St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 5: Blog items
Year 5 Blog Friday 17th November 2023
Date: 15th Nov 2023 @ 4:24pm
Help the homeless – Foxton Centre Big PNE Sleepout Friday 17th November
Miss Smith and Mrs Dexter are sleeping by the football pitch at PNE’s football ground, Deepdale Stadium this Friday 17th November. This is to raise money for a day centre called The Foxton Centre who provide food and warmth to the homeless people of Preston. Miss Smith and Mrs Dexter will sleep on cardboard and will only have with them what they can carry. This will give them an insight into how difficult it is for people sleeping on the streets, particularly as the nights are getting colder. We are all fortunate that we have food and somewhere warm to go to sleep every night, this is not the case for some people in Preston. Miss Smith and Mrs Dexter are asking for sponsorship, any donation would go a long way to help Preston’s vulnerable homeless community.
You can read more and donate here:
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog
We have had a very busy week this week. We spent a lot of time writing, practising, and perfecting our assembly which we performed for parents on Thursday. Everybody was extremely proud as it was all our own ideas and things that we felt proud of. It was nice to remind ourselves that – IT’S GOOD TO BE ME!
We had a visit from a familiar face on Tuesday, Freddy Fit. We always love our lessons with Freddy Fit where we learn about teamwork, resilience, and looking after our body as well as our mind. Freddy was impressed with everybody!
You can see us getting sporty in our gallery here.
This week has also been Anti-Bullying Week. The theme this year was Make a Noise About Bullying. We spoke about bullying online and offline and considered who we could speak to if we have concerns about bullying, advice we can give, and ways we can comfort and stand by each other.
You can see a film about Anti-Bullying Week here:
On Friday we all dressed in our pyjamas to raise money for Children in Need. It was great to see everybody come together for such a great cause.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Look for different ways to start sentences, try to use them in your own writing.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week, some spellings contain a hyphen, can you figure out why?
bruise yacht guarantee vehicle immediately co-operate co-own coexist co-ordinate re-enter re-emerge reinvent retell
Counting
Please count out loud in:
12s from 0 to 144 and back again 12, 24, 36, …
7s from 0 to 84 and back again 7, 14, 21, …
8s from 0 to 96 and back again 8, 16, 24, …
Times Tables
Please practise your tables target every day.
Sumdog
Spelling Challenge
Times Tables Challenge
Maths Competition
Year 5 Blog Friday 10th November 2023
Date: 9th Nov 2023 @ 5:05pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
It has been a great week filled with lot of exciting learning.
In maths we have been using the written method to add and subtract. It is really important that we know our number facts so that we can calculate quickly and accurately. Please practise these at home.
In English we have continued reading our class novel Room 13. This is a suspense story so we have been looking at different ways the author builds suspense. We then wrote our own suspense story. We tried to use as many different techniques as we could to make the reader feel worried and scared. Some of the techniques included:
Don't reveal the threat e.g. a dark figure
Rhetorical questions e.g. Was something following her?
Reveal the character's thoughts e.g. She wondered if this was all just a terrible dream.
Cliff hanger e.g. There was nobody there, unless...
Suspenseful vocabulary e.g. murky, gloomy, staggering, dark, whisper.
Everybody did such an amazing job writing their suspense stories!
In PE we did some indoor athletics including long jump, hop skip jump, high jump, and speed bounce. Mrs Cookson was very impressed!
In DT we sampled some Greek food. This was to help us prepare to design and make our own Greek snack which we will be doing over the next couple of weeks. Most of us enjoyed the feta cheese, pitta breads and tzatziki. The olives weren't very popular. You can see us carrying out our sensory evaluation of the food here. We focussed on the appearance, smell, texture, and taste.
This week in French, we started our new topic of ‘Les Émotions’. We started the lesson by going through the vocabulary and discussing the differences between the pronunciation for masculine and feminine adjectives. We then wrote these in our books, translating what they mean. To check our understanding, we chose the right picture for each emotion shown and then started a game of ‘Qui veut gagner 1200€?’ (Who wants to win €1200?) where every correct answer from a multiple choice question would ‘win’ €100. This week was a practice, we will complete this again next week to see if we can remember the vocabulary.
In RE we have been learning about Judaism. We learnt about a special feast called the Passover. We discovered why and how the Passover is celebrated. Each year during spring the Jewish people get ready to celebrate the Passover or Pesach. Jewish people remember the story of how God delivered them from slavery in Egypt, how God still takes care of them and how there is still the need for freedom in some places of the world.
Home Practice
Number facts
Please go on Hit the Button and click on number facts. Make sure you know these number facts without having to count.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Counting
Count out loud in tenths from:
203.01 to 205.01 203.11 203.21 203.31 ...
79.01 to 81.01 79.11 79.21 79.31 ...
83.81 to 85.81 83.81 83.91 84.01
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Talk about what you have read.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. Please practise every day including the challenge on Sumdog. The Sumdog challenge includes extra spellings.
telephone telegraph grapheme graphics autograph automatic headphones microphone microwave microscope sign design signal
Sumdog
Spelling challenge
Times table challenge
Maths competition in teams
Have a happy weekend.
Year 5 Blog Friday 3rd November 2023
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 8:28am
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
It has been a lovely week back after Half Term, so nice to all be back together again doing lots of exciting learning.
In English we started our new class novel - Room 13 by Robert Swindells. We are absolutely loving it. We have been looking at ways the author builds suspense to make the reader feel nervous and scared. We have been practising some of these techniques and will be writing our own suspense stories next week. Here are some of the ways we have identified to build suspense:
Short sentences to make the reader panic.
Longer, more detailed sentences to give the reader chance to reflect.
Show don't tell sentences where we talk about the character's actions to show the reader that they are scared.
Writing about an abandoned setting to make the reader worry for the main character.
In maths we have been practising different mental strategies for addition and subtraction. We then looked at a range of calculations and chose the most efficient strategy. This week we have been practising:
Reordering the numbers to make the calculation easier, for example 27 + 15 + 3 + 14 we reordered to 27 + 3 + 15 + 14 as we spotted that we can use number bonds to ten to quickly calcuate 27 + 3.
