St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 5: Blog items
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!
Date: 30th Mar 2023 @ 6:43pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
It has been a wonderful week in Year 5.
We have done lots of exciting learning.
In French, the children used all their learning from the last few weeks to write a paragraph about the planets in French. They did an amazing job! I'm so proud of them and can't wait for you to see the end result. I'm sure you will be just as impressed with the standard of their writing!
In maths we have been identiying factors of numbers, learning about prime numbers, and multiplying a two-digit number by another two-digit number.
A factor is a number that divides another number leaving no remainder, or a number you can multiply by to give a number.
For example:
1, 2, 3 and 6 are factors of 6.
1 x 6 = 6 2 x 3 = 6
A prime number is a number with only two factors, one and itself.
For example:
2 is a prime number because its only factors are 1 and 2.
7 is a prime number because its only factors are 1 and 7.
9 is not a prime number because its factors are 1, 3 and 9.
In English we have been writing a battle scene between Peter and The White Witch from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Our focus was to set the scene for the battle where the reader worries for Peter. Next we will describe the battle from Peter's point of view. We have found this very exciting and everybody has done such a brilliant job so far.
On Thursday we had our very own St Oswald's World Book Day. It was great to see everybody in their costumes and talk about our favourite characters and books. We used World Book Day as inspiration for our art lesson where we created our own imaginary world behind wardrobe doors. It was great to see such creative ideas.
You can see us celebrating the wonderful world of reading here.
We continued with our PSHE topic all about communicating safely online. So many of the children are now messaging, video chatting, sending videos and chatting on games. It is so important to always be kind online and make sure parents know exactly what the children are doing whilst online.
In our PSHE lesson we thought about all of the different ways we can communicate online including:
SMS (text message)
Online messaging (e.g. What's App)
Social media (e.g. Instagram Facebook)
Gaming (e.g. Roblox)
Video calling (e.g. FaceTime)
We then spoke about things that can be shared online, who we communicate with, age restrictions and how to make sure we are being responsible.
The children were very open and enjoyed talking about their experiences online.
We have attached a new online safety guide 'What Parents and Carers Need to Know about Age-Inappropriate Content'. Please Read.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes.
Look out for words that are written in a different way for example IN CAPITAL LETTERS, in bold or in itallics. Talk about why they are written in this way.
Spelling
Here are your spellings which you will be tested on after Half Term so please practise next week.
bicycle centre decide describe exercise experience experiment extreme increase library medicine mention minute occasion occasionally
Counting
Count out loud in:
2s from 2 to negative 20.
2, 0, -2, -4, ...
3s from 1 to negative 17.
1, -2, -5, -8, ...
30s from 32 to 302.
32, 62, 92, 122, 152, ...
Times Tables
You have been given your new tables target. Please practise every day.
I'm sure you have noticed how often we use our times tables in maths - all the time!
Sumdog
Wow, what an amazing effort in the Sumdog compeition this week! Well done everybody.
Times Tables Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Maths Competition
DT
Please bring in a cereal box next week to use in our DT lesson. We are going make a prototype (practise version) of our toy for Year 1.
Have an amazing weekend all you amazing children :)
Year 5 Blog Friday 24th March 2023
Date: 23rd Mar 2023 @ 7:35pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your blog.
We have had a great week this week.
In English we have been acting as journalists and writing newspaper reports about the return of spring to Narnia. We have focussed on using journalistic language and writing direct and indirect quotes.
Direct quotes use inverted commas (speech marks) and say exactly what the person said.
Mr Beaver, a resident of Narnia who witnessed Father Christmas’ arrival, told our reporter, “I saw him with my own eyes, he was on a sleigh and had presents!”
Indirect quotes do not include inverted commas and are a summary of what the person said.
Lucy, a human who came to Narnia from Spare Oom, reported that she has noticed that the weather is much warmer since her arrival here and that she has even seen flowers and blue sky.
In maths we have been learning rules of divisibility. We now know how to quickly identify if a number is divisible by 10, 100, 2, 50, 25, 3, or 9. We found it fascinating.
Divisible by means you can divide by that number with no remainders.
We have started our new topic in PSHE. It is all about communicating safely in person and online. We focussed our lesson on showing empathy and thinking about how other people feel. This topic is extremely important as many children communicate with their friends online and need to understand how to do so safely and responsibly.
It is important to be kind in person and online. We have added a little guide below for you to read.
In geography we continued with our learning about North America. We were surprised by all of the different climate zones within North America. We used atlases to think about what the climate would be like in different countries such as Jamaica compared to Greenland.
In French, we learnt some conjunctions that will help improve our French writing. Then we looked at the construction of sentences using these words. The children's ability to spot the nouns, verbs and adjectives in French, understand adjectival agreement and their pronunciation is impressive! Well done year 5. I look forward seeing to your finished pieces about space over the next two weeks!
On Friday afternoon we presented our research about space to the class. You can see us in action here.
We also planted some potatoes so we can observe them over time and learn about the life cycle. See us planting here.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud to somebody every day for 20 minutes.
Talk about what the characters are thinking and feeling.
Spelling
Please continue to practise the spellings from the blog last week, we will also do some more practice in class.
misjudge mismanage misconduct
discontinue dishonest disloyal disobey discourage
inconvenient incapable inaccurate inadequate inappropriate
Remember if you want an extra challenge, you can choose some of the spellings from the Year 5 and 6 spelling list.
Times Tables
Please continue to practise your tables every day ready for your tables test next week.
Count
Draw a straight line either vertically or horizontally. Use this as a number line to count:
From 15 through zero to negative 15 in 1s.
From 12 through zero to negative 12 in 2s.
From 10 through zero to negative 11 in 3s.
Counties of England
Have a go at naming and locating the counties of England.
Test people at home too :)
Sumdog
Well done to everybody who took part in the challenges and competitions. Amazing work.
Maths Competition - I have split you up into random teams named Red, Yellow, Green, Blue. There will be a treat for the winning team.
