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Date: 16th Mar 2024 @ 11:16pm
The children have really enjoyed finding out about hot and cold places and using a range of research techniques to find out about different animals and the habitats that they live in. The children used google, images and books to find out information and use it to write non-chronological reports. Mrs cooper and I were so impressed. All the children displayed a real interest in their learning and motivated each other to complete tasks. They all agreed that this topic was one of their favourites!
Look at the concentration on their faces!
Date: 16th Mar 2024 @ 10:59pm
In P.E,the children have been learning about throwing and catching the ball. They have been throwing the ball underarm and learning how to use a chest pass. They have been making a cup to catch a ball in a stationary position. They have been learning how to defend and have been using these skills to play simple games. The children have been working in pairs and have been bouncing, throwing and catching the ball whilst moving around the playground.
Date: 16th Mar 2024 @ 10:47pm
In Maths, the children have been learning about making groups. They have been looking at objects and then sorting them. They have then counted the objects in the groups and have used the mathematical words equal and unequal to describe if the quantities in the groups are an equal amount.The children have used this knowledge to solve practical problems and have worked collaboratively as a team to help each other.
It was lovely to see the children using the outside area to work mathematically!
Date: 16th Mar 2024 @ 10:23pm
In Art, the children have been learning how to sketch penguins. They have been using continuous line to draw an outline and then looked at the different shapes they could draw to create the head and body. Then they used the side of the pencil to shade parts of the body. The children then used this knowledge to create a 3d display of penguins.
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The children applied all the skills they had learnt to create penguins with a range of different media. The display looks amazing outside Mrs Hughes's office!
Date: 16th Mar 2024 @ 10:09pm
The children were surprised to see the weather change this week and were so excited to see the school playground covered in snow. When the snow is so thick there is only one thing to do. You guessed it SNOW PLAY!!!!!!!!!
Look at the fun they all had. We made snowmen and snow angels!
The children were sad to see the snow disappear through the day!
Date: 16th Mar 2024 @ 9:57pm
As part of the topic 'Animals that live in hot and cold places.' The children learnt about the Continents and Oceans of the world and used
their map reading skills to locate cold and hot regions in the world.
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The children really enjoyed using the compass points to navigate around a map and are beginning to confidently identify and name some parts of the world.
Date: 15th Mar 2024 @ 4:07pm
Nursery's favourite part was looking at the fake snow using all their senses that the scientist made and popping the giant bubbles. The children were all very excited!
Take a look at our photos below
Date: 15th Mar 2024 @ 3:50pm
We have had a brilliant science week, 4AK's favourite part was making slime, have a look at the attached pictures.
For red nose day, we created our own unique red noses for the school councillors to judge on Monday, have a look at a few fantastic entries.
Have a good weekend!
Date: 15th Mar 2024 @ 3:41pm
Nursery had a fun-filled Red Nose Day. They designed a funny face with a red nose, played musical statues and played the 'keepy uppy' game with red balloons and enjoyed playing a traditional game of twister too.
Thank you to everyone who came dressed in red clothes and donated to a wonderful cause!
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.