Compensation. This is where you round a number to the nearest multiple of 10, 100 or 1000 to make it easier to add or subtract. You then add or subtract the difference.
This week in French, it was Halloween! We completed a French wordsearch with Halloween vocabulary and translated each word into our books. We discussed whether some facts about Halloween in France were vrai o faux. We practised some of the Halloween vocabulary again and played ‘What’s missing?’ to help remember them.
In music we started a new jazz piece on the glocks, Three note bossa, looking at the structure and learning related vocabulary. We enjoyed a new song, Try Everything. We explored music with 2 beats in a bar.
Our trip to Rock and River was incredible. We loved doing zip line, climbing tower, low ropes course, air bag jump and going out on the lake in canoes. Check out the gallery on the Year 5 page to see us in action.
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud to an adult every day for 20 minutes. Retell the story in your own words.
Counting
Count out loud in 10s from:
217 to 417 and back again 217, 227, 237
509 to 709 and back again 509, 519, 529
899 to 1099 and back again 899, 909, 919
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. They do not follow a rule or pattern so you need to practise at home.
accommodate accompany according achieve aggressive amateur ancient apparent appreciate attached available average awkward bargain bruise
Sumdog
Spelling Challenge
Times Tables Challenge
Maths Competition in teams
Have a fantastic weekend and please be safe if you are going to a bonfire.
Year 5 Blog Thursday 19th October
Date: 19th Oct 2023 @ 8:19am
Happy Half Term!
What an amazing first half term we have had in Year 5. We have done so much learning and have settled so well into Year 5.
This week we finished reading our novel Goth Girl. We wrote our own epilogue for the story to tell the reader what the characters are doing a year in the future.
We have also been looking a poetry this week. We read a poem called - Please Don't Feed the Animals.
Please do not feed the ostriches
sandwiches
or the polar bears
éclairs.
Do not offer the wombats
kumquats
or the rattle-snakes
fruit-cakes.
Remember that piranhas
are not allowed bananas
or partridges
sausages.
Never approach a stork
with things on a fork
or the bustard
with a plate of custard.
No leopard
likes anything peppered
and meerkats
dislike Kit Kats.
Remember that grapes
upset apes
and meringues
do the same for orang-utans.
Most importantly– do not feed the cheetah
your teacher.
We practised performing this poem thinking about actions and which words to emphasize. We then made a list of nouns for precision. These are specific names of things e.g. Poddle instead of dog, Black Mamba instead of snake, Siamese instead of cat, etc. We found that these made the poem interesting and funny. We then used these nouns to write our own poem following the same structure as the model. Finally, we performed our poems using actions. They were incredible!
In maths we have continued looking at different methods to add and subtract. One of the methods we have practised this week is counting on to find the difference. This was a bit tricky but we did lots of practice.
This week in our French lesson we completed the rest of our Review sheet, which included the vocabulary for sports, hobbies and the weather. The children had to write down and say which was their favourite sport, which hobby they like, which hobby they love and what the weather was like today. Year 5 have worked hard this half term recapping a lot of vocabulary and completing both review sheets. Next half term, we will be ready to have some new sessions about ‘emotions’ (after we’ve learned about French Halloween!).
In music we learnt a new rap, Fresh Prince of Bel Air. We learnt more about strong beats, clapping along to the song Crazy Glue. We made a video of our final performance of Sailor Sailor on our recorders.
Have an amazing, happy, safe half term.
You all deserve a rest you have worked so hard!
Please try to keep up with the reading and Sumdog is still available to practise spellings and times tables.
Year 5 Blog Friday 13th October 2023
Date: 12th Oct 2023 @ 5:49pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
We have had a brilliant week in Year 5.
In English we finished writing our letter as Maltravers from Goth Girl. Our aim was to persuade a character to come to our party. We then spent some time editing and thinking about how well we met our objective. Everybody did such a great job that we are going to go and read them to Year 6 next week. We also learnt what a pronoun is. A pronoun is word used to replace a noun, usually to avoid repetition e.g., he, she, it, they, yours, theirs. Next week we are going to be writing our own epilogue for Goth Girl. An epilogue tells the reader what the main characters are doing in the future e.g., one year later. See if any of your books at home have an epilogue.
In maths we have been using different strategies to add and subtract mentally. When we see a question we ask ourselves:
Do I know the answer?
Can I work it out in my head?
Do I need a jotting?
Do I need to use a written method?
We practised using partitioning on a number line to add and subtract numbers up to thousands and numbers with decimal places. Here is an example of the partitioning strategy.
Another strategy we practised is called bridging. This is where you add or subtract to get to the next multiple of 10, 100 or 1,000 and then add or subtract the rest. Here is an example.
In geography we did some atlas work where we were using the contents page and the index to find out various things about the UK. We looked at the countries which make up the UK, their capital cities, where they are in relation to each other, which countries they border, etc.
In PSHE we celebrated World Mental Heath Day. We looked at the meaning of wellbeing. We defined it as: Looking after and feeling good in your body and mind. We then thought about ways we can look after our physical and mental wellbeing and the main things we came up with were:
Move - get moving every day
Sleep - get plenty of rest and sleep
Eat - eat a balanced diet and drink plenty of water
In PE we used all of the throwing and catching skills we have been practising to play some small games of netball. The focus was on passing the ball around and getting into space so that our opponent couldn't get it and to have the best chance at scoring. See us in action here.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes.
Have a look at your school book and any of your books at home, do any of them have an epilogue at the end? If you find any, bring them in to show the class.
Counting
Count out loud in 0.01 (hundredths):
From 7.67 to 7.87 7.67 7.68 7.69 7.7 7.71 ...
From 120.09 to 120.29 120.09 120.1 120.11 120.12 120.13 ...
From 8.15 to 7.95 8.15 8.14 8.13 8.12 8.11 ...