Times Table Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Have a wonderful weekend!
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 3:41pm
Happy Friday and Happy St. Patrick's Day.
We have had another great week in Year 5.
We have been very active. We did netball in PE and enjoyed our session with Freddy Fit on Wednesday.
In French we learnt how to change masculine adjectives into their feminine form, then we used these feminine adjectives to write a card for a special lady to tell her how amazing she is! I hope the children can read and translate for you.
In English we have started to plan a newspaper report. The newspaper will be written to the creatures of Narnia informing them that the White Witch has started to lose her powers. This has meant that Father Christmas and summer have both returned to Narnia after years of being forbidden. We hope our newspaper reports will make the creatures feel excited and hopeful. So far we have looked at some examples of happy news stories to identify their features and some good words.
Here are some of the words we picked out:
decades species spectacular temperature significant impact legendary record environment impact discovered
Next week we are going to be looking at writing quotes using the correct punctuation, and then planning and writing our newspaper article.
In maths we have been practising different mental methods to add and subtract four-digit numbers and numbers with decimal places. The strategies we have practised include bridging, counting on and compensating.
One of the most important things when doing these methods to solve a calculation is that we know our numbers facts. Have a practise on Hit the Button to get quicker and more confident.
In geography we have started to investigate and try to answer this question:
What makes North America such a diverse continent?
We found out the meaning of some key words.
Diverse - showing variety
Continent - continuous mass of land
We also thought about the continents we have studied in other year groups and identified ways that each of the continents is diverse. We thought about the climate, geographical features like mountains, rivers and lakes, oceans, land use, and jobs and products made and sold.
We are excited to learn more about the diversity in North America.
Did you know that it is the third largest continent?
Lenten Promises
We are still spending the season of Lent thinking about how we can become better people. So many people have brought in money and donations for the Foxton Centre and Barnardo's and are really spending their time thinking of people less fortunate than themselves.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every night for 20 minutes. Retell what you have read in your own words.
Also, look out for the way speech is punctuated, this will help with your writing next week.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. Practise every night. Ask somebody at home to test you so you know which you need to focus on.
These spellings all have the prefix mis-, dis-, or in-
misjudge mismanage misconduct
discontinue dishonest disloyal disobey discourage
inconvenient incapable inaccurate inadequate inappropriate
Newspaper articles
If you can, read some magazines and newspaper articles. Look out for some good vocabulary to use in your own writing.
Number
Play on Hit the Button to become quicker and more confident with your number facts.
Times tables
Practise your times tables every day. Say them out loud, write them down, ask people at home to test you.
Sumdog
Times Tables Challenge
Number Challenge
Spelling Competition
Have a happy weekend!
Year 5 Blog Friday 10th March 2023
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 4:06pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
We have had a fantastic week in Year 5.
We absolutely loved our lesson with the Japanese students. We learnt about proverbs and then played a game to match the proverbs with their meaning.
Here is an example:
Proverb - Don't give your pearls to a pig.
Meaning - Don't waste good things on people who will not appreciate them.
We also learnt a Japanese dance which we practised as a class in PE and then performed as a whole school on Friday.
In science we have finished our topic about earth and space. We carried out an investigation into the formation of craters on the moon by dropping balls into a tray of flour from different heights and measuring the diameter of the 'crater'.
A crater is a large bowl shaped cavity caused by the impact of a meteorite.
The focus of the investigation was to decide how to record our results using a table and a graph.
You can see us carrying out our science investigation here
We also came up with our own question which we wanted to research before moving on to our next science topic. We will be presenting our findings to the class next week as a poster, leaflet, PowerPoint or video. We watched the start of a video on the BBC to give us some ideas which we all found fascinating. Here is the link to watch some more at home.
We have started our new geography topic on North America. We used atlases, maps and online maps to find out the following about the continent:
Countries
Surrounding oceans and seas
Mountains
Rivers and lakes
We have already started to recognise that North America is a diverse continent.
In RE we have continued to think about Lent and what we can do during the season of Lent to become better people.
We are still doing an amazing job collecting donations for Barnardo's and The Foxton Centre. You can have a look on their website for different ways to help.
In English we have been writing a persuasive speech as the Queen of Narnia, or the White Witch. We have been trying to persuade the creatures of Narnia to join the Queen and to help her to capture the humans. We wrote sentences where we added extra information by using commas. Here are some examples:
Trust me, my dear creatures, and you shall be rewarded.
Humans have come into our Narnia, my Narnia, to take over and destroy it!
Those ghastly humans, I warn you, will harm anything that gets in their way.
In maths we have been learning about tenths, hundredths and thousandths and also negative numbers in different contexts. We thought about negative numbers in the contexts of temperature, floors of a hotel, goal difference in football, and below par in golf.
On Friday the whole school took part in a reduced electricity day which was organised by the Eco Team. It would be fantastic if you could try to do this at home too - turn off the lights, TV, etc. We really enjoyed doing our lessons by candle light and knowing that we were doing our bit to help the environment.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Discuss new vocabulary and try to use new vocabulary in sentences of your own.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week.
The spellings will give you the opportunity to practise adding the suffix -ful at the end of words and also changing words which end in a y to plural.
peace peaceful beauty beautiful success successful thought thoughtful wonder wonderful charity charities curiosity curiosities cemeteries
Counting
Count out loud in:
5s from -25 to 25 and back again. -25 -20 -15 -10 -5 0 5
2s from -12 to 12 and back again. -12 -10 -8 -6 -4 -2 0 2
3s from -18 to 18 and back again -18 -15 -12 -9 -6 -3 0 3
Times Tables
You have been given your new tables target. Please practise every day.
Sumdog
Spelling Challenge
Tables Challenge
Number Competition
Have a happy weekend!
Year 5 Blog Friday 3rd March 2023
Date: 1st Mar 2023 @ 9:49am
Welcome to your Friday Blog and Happy Friday.
We have had a really great week in Year 5. We have worked hard and have enjoyed a little bit of brighter weather.
