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Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 8:51pm
Today the children came back to school to find a muddy note in the classroom. It said - Minibeast hunt - Go in the garden, what will you see?
In groups, the children went into the garden, they took pens and minibeast hunt checklists and searched for minibeasts.
Some children thought they might be looking for something tiny whilst others thought they could be looking for big monsters!
Eventually the children discovered the book 'Mad about Minibeasts'. Together we read the book and spotted the different rhymes. The children discovered that minibeasts are infact insects like worms, spiders and snails. They searched under rocks and in the trees and leaves and found some minibeasts.
This week the children will continue to read the book and spot the different rhyming words.
Mad About Minibeasts! Children's read-aloud (audiobook), with illustrations.
Date: 20th Apr 2025 @ 12:24pm
On Thursday in the last week of term we shared our wonderful Easter Bonnet creations to our grown ups from home. We did our annual walk about around the Daily Mile track on the playground. Then we sang some Easter related songs for the parents/carers who came to watch and support us.
Alice In Wonderland Exhibition!
Date: 20th Apr 2025 @ 12:21pm
Last term Mrs Thewlis won a comptetion and Year 1 were the lucky chosen classes to go and visit Z Arts Theatre Company where we were immersed into the magical imaginative world of Alice in Wonderland. We took part in a craft activity and created some cat or rabbit hats using collage materials. Then we were taken into the magical world in Wonderland where we were able to play with lots of games and toys from the story. It was lots of fun!!!
Date: 14th Apr 2025 @ 9:30am
Year 1 had a fantastic day at Z-ARTS this week! We were invited to explore their Alice in Wonderland themed exhibition which fit perfectly with our learning of traditional tales! The children throughly enjoyed role-playing the characters and playing with the props from scenes of the story. They also enjoyed getting creative by making their very own bunny or cat hats!
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Date: 14th Apr 2025 @ 9:19am
Thank you to parents and carers for helping your child create fabulous Easter hats or creations! The children had a fantastic time showing them during the Easter parade as part of our Easter celebrations. They were also very excited to perform their Easter songs which we hope you enjoyed!
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Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 12:49pm
Year 5 and 6 put their creativity to the test by designing amazing Easter creations! Every entry received a prize, with special awards given for independent work and the most imaginative use of everyday materials. Well done to all our talented participants! 🎨🐣🌸 Have a look at the attached pictures!
Date: 2nd Apr 2025 @ 5:03pm
Today nursery and reception all watched a performance of the Easter story in the hall. The children loved joining in and helping the performers with the story telling. They especially enjoyed the bubbles and the amazing magic tricks turning the water into wine and making 1 fish into hundreds!
Date: 1st Apr 2025 @ 11:54am
Last week on Tuesday a farmer arrived with an incubator brooder, heat lamp, food and a water dispencer. He also had 5 eggs!!
We had lots of different suggestions on what could be inside. We have since enjoyed watching some ducklings hatch.
We have learned all about the life cycle of a duck and made our own zigzag books showing the correct order of their cycle.
Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 6:47pm
The children came into school to find the Easter bunny had left them an Easter egg hunt. Together we followed the clues to find a basket of Easter surprises. The children have decided that this week they will make their own Easter egg hunt for the other reception class. We can't wait to share it with them on Friday!
Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 6:44pm
Today we were visited by the nursery ducklings. The children loved watching the ducklings splash in the water and were so excited to see them run around our classroom. This week they have decided that they will draw pictures and write notes to the ducklings so they remember them when they go back to the farm this week.
Date: 31st Mar 2025 @ 3:55pm
Hello!
We had amazing week last week in Year 2 which ended with our fantastic trip to Portland Basin Museum. The children started their day in a 'Put to Work' Victorian workshop where Hannah the housemaid. The children immersed themselves in role play, pretending they were working as cleaners in an estate home, in the coal mines and in a cotton workhouse. The children were shocked when they learnt that Victorian children had to do such tough jobs such as picking for coal in the mines, scrubbing floors and having to quickly get under cotton machines, all for a 25p wage or less!
Following the workshop, we were able to walk through the Victorian street. The children were able to dress up, play with Victorian toys and explore a Victorian school room with playground, a green grocers, fish and chip shop, dressmaker's, Doctor's surgery, chapel and pub. The children had a lot of fun in the classroom, learning the Victorian school rules and comparing how different school is today. It was lovely to see the children exciting in their learning and applying what they have learned in their activity booklets. Take a look at some of the photos below to see what we got up to!
Miss Hindle :)
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Date: 30th Mar 2025 @ 6:22pm
Happy Mother's Day to all of you mums!
The childtren and I hope that you like your mother's day cards and have a lovely day on Sunday!
Date: 30th Mar 2025 @ 12:21pm
This term the children have been learning about Queen Victoria and as part of the learning the children visited Portland basin in Ashton to find out what is was like to live in Victorian times. During the day, the children got to explore a victorian town, dress up in Victorian clothing, find out what it was like to learn in a victorian school, explore victorian artefacts and what it was like to work in as a child in victorian times.
