St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 5: Blog items
Home Learning Tuesday 12th January 2021
Date: 6th Jan 2021 @ 11:47am
Year 5 Home Learning Tuesday 12th January 2021
Good morning Year 5. I hope you had a good day yesterday and you are ready, enthusiastic and excited about your learning today. I know you will be trying your best and working hard, just like you would at school. A big well done to everyone and keep up the positive attitude.
I have had a couple of calls about the answers for the maths work set each day. I will attach the answers in the documents below the following day. However, today I will do last week’s answers, so you can catch up. Hope this helps and let me know if there is anything else I can help you with.
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. We can issue books and change books as needed.
Reading Challenge: Give the book you have read marks out of ten and explain why you gave it that mark. Please do this in your Home Learning exercise book (collect from school) with today’s date.
Spelling
This week we are investigating the suffix-ant. Please learn these spellings for Friday (15.01.21). If you don’t know what a word means ask an adult or look it up in a dictionary. On Friday, ask someone to test you on the words below in your exercise book, remember the date.
elephant mutant hydrant hesitant consultant
remnant tenant dominant attendant immigrant
pennant tyrant expectant occupant informant
English
Re-read some of Cloud Tea Monkeys by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham to remind yourself of the story.
Read through the PowerPoint in the documents below- Expanded Noun Phrases (slides 1-8). This will help you learn how noun phrases are built around a head noun.
Print out the Noun Phrase Worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book. You need to underline the head noun and put a circle around the noun phrase. Then write some of your own noun phrases. I will post the answers on tomorrow’s blog. The date and title are:
Tuesday 12th January 2021
Can I identify head nouns, expanded noun phrases and write my own expanded noun phrases?
Maths
For your mental starter play hit the button – Halves from 50 to 100, see if you can get faster each time you play.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Draw line graphs. Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book. The date and title are: 12.01.21 Can I draw line graphs?
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/week-6-statistics/
PE
Games skills - Avoid the Defenders.
Watch the clips below and follow the instructions on the cards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciN7RoiB9Lc
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Home%20PE%20Avoid%20the%20defenders.pdf
Gymnastic skills - Balance Time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jscbqUkVpVo&list=PLnwoPgo24bhmqV8Y76iXnwYw9T9AlxbqJ&index=3&t=0s
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Balance%20Time.pdf
Computing
Use the link below to log into code.org. We have not worked on code yet in Year 5, but you have done it in other year groups so you are familiar with it. Please work through the lessons in order.
https://studio.code.org/sections/ZGVGHS
SUMDOG challenges this week are:
Times Tables and Spellings with the suffix -ant.
Have a good day, Miss Gravili
Home Learning Monday 11th January 2021
Date: 6th Jan 2021 @ 11:46am
Year 5 Home Learning Monday 11th January 2021
I hope you all had a lovely weekend and enjoyed time with your families. A big well done and thank you to everyone at home who is supporting you with your Home Learning. Together, let’s be positive, try our best and look forward to returning to school when it is safe.
Remember there are lots of other learning links on our school website that might interest you if you want to do further learning. Click on the Home Learning button just under the photograph of our class on the Year 5 class page. The BBC are showing educational programmes on CBBC starting at 9.00 today (Monday 11th Jan). Have a look and see if there is anything for you to watch. I’m very interested to see what they show!
I have included a timetable as a guide so you know what subjects to expect each day (there might be changes where necessary). This will help you plan your learning time but remember to plan breaks and fun activities too! You will find the timetable in the documents below.
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. We can issue books and change books as needed.
Reading Challenge: Using your reading book, draw a picture of your favourite part of the story and describe what you have drawn. If your book is non-fiction draw one of the diagrams and write a caption to go with it. Please do this in your Home Learning exercise book (collect from school) with today’s date.
English
Read the rest of the story - Cloud Tea Monkeys, you will find this in the documents at the bottom of the page.
What do you think of the story?
This story is set in the past, but in many parts of the world, families are working hard to harvest food for which they receive minimal payment. People around the world suffer a great deal of poverty because the wages for the pickers are not set at a fair rate.
Watch the clip below that explains what Fairtrade is all about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeUGvhINwHw produced by Fairtrade (9m17)
Today you will be researching the issue of fair-trade. You will write your research notes in your exercise book. The date and title are:
Monday 11th January 2021
Can I research the Fairtrade movement?
Explore the sites (below) about Fairtrade and research interesting facts and information to share about how Fairtrade improves people’s lives.
Try to organise your notes using presentational devices: headings, sub-headings, bullet/numbered points, underlining, pictures/photos and captions.
When you have finished, present your findings to someone at home.
http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/en/farmers-and-workers/tea
http://www.theschoolrun.com/homework-help/fair-trade
http://www.funkidslive.com/learn/environment/f-is-for-fairtrade/
Maths
For your mental starter play hit the button – Doubles from 50 to 100, see if you can get faster each time you play.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Read and interpret line graphs. Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book. The date and title are:
11.01.21
Can I read and interpret line graphs?
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/week-6-statistics/
Art
We will be learning about different painters in Art.
Last term we learnt about The Victorians, so our painter for today is the famous Victorian artist, William Morris.
Look at the PowerPoint in the documents below which is all about William Morris’ life and work.
Choose one of the patterns from the PowerPoint slides to copy.
Draw a large square on some plain paper approx. 15cm by 15cm.
Copy (in pencil) the pattern you have chosen onto your square and colour.
Please stick this into your exercise book.
