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Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 5:30am
Good Morning Nursery… Welcome back, we hope you have enjoyed your half term break!
This week we are going to complete activities for oral blending and segmenting.
Blending is combining sounds we hear in words and segmenting is separating the sounds we can hear.
So let’s get started…
Today we are going to have a go at oral blending and play a game called ‘Clapping sounds’.
Using the letters that we have learnt so far (s,a,t,p,i,n), we are going to listen and clap the sounds in words then blend the sounds together to say the word.
Take a look at today’s ‘Show me’ clip to join in with listening, clapping and blending together the sounds in words.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH TODAY’S SHOW ME CLIP
Today’s challenge: With your adult, I would like you to have a go at clapping the sounds for the words below:
Listen carefully as you sound out the word.
Then blend the sounds to say the word out-loud:
S-a-t (sat)
P-i-n (pin)
P-a-t (pat)
T-a-p (tap)
P-i-t (pit)
P-i-p (pip)
Ask your grown up to say the sounds in these words – see if you can blend the sounds, say the word then do the action!
s-i-t, p-a-t, r-u-n, h-o-p, j-o-g.
Well done! It would be great if you can keep practising your oral blending skills throughout the day, which other words can you sound out and say?
Have a great day and we will have some more phonics fun tomorrow!
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
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 5:29pm
Hello Year 4!
Well done for another week of super Home Learning from you all! t's been lovely to see the updates that have been sent into the Year 4 email this week!
We are now at the end of our Summer 1 Term, so there will not be any new work being adding to the Year 4 Home Learning Page next week. I hope everyone enjoys their half term, has a rest and finds lots of fun things to do! Our new term of online learning will begin on the 1st June.
Take care and stay safe,
Miss Bryce and the Year 4 Team :)
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 5:02pm
At the start of this term we set a reading challenge to see who would be the Star Reader of the Week in each class, based on the activities completed on Lexia and ActiveLearn.
The winners of this week are…. AGAIN!!! >>>>
4AR: 4JB:
Honour! David!
Well done, fantastic reading! Both winners will get to choose from the class prize boxes and decorate a biscuit when we are back in school.
Who will be the champions next week???! Everyone will have to really get their reading minutes up to beat these two!
Well done to everyone who has been on their Lexia and ActiveLearn accounts this week. Usernames and passwords can be found in your Home Learning Packs. If you are having trouble logging in please contact your teachers at y4homelearning.manchester.sch.uk so we can help.
Stay safe and keep working hard,
From the Year 4 team xxx
Home Learning Celebration Post
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 4:08pm
Home Learning Celebration Post
I’ve had such a lovely time looking through your home learning this week and making this video of you proudly sharing your work. Keep sending your fabulous photos and videos to us. You’re doing an amazing job learning at home and we are very proud of you.
You’re ALL Outstanding Home Learners
We've had 2 children playing on Numbots this week. Well done. You're both bot-tastic!
NVG - Gold Aeroplex NNH -Trance Petastar
Miss Heritage told me she loves seeing your photos too and she can’t wait to add lots of fabulous new activities on to the blog after half term.
Thank you to all of the adults that have helped this week. I hope it wasn’t too messy! Let us know what you think about the activities by emailing us and tell us if there is anything you’d like to see more of.
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Let's finish our half term with a celebration dance alongside our friends, Blazer Fresh, from Go Noodle.
https://app.gonoodle.com/activities/celebrate
Take care of yourselves and your families.
I’ll see you back on the blog soon.
Mrs Ganner
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 3:46pm
Good Afternoon Reception!
Happy Friday! J I hope all of you have had a lovely day and enjoyed taking part in the ‘Challenge Friday’ activities!
Let’s take a look at some reception superstars from this week…
What an amazing kindness poem!
Fantastic maths work! Children have been working hard this week to complete their fluent-in-five and tens-frame activities!
A lovely ‘thank you’ banner for key workers, made by one of our reception children!
Well done to every single one of our reception children for trying so hard in their learning at home, all of your teachers are incredibly proud of you and missing you all lots!
I hope you have a lovely break, take time from your learning to enjoy the lovely weather, take walks and have fun with your family.
Love Miss Williams
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 3:44pm
Good afternoon everyone!
I can't quite believe this is the end of the half term. It's definitely a half term we will never forget! Both myself and Mrs Hodges have been so proud of all of you, you have worked so hard and completed many challenges every single day.
Our Outstanding Learners:-
Daniel O
Ganesa
Maddison
Alissia
Have a look below to see what they have been up to!