In maths we have been using different strategies to multiply. Everybody has done such a fantastic job, keep practising your times tables as this will help a lot!
Here is one of the methods we use, we are always thinking about how to make the calculation easier for ourselves.
In English we have finished our descriptions of the professor in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. We wrote dialogue to show what the four children might say about him. We have also started to describe the White Witch. We are working on describing the witch from Edmund's point of view, he is amazed by her!
In DT we have started our new topic. Our brief is to design and make a toy for the Year 1 children to enjoy during Golden Time one Friday afternoon. We started our topic by carrying out some research. We wrote a questionnaire to find out about Year 1 children's interests and then visited them to collect their answers. Here are some photos of us carrying out our research.
In French, we continued our learning about Les planetes. We practised saying the names by playing noughts and crosses, then we used a data table about the planets in French to answer questions such as which planet has the largest diameter? We realised that there are lots of cognates (words that look like English words) that can help use understand unfamiliar texts.
In RE we came up with some Lenten promises together. We decided we would like to help two charities. The charities we chose are The Foxton Centre in Preston, and Barnardo's. If you click on the links below, you can see different ways we can support these charities.
Some of the Lenten promises made in Year 5 include:
My Lenten promise is to donate 10p every day during Lent to Barnardo's.
I am going to donate one tin of food each week during Lent to The Foxton Centre.
My birthday is during Lent, so I am going to donate some of my birthday money to Barnardo's.
St Oswald's Eco Team have been busy planning different things to help the environment. They decided that on Friday 10th March we are going to have a reduced electricity day in school. They would love it if you have a go at home too.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud to somebody at home every day for 20 minutes. Look out for good describing words.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week:
you're they're couldn't don't can't doesn't didn't isn't shouldn't wouldn't
won't aren't marvellous mischievous necessary
Counting
Count out loud in 0.3 from 0 to 3.6 and back again.
0.3 0.6 0.9 1.2
Count out loud in 0.3 from 0.1 to 3.7 and back again.
0.1 0.4 0.7 1
Count out loud in 0.001 from 0.001 to 0.02 and back again.
0.001 0.002 0.003
Times Tables
You have been given your new tables target. Please practise every day.
Also, please make sure you are confident with x 10, x 100, x 1000, ÷ 10, ÷ 100, ÷ 1000.
Sumdog
Amazing work on Sumdog this week - so many of you did such a great job in the competition!
This week please complete:
Tables Challenge
Maths Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Have a happy weekend! :)
Year 5 Blog Friday 24th February 2023
Date: 24th Feb 2023 @ 3:56pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
We have had a great first week back.
In maths we have been simplifying fractions and converting fractions to decimals. This was really tricky at first but everybody tried their best and should be so proud! Next week we will be multiplying four-digit numbers by one-digit numbers. Make sure you are confident with your tables.
In English we started our new class novel - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S.Lewis. We are really loving it so far. We have been using exciting sentences to describe the professor from the story. Our aim was to intrigue the reader so they want to read more about him.
We were having a go at writing complex sentences with relative clauses, here are some examples:
The professor, who had never said a word, crept around the house.
His eyes, which were dark and narrow, seemed to look right through Lucy.
In art we completed our topic on William Morris. We carved a pattern in the style of William Morris into a polystyrene block. We then painted onto it and used it to print repeated patterns onto a piece of card. The finished pieces all look amazing and are all so unique! Well done everybody!
In history we looked a photos of two schools in Preston during the Victorian era. We looked closely at the images and thought about the similarities and differences between those schools and schools in Preston today.
Some of the similarities included the wearing of school uniforms and sitting at desks.
Some of the differences included the amount of children in one room, the layout of the classroom, and the things on the walls.
Home Practice
Reading
Read at home every night. Discuss the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. Some have silent letters, and some have ei after c.
deceive receive ceiling receipt deceit perceive
knight government environment know knew autumn column listen castle
Counting
Please count out loud in:
300s from 0 to 3600 and back again
0 300 600
70s from 0 to 840 and back again
0 70 140
0.6s from 0.6 to 7.2 and back again
0.6 1.2 1.8
Time Tables
You have been given new tables targets this week. Please practise every day. You can use Hit the Button and Sumdog.
Sumdog
There are 3 Sumdog challenges:
Spelling Challenge
Times Tables Challenge
Maths Competition
Have a super weekend!
Date: 20th Jan 2023 @ 4:06pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
We have had a super week of learning this week!
We have loved reading more of our novel Street Child. We wrote some super descriptive pieces with Mrs Wood and have been working hard on thinking about how our sentences sound when they are read.
In maths we have been reviewing our mental maths strategies and working on our number facts. Everyone is really working on their explanations and reasoning. Well done Year 5!
In Art we have been exploring the art of William Morris. We have been exploring his textiles looked at how we might replicate his work.
In French, we conjugated a regular -ER verb (manger - to eat) for the first time, then practised adding the correct endings for a range of subject pronouns. Well done, Y5. Great grammar!
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud to somebody every day for 20 minutes. Look out for new words and find their meaning.
Times Tables
Continue to practice your tables target for your test next week. A little practice every day will do the trick!
Counting
Count out loud in 1,000s from 24,105 to 42,105.
What pattern do you notice?
Count out loud in 30s from 0 to 360 and back again.
0 30 60 ...
Count out loud in 40s from 0 to 480 and back again.
0 40 80 ...
Spellings
Check Sumdog for your spellings this week.
Sumdog
Complete the Sumdog challenges:
Times tables
Maths Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Have a super weekend.
Year 5 Blog Friday 13th January
Date: 11th Jan 2023 @ 9:44am
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
A huge well done to the children who completed their research about Lancashire and Preston in the past and about the Victorian times. Some really interesting facts and photographs!