Times Tables
Please practise your own individual target. Some of you have been given the target to find one quarter on a number. Please relate this your 4 times tables.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. They are plurals. You need to know the rules for changing singular words ending in a -y into plurals.
party - parties
worry - worries
potato - potatoes
baby - babies
try - tries
city - cities
library - libraries
cemetery - cemeteries
community - communities
dictionary - dictionaries
Sumdog
Times Tables Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Lancashire Competition
Have a happy weekend!
Year 5 Blog Friday 6th October 2023
Date: 4th Oct 2023 @ 7:19pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
It has been another fun week filled with lots of exciting learning.
In English we have been looking at techniques used to persuade and have used these to write a persuasive letter from the character in Goth Girl called Maltravers. We have written a letter from Maltravers trying to persuade creatures to come to his party. Some of the things we included in our letters were:
Sentence starters to link each paragraph such as:
Firstly,
Secondly,
In addition to this,
Another good reason for ...
Even more importantly,
Finally,
We have also tried to flatter the reader by telling them that they are very special, amazing, beautiful, etc.
In maths we have been counting in 10s, 100s, 1000, 10000s, and 100000s. We have been using these skills to complete number sequences.
In history we were looking at Britannia (England) at the end of the 4th century. During this time the Roman Empire was weakening. We learnt that groups like the Picts and Scots had taken over an area called Gaul, which was a region of Western Europe. This meant that Britannia was receiving less money from Rome and therefore the Roman soldiers were refusing to defend the land. In our next history lesson we will find out what happened next, did the Roman Empire fall? Who then ruled Britain?
We started our new topic in RE called Life Choices. We started the topic by thinking about friendship and the commitment it takes to be a good friend. We spoke about considering the needs of our friends as well as our own needs. We then filled each other's page with what makes them a good friend. It was lovely to see everybody smile when reading the reasons people thought of them as a good friend.
In computing we have been looking at different search engines and also learning about how to do specific searches so that we get the information that we want. We learnt that some search engines give us more ads than others and we also learnt that you need to include exactly what you want to search for e.g. Sale, Greater Manchester rather than just Sale. We have also done some vector drawing on the Ipads. A vector drawing is a drawing made up of lines and shapes.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Talk about what you know about the different characters.
Counting
Count out loud in:
10s from 123,785 to 123,885 123,785 123,795 123,805 ...
10s from 324,584 to 324,684 324,584 324,594 324,604 ...
10s from 711,296 to 711,396 711,296 711,306 711,316 ...
Times Tables
Please practise your tables target every day.
Spellings
Here are your spellings this week. They are homophones. This means that they look or sound the same but have different meanings. You need to know how to spell these words and also their meanings. This will be part of your spelling test on Tuesday.
isle aisle aloud allowed affect effect herd heard past passed there their they're
Sumdog
Maths Competition in teams
Times Tables Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Have a happy and hopefully sunny weekend.
Year 5 Blog Friday 29th September 2023
Date: 28th Sep 2023 @ 3:51pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
It has been a brilliant week in Year 5.
In English we have read some more of our novel Goth Girl. The main character Ada has joined a club called the Attic Club and made some new friends. She has also met lots of strange creatures. We have looked at some character descriptions from Goth Girl and also from Fantastic Beasts. We have used these as a model to write our own description of a strange character.
One of the things we focussed on was using sentences with a relative clause.
Relative clauses add extra information, we used relative clauses starting with the relative pronoun which.
Here are some examples we came up with:
Its wide mouth, which is filled with razor sharp teeth, is usually grinning.
Its most distinctive feature is the purple horn in the centre of its forehead which flashes when it senses danger.
In maths we have continued practising rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, and 10000. We have done lots of practice with number lines for this. We have also been finding 10, 100, 1000 and 10000 more or less than a number. We used place value counters and charts to help with this.
We needed to know the value of each digit and that:
100,000 = ten 10,000s
In art we used different pencils to make a strong drawing. We got some old maps and drew a picture on them. We used different pencils, marks, and shading to try to make our picture stand out. We were in competition with the maps. We won! They were amazing.
In science we planned and carried out a fair test using paper aeroplanes. We spoke about what a fair test is and knew that we could only change one thing at a time. We then came up with a question we wanted to answer. Here are some of the questions we tested:
Which shape paper aeroplane goes the furthest?
Which material paper aeroplane goes the furthest?
Which type of throw makes the paper aeroplane go the furthest?
Which size paper aeroplane goes the furthest?
We had great fun testing out our paper aeroplanes outside and then recording our findings in a table, we were then able to answer our question.
You can see us in action here.
In RE we have been thinking about our qualities and talents, and talking about how we can use these to be a good role model. We came up with lots of ideas and Year 5 really are setting a great example to the younger children around school.
In PE we came up with our own games to practise throwing and catching skills including shoulder pass, chest pass, bounce pass, ready position, and outwitting an opponent. Once we had practised our own game, we taught it to another group and gave feedback. It was amazing to see everybody work together as a team and use their patience and communication skills to teach another group.
Home Practice
Art
Please bring in any of the following that you have at home to use in art next week:
Old maps
Old books
Old newspaper
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Look at how speech is used, what punctuation do you notice?
Counting
Count out loud in:
1s from 701,999 to 702,020 and back again 701,999 702,000 702,001 ...
1s from 324,999 to 325,020 and back again 324,999 325,000 325,001 ...
1s from 865,999 to 866,020 and back again 865,999 866,000 866,001 ...
Times Tables
Please practise your tables target every day.
Spelling
Here are your spelling this week, they all end in -able or -ible.
horrible terrible possible edible reversible invincible adorable forgivable enjoyable valuable breakable impossible respectable
Sumdog
Maths Competition - in teams
Times Tables Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Have a weekend filled with smiles!
Year 5 Blog Friday 22nd September 2023
Date: 21st Sep 2023 @ 3:33pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
Thank you to everybody who came to Meet the Teacher last week, if you couldn't make it don't worry, the slideshow is attached to this blog with all of the information you need.