Have a safe and healthy half term and Eid Mubarak to those families who are celebrating!
MIss Wendt & Mrs Hodges 
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 2:03pm
Here are this week's Reading Plus Winners:
Most Lessons Completed: Alissia again! With 7 books this time - well done, Alissa!
Most Words Read: Yoel with 7,932 words. Well done!
It was very close this week, so well done to everyone that took part.
This week's reading challenge was to read 6 books. The winners are:
Alissia
Denico
Ganesa
Jediah
Yoel
Well done to everyone that took part! I hope you have a fabulous, well deserved break this half term.
Enjoy the week off,
Miss Brookes
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 1:26pm
Hello 5CB! Can you believe that we've made it all the way to another half-term? I won't be posting anything on our blog next week, and I want you all to relax and have some fun. I will however, still be answering emails, so don't hesitate to contact me - y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
This weeks outstanding learners are:
Akin
Auryn
Jessica
Jennifer
Well done everyone!
I am so proud of all of the hard work you are putting in each day. Keep it up, and enjoy your week off.
Miss Brookes
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 12:36pm
To all our families who will be celebrating Eid this weekend...
We hope you have a lovely time but remember to keep safe!!!
Love From
Nursery and Reception Staff x
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 12:27pm
This week I have received some amazing photos and videos of children in RAI doing their home learning.
Well Done everyone!!!
Next week is half term and no new activities will be posted until Monday 1st June.
I hope you all rest up and have a lovely time. I'm looking forward to the half term because I'll be celebrating Eid and my birthday on Monday.
Take care and Stay Safe!
Love Mrs Iqbal
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 12:15pm
Good afternoon year 3.
We hope you have been enjoying the beautiful weather we have been having. Here is a reminder of the link to find your home learning. https://padlet.com/missfaragher/kj2clvf5jjlr98k1
Enjoy your half term and we will speak to you again after half term.
The year 3 team
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 11:16am
Good morning Year 2. It's me again!
Today is our last day of home learning until the 26th May so I thought I would share some fun activities for you to do incase you would like to take on an extra challenge. Don't worry adults, the extra challenges are not compulsary so if you would like a break, that is ok too :)
I know that you know your phase 5 sounds, so instead of looking at your sounds on the Thursday challenge, why don't you have a go at learning some of the year 2 common exception words instead and try and put them in to sentences?
Have a lovely break and I can't wait to see what you have all been up to :)
Miss Hamer
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 10:59am
Good morning Year 2!
I have been so impressed with all your home learning this week. I really loved reading your recounts from the English challenge. Well done Year 2, you are all SUPERSTARS! I have attached some pictures for you to see what your friends have been up to :).
Lexia Superstars
A huge well done to Tyler, Andrew and Zayn for moving up the Lexia ladder this week. Keep up the hard work!
Miss Hamer
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!
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 10:03am
We now have 6 home learners in our celebration video this week! Thank you so much to those of you who sent your photos in yesterday. The video will be ready after teatime today.
There's still time to send your photos in if you want to be in our celebration video. Here is a reminder of our email address:
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
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
The Boy at the Back of the Class Chapter 26
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 9:43am
Good morning year 6. Isn't it crazy to think we would have finished SATs and be breaking up for summer half term today!
What's more crazy is that we are on our final chapter of our story today and in this chapter you will find out something that will blow your mind. I can't believe the author left this information until the very end.
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=aQPxR0S
I hope you have enjoyed following this story and do not worry we have another new book lined up ready for after half term.
I would like you to write 3 things about the book you found most interesting? It might be the best or worst part, it could be the happiest or saddest moment or something you thought was funny or exciting.
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
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
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 8:14am
Happy Friday Year 5!
Can you believe it, today is the last day before half term next week - that's been a very quick (though also somehow very long) 5 weeks since the Easter holidays!
I don't know about you, but the wind kept waking me up last night, and then I started thinking about the tomato plants I've put outside but not properly planted yet, so I feel a bit tired this morning! I've just checked on them and they had all fallen over, but they seem to be ok!
Anyway, that's my plant update - see below for the activities for today! Remember to think about what your act of kindness could be today!
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Mrs Hodges here!
Are you ready for the final Sentence of the Day of the week? Click the link below!
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=7hBj1Q8
Good afternoon Year 5!
How did you get on today? Here's my corrected sentence!
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=MKdKmA4
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Miss Wendt here!