This week we have continued to read our class novel Street Child. We have used our research to write a non-chronological report about life in the Victorian times in London. A non-chronological report gives information to the reader about a certain topic and can be written in any order. We looked at examples of non-chronological reports to find out what we would need to include. We included:
- Title
- Interesting introduction
- Sub-headings and paragraphs
- Facts and figures
- Pictures and diagrams
Everybody did a really fantastic job and will be sharing their non-chronologival report with somebody at home to teach them all about life in Victorian London. We also shared our reports with year 3 who said they were really interesting and informative.
We finished our current history topic on Ancient Greece by learning all about the Ancient Olympics. We used primary sources of evidence to find clues about the Ancient Olympics in Greece and then made posters with our findings. We looked at images of clay pots which had paintings of the Ancient Olympics. We looked at these to find out who could compete, what sports they competed in and what clothes they wore.
You can see us being historians in our gallery here.
We will start our history topic about the Victorians next week. The topic is called Local history in the Victorian times.
We also finished our current science topic about forces. We carried our a pattern seeking investigation by making and investigating different levers. Our aim was to find out if a longer lever made the job easier or harder. We found out that the longer the lever, the easier the job. The shorter the lever, the harder the job.
You can see us investigating here.
On Friday we were introduced to our new science topic - Earth and space. We can't wait to learn more!
In maths we have been learning about factors and square numbers. We used counters to find factor pairs and then identified square numbers by finding out which factors pairs created a square.
Home Practice
Remember
Don't forget to bring in some old trainers and spare socks in a carrier bag for PE next week. Bring them on Monday so your PE kit is in school all week.
Reading
Read out loud to somebody every day for 20 minutes. Look out for new words and find their meaning.
Times Tables
You have been given your tables target for your test next week. Practise every day.
Counting
Count out loud in 1,000s from 76,101 to 86,101.
76,101 77,101 78,101 ...
Count out loud in 30s from 0 to 360.
0 30 60 ...
Count out loud in 40s from 0 to 480.
0 40 80 ...
Spellings
Here are your spellings this week. They all end with -able, -ible, -ably, -ibly.
possible possibly incredible incredibly sensible sensibly reliable reliably respectable
respectably agreeable agreeably probable probably enjoyable
Sumdog
Complete the Sumdog challenges:
Times tables
Maths Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Have a super weekend.
Year 5 Blog Friday 6th January 2023
Date: 5th Jan 2023 @ 7:29pm
Happy New Year!
Welcome to your first Friday Blog of 2023.
It has been a great week back and so lovely to see each other again.
Even though we have only been back at school for 3 days we have done so much exciting learning.
We started our new class novel in English. It is called Street Child by Berlie Doherty. The novel is set in the Victorian times so we have spent this week learning about different aspects of Victorian life. This will help us as we continue to read the novel. So far we have found out about conditions for street children including the types of jobs they did to earn enough money for food, workhouses, illnesses and diseases and The Industrial Revolution. We have found it all so fascinating and can't wait to read more and find out more.
To fit in with our novel we are going to start our new history topic in the coming weeks. We are going to be learning about the history of Lancashire and Preston during the Victorian times. See if you can find some facts or photographs of Preston or Lancashire in the past, it will be interesting to find out how these places have changed over the years.
In maths we have been learning about multiples and factors. We have found it really interesting to look at the patterns and to identify how we can spot a multiple of a certain number. One of the most exciting things we found out is how to recognise a multiple of 3.
Here are some examples.
54 is a multiple of 3 because 5 + 4 = 9 and 9 is a multiple of 3.
51 is a multiple of 3 because 5 + 1 = 6 and 6 is a multiple of 3.
144 is a multiple of 3 because 1 + 4 + 4 = 9 and 9 is a multiple of 3.
In PE we ran 6 laps of the infant and junior playgrounds! This was to prepare us for cross country running which we will be starting next week. Don't forget to bring in some old trainers and spare socks for cross country running next week. After our 6 laps we did some tag rugby and some gymnastics. Everybody worked so well in their teams and pairs.
In French, we played a game of Trapdoor to practise speaking. This involves working with a partner who had chosen the items given by Pere Noel (Father Christmas) and the other person had to guess what was on their list. Then we returned to the topic of Meals and meal times that we started before Christmas. We read a text in French and answered questions in English to show our understanding.
Home Practice
Research
Find some facts and photographs of Preston and Lancashire in the past. Bring these to school so we can see how these places have changed over the years.
Remember
Don't forget to bring in some old trainers and spare socks for PE next week.
Reading
Read out loud to somebody every day for 20 minutes. Focus on reading with expression - using different voices and taking note of punctuation.
Times Tables
You have been given your tables target for your test next week. Practise every day.
Counting
Count out loud in 25s from 0 to 250.
0 25 50 ...
Count out loud in 50s from 0 to 500.
0 50 10 ...
Count out loud from 500 back to 0.
500 450 400 ...
Sumdog
Complete the Sumdog challenges:
Times tables
Maths Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Spellings
Here are your spellings this week. They don't follow a rule or pattern however they do all have at least one pair of double letters. Practise your spellings every day using different strategies that we use in class.
accommodate accompany according aggressive apparent appreciate attached committee communicate community embarrass
exaggerate harass immediately interrupt
Have a super weekend.
Year 5 Blog Friday 16th December
Date: 19th Dec 2022 @ 10:20am
Happy Friday, Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.
We had a wonderful week in school.
We finished Room 13 and loved it. We then wrote a persuasive piece of writing to go in a holiday brochure trying to persuade people to go and stay at the Crow's Next Hotel. This wasn't easy as we know all of the secrets about the Crow's Nest. We used different types of sentences and vocabulary. We even read some of our adverts to Mrs Mulgrew and she said she would definitely go to the hotel.
We can't wait to start our new class novel in January, it is called Street Child.
We loved seeing some children from All Hallow's on Monday, they treated us to a musical showcase including some Christmas songs we could join in with.
On Thursday we enjoyed the Christingle in church, we were very impressed with how well the Year 6 children read. It was also a special golden assembly for Mrs Sullivan on Thursday. We celebrated her time teaching at St Oswald's with songs, memories, cards, gifts and a video.