It has been another amazing week, we didn't let then rain dampen our spirits.
In maths we have been looking at rounding numbers to the neartest 10, 100, 1000 and 10000. We did this by placing numbers on a number line and identifying what they were closer to. Everybody did an amazing job!
In English we have been describing a setting to intrigue the reader. We wanted the reader to read our setting description and ask themselves questions like:
What is behind the door?
What was the noise?
Why is it so dark?
What is at the end of the corridor?
We also learned some new vocabulary to include in our writing. See us in action here.
Everybody did a really great job!
In computing we have been looking at different types of systems. We identified that a system is a set of things working together to make something happen. All systems have inputs, processes and outputs. We thought about how computer systems work such a sensors in traffic lights, Amazon lockers, washing machines, etc.
In PE we have been mastering our throwing and catching skills including chest pass, bounce pass, and shoulder pass. We have also been thinking about how to outwit an opponent and how to communicate effectively with our team. We put these skills to practise playing various netball games, it was great fun and everybody was a great team player.
This week in French we used our review sheets to practise responding to key questions: ‘comment ?a va?’, ‘comment tu t’appelles’, ‘quel âge as-tu?’ and ‘quelle est ta couleur préférée?’. The children did very well to remember some of these. We also started to look at how to say the name of family members and whether we have any brothers or sisters. We listened to ‘Ma Famille’ song to help us.
In geography we were looking at key facts about the UK. We then used an atlas to label the capital cities, seas and oceans of the UK. We found this quite tricky but we will keep practising.
You can learn more about the UK and other places on this website, everybody has a login.
Click on:
Explore the world
Places
Europe
United Kingdom
https://www.oddizzi.com/teachers/explore-the-world/places/europe/united-kingdom/
You can see what we have been up to in art in our gallery here.
Home Practice
Geography
Go onto this website, everybody has been given a login. Read more about the UK and also have an explore of the website, what else can you find out?
To find out about the UK click on:
Explore the world
Places
Europe
United Kingdom
https://www.oddizzi.com/teachers/explore-the-world/places/europe/united-kingdom/
Reading
Read out loud to an adult every day for 20 minutes. Talk about whether it is written in the present tense or the past tense and how you know.
Present tense: an action that is happening right now or in the current moment e.g. she is running, he is ready, they listen, I like it.
Past tense: an action that has already happened or used to happen e.g. she was running, she ran to the shop, he was ready, they listened well, I used to like it.
Counting
Count out loud in:
0.1s from 5.12 to 7.12 5.12 5.22 5.32
0.01s from 76.23 to 76.43 76.23 76.24 76.25
100,000s from 135, 609 to 935, 609 135,609 235,609 335,609
Times Tables
Please practise your own target every day.
Spelling
Your spellings this week all have a silent letter. Please practise every day, play close attention to the silent letters, how can you remember them?
doubt island lamb solemn thistle knight thumb numb autumn whistle muscle build February
Sumdog
Maths Competition - individually this time instead of teams
Times Tables Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Have a happy and fun weekend
Year 5 Blog Friday 15th September
Date: 15th Sep 2023 @ 3:57pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
It has been our first full week in Year 5 and it has been fantastic.
We loved our well earned Golden Time on Friday.
In English we have been reading our class novel Goth Girl. We studied the main character Ada and then described our own character.
We have also been looking at proper nouns and common nouns.
A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place or thing, it usually has a capital letter.
Spain, Primark, KitKat, Lucy.
A common noun is the name for a type of person, place or thing.
country, shop, chocolate, girl.
In maths we have been using place value to order and compare numbers with hundreds of thousands and thousandths.
We started our new science topic on forces. We investigated to answer the question, What is a force?
We used playdough, toy cars, ramps, and magnets to answer this question.
We found that a force is a push or pull that can:
Make something move, speed something up, slow something down, change the shape of something, or change the direction of something.
You can see us in action here.
In RE we spoke all about our qualities and how we were made to be like God.
We came up with some qualities like:
I am honest
I am humble
I am positive
I am passionate
I am thoughtful.
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Try to identify proper nouns and common nouns.
Spelling
All of your spellings have the letter string -ough. They make a different sound in different words. Please practise in different ways every day.
bough cough dough enough bought plough though thought through thorough rough although brought
Counting
Count out loud in:
6s from 0 to 72 and back again 0, 6, 12, ...
7s from 0 to 84 and back again 0, 7, 14, ...
12s from 0 to 144 and back again 0, 12, 24, ...
Times tables
Please practise your tables target every day.
Sumdog
Times Tables Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Maths competition
Have an amazing weekend!
Year 5 Blog Friday 8th September 2023
Date: 8th Sep 2023 @ 3:42pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
We have had such an amazing week in Year 5. Everybody has settled in brilliantly and have really shown they are grown up and ready for Year 5.
In maths we have been looking at 5 and 6-digit numbers and solving problems involving these. Everybody did such a good job.
We started reading our first year 5 class novel called Goth Girl. We have been looking at other films and stories of the same genre and identifying what they have in common. We then did a character study of the main character Ada Goth and started to think about a character we would include in a gothic novel.
We LOVED sharing our summer scrap books and talking about what we have been doing over the summer holidays. We used a world map to locate some of the different places people have been to.
We earned lots of golden token for being such good role models around school and for working hard and listening. We really enjoyed a sunny golden time on Friday afternoon - it was very well deserved!
Happy Friday and have an amazing weekend.
Back to School Online Safety Tips for Children
Date: 30th Aug 2023 @ 11:55am
With your children returning to school, it is a great time to review online safety in your homes and make sure we are all up to date with developments in the online world. At St Oswald's, all classes will be beginning their Online Saftety learning where they will learn all about safe practices online in the following areas.
Self image and identitiy
Online relationships
Online bulllying
Health, Well-being and lifestyle
Online reputation
Managing online information
Copyright and ownership
We will blog regularly to keep you updated with developments in the online space, sharing platform guides and links to expert training for you to keep your children safe when exploring the internet. Below you will find a guide on some back to school online safety tips for children.