I think the past 5 weeks have gone so quickly! I never expected them to, as I have been in my house the entire time, but I can honestly say they have. It feels quite strange to be 'breaking up' for half term holidays, I'll miss sending you all a message every day. Although I might slip a sneaky challenge blog, just in case anyone is feeling mathematical!
Fluent in five for today!
And here are the answers!
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Good Morning Year 5 from Miss Brookes!
My post is a little bit late today, because my garage roof decided to collapse! The builder was supposed to take the rest of the roof down today...but I've just spent the past half an hour watching a man with a skip (as I was writing this post!) try and get it in the drive, only for a neighbour to refuse to move their car which is blocking our drive....I think it might be one of those days!
I saw this amazing photograph yesterday which I have to share with you. It's a rare, clear picture of the United Kingdom, from the International Space Station. Can you believe that this was taken from Space?
Anyway, onto today's GVP. I've been super impressed with all of the work you've been putting in this week. Don't forget to check back at 1pm for the answers, and keep an eye out for our celebration post later today.
Here are the answers:
Miss Brookes
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 7:43am
Good Morning Reception!
Wow we can’t believe it’s the Friday before half term!!! Where has this half term of home learning gone!!!
Even though we have been at home doing our learning, it has gone really fast!!! I can't wait for the holiday (Mrs Iqbal) this time because I'll be celebrating Eid and my birthday on Monday! Anyway back to the Friday challenge...
This term we were looking at minibeasts and read these stories…
Today we would like you to show us which story has been your favourite story in a creative way. Here are some ideas to help you…
Draw or paint a picture from the story.
Make a model using recycled containers or boxes showing a character from the story.
Write a retell of your favourite story and make it into a book. Use the book template attached to the blog if you want to.
Make some masks, finger puppets, or stick puppets to retell the story. Make a video and send it to us. Minibeast mask templates are attached to the blog.
Pick one of the animals from the story you like and find some facts about it. Make an information book about that animal. A book template is attached to the blog.
Create a wordsearch with words from your favourite story. Decorate the wordsearch with pictures of animals from the story. The wordsearch template is attached to the blog.
Create a poster showing your favourite story. Don't add the title of the story but maybe just use pictures of the characters and some interesting words from the story. You could use some words that are repeated a lot like 'spinning her web.' from the The Very Busy Spider.
We can’t wait to see what you decide to do! Let’s see if we can guess which story/book has been your favourite…
Good Luck
Mrs Iqbal and Miss Williams
Send photos/videos to… receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Phonics Daily Challenge - Friday 22nd May
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 5:37am
Phonics Daily Challenge - Friday 22nd May
Click the link to your favourite rhyme from this week and perform in a new musical style
Humpty Dumpty - see the real Humpty fall!
Baa Baa Black Sheep - sing along and do a funky hip hop dance with J Boom
Hey Diddle Diddle – watch this nonsense rhyme come to life in the little girl’s dream and settle down at the end of a very busy week to dream about cows jumping over the moon and a dish running away with a spoon.
CLICK TO WATCH THE LITTLE GIRL'S DREAM
I’d love to see videos of you performing the rhymes
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Have an amazing half term!We'll see you again on June 1 for more fabulous home learning fun
From Mrs Ganner
Maths Daily Challenge - Friday 22nd May
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 5:35am
Maths Daily Challenge - Friday 22nd May
I watched a video on YouTube and it gave me a great idea. I could use things from my house to print a flower garden. In the video they used a fork to print flowers that have 3 petals on it. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE PRINTING FLOWERS VIDEO
I decided that I wanted to make flowers with different numbers of petals on them so I collected lots of different things from my house and made a printed shape flower picture.
Printing Flowers Challenge
Create your own printed flower and don’t forget to label your flower with how many petals it has.
Send in your flower pictures to
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Have a fabulous flower filled week off full of colour and smiles! We'll see you after half term. Have a rest and take care of yourself and your loved ones.
From
Mrs Ganner
Date: 21st May 2020 @ 10:32am
Good morning,
Well done to everyone who identified yesterday's flag which was of course the flag of Wales with a dragon on it. Naomi, Heer, Ganesa, Maddison and Zarek all got it correct once again, I dread to think how many house points we now owe them when we get back to school, we may have to have some new ones made so that we have enough! 
(sorry Mrs Hughes!)
Today's quiz
What country is this the flag for? Can you tell us any languages that they speak in this country either now or in the past? Also there's a link to the country of the flag that Mrs Harriott posted yesterday, can you tell us what it is?
Good luck!