Now it is time to relax, spend time with friends and family and have lots of fun.
Have a great Christmas and we can't wait to see you all in 2023.
The Year 5 Team.
Year 5 Blog Friday 9th December 2022
Date: 7th Dec 2022 @ 9:47am
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
Here is a summary of our learning from the week:
In maths we have been looking at angles. We have been measuring and drawing angles using a protractor. We have also been naming angles. We then moved on to measuring lengths accurately in cm and mm and then using the measurements to find the perimeter of shapes.
Here is a really great website to practise drawing and measuring angles. We have had a go in class too.
https://www.visnos.com/demos/basic-angles
In English we have been working on a persuasive piece of writing to persuade people to go and stay at the Crow's Nest Hotel. We decided who we wanted to try to persuade and then looked at different types of sentences and words we could use to persuade our target audience.
In RE we have started our new topic. It is called Advent/ Christmas - Loving.
So far we have learned about the Advent Wreath and what each candle represents. We have also thought about what it was like for people waiting in hope for the coming of the Messiah. We read some scripture which was of the different things the prophets told people to give them hope and to help them live in the way God wanted whilst they were waiting for the coming of Jesus. We then thought of ways we could give people hope if they were finding things difficult and needed encouragement.
We have finished our DT topic by evaluating our Greek snack. We thought about how our snack met its purpose, how authentic it was and how we would improve or change it if we made it again.
We had our final swimming lesson on Wednesday. Steve was very impressed with the progress we have all made so he treated us to a fun week. We played some games and listened to Christmas music. We also got our certificates for the Advanced Water Satefy Award, Water Safety Award, and 10 or 25 metres.
In French, we drafted our own version of the Saving of Christmas story, using bilingual dictionaries to look up any nouns we needed. We managed really well to change the definite article (le,la or les) to an indefinite article (un, une or des). Tres bien, Y5! They'll look great as soon as they're finished!
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud to somebody every night for 20 minutes. Talk about what you have read and discuss the meaning of new words.
Counting
Count out loud in:
7s from 0 to 84 and back again. 7 14 21 ...
5s from 0 to 60 and back again. 5 10 15 ...
30s from 0 to 360 and back again. 30 60 90 ...
Times Tables
Please practise the division facts for the times table you are on:
2 x 3 = 6 so 6 ÷ 2 = 3 and 6 ÷ 3 = 2
Spellings
This week you have all done such a fantastic job in your spelling test - you were tested on over 200 words!
Because you have worked so hard, there are no new spellings this week.
Please continue to practise the spellings from last week and you will be tested on these next week.
graph graphics autograph automobile automatic headphones microphone
telescope television telegram telepathy position solution
Have a wonderful happy weekend! You are all amazing.
Year 5 Blog Friday 2nd December 2022
Date: 2nd Dec 2022 @ 8:39am
Happy Friday and Happy December
We have had a great week in Year 5.
In English we have really enjoyed continuing our story Room 13. It is getting really scary now and we still haven't found out what is hidden inside Room 13. We have spent the week writing our own scary story about one of the characters from Room 13. She is called Ellie-May, she isn't the main character in Room 13 but she is in our stories. Everybody has done a really fantastic job at using excellent vocabulary and different sentence structures to scare the reader.
In maths we have been looking at angles. We have been measuring angles and also naming them as:
Acute angle - less than 90 degrees
Right angle - 90 degrees
Obtuse angle - more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees
Reflex angle - more than 180 degrees and less than 360 degrees
Your Sumdog challenge this week will give your more practice of angles.
We made our Greek snacks in DT. The teamwork shown by everyone was incredible. The pitta breads made by everybody were delicious. We used lots of skills like chopping, slicing, mixing, weighing, measuring, kneading, rolling and shaping.
Following on from our DT learning about Greek food, we continued with our history topic about Ancient Greece. This week we were looking at Ancient Greece on a timeline and comparing it with the Ancient Egyptian civilisation. We have already started to identify some similarities. We then looked at some of the Greek myths and legends including Hercules. We watched some of the movie whilst making notes, we read some books about Greek myths and legends and then we wrote our own version of the story of Hercules. One thing we all noticed was that there are many different variations of the Greek myths and legends. We understand that this is because the stories were told thousands of years ago and passed on verbally. We can't wait to learn more about Ancient Greece - we are especially excited to learn about the history of the Olympics.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud to somebody every night for 20 minutes. Speak about what has happened and what you think will happen next.
Spelling
You have brought your spellings home this week. See if you can spot any patterns in the spellings and find any more spellings which follow the same patterns.
Practise your spellings in a different way each night. Use the strategies we do in class.
graph graphics autograph automobile automatic headphones microphone
telescope television telegram telepathy position solution
Counting
Count out loud in:
2.5s from 0 to 25 2.5 5 7.5 ...
6s from 0 to 60 6 12 18 ...
7s back from 84 to 0 84 77 70 ...
Times Tables
Please practise all of your times tables this week. If there is a particular one you find difficult, focus on that one.
Sumdog
There are 3 Sumdog challenges to complete:
Spelling
Maths
Times tables
Have a fantastic weekend
Year 5 Blog Friday 25th November
Date: 23rd Nov 2022 @ 9:39am
Happy Friday
Welcome to your Friday Blog
We have had another fantastic week in Year 5.
On Monday we planned our own Greek snack in DT. We decided which snack we wanted to make and then found out which ingredients and utensils we would need and the steps we would follow to make our Greek snack. As a class we decided to make our own pitta breads. Everybody then decided what they wanted to have with their pitta bread. We will make our Greek snack next week! Yum! Don't forget to bring any extra ingredients you want for your Greek snack on Monday.
We started our new History topic this week. It is called Ancient Greece. We first spoke about what we already know about Anicent Greece. Then we looked at modern Greece - where it is located and what it is like. Finally we looked at Anicent Greece on a map. It looks different to modern Greece. We can't wait to find out more about Ancient Greece.