To access a huge range of information on the National Online Safety website click the link below and join our school online safety hub.You will get access to videos, training and guides to keep you informed of the best practices in keeping your children safe online.
http://nationalonlinesafety.com/enrol/st-oswald-s-catholic-primary-school-pr45eb
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Date: 20th Jul 2023 @ 11:26am
Happy holidays and welcome to your final blog on this school year.
This year has been one of the best years we have had so far! We have really enjoyed all of the learning and playing with our friends. Everybody has worked so hard all year.
Have an amazing summer!
Year 5 Blog Friday 14th July 2023
Date: 14th Jul 2023 @ 8:19am
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog
We have had a super week this week, lots of exciting things going on.
On Monday and Tuesday we played instruments and joing in with singing song from the musical Oliver to support Year 6 with their performance. It was very hot and took a lot of practice but we did a great job!
In maths we have been learning about Roman Numerals.
We learnt what the different letters represent and how they are used. We followed 3 rules when writing roman numerals:
- If a smaller numeral comes after a larger numeral, add the smaller number to the larger number.
- If a smaller numeral comes before a larger numeral, subtract the smaller number from the larger number.
- Do not use the same symbol more than three times in a row.
In English we have been practising identifying nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. We have also been using different sentence types and different punctuation to describe settings from Harry Potter.
Noun - person, place, thing
Adjective - describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
Verb - words that show an action (sing), occurrence (develop), or state of being (exist)
Adverb - modifies or describes a verb, adjective or another adverb
On Friday we enjoyed Super Learning Day. We were split into two groups and moved around the school to take part in different exciting activities with different teachers. Here are some of the things we did:
Karaoke / festival
Natural art using weaving
Worry dolls and bracelet making
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes
Spelling
Please continue to practise the Year 5 and 6 spellings. They are attached to this blog.
Times Tables
Please practise your own tables target or the 7x tables.
Sumdog
Spelling Challenge
Times Tables Challenge
Maths Competition
Year 5 Blog Friday 7th July 2023
Date: 6th Jul 2023 @ 8:15am
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
We have had a great week this week. It has been art week and in Year 5 our topic was fashion design.
First we looked at 3 different fashion designers, we thought about how they were inspired and what patterns and colours they used.
The designers we looked at were:
Alice Fox
Rahul Mishra
Pyer Moss
Next we decided on our design brief, it was to design any type of clothing with a link to China. So we looked at traditional Chinese patterns, symbols, colours and pictues. Then we practised drawing and colouring some of these designs.
For our final piece we painted some backgrounds, added patterns onto these, and then cut out our clothing from these different designs. We were so pleased with the results!
We finished our DT project on frame structures. We tested out how sturdy they were with Reception by reading them the story of The Three Little Pigs. We then asked the children in Reception to see if they could blow down our frame structures with their mouth, a hand fan, or a hairdryer! Some of our frame structures survived all 3, some didn't survive the hairdryer!
You can see us with Reception in our gallery here.
In maths we have been looking at tables and graphs to find out information and to answer questions such as how many altogther, how many more, how many less, what is the difference.
In English we have read some more of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. We wrote a formal letter to Harry from Professor McGonnagall and also described Diagon Alley using exciting words and different punctuation.
Next week we are going be finding out about some of the Fantastic Beasts.
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Talk about what you have read.
Spelling
In order to prepare for Year 6, over the next couple of weeks please practise the Year 5 and 6 spellings. These are attached to the blog.
Times Tables
Please practise your own individual target or the 6x tables and related division facts.
Sumdog
Spelling Challenge
Times Tables Challenge
Maths Competition
Date: 28th Jun 2023 @ 9:47am
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
We have had a very exciting week this week, especially because we have read some of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone :)
In English we have read parts of the first Harry Potter novel. We then created our own magical character which we described, we used JK Rowling's description of Dumbledore as inspiration. We also found out our own witch or wizard names here: Harry Potter name generator
We had an amazing poetry day on Monday when the very funny poet Ian Bland visited us. We loved some of his poems like the Dinnerlady Dance. We wrote our own poems with Ian called If I were a ... We really enjoyed hearing poems, writing our own, and performing them. It was a great day!
In maths we have been calcuating the area and perimeter of shapes and have been converting between measures.
1cm = 10mm
1l = 1,000ml
1m = 100cm
In geography we started our new topic on China. We located China on a map and found out about its location including bordering countries and oceans. Throughout the topic we will be learning about the impact humans have had on China and the impact China has on other countries. Try to look out for products at home that were made in China.
In French, we practised giving our opinion of different ice cream flavours and asked others their opinion. We played a game to reinforce the vocabulary. The children were able to write a sentence from memory using a conjuction - fantastique! Then we learnt how to ask for an ice cream in a shop and held a conversation in role with a partner.
Home Practice
Geography
Make a list of any products you find at home or in the shops that were made in China.
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes to an adult. Talk about what you have read.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. They all have the suffix -ful.
cheerful delightful faithful beautiful graceful harmful painful thoughtful
doubtful forgetful respectful meaningful disgraceful colourful stressful
Counting
Count out loud in:
6s from 0 to 72 and back again. 0, 6, 12, ...
7s from 0 to 84 and back again. 0, 7, 14, ...
12s from 0 to 144 and back again. 0, 12, 24, ...
Times Tables
Please practise your own individual target or the 12x tables.
Sumdog
Amazing effort from some of you in the competition this week. Well done!
Spelling Challenge
Times Tables Challenge
Maths Challenge
Don't forget to practise the songs for Oliver. The words are attached to this blog.
Year 5 Blog Friday 21st June 2023
Date: 21st Jun 2023 @ 9:20am
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
We have had a lovely week in Year 5 this week.
