St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 5 - Friday 19th November 2021
Date: 18th Nov 2021 @ 4:58pm
Welcome to this week’s Year 5 class blog
The children have had a good week in school, working hard and trying their best.
This week in year 5
In Maths, we have been looking at multiplication and division. We have focused a lot on factors and factor pairs but also investigated prime numbers and how to find them. It was a tricky start to the week but with hard work and perseverance the children were able to grasp the concept and ended up enjoying the topic.
In English, things are really getting exciting with Room 13. The children are making fantastic links between things that happen at the beginning of the book, pictures they have looked at on various editions of front covers and what is happening as we read on. We have recapped 1st, 2nd and 3rd person when writing and completed a diary enter for the main character Fliss on her first night at the Crow’s Nest Hotel.
In RE, the children had another visit to church and discussed our relationship with God and different types of prayer. In school we have studied the sacrament of Marriage and the symbols associated with that.
In PE, again, the children did one of two activities. The tag rugby session with Mrs Cookson was a muddy one! The children started with a practise tag game, dodging the other team trying to get to the semi-circle without losing their tags. Afterwards they moved onto the field for a game of tag rugby; they had a great time. The dance session with Mrs Nuttall went very well. The children split into teams and had to become tableaus of space related words e.g. a rocket, the Moon, a satellite. Then they had to create a story, in their groups, by creating 4 tableaus with a movement in between. They were extremely creative. We have the birth of the sun, rocks connecting to form a planet and a rocket moving through the solar system. Photos have been added to the gallery.
In Geography, we learnt about lines of longitude and latitude, including the equator, tropic of Cancer and Capricorn and Greenwich Meriden. They learnt a song to help them understand that the invisible lines help us find where on the globe a location is. They then had to plot different places on a World map using longitude and latitude coordinates.
Finally, on Friday we took part in Children in Need in our spotty outfits and we discussed bullying as part of anti-bullying week. We discussed how one kind word, the theme this year, can make a big different to others.
Home Practice all relates to this week's learning - These are the tasks to be completed.
Reading - You all have a Home Reading book for year 5 so reading every night for 15-20 mins is essential. You also have a Reading Journal/Diary that must be completed and signed.
You can change your reading book on any school day (book bags to be left on Mrs Mulgrew's desk)
Spellings words containing over. We will look at these in more detail in school next week, they should be practised at home, ready for the test on Friday.
Don’t forget the children have a big list of Common Exception words to learn, these can be practised each week to push your child further.
Some children have been told to complete a different number of spellings, please check with your child.
covered, discover, government, undercover, overnight, uncover, overjoyed, recovery, overcome, overheat, overreacting, uncovered, overheard, recover, discoveries
Sumdog challenges
PLEASE ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILDREN TO COMPLETE THE SUMDOG CHALLENGES, MANY CHILDREN ARE STILL NOT ACCESSING SUMDOG.
Times tables have been set to reflect class targets. If the children complete the challenges they can push themselves by accessing multiplication challenges on Sumdog.
Maths the children have been set activities relating to factors and factor pairs. They will need to use their multiplication knowledge and the knowledge learnt this week to work out the answers. They may need to do jottings.
Spellings words containing over.
The children have had another great week in school.