Year 6RW: Blog items
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 8:10am
What a busy week it has been at Ravensbury. From part day to Christmas dinner! In the midst of the festive joy, some year 5 and 6 children visited Winter Wonderland on Wednesday. Have a look at some of the pictures!
Date: 12th Dec 2024 @ 11:34am
Years 5 and 6 performed their Christmas songs at St Cross Church today. The children sounded wonderful, especially with the acoustics in the church. Thank you to all parents and carers that came!
Date: 3rd Dec 2024 @ 7:09pm
Some of out fabulous year 6 children have been working alongside Rosie, a dance instructor, to refine their street dance skills! Here are some pictures from their performance this week. Thank you so much to the parents, carers and staff who came to watch an cheer on the children. They were amazing! Have a look at our Facebook page to see some videos. Well done to our dancers!
Year 6 trip to Stockport Air Raid Shelter
Date: 29th Nov 2024 @ 4:31pm
On Thursday, Year 6 made the trip back in time to 1941 to visit the air raid shelters in Stockport. Opened in 1939, the shelters were the largest purpose-built civilian air raid shelters in the country designed to provide shelter for up to 3,850 people. They were extended in 1940-41 to accommodate 6,500. People travelled from all over the country for the chance to remain safe during the Blitz attacks on Britain.
Y6 got to experience first-hand what daily life was like in 1940s wartime Britain. They completed chores, sang songs and even had to 'make do and mend'! Then, they took a trip down the mile-long network of underground tunnels. We got to see what happened during an air raid, what people experienced and how being underground saved thousands of lives.
Have a look at our fabulous photographs taken on the day! More photgraphs will be uploaded next week!
Date: 24th Nov 2024 @ 10:16pm
We have really enjoyed learning all about life during the Second World War this term and how the people of Britain survived during the time known as the Blitz. We have completed extra research at home and produced some wonderful drawings, models and projects based on this.
Year 6 work hard at school and at home! Well doneYear 6!
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Date: 17th Nov 2024 @ 10:17pm
Next week we are heading to Stockport for the day to visit the war museum there and to spend time in the underground shelters which provided a safe place for the people of Manchester to take shelter from Hitler's bombs. We are really looking forward to our visit and finding out even more about what life was really like for the people of Manchester during the Blitz.
Check back for some pictures of our visit...
Date: 30th Oct 2024 @ 7:18am
Just before the half term holidays, Year 6 joined Nursery for a Harvest Celebration. The Nursery children had been learning about how farmers harvest the food during Autumn. They also found out why farmers use scarecrows. Nursery loved the scarecrows so much that they learned and then performed a song and dance about them to the older children.
Click on the link to sing along to Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
Knowing how much Year 6 like to dance, the Nursery children then paired up and danced a Samba! Harvest Samba
The younger children loved sharing their learning with Year 6 and we hope to do it again very soon. Thank you Year 6 for being an amaxing audience and for looking after us.
Date: 6th Oct 2024 @ 6:05pm
Year 6 are off on an exciting adventure this week...we are headed to Lake Windermere for our residential trip to Ghyllhead. We are so excited! We are looking forward to all the challenges and fun activities we will take part in. Have a sneak peak of some of the things we will get up to!
Date: 1st Oct 2024 @ 6:16pm
Year 6 has been reading Goodnight Mr Tom- a story set during WWII and is about a boy, Willie Beech, who is evacuated from London and sent to live in the countryside with a Tom Oakley a grumpy old man.
We have also been researching about evacuation during the war and have found out lots of information:
- the operation was called "Pied Piper"
- one and a half million children were evacuated
- the childen were called evacuees
- they were sent to live with "host families"
- a billeting officer collected them from the train station and took them to their new homes
- the governement had to persuade mothers to send their children away fromthe cities as they were relucant to do so
Watch the clip below to see what it was like for families to be split up during the war...
Date: 1st Oct 2024 @ 5:58pm
We have been busy the last few weeks reading and researching all about the Second World War. It has been a really interesting topic and we have been busy collecting all our ideas down in teams ready to write our own information texts later this week.
What was the cause of the second world war?
Date: 13th Sep 2024 @ 5:15pm
Year 6 launched their new history learning this week; we are going to be asking the question...
What was the cause of the second world war?
We listened to Neville Chamberlain's (the Prime Minister in 1939) declaration of war and thought about how we would feel if we heard that today. We decided that it felt very unnerving and made us all worried about what the future could hold. We imagined ourselves as children in 1939, and thought about the impact on our lives.
Click on the link below and listen to Neville Chamberlain's speech. How do you think you would feel after hearing this news?
https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/september/war-announced
Have a look at our knowledge organisrer below to see what we will be learning in history this half term!
We are a rights respecting school!
Date: 6th Sep 2024 @ 4:02pm
What a busy first week it has been for year 6 this week. We've launched the use of recognition boards in class which have a different focus each day. We have focus on transitions and being in the different focus areas this week. In addition, we have joined Ravensbury's journey to be a rights respecting school. We have discussed what rights that we have as children and how we can resepct our rights. As part of our learning about children's rights, we each created a haiku poem based on a text called 'Every Child a Song'. Please have a look at the attached pictures.
A reminder that PE days are Monday and Friday.
Have a great weekend.
Date: 25th Jul 2024 @ 10:45am
Happy holidays... Here are the photographs in files of the lovely year 6 pupils past and present. They will only be available until September. Thank you for all your support over the year. Mrs Bennett (Miss Thornton)
Date: 24th Jan 2024 @ 2:27pm
This week we looked at some geopgraphy and explored our Race Around the World project in our CC lessons.