On Tuesday we had our taster day at All Hallows which we absolutely loved. We got to meet some of the teachers, find out facts about the school in a scavenger hunt, visit the sports hall to play some cricket and rounders, spend some time with the chaplain to talk about friendship and write down prayers, and have a dance off in groups in performing arts. Not to forget we got to try an All Hallows school dinner yum!
Here is a gallery to see us on our taster day.
In English we finished reading Varjak Paw. We loved it and are now excited to read parts of the Harry Potter books, Fantastic Beasts, and also the playscript the Cursed Child.
In maths we have been learning about properties of shapes. Here are some of the words we have been using this week:
Polygon - a 2d shape with straight sides
Regular - has equal sides and angles
Irregular - does not have equal sides and/or angles
Perimeter - a measure of the outside of a shape
Angle - a turn between two lines measured in degrees
In French, we learnt how to say 6 ice cream flavours and give our opinion of them - either I love, I like, I don't like or I hate.... We looked at the phonic sounds in 'vanille' and 'menthe' and added actions to help us remember how to pronounce these words. Then we wrote a poster or 'lift the flap' quiz questions describing various sports without naming the sport. These are on display in the corridor - I'm very proud of Y5's French! Fantastique.
On Friday afternoon we took part in Tough Kidder. It was amazing to see everybody work together, supports each other, and have so much fun!
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Look at how commas are used.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. They contain the prefixes dis- re- de- mis- un-
Prefixes go onto the beginning of root word to change the meaning.
disappeared reappeared misbehaved decode dishonest disability misplace unhappy unemployed defrost unknown undo redo misjudge disbelief
Times Tables
Please practise times tables every day, they help with so much of the learning we do in maths!
Either practise your own tables target or practise dividing by 7.
Sumdog
Spelling Challenge
Times Tables Challenge
Maths Competition
Have a happy weekend!
Please find attached the song words for Oliver.
Year 5 Blog Friday 16th June 2023
Date: 14th Jun 2023 @ 9:42am
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog
We have had a great week in 5, a very hot one!
In English we identified features of an information text and then wrote our own about Mesopotamian Blue cats. We included:
Headings
Diagrams
Fact boxes
Technical vocabulary
In maths we continued with our learning about fractions. We used our understanding of these things to help us solve problems:
Improper fraction - the numerator is higher than the denominator, which means we can make one or more whole ones.
Mixed fraction - a whole number and a fraction
In order to compare, order, add or subtract fractions, we need to make the denominator the same by finding equivalent fractions.
We started our new DT project this week. We are designing, making and evaluating a frame structure out of lollypop sticks. A frame structure is a structure made from thin components such as a tent frame. We are going to make our frame structures for the children in reception. We will read them the story of The Three Little Pigs and then ask them to test the strength of our frame structures by seeing if they can blow them down, like the wolf from the story.
We also started our new RE topic all about freedom and responsibility. We spoke about which freedoms and responsibilities we have, and identified rules and laws which help us to have these. We recognised that our golden rules help us to have freedom and that it is our responsibility to keep them. We then looked at some scripture from the book of Exodus. We learnt about how after the Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt by Moses, God gave them the Ten Commandments to help them to coexist and live happily. We will be looking at these in more depth throughout the topic.
In French, we wrote sentences to describe a sport without naming it. Then we read our sentences to a partner who tried to guess which sport we were describing. Once again, Y5 did a great job of this and we will have another look at the sentences next week to make sure we have done their magnificent efforts justice! We're just in time to start looking at the Tour de France which starts on the 1st July.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Talk about new vocabulary.
Spelling
These are some of the words from the Year 5 and 6 spelling list. They do not follow a pattern or rule so you will need to practise lots.
restaurant temperature nuisance neighbour leisure definite desperate amateur
appreciate bargain competition conscience conscious centre peculiar
Counting
Count in:
Ninths from 0 to one whole (nine ninths) and back again 0, one ninth, two ninths, ...
Sixteenths from 0 to one whole (sixteen sixteenths) and back again 0, one sixteenth, two sixteenths, ...
Tenths from 0 to two whole ones (twenty tenths) and back again 0, one tenth, two tenths, ...
Times Tables
If you have your own target, please practise every day.
If you do not have your own target, please practise x12.
Sumdog
Well done to everybody who took part in the Sumdog competitions.
Spelling Challenge
Times Tables Challenge
Maths Competition: Boys v Girls
Have a happy sunny weekend!
Year 5 Blog Friday 9th June 2023
Date: 7th Jun 2023 @ 9:44am
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
We have had a lovely week back after Half Term.
We were finally able to make our cam toys in DT after some parts we needed arrived. Our design brief was to make a cam toy for the Year 1 children to enjoy in their Golden Time. We designed our cam toys based on the questions we asked the Year 1 children and made sure that we included their likes and interests. Everybody showed excellent resilience and did not give up until they had made a cam toy which had a moving part and which we think Year 1 would enjoy. After we had finished, we evaluated our cam toys thinking about what went well, what challenges we were faced with, how well we had met our design brief, and what we would change next time. We then took our cam toys to Year 1 and were thrilled to see that the children really enjoyed playing with them.
We really enjoyed our Sport's Day on Thursday afternoon. It was wonderful to see everybody trying their best, pushing themselves and really encouraging each other. Well done Year 5!
In maths we have been adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators. We have had to convert one of the fractions in order to be able to add or subtract them, as we can only add or subtract fractions which have the same denominator. The denominator is the bottom number in a fraction that show the number of equal parts something is divided into.
In English we have continued to read our class novel Varjak Paw. We didn't know much about the type of cat Varjak is, he is a Mesopotamian Blue. We decided to research Mesopotamian Blue cats and are in the process of writing an information text all about them so that our reader can find out about them. So far we have focussed on using brackets for parenthesis, we have done this by writing a definition of unfamiliar words inside brackets. The sentences still make sense without the brackets but the information inside adds extra information for the reader.
Here are some examples:
The lifespan (how long they live) of a Mesopotamian Blue is 15 to 20 years.
Masopotamian Blues can be aloof (unfriendly) towards strangers.
They have plush (soft to touch) fur.
