sentence of the day and a phonics challenge every day as well as a reading and writing challenge once a week. You will also get a Connected Curriculum activity to do this term, this will be a bit similar to the end of term homework activities that we send home at the end of every term.

 

There are also lots of ways you can carry on practicing your reading at home. Here are the links to the websites below. If you struggle to get on any of them please just email us and we can try and help you.

https://www.lexiacore5.com/

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/

 

Dont forget to send us in photos of you doing any of the activities that you are proud of and we will make sure that we put them onto the blog for all of your friends to see!

 

Miss Riley and Miss Wolfenden :)

Monday's maths

Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 9:58am

Welcome back!!!

We hope you have had a lovely break and ready for learning. We have spent alot of time getting the year 1 classrooms ready for your return, making sure that each child has got 1 table each and has got resource pack ready to allow each child to work independently, without adult support. 

To make sure that you will be prepared for this way of working we are going to spend the maths session today focussing on writing the days of the week and practicing how to write the long date. We have done this before so do not worry. We just need to get ready for year 2!

Challenge 1

Have a go at reading the days of the week and practice how to write them using the grid below. Just copy the grid into the exercise books.

	Look	Cover	Spell	Check
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

Challenge 2

Can you practice writing the numerals 1- 31?

Use the number square to 50 to help you write the numerals correctly . Practice writing them in the yellow exercise book.

Challenge 3

Practice writing the months of the year in the yellow exercise books

	Look	Cover	Spell	Check
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Challenge 4

Have a go at writing the long date for today.

Happy working!

#30 Days Wild Launch Day ☀️🌲🐾🕷🐛

Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 8:18am

June 1st - #30DaysWild - Challenge 1

Hello everybody,

I hope you had an amazing half term and you’re as excited to be back completing home learning challenges as I am. This month our school is going to go WILD! Yes, that’s right, our mission is to do as many wild things as we can and have fun whilst learning outside. 

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WILDLIFE TRUST WEBSITE

Each day I will put up a wild challenge and you can take a photo of you and your family completing it so I can put it on this blog. 

Here is your challenge for today, see how many wild minibeasts you can find outside:

Send your photos in to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk and I'll put them up on our school blog. 

If you'd like to choose your own challenges download this app:

PLEASE BE CAREFUL and make sure you complete the challenges with an adult. 

STAY SAFE, BE ACTIVE, GO WILD!

From Mrs Ganner 

 

Half term wellbeing challenge

Date: 25th May 2020 @ 11:00am

Hello and happy half term!

I'm not going to be posting a daily challenge for you over half term but here is something you can do  if you like. It's a funny time right now and it's one we may want to look back on in the future to remind oursleves what we did, how we felt and how lucky we are when it's all over. So I've attached a time capsule template for you use so that you can record some of these things, either by writing or drawing it's up to you.

You can either print it out, do it on a computer or just draw our each page for yourself. Do as much or as little as you chooe and feel free to share anything you do on EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Stay safe,

Mrs Glover

celebrations!

Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 10:11am

Let’s Celebrate!

Today is the last day of term before our May holidays. It’s been a very different term than what we expected but we are very proud of all the hard work you have been doing.

Here are some of our outstanding learners this term. You are all superstars so give yourself a round of applause!

 

 

We love these smiling 2D shapes! It’s great getting creative with your maths learning!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This learning is so neat! It looks like these people are going to be experts in measuring when we return to school!

 

 

 

We loved reading this poem! I think it describes Ravensbury wonderfully! It definitely is an excellent place!

 

 

 

 

 

 

This person has been so busy with their phonics!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wonder how many bugs have moved into this bug hotel. I think there will be a spider or two in there by now!

 

 

 

 

 

It’d been a great week to take our learning outside! We love that this person has been practicing their tricky words using bits they have found outside!

 

 

 

We love seeing your wellbeing challenges! It’s so lovely to be thinking about how people help us and how we help them especially in times like these!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This person has been very busy thinking about how many synonyms are in different words! Well done!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It looks like this workbook is getting pretty full! Well done to this person! Another example of beautiful presentation!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well done everyone! We hope you all have a brilliant haf term holiday!

Friday sentence of the day and phonics

Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 9:33am

Good Morning everyone! Can you believe it is Friday all over again?

Sentence of the day

Here are the answers to yesterday’s sentence. If you noticed that I hadnt used a sound mat to write my sentence, then you were correct! Well done!

Wednesday was a glorious day, the sun was shining and the birds were chirping in the tall towering trees.

Have a look at today’s sentence. It’s Friday and I am feeling a little sleepy, so their might be quite a few mistakes in there.

yesterday i tuk a relaxsing stroll to the park. i visited the small pond by the torl warta weeds and wen I looked down I saw hundreds and hundreds of tiny inky black tadpoles_

 

Phonics

Today we are going to start our phonics by recapping our polysyllabic words. Ask your grown up to say some different words with more than one syllable. Can you clap or stomp or chomp out how many syllables that word has?

For today’s phonics we are going back to tricky words. Today we are going to look at a mixture of phase 3, 4 and 5 tricky words. It’s your job to choose the ones that you find most difficult and practice them.