The children reminded themselves of the 4 cardinal compass points (N,S,E and W) and learned about the 4 intercardinal points (NE, SE, SW, NW)
We used this knowledge to locate our project checkpoints in an atlas, plot the direction of travel and decide which countries we would pass through on the way to our destinations.
The children really enjoyed using the atlases and finding out more about the World's geography
Date: 22nd Nov 2023 @ 2:46pm
We have been learning about Diwali in year 6. Last week we rehearsed and performed some Diwali plays as well as a sepcial Diwali dance. Everyone really enjoyed the experience and it is so lovely to wokr with a group of young people that give everything to the task at hand. There are some amazing actors in 6DL as well as some incredible dancers! Well done everybody
Date: 2nd Oct 2023 @ 11:03am
We have been learning the lindyhop and have been making some really good progress in "falling off the log" and being able to "mess around" (both legitimate lindyhop moves)
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 11:22am
Good morning Year 6,
Can you believe all the lovely sunshine we have had? We hope you have had a lovely break and are looking forward to getting back to some learning either at home or for some of you back in school next week!
We are missing you all and looking forward to seeing some of you next Monday- we were busy in school yesterday getting ready! Don't worry though there will still be work posted on the blog and padlet https://padlet.com/y6homelearning/nxkcu8zxxd8kmxo7 for you to complete at home.
Also, please feel free to like, add a comment or ask questions below an activity on padlet if you like something, want to ask a question or just want to say hi- we would love to hear from you!
Miss Kenwell, Miss Thornton and Mrs Ranyard
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 10:44am
Hey everyone, I hope you have been enjoying our CC topic on Climate Change especially finding out about the climate change warriors and exploring some of the ideas of how we can take positive action to stop climate change. This week we will be looking at how we can become part of the solution even in our own small way using what we have found out. We will also be thinking about our BIG QUESTION: ‘How is Clayton connected with the global community?' by considering how we can be involved in protecting the planet from the problems we have researched.
Last month was Earth Day where people across the globe share their commitments to help protect our earth. Can we make every day Earth day? Let's try! Choose one or two activities below:
1. Make an earth day craft sharing your commitments- try the earth house or craft commitment
2. Write a persuasive letter to a friend encouraging them to commit to Recycle, Re-use, Reduce, Repair or Refuse
3. Create a poster for Earth Day to encourage change
Remember to share your work with us -you can tweet us or email us we would love to see it!
Story Adventure The House on Haunted Hill Part 12
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 10:28am
Good morning everyone! It's great to get back to our school routine and I am really looking forward to exploring lots of new topics and tasks this half term. I hope you have been keeping yourselves busy over the half term and also keeping safe.
I have missed following our spooky adventure so let's recap on where we are up to...
We arrived at the house and decided to go round to the back door.
Next we decided to investigate a noise we heard. Unfortunately this lead to our demise!
Then we went back and decided to go down into the cellar.
In the cellar was a filthy cupboard and we decided to open it. Inside we found a key.
After that we climbed the stairs to the house.
The next part terrified me as we went to investigate the mirror, where we were pulled in, never to return.
Then we climbed the stairs and had to choose between a door on the left and a door on the right.
We entered the door on the right and found ourselves in the master bedroom. We had to choose between lying down for a rest or investigating the dressing table.
We next decided to investigate the dressing table. On it was a bottle or Werewolf's blood and one of the options was to take a drink! Luckily we decided to leave this room and try the door on the left.
In this room there was a stream of water pouring from the tap and there was an option to drink it but instead we decided to leave and go back to the room on the right.
So now we are sort of trapped between the right and left room.
Our last two choices were...
Lay down for a rest...
or
Investigate the dressing table where we could drink the blood!
Well today year 6 I am going to choose to lie down and have a rest on the bed! EEKK!
Here goes...
The second you lay your head on the pillow, you know this was the right idea. You are so sleepy and a few minutes will give you the energy you need.
You close your eyes and instantly drift off to sleep.
Unfortunately, you have entered the master’s bedroom and he fell asleep on this bed never to wake. You too will share the master’s fate as you sink into a deep deep sleep that you will never wake from. Your adventure is over.
Oh dear!!
Now we will have to either go to the room on the left to drink the water or stay in this room and drink the blood? What will it be?
Water or blood?
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 9:18am
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 @ 8:16am
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?
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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!
#30 Days Wild Launch Day 🌞🌲💐🕷🐛
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 12:27pm
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
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 10:57am
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
Date: 25th May 2020 @ 10:58am
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
The Boy at the Back of the class-Links to Every Chapter
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 9:55am
Here are all of the links to every chapter from the book.You may have missed some or you might just want to start at the beginning again. I just thought it was a good idea to have all the links to each chapter in one place. All the links will have the questions too so you can see any you may have missed.
The Boy at the Back of the Class Blog Links
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-1/45860
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-2/46134
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-3/46285
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-4/46435
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-5/46572
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-6/46736
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-8/48134
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-9/48423
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-11/48799
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-12/48943
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-13/49333
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-14/49421
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-15/49533
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-16/49674
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-17/50053
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-18/50201
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-19/50309
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-20/50433
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-21/50575
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-22/50842
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-23/50975
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-24/51091
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-25/51263
https://www.ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk/blog/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class-chapter-26/51383