The children were shown how to cook and clean. They were told not to give eye contact ad keep their heads down when an adult was speaking to them. Some of the children were very scared.
They experienced what it was like to work in the mills and in the coal mines. All the children worked hard because they didn't want to a nail in their ears for poor work!
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They looked closely at artefacts. They described them and then had a go at working out what they were and what they were used for.
They loved pretending to live in victorian times
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They all had a wonderful time and learned so much!
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Wolfenden
Date: 30th Mar 2025 @ 11:59am
This week, we have been learning about 3d shapes and have used 2d shapes to make them. We have been identifying, naming and sorting the shapes and then using the correct mathematical vocabulary to describe them. It has been tricky, however as the week as progressed the children have become better and better at describing thier properties.
The children used sentence stems and the hard to read and hard to spell words from the working wall to help them.
This is how they described their shapes.
This is a cube. It has 6 square faces. It has straight sides and It has vertices. It has squared cornered vertices. It has no sharp points.
They found 3d shapes in the environment and talked about the shapes that they could see in school and at home.
Have a lovely weekend
Miss Wolfenden
Mother's Day and fun with fractions!
Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 3:48pm
Year 5 have had fun this week applying their times table knowledge in order to simplify fractions, it's a tough one but they've all worked really hard to get the method right.
In preparation for Mother's Day this weekend, they have had the opportunity to make cards to bring home and they look amazing!
Date: 27th Mar 2025 @ 2:44pm
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Date: 25th Mar 2025 @ 5:17pm
This weekend will mark the end of Ramadan and the beginning Eid celebrations around the world. To mark the occasion and to celebrate in our own Ravensbury way we were visited by Faz. Faz brought along his violin and his amazing beatboxing talents and shared them with the children in a very exciting assembly. The sounds of beatboxing were echoing around the building all day!
This afternoon, Year 1 and Year 5 were lucky enough to have a beatboxing workshop with Faz. It has been a great day and the children have really looked up to Faz as an inspirational muslim person coming to our school!
Which will material will be waterproof for Bunting's umbrella?
Date: 23rd Mar 2025 @ 8:10pm
In science this week we have been testing out different materials to see which one would be suitable for Bunting's umbrella from the story 'Lost in the Toy Museum.' We used learnt how to pipettes and a few different materials and tested them by dropping water on each one.
We went through the science investigation process by predicting which material would be waterproof, carrying out the investigation using the correct equipment, gathering the results and discussed what we found out.
We found out that foil or plastic would be the most suitable materials to use for Bunting's umbrella!
Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 5:34pm
It's Red Nose Day!
Everyone looked amazing their red clothes today, some with their red noses on too. We did some fun activities at the end of the day such as designing our own red nose, making some fantastic face masks and some children even organised their own cake sale! We had an amazing time.
Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 5:31pm
Year 4 have been fantastic this week doing their assessments. We know that these assessments can be quite tricky but they have tried their best and have done an amazing job! We are looking forward to speaking to grown ups about their progress next week.
Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 4:35pm
Nursery had a fun filled challenge Friday!
We created a face with a red nose, played musical statues and the 'keepy uppy' game with red balloons.
Enjoy looking at some of our Red Nose Day photos🔴☺️
Year 5’s Fun-Filled Red Nose Day!
Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 2:32pm
Year 5 had a fantastic time celebrating Red Nose Day, raising money for charity while having lots of fun! The children wore red accessories and funky noses, took part in fun games and challenges, and even shared jokes to spread laughter. They learned about the importance of helping others and how their donations make a difference. It was a day full of kindness, fun, and smiles! ❤️
Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 1:14pm
Year 5 had an exciting science-meets-cooking lesson, making delicious smoothies using dry ice and fruit juice! As they poured the juice over the dry ice, a cool mist swirled around, creating a magical effect. The children learned about states of matter and how dry ice turns straight from a solid to a gas. It was a fun, hands-on experience, and the smoothies tasted amazing too!
Date: 18th Mar 2025 @ 3:15pm
This week in science, year 3 have been learning all about the role the stem plays in plants. We learnt that it is the xylem that is reponsible for helping transport water through the stem of the plant, but we wanted to see how well it worked.
In order to test the xylem, we added blue food colouring to a jug of water that contained tulips. To our surprise and delight, the petals of the tulips turned blue!
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 4:08pm
We had a very special delivery come into nursery on Monday!
Our very own Hungry caterpillars!
We have enjoyed watching them grow over the week. We discussed how they hached from an egg and what we predict to happen next from learning all about the life cycle of a butterfly.
We are all very excited to see them turn into beautfiful butterflys!
We even thought of some names for them so please enjoy looking at some pictures of Keith, Chris, Cookie, Wriggle and Grey!