 

Challenge one – Watch the tricky word videos. When the video is finished write down any of the words that you found difficult to read or remember. These will be your own unique list of words to practice today. If there are lots of words in phase 3 that you are unsure of then just practice phase three, you can move onto phase 4 and 5 another day J

Phase 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri4u0TjAZ38&t=18s

Phase 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NOzgR1ANc4&t=6s

Phase 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeIbtzh-ALM&t=23s

There isn’t a phase 5 song online so if you fancy making a phase 5 tricky word song for us all and sending it in that would be amazing! There will be a special prize when we return to school for anyone who makes us a catchy song with music!

 

Challenge two – Now that you have your word list its time to play a game. Today’s game is heads up! For this game you will need a family member who can read the tricky words to play with.

Write the tricky words onto separate pieces of paper. Close your eyes and your partner is going to stick the word onto your head. You need to ask questions to see if you can solve which word is on your head. For example – does it have the letter a in it? Does it have a capital letter?

 

Challenge three – Now that you have played a game to practice recognising your tricky words, it’s time to put them into sentences. Can you write some silly sentences with your tricky words in?

 

Hope you all have a lovely day!

Miss Riley and Miss Wolfenden

Fridays maths

Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 8:37am

Happy Friday!

So this is going to be the last maths lesson for one whole week! We hope you are ready for a challenge. We are going to be doing some problem solving using measures and our knowledge of addition and subtraction. We hope you are  ready for this. The work today is not new but you will need to use all the skills that you have been taught over the past weeks in a different way.

Challenge 1- Addition and subtraction involving measures

1. The shed is 10 m long. Miss wolfenden has been given a bike that is 2m long. Will the bike fit in the shed? How much longer is the shed than the bike?

2. The elephant is 7 m long and 2 m wide. The zoo keeper needs to build a new home for the elephant. How long and wide will the home need to be? The elephants friend wants to share the new home with her. Will the zoo keeper need to change the size of the shed?

3. Gerald the Giraffe is hungry and wants to eat the leaves from the Savanna tree. Gerald is 6m tall and the tree is 12m high. Will he be able to reach the leaves on the tree? Is the tree taller than Gerald, if so how many metres taller?

4. One ladder has 10 steps and is 5m high. Miss Riley bought 5 ladders and joined them together. How tall is the ladder now and how many steps does it have?

5. Seraj, Courteous, Joshua, Kaya, Faiz and YuXiang  got 5 presents each. How many presents on total? Each present was 2ch long. The children made a line with the presents. How long was the line.

Challenge 2

Remeber!  Can you see a number pair to 10?

1.  5cm+ 10cm+ 5cm=    2. 3cm+ 7cm+ 8cm=     3. .6 cm + 8cm + 4cm=    4. 9cm+ 7cm + 1cm=    

Challenge 3- repaeted addition

1. 10cm +10cm + 10cm =            2. 5cm +5cm+5cm+ 5cm+5cm+5cm+5cm=

3  .2cm+2cm+2cm+2cm+2cm+2cm+2cm+2cm+2cm=           4.  5cm + 5cm + 2cm + 2cm +2cm=

5. 10cm +10cm + 10 cm + 5cm + 5cm + 5cm +5cm =

Challenge 4 

1. A chocoalte bar is 14cm long. Harry eats 2 pieces that are 4cm  long in total. How long is the chocolate bar now?

2. Each car is 5 cm long. Zara has 4 cars and puts them in a line. How long is the line of cars? Peter comes along and removes 2 cars, how long are they now?

3. Miss Riley loves to grow plants in her garden. She planted a sunflower that grew 20cm high. Unfortunately, a bird landed on the sunflower and snapped 8cm off it. How tall is it now?

4. Sam loves to eat sausages. he bought a sausage that was 16cm long. He ate 5 cm of it for his dinner. How long is the sausage now?

Happy learning!

Miss Wolfenden and Miss Riley

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wellbeing challenge 21.5.20

Date: 21st May 2020 @ 10:15am

Good morning, I hope you all found some way to enjoy the sunshine yesterday. I sent a lot of time in my garden and I have to admit even though I applied plenty of sun cream, I’m still a little pink! I hope you were all more careful than me.

We’re almost at the end of the week and today is the last kindness based challenge as I have something a little different for tomorrow.

I hope that you have been experiencing some acts of kindness this week as today my challenge is to write a kindness acrostic poem. This is where you use each letter of the word you choose to start a sentence or word.

I’ve attached a file that has a few different kindness words to use for your poem so you can choose one or choose more than one you like! As always if you can’t print then don’t worry, you can write it out on a piece of paper or even type it on a computer like I have.

I have chosen the word caring. Here is my poem.

Cooking for other people

Asking people how they are

Returning peoples phone calls and messages

Interest in what friends and family are up to

Niceness goes a long way!

Going the extra mile for those you love

As always please e-mail your poems to EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Mrs Glover

Past challenges

I'm very impressed with all the origami hearts you've all been making, some of you even made both hearts like I did! Here they are along with some other past challenges.