Year 5 - Friday 26th November 2021

Date: 25th Nov 2021 @ 5:03pm

Welcome to this week’s Year 5 class blog

The children are working hard and developing their skills in many different areas.

This week in year 5

In Maths we have been focused on division.  We started using arrays to work out division problems and by the end of the week we had moved onto chunking.  Many children we able to move onto and solve division word problems.

In English we are very close to the end of the book.  Before we find out what happens we have made our own predictions and are in the process of writing our own final chapter of the book.  The suspense that the children are creating is great to see.  We are trying to make our work more interesting by using fronted adverbials in some of our sentences.

In RE the children completed their Life Choices topic with a calm Collective Worship, where many of them read beautifully.  We then moved onto our new topic of Hope, where we will discuss and explain reasons why we wait, and the most important time of waiting, during Advent.

In PE, the children completed one of two activities. Firstly all the children practised baton passing.  They learnt the techniques needed to make it as swift and smooth as possible.  The tag rugby session with Mrs Cookson 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 passing the ball along the line and then running back to the start. The dance session with Mrs Nuttall was another success.  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 explosion of a star, a rocket going to Mars and the formation of Earth.  Photos have been added to the gallery.

In Geography we continued our work on longitude and latitude but focused on North America and the different states and how the lines of latitude affect the climate.  We looked at a number of states in detail and will use this information to complete more work on them, in future sessions.

In Art, the children are looking at the artist Jo Quigley from the UK.  They have looked at her artwork and that of her influences and made links between the two.  They will be planning and creating their own cityscape piece of artwork, inspired by Jo Quigley in the coming weeks.

The children have been sent home with a small 2 sided booklet about Reconciliation.  Please look through this, with your child to prepare them further for their sacrament on Monday. You are invited to join them in Church at 2.30pm on Monday.  Don’t forget the year 5 family mass on Sunday at Church, details in the newsletter.

Also don’t forget the rearranged trip on Tuesday to the Leyland Museum, all children will need a disposable lunch.

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 ending ious. 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.

ambitious, cautious, curious, delicious glorious, obvious, previous, religious, various, mysterious, previously, furiously, seriously, victorious, vicious

Sumdog challenges

PLEASE ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILDREN TO COMPLETE THE SUMDOG CHALLENGES, MANY CHILDREN ARE STILL NOT ACCESSING SUMDOG.

This week we would like to introduce Maths and Spelling Training.  As you know, we set weekly challenges that are linked to the learning that takes place in school.  As an extra feature, the maths and spelling training sections will provide a tailored challenge for your child to practise skills, facts and words they find difficult.  Once the diagnostic challenges have been completed Sumdog will set challenges to aid improvement and development in the appropriate areas for your child.  Once you have completed the class challenges, please use this feature for extra challenge in both maths and spelling. Your tailored training is available in your tasks tab.

Times tables have been set to reflect class targets

Maths the children have been set activities relating to multiplication and division.  They will need to use their multiplication and division knowledge and learnt this week, to work out the answers.  They may need to do jottings.

Spellings words ending ious.

The children have had another great week in school.