We have been doing lots of map work this week to celebrate the start of the World Cup. Each day we have used a world map in an atlas to locate and talk about the countries that have played matches each day. We spoke about the continent, capital city, bordering countries, surrounding seas and oceans, size, distance from Qatar, etc.
In French, we began to learn the vocabulary associated with breakfast in France. We also recapped the pronouns je, tu, il, elle, nous, ready to move on to our first verb conjugation next week!
In English we have been reading more of Room 13. We have used some ideas from the book and our own imagination to plan and write our very own story! Everybody really enjoyed using their own ideas and creativity. The focus was to split the writing into paragraphs and to try to include lots of description and some dialogue (speech).
In maths we have been learning about statistics. We started by learning about discrete data and answering questions from tables and bar charts. Then we learnt about continuous data and aswered questions from tables and line graphs. Your Sumdog challenge this week will give you the opportunity to practise what you have learned.
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes every night. Try to answer these questions:
What has happened so far?
What are the characters feeling?
What will happen next?
Why has the author chosen these words?
Spelling
You have all chosen your own spellings this week. Make sure you practise them every day.
Counting
Count backwards:
In 10s from 757.33 to 657.33 757.33 747.33 737.33 ...
In 0.1s from 19.35 to 18.35 19.35 19.25 19.15 ...
In 10,000s from 631,246 to 531,246 631,246 621,246 611,246 ...
Times Tables
You have been given a new tables target. Please make sure you practise every day. You need to know your tables quickly and confidently.
Sumdog
Complete the Sumdog challenges. These are essential as they practise the skills you need in maths and English lessons.
There are 3 challenges:
Maths
Times tables
Spelling - these will be some of the words you need to know by the end of Year 5.
DT
We will be making our Greek snacks on Monday.
Please remember to bring in the ingredients and utensils you need.
Year 5 Blog Friday 18th November
Date: 16th Nov 2022 @ 7:18pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
We have had a great week. It was amazing to see the Year 5 children step up to the responsibility of being the oldest children in school whilst Year 6 were on their trip to Robin Wood. Some of the Year 5 children were buddies to help the infants and everybody set a great example to the younger children.
It was great to see everybody in spots on Friday to raise money for Children in Need.
In geography this week we learnt about land use and natural resources in the UK. We spoke about which of these natural resources are in danger of running out and which we have plenty of like wind to use in wind turbines. We also started to prepare for the World Cup by making flags of the different countries taking part. We will learn more about each country throughout the World Cup.
In French, we completed our learning on telling the time. The children have done so well with this. It has been a pleasure to watch their confidence grow over the last few weeks. Please keep practising at home to retain this skill - there are lots of games on time, but also other topics here: https://www.french-games.net/frenchtopics
We have been very active this week. First of all we had Freddy Fit on Tuesday afternoon, he was so impressed with our sporting skills and also our behaviour and manners. You can see us being active here. Then on Wednesday we went swimming in our shorts and tshirt. We learnt how to save ourselves if we were ever in danger in water. On Thursday we had PE. We did a dodgeball tournament, it was great!
In maths we have been using the formal written method (column method) to subtract numbers with up to five digits and numbers with two decimal places. Everybody has done a fantastic job. We then used this method to solve problems, everybody was extremely resilient and motivated and some children even spent their lunch times determined to solve a problem. You can see us problem solving here.
Next week in maths we will be looking at statistics, including bar charts and line graphs, and also looking at angles in shapes. We will continue to practise counting and our times tables.
We have been reading Room 13 in English. The main character Fliss finds herself alone in the hotel, she is the only one awake. We have been writing our own stories about Fliss in the hotel on her own at night time. We have been focussing on writing in paragraphs, including speech, and describing in lots of detail to create an image in the reader's mind. We have also been sorting words into their different word classes including noun, adjective, adverb, verb, determiner, pronoun, conjunction, article and preposition. It is important that we know what each of these words means and that we can form sentences using these different types of words. You can see us learning about word classes here.
Home Practice
Reading
Read at home every night for 20 minutes. Look out for ways characters and settings are described. Try to find some good words and sentences to include in your own writing.
Spellings
Your spellings this week have the prefix co- and re-. Some of the spellings have a hyphen separating the prefix and the root word.
The prefix co- means together, jointly, in partner with or mutually.
The prefix re- means again, back or repetition.
Here are your spellings:
co-operate co-own co-ordinate re-enter re-emerge coexist reinvent retell
retell reignite re-educate re-examine re-enter reactive rearrange reapply
Counting
Count out loud in:
100s from 12,397 to 13,397 12,397 12,497 12,597 ...
1,000s from 608,912 to 618,912 608,912 609,912 610,912 ...
10,000s from 751,832 to 851,832 751,832 761,832 771,832 ...
Sumdog
Complete the Sumdog Challenges:
Maths Challenge
Multiplication Practice
Spelling Challenge
Research
Next week we are going to write magazine articles all about a famous person. Please choose a famous person you are interested in and find out about them. You might research things like:
What are they famous for?
When and where were they born?
Where did they study?
What was their childhood like?
What are their hobbies?
Who is in their family?
Have an amazing weekend and well done for such a fantastic week!
Year 5 Blog Friday 11th November
Date: 9th Nov 2022 @ 8:34am
Happy Friday
We have had a fantastic and very busy week in Year 5.
On Monday we carried out a sensory evaluation of Greek food as part of our DT project. We used words to describe the appearance, smell, texture and taste of feta cheese, olives, pita bread and tzatziki. We then gave each food product a star rating out of 5. We will use this evaluation when we plan our own Greek snack. You can see us in action here.
On Tuesday we were proud to take part in our Friendship Assembly. Everybody was brave, respectful, hardworking, dedicated and motivated and felt proud to show off our friendships in Year 5.
On Wednesday we went swimming in our pyjamas! This was to learn ways we can help other people if we see them in trouble in the water.