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In French, we recapped how to conjugate a regular ER verb using jouer - to play. Then we looked at an irregular verb - faire - to do. We then tried to choose the correct form of the verb to use in sentences about sport. A heavy grammar lesson which will make more sense next time it comes up! Well tried, Y5!
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Look out for examples of brackets being used for different reasons.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week:
ethic enthusiastic lyric athletic mechanic critic rhythmic artistic heroic
electric historic mechanical electrical historical ethical
Counting
Count out loud in:
Tenths from 0 to 1 whole (ten tenths) Zero, one tenth, two tenths, ...
Fifths from 0 to 1 whole (five fifths) Zero, one fifth, two fifths, ...
Eighths from 0 to 1 whole (eight eighths) Zero, one eighth, two eighths, ...
Times Tables
Please practise your times tables every day. Remember you can listen to songs on YouTube and play on Hit the Button.
Sumdog
Times Tables Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Maths Competition in teams
Have a super sunny weekend!
Year 5 Blog Friday 26th May 2023
Date: 24th May 2023 @ 9:29am
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog
We have had a fantastic week this week.
In English we have continued reading Varjak Paw. We are really enjoying this book, it is so exciting. This week we have been writing more setting descriptions. Our focus has been to describe the city that Varjak goes to in two different ways. The first is the city when varjak first arrives. It is an exciting place with lots going on. The second is the city as night time approaches. Varjak begins to feel scared of the city. We have made sure that we have shown these two feelings in our descriptions - excitement and fear!
In maths we have been learning about improper and mixed fractions.
An improper fraction is a number greater than one whole.
A mixed fraction is a whole number and a proper fraction combined.
We have been lucky enough to have two lessons with Gareth the sports journalist this week. In our first lesson we wrote all about the paralympics, we were so inspired by the incredible athletes.
Please keep up with reading and practising times tables over half Term.
Have an amazing Half Term and see you for the final half term of the year!
Date: 23rd May 2023 @ 12:10pm
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Year 5 Blog Friday 19th May 2023
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 11:13am
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
We have had an amazing week this week.
In maths we have been drawing and measuring different types of angles. Everybody has done such a fantastic job. The things we focussed on to make sure we were accurate included ensuring that the protractor was exactly on the base line, counting round from 0 degrees on the protractor, and calculating the difference between 360 degrees and a given angle.
In English we started our new class novel. It is Varjak Paw by S.F.Said. We are loving it! This week we have written a description of the garden that Varjak goes into for the first time in his life. We used:
Expanded noun phrases
- noun - tree
- noun phrase - The tree
- expand with an adjective - The leafless tree
- expand with a relative clause - The leafless tree which was taller than the house...
Adverbials for place
Beyond the wall...
Behind the shed ...
Above the dark clouds ...
On the ground ...
In history we have been learning all about the Shang Dynasty. We looked at how the Shang Dynasty started, where it is on a timeline in comparison to other civilisations, and we learnt the vocabulary we are going to need throughout the topic. We found it so interesting and can't wait to learn more!
Here are some of the new words we learnt:
Dynasty - a succession of rulers from the same family or group
Confederate - joined or united by an agreement or treaty
Emperor - the male ruler of an empire
Fertile - being able to produce abundant growth of farm crops
On Thursday afternoon we attended Ascension Day Mass at church to remember the Ascension of Jesus into Heaven.
On Friday the CEO from the Foxton Centre visited our school to collect all our donations and to deliver an assembly to Key Stage 2. We felt so proud knowing that our donations will help the homeless community of Preston.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Look for good descriptive words (adjectives).
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week:
burglary dictionary necessary primary voluntary
occur opportunity parliament persuade physical prejudice privilege profession programme pronunciation
Counting
Count back to calculate:
When you get to zero, the next number back would be -1 (negative 1):
7 - 12
3 - 20
6 - 18
Times Tables
Please practise your tables every day. You are all doing such a fantastic job!
Sumdog
Times Tables Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Maths Challenge
Have a happy sunny weekend :)
Year 5 Blog Friday 12th May 2023
Date: 11th May 2023 @ 7:07pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
We have had a great week in year 5.
We finished writing our own version of The Highwayman poem. We then perfomed our poems in small groups thinking about how we could change our tone and volume to have an effect on the audience. Everybody did such a fantastic job and felt so proud.
In maths we have been looking at co-ordinates and translating shapes. Translating a shape means that the shape stays exactly the same but moves to a different position.
In history we looked at an overview of the earliest civilisations. We noticed that they all thrived by being near to a river and having the ability to grow crops and farm animals. Next we are going to learn all about The Shang Dynasty. We can't wait!
Click here to see some videos all about The Shang Dynasty
In French, we practised the subject pronouns (Je, tu, il, elle etc) before moving on to reading some paragraphs in French about sports with opinions. The children were able to read and translate these very well. We discussed what to do if we come across a word we don't know. The strategies are the same as meeting an unknown word when reading in English - read on, use the context, take a good guess at what would make sense. Well done, year 5.
On Thursday afternoon we did PE and computing. In PE we have been practising our cricket skills and playing mini games. Mrs Cookson has been very impressed.
On Friday afternoon we did some map work to celebrate the Eurovision. We had a great time listening to some of the songs and located the countries on a map. We also spoke about capital cities, surrounding seas and oceans, and bordering countries.
You can see us in action here.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day to somebody for 20 minutes. Talk about what you have read.
Spelling
Here are your new spellings. Practise every day.
accident accidental centre central nature natural medicine medicinal
arrive arrival magic magical survive survival
Times Tables
You have been given your new tables target this week. Please practise every day.
Counting
Count out loud in:
6s from 0 to 72 and back again.
0, 6, 12, ...
7s from 0 to 84 and back again.
0, 7, 14, ...
12s from 0 to 144 and back again.
0, 12, 24, ...
Sumdog
Spelling Challenge
Times Tables Challenge
Geometry Competition
Year 5 Blog Friday 5th May 2023
Date: 3rd May 2023 @ 9:40am
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday blog.
