Year 5 Friday 4th February 2022

Date: 4th Feb 2022 @ 4:26pm

Welcome to this week’s Year 5 class blog

Year 5 have had a great week, concentrating and practising being a good learner.

This week in year 5

In Maths, we are back on number and place value.  We have learnt many different addition and subtraction strategies.  We have practised them as arithmetic number questions but also as word problems and reasoning.  The children have been focusing on speed and stamina in their arithmetic quizzes and have managed to double the amount of questions they can get through in the past couple of weeks, with increased scores.  This is a real achievement and a credit to them improving their concentration skills.  I am really pleased with their progress. Ask them about their improvements in arithmetic as they are very proud of themselves.

In English we have finished our missing chapter.  The children have worked really hard on their work and editing it.  They were able to think about the different skills we have been practising and put them into their written pieces.  We are almost at the end of Street Child, the children have really enjoyed the novel and remained keen to read it throughout.

In Science, we learnt when and how to draw a line graph to present our results, then practised reading the scale on a thermometer with different temperatures of water. We then drew a line graph of how the temperature of the water changed over time. Great science skills, year 5!

In RE, we have focused on the work of the Bishop’s within the diocese, or in our case the Archbishop within the Archdiocese.  We have learnt what Archbishop Malcolm does and how this is all part of Jesus’ mission.  We also continued to look at our role in helping this mission.

In French, we redrafted our final piece of writing about the planets onto a triorama (the children will explain!) and illustrated it. There are some amazing pieces of French writing and the children are super proud of their work! They are on display in the corridor for all to see.

In PE, half of the class started with hockey skills and played a match to see if they could apply them.  The other half of the class had an orienteering experience.  They learnt about points of the compass and followed compass directions to find different areas in the yard.  A difficult task but they navigated it well.

 In History, this week the children became historical detectives.  We had a range of replica artefacts, loaned from the Lancashire Museums.  The children spent the afternoon, examining the pieces, sometimes trying them on and reading about their uses in Victorian times.  The children were amazed at the differences between clothing, equipment and expectations from the Victorian times to present day.  (Please see the Victorian Artefacts Gallery on the class page)  After the detective work they produced a written piece explaining what artefacts can tell us about the time period.

In PSHE, the children are learning about how to react to medical emergencies.  This week we learnt about what to do if we are the first to a medical situation.  The children learnt about checking the scene for any potential dangers to themselves, what to expect when they call 999 and what information they would need to provide to the operator.  They also learnt about casualty care – keeping them calm and warm and not leaving them until the emergency services arrived.  They were very sensible and listened carefully.

In Golden Assembly this week the children played the glockenspiels along to a jazz song.  They were flawless; the staff and children were amazed!

 The children were also presented with a little gift, from the school to celebrate their Holy Communion this weekend and to thank the children not taking part for their encouragement throughout the process.

DON’T FORGET

Topmarks clock online to practise telling the time.

Additional warm clothes for PE sessions.

First Holy Communions on Saturday.  See separate letter from Father Michael regarding your time (10.30 or 12.30).  Please try and arrive a little earlier so we can start promptly.  I will take some group photos and post a gallery next week.

Celebration Mass for all Year 5 children and parents on Monday at 2.15pm.  If you can’t make it but grandparents etc. want to come instead, this is fine.  Some of the children have opted to read during the mass, it should be a lovely service and allow them to celebrate their Sacramental journey as a whole class.

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. Some children had a break from reading over the holidays but please ensure this is made a priority now that we are back at school.  Practise is vital to improve in all areas of English.

You can change your reading book on any school day (book bags to be left on Mrs Mulgrew's desk)

Maths – please ask your child what their times tables target is and help them practise this in order for them to progress.

I’d also encourage you to do a daily count with your child.  This week we are counting up in 0.002s. Give the children a number to start from and they must continue to count from that number in 0.002s, either forwards or backwards.  It often helps the children if they note down the numbers as they say them, it helps them work out the next number more easily when they can see it.

Spellings words containing silent letters. We will look at these in more detail in school next week, they should be practised at home, ready for the test on Friday. 

knowledge, knuckle, wriggle, wrongly, knife, whistle, listened, autumn, gnome, whether, honesty, ghostly, fasten, rewrite, hourly

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.  You should all have received a sheet with these words on by now, I have highlighted the words that your child wrote correct in a spelling test before Christmas. This will give you an indication of how well they are remembering these spellings. Don’t worry if they don’t know many, they can practise them this term and will be assessed again near Easter.

Sumdog challenges

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

Please encourage your child to complete the 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.  Many children have still not completed the diagnostic section.

Times tables have been set to reflect class targets

Maths the children have been set activities relating to a range of addition and subtraction problems.  They will need to take their time with these and write some of the calculations down.  These are not speed activities but a chance for them to practise the strategies we have been using this week.

Spellings words containing silent letters.