On Thursday we went on our school trip to Rock and River. We had the best day! Here is a photo gallery of our day.
In maths this week we have been practising the written method (column) for addition. This has included adding numbers with more than four digits and numbers with two decimal places. Next week we will be using the written method to subtract. Knowing your number facts is so important to be able to use this method successfully.
This week we have completed our RSE lessons. We started our lessons by coming up with ground rules, these were:
- We can giggle if we feel embarassed
- We can talk to each other and parents
- We can ask questions
Everybody showed great maturity during our lessons, listening carefully and asking thoughtful questions. We gained an understanding of the emotional and physical changes we go through as we grow and develop.
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud to somebody every night for 20 minutes. Look at how paragraphs are used - how does the author split up the writing?
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. These are some of the words you need to know by the end of Year 5. They don't follow a rule or pattern.
accommodate accompany according achieve aggressive amateur ancient
apparent appreciate attached available average awkward bargain bruise
Number Practice
As we have been looking at the column method for addition and subtraction this week, it is crucial that you are quick and confident with your number facts. Please go on Hit the Button and have a go at each activity on the Number Bonds page. Continue practising until you can answer the questions quickly without having to do any counting or working out.
Sumdog
Complete the Sumdog challenges
Have an amazing weekend!
Year 5 Blog Friday 4th November 2022
Date: 3rd Nov 2022 @ 8:38am
HAPPY FRIDAY
We have had a wonderful first week back after Half Term.
We started our new novel in English. It is called Room 13 by Robert Swindells and we are absolutely loving it! This week we have been using different types of sentences to write a suspense story.
We started our new topic in DT. We were given our design brief, it is:
Design, make and evaluate a Greek snack for an athlete for after an ancient Olympic event.
We have researched traditional Greek food and ingredients. In future lessons we will be sampling some Greek food to find out what we like, learning about the ancient olympics, planning our own Greek snack, practising the techniques needed to make our snack, and then making and evaluating our snack.
In maths we have been learning different methods to add and subtract mentally. It is so important that we know our number facts to help us with this.
In French this week, we continued to learn to tell the time in French, learning how to say all the 5 past times. We are doing really well with this now! Tres bien, Y5!
Home Practice
Reading
Read at home every night for 20 minutes. Tell somebody what you know about verbs, nouns and adjectives. Try to identify them in your reading.
Spelling
Your spellings this week all have an apostrophe.
These spellings have an apostrophe for contraction. This means words have been put together and then a letter has been replaced by an apostrophe:
couldn't don't isn't you're won't haven't aren't didn't they're it's
These spellings have an apostrophe for possession. This means that something belongs or that something is connected to something else.
brothers' brother's children's child's women's
Counting
Count out loud:
Tenths from 1.6 to 2.6
1.6, 1.7, 1.8, ...
Hundreths from 12.57 to 12.67
1.57, 1.58, 1.59, ...
Ten thousands from 66,975 to 106,975
66,975 76,975 86,975 ...
Play on Hit the Button and practise number bonds. This will help you in our maths learning.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Sumdog
Complete the Sumdog challenges.
Next week we will start a Sumdog Club at play times, this is to help any of you who struggle to go on at home :)
In order to help you prepare for your DT project, look out for Greek food in supermarkets - see if you can try some or even go out for a meal at a Greek or Mediterranean restaurant.
We look forward to performing our friendship assembly to parents on Tuesday 8th November at 2.40pm.
Have a lovely weekend. If you are going to a bonfire or celebrating Bonfire Night, please be safe and careful.
Date: 19th Oct 2022 @ 1:52pm
Welcome to your latest Online Safety Update
At St Oswald's, we regularly discuss online safety with the children to find out what they are experiencing in their online spaces. We find out what new games and platforms are trending and if any of our children have worries or concerns about what they experience online. A lot of children continue to access YouTube so we have added a refresher guide on the platform.
In the guide, you'll find tips on a number of potential risks such as connecting with strangers, inappropriate content and high visibility.
We have also spotted that some children have the new FIFA 23 football game for the PlayStation and XBox. Gaming has changed massively in the past few years with social connection now becoming an integral part of the gaming experience. We have added the latest guide for this game also.
Below you will find a link to join the National Online Safety platform and gain free access to a huge range of videos, resources and support.
http://nationalonlinesafety.com/enrol/st-oswald-s-catholic-primar-school-pr45eb
Year 5 Blog Friday 14th October
Date: 12th Oct 2022 @ 9:34am
Happy Friday everybody.
It was lovely to see everybody for parent's evening this week. The children felt so proud to show off their work, they really have been working very hard.
We have had a lovely week in Year 5. We painted our Jo Quigley style cityscapes on Monday and have displayed them proudly in our classroom. You can see us working on our masterpieces in our gallery here.
We have started our new topic in RE. It is called Life Choices. So far we have thought about how to maintain friendships and what our mission is in life. Everybody produced some beautiful work.
In PSHE we spoke about stereotypes. We found it interesting to talk about gender stereotypes and came up with sentences to break those stereotypes. Here are some examples we came up with:
Boys and girls can play football.
Boys and girls can be vets.
Boys and girls can be good at English.
In English we have finished reading our novel Goth Girl. We absolutely loved it and produced excellent work from it. We ended our learning about Goth Girl by writing an epilogue. We chose some of our favourite characters and wrote about what they would be doing in the future. There were lots of fantastic ideas. We will be starting our new novel on Monday...
We have been practising different strategies in maths for adding and subtracting. We have been focussing on using mental methods and some jottings like number lines. It is really important that we know our number bonds to 100 as we progress with our learning. For example:
51 + 49 = 100
100 = 33 + 67
100 - 22 = 78
69 = 100 - 31
Also, the football league continued at Hutton this week. The A team played really well with a great win and draw, which has set them up for a tense last week as we head towards the play offs. As for the B team, they are working incredibly well as a team and managed to win one and lose one. Please do not forget that the last week of football is at Hutton, Wednesday 19th October at 3.45pm – 5pm.