Although we have only had a four day week, we have still done lots of exciting learning!
in English we have been using The Highway as inspiration to write our own poem.
We included certain features which we thought made the poem exciting and helped to create an image in the reader's mind. Here are some of the features we included:
Metaphor - an imaginative way of describing something by referring to something else which is the same in a particular way.
For example, The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moors.
Simile - an expression including the words "like" or "as" to compare one thing with another.
For example, His heart was beating as fast as a horse galloping across the cobbles.
Speech - spoken words from a character.
For example, "One kiss my bonny sweetheart."
Onomatopoeia - the use or creation of a word that imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.
For example, Tlot-tlot went the horse's hooves.
In maths we were dividing decimal numbers and solving measures problems. We also learnt about reflecting shapes. Everybody did such a fantastic job!
In DT we used cereal boxes and pencils to practise making our cam toy. A cam toy has a sliding or rotating piece which we will be making ourselves. Some of you even practised some more at home - well done! Don't forget to bring in a shoe box or cereal box next week to make our final cam toy. We will be taking these to Year 1 one afternoon for them to play with.
We started our new PSHE topic. Throughout the topic we will try to answer the question 'How can drugs common to everyday life affect health?' We started by talking about we already know about the topic. Then we looked at some common everyday drugs and their risks and effects.
We will be learning about common everyday drugs including nicotine, alcohol, caffeine and medicines, laws surrounding drugs and that some drugs are legal whilst others are illegal, and risks associated with different drugs.
On Wednesday we had our session with Gareth the sports journalist. We wrote about the first time a woman beat a man at a professional darts competition.
We loved celebrating the coronation on King Charles. We all dressed in red, white and blue and went onto the field for a picnic and a sing and dance. You can see us enjoying the coronation here.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud to somebody every day for 20 minutes. Look out for new words, use the context and a dictionary to find their meaning.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week.
happened hurried grabbed worried adventurous disastrous enormous fabulous famous generous jealous mischievous smiled danced behaved
Times Tables
You have been given your new tables target. Please practise every day.
Sumdog
Times Tables Challenge
Maths Competition - you have been put into these teams:
Gryffendor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin
Spelling Challenge
Reminders
Don't forget to bring in a shoe box or a cereal box for our DT project.
Happy Long Weekend
Date: 26th Apr 2023 @ 9:41am
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
We have had a brilliant week back after the Easter holidays. Everybody has worked so hard and has shown that they are ready for the Summer Term.
In English we have been reading a poem called The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. We are working towards writing our own version of the poem. Before writing our own poem we needed to find out:
What is a highwayman?
Who is Dick Turpin?
What do some of the words mean in the poem?
We have been finding the answers to all of these questions in order to help us understand the poem.
You can see us in action here.
We did some extra writing on Wednesday afternoon with a sports journalist. He taught us all about what it means to be a sports journalist and we had a go at writing our own match reports on the England v England women's Euro finals. Gareth, who is a sports journalist, was extremely impressed and said that the children in year 5 are very talented.
In maths we have been mutlitplying and dividing by 100 and 1,000 and then using these skills to convert measures.
1kg = 1,000g
1km = 1,000m
1L = 1,000ml
1m = 100cm
In geography we have continued with our learning about North America.
We learnt about The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in the world. We spoke about what has caused this amount of plastic to be in this place, and what we can do to help.
One of the main things we can do is reduce, resuse and recycle.
In French, we learnt how to pronounce the 'qu' sound, then we began to learn the vocabulary of sport. We learnt how to use an online dictionary to look up unknown words and talked about the pros and cons of a book v online dictionary. Well done, as always, Y5.On Wednesday afternoon we
In science we looked at the potatoes that we planted and observed how they have changed. We couldn't believe how many leaves had grown out of the soil. We have now covered the leaves with more soil and compost as we want the plant to focus on the potatoes and not the leaves.
Thank you to everybody who looked after the potatoes so well over the Easter holidays.
We have also taken some cuttings of different plants including thyme, basil, rosemary, coriander, parsley and chives. We have planted these cuttings in some soil and are going to see if they are able to grow roots and turn into new plants.
If you would like to see what exciting learning we will be doing this term, you can have a look on our class page on the school wesbite here.
Home Practice
Reading
Well done to so many of you who kept up with your reading over the Easter holidays!
Please read out loud to somebody every day for 20 minutes. Retell what you have read in your own words.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week.
You need to know how to spell each word and also what it means. Try writing out sentences with the spellings in.
you're your there their they're there's theirs where were we're
vegetable temperature secretary recognise pronunciation
Counting
Count out loud in 1.1s:
From 5.7 to 15.6
5.7 6.8 7.9 9 ...
From 3.6 to 13.5
3.6 4.7 5.8 6.9 ...
From 21.3 to 31.2
21.3 22.4 23.5 24.6 ...
Times Tables
You will be given your new tables target next week, please practise every day.
Sumdog
Maths Competition
Times Tables Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Have a nice long weekend :)
Year 5 Blog Thursday 6th April
Date: 6th Apr 2023 @ 7:52am
Happy Easter and Happy Half Term!
We have had a great Half Term.
We had a brilliant time on our school trip to Judge's Lodgings on Tuesday. We experienced life in a Victorian classroom and as a Victorian servant. Here is a gallery of our trip.
We absolutely loved reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and can't wait to find out what our class novel will be after the holidays.
Please try to keep reading during Half Term - you might even be able to do some reading outside if it gets sunny.
The Sumdog challenges and competition will continue too - get your team to the top of the leaderboard.
But most importantly, have fun, spend time with friends and family, and rest!
Reminders
Please bring in a shoe box and a cereal box for out DT work after Half Term.
Please continue to collect for The Foxton Centre and Bardarndo's.
The CEO from the Foxton Centre will be visiting us after Half Term to collect our donations. It might be a nice idea to donate some Easter Eggs if you get too many or find some in the sale.
Have a wonderful Easter!