Results for A team:
St Oswald’s A 1 – 1 Howick A
St Oswald’s A 4 – 1 Whitefield B
Results for B Team:
St Oswald’s B 4 – 2 Cop Lane B
St Oswald’s B 0 – 2 Middleforth
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud to somebody at home for 20 minutes every night. Look out for new words, discuss their meaning, try to use them in sentences.
Counting
Count out loud in:
10s from 123,456 to 123, 556
123,456 123,466 123,476
0.1s from 6.78 to 7.78
6.78 6.88 6.98
100s from 457,812 to 458,812
457,812 457,912 458,012
Times Tables
You will be given a new times tables target next week. Practise every night using a variety of methods.
Spelling
Here are your spellings for next week. You will be tested on the plural spelling of the words so you need to know whether to add -s, -es, or -ies. We will be practising in class too. Try to spot patterns and rules. See if you can think of other words which follow the same patterns and rules.
bus - buses
balloon - balloons
party - parties
worry - worries
school - schools
potato - potatoes
cup - cups
box - boxes
patch - patches
try - tries
lunch - lunches
meal - meals
baby - babies
hiss - hisses
city - cities
Sumdog
Complete the Sumdog challenges:
Times tables challenge
Maths challenge
Spelling challenge
Have a great weekend.
Year 5 Blog Friday 7th October
Date: 7th Oct 2022 @ 3:35pm
Happy Friday everybody
This week has been the best week yet in Year 5. Everybody has been so kind and we earned all of our golden tokens, we also got our first special token which will go towards an extra special golden time. Mrs Wood visited our classroom on Friday, she said that she has noticed how much everybody has grown up since the start of the year and she said that Year 5 is a happy and lovely place to be.
We had a special visitor on Thursday afternoon. Mrs Stone came to visit with her new baby girl Tilly. We loved asking questions to Mrs Stone and she loved how calm and quiet we were. Click here to see some photos.
We celebrated World Smile Day on Friday. We spent the day smiling (even more than we usually do) and thought about things we can do to make other people smile.
We also attended Mass at church on Friday morning. We were calm, quiet and still and listened really carefully to Father Michael.
In French, we practised reading words with the vowel sounds in then we learnt question words - Qui? Quand? Comment? etc and how to pronounce them correctly. We also chose the first pair of Language Leaders who will be helping everyone to answer questions in French about themselves.
This week, the football league began with pupils from Year 5 and 6 competing against schools from the local area. Both teams represented the school brilliantly, with superb hat-tricks from Finley and Morgan. Everyone worked really well as a team – we are looking forward to seeing what we can achieve in the next two weeks.
Results for A team:
St Oswald’s A 3 – 0 Whitefield A
St Oswald’s A 4 – 0 New Longton A
Results for B Team:
St Oswald’s B 4 – 1 Ashbridge
St Oswald’s B 1 – 2 Howick B
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud to somebody at home for 20 minutes every night. Tell them what has happened in your own words and make predictions about what you think will happen next.
Counting
Count out loud in:
10s from 186,357 to 186,457
100s from 276,988 to 277,988
1000s from 341,512 to 351,512
Times Tables
Everybody has been given their new times tables target. Please practise every night. Listen to songs, write them out, play on Hit the Button, say them out loud in the car, etc. Targets will be reassessed each week.
Spelling
Here are your spellings for next week. They are some of the words you need to know by the end of Year 5.
believe decide describe different enough favourite important interest surprise remember question restaurant queue immediately definite
Sumdog
Complete the Sumdog challenges:
Times tables challenge
Maths challenge
Spelling challenge
Have a great weekend.
Year 5 Blog Friday 30th September
Date: 29th Sep 2022 @ 7:37pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog.
It has been another fun-filled and exciting week in Year 5.
In maths we have been focussing on rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1000 and 10000. We found it tricky but used number lines and had lots of practice to get better and better.
Click to practise rounding to the nearest 10 and 100.
Click here to practise rounding to the nearest 1000.
In English we have continued looking at dialogue (speech) and have been looking at different types of sentences we can use to describe characters. In our novel Goth Girl we have been excited to find out about all of the magical creatures at Ghastly Gorm Hall and are becoming extremely suspicious of the character Maltravers.
In geography we have been learning all about the UK. We looked at maps of the capital cities of the UK and described them by finding out what the different Ordnance Survey symbols represent. We were not surprised to find that London had lots of main roads and museums. Everybody worked so well with their partner.
You can see our great team work and great geography skills in our gallery here.
We started a new topic in computing. We learnt that a vector drawing is an image made on a computer by putting different lines and shapes together. We had a go at creating our own vector drawings on the iPads. Everybody showed such creativity and did a great job.
We were practising our lane swimming on Wednesday. This helps us to build our stamina and become more confident in the water. It was amazing to see everybody encouraging each other and feeling proud of each other getting for better and better.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud to somebody at home for 20 minutes every night. Look out for dialogue (speech). Look for different ways the author says 'said.'
Counting
Count out loud in:
12s from 0 to 144 and back again.
0, 12, 24, ...
1,000s from 35,678 to 45,678 and back again.
35,678 36,678 37,678 ...
10,000s from 157,000 to 257,000 and back again.
157,000 167,000 177,000 ...
Times Tables
Everybody has been given their new times tables target. Please practise every night. Listen to songs, write them out, play on Hit the Button, say them out loud in the car, etc. Targets will be reassessed each week.
Spelling
Here are your spellings for next week. They are homophones. This means they sound the same but have different meanings. You need to learn how to spell the words but also their meanings. You will be tested on the spelling and the meaning next Friday.
isle aisle
aloud allowed
affect effect
herd heard
past passed
caught court
through threw
favourite (this is an extra word we need to practise)
Sumdog
Complete the Sumdog challenges:
Times tables challenge
Lancashire Maths Contest
Spelling challenge
Have a great weekend.