The date and title are:
Monday 11th January 2021
Can I draw in the style of William Morris?
I have also included some colouring sheets (documents below) in the style of William Morris. You could do some colouring or use the patterns to trace onto your art work square above.
SUMDOG challenges for this week are:
Times Tables and Spelling with the suffix -ant.
I hope you have a good day, Miss Gravili.
Home Learning Friday 8th January 2021
Date: 6th Jan 2021 @ 11:46am
Year 5 Home Learning Friday 8th January 2021
Good morning everyone, it’s nearly the weekend!! Well done for working so hard and trying your best to keep learning every day. I hope you are achieving some of your goals that I mentioned on Wednesday. It feels good to do different and interesting things. I had a go at knitting a scarf during the holidays, it’s not finished yet!! I’ll look forward to hearing about some of the other things you have been doing at home, as well as your learning. You could take some photos of yourself achieving your goals and stick them into your Home Learning exercise book (collect from school). Remember to write what you did and how it made you feel to achieve it.
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. We can issue books and change books as needed.
In the book you are reading find FIVE words that have apostrophes. Write down each word and explain why there is an apostrophe there, for example couldn’t – this is short for could not and the apostrophe is in place of the ‘o’. Please write these into you Home Learning exercise book (collect from school) with today’s date.
English
Read the next few pages of Cloud Tea Monkeys, you will find this in the documents at the bottom of the page. Think about how the story is different from what you predicted in your writing yesterday. Now answer the questions below in full sentences in your exercise book. Focus on best handwriting and punctuation.
- What words in the text describe the monkey’s excitement?
- What does scolded mean?
- What did Tashi discover in her mother’s wicker basket?
- The Overseer was marching about. He looked like a man whose brains were on fire. What does this tell you about the Overseer?
- What was the driver of the cart doing?
- Who was the man that came to visit the tea plantation?
- Write down the simile that describes the man’s moustache?
- What did the Tea-Taster first say about the Overseer’s tea leaves?
The date and title are:
Friday 8th January 2021
Can I answer comprehension questions about the text?
Maths
For your mental starter play hit the button – number bonds to 100, see if you can get faster each time you play.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Introducing line graphs. Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book. The date and title are:
08.01.21
Can I understand and interpret line graphs?
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/week-6-statistics/
RE
Our new topic in RE is - Mission. Please read the information below about Sir Tom Moore’s mission.
Now research a charity of your choice, for example - RNLI (Life boats), Caritas, CAFOD, Missio, NSPCC, RSPCA etc. Find out as much information as you can from the charitie's website. Here are some questions to help you:
- - Who was the inspiration for the group?
- - Who is involved?
- - Who do they help?
- - How are they funded?
- - How can people help?
- - What reasons do people have for wanting to help?
Create a poster to display the information you have found out about your chosen charity. Include information/facts/picture/photos/captions. You can use headings/sub-headings/bullet or numbered points/fact boxes. Make it colourful and interesting to read.
Please stick this into your exercise book. The date and title are:
Friday 8th January 2021
Can I design a poster to share information about my chosen charity?
Music
Please follow the link below and complete lesson 1 – Understanding rhythm and pulse.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/understanding-rhythm-and-pulse-68rkae
Enjoy your weekend, Miss Gravili
Home Learning Thursday 7th January 2021
Date: 6th Jan 2021 @ 11:39am
Year 5 Home Learning Thursday 7th January 2021
Good morning everyone, I hope you had a good day yesterday and managed to complete your Home Learning. Well done for working hard and trying your best, I’ll look forward to seeing your work when you come back to school. The children that are in school will be doing exactly the same work that you are doing at home each day, so it will be lovely to share and celebrate our super learning together.
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. We can issue books and change books as needed.
Find FIVE interesting words from your reading book (this can be a book from home if you do not have a school book yet). Write down the meaning of each word. Then using each word write a sentence of your own. Please write these into you Home Learning exercise book (collect from school) with today’s date.
English
Read the next few pages of Cloud Tea Monkeys, you will find this in the documents at the bottom of this page. Think about how the tension is built in this part of the story.
Can you predict what might happen next? What are Tashi’s worries? (She has all her worries about her Mum, she has been shouted at by the horrible overseer and now the monkeys have taken her Mum’s basket.) How might these worries be solved? Think about what might happen next. Have the authors left any clues?
Write an ending for the story so far in roughly 200 words. Please write this in your Home Learning exercise book (collect from school). The date and title are:
Thursday 7th January 2021
Can I predict and write my own ending to the Cloud Tea Monkeys story?
Focus on good punctuation and interesting vocabulary choices.
Maths
For your mental starter play hit the button – division facts, see if you can get faster each time you play.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Comparison, sum and difference. Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book. The date and title are:
07.01.21
Can I compare and find the sum and difference of data when using graphs and charts?
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/week-6-statistics/
History
Our new topic in History is The Shang Dynasty. Follow the link below and click on the first lesson – The Shang Dynasty 1600 – 1046BC. Watch the clips and do the little tasks.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z39j2hv
Have a look at the artefacts, choose one, draw it in your book and write about it. You may use the information provided and/or do your own research to find out more about that artefact. If you have time find out about another artefact from the Shang Dynasty.
Please do this in your exercise book. The date and title are:
Thursday 7th January 2021
Can I find information about artefacts from the Shang Dynasty?
A big well done everyone, Miss Gravili
Home Learning Wednesday 6th January 2021
Date: 5th Jan 2021 @ 9:10am
Year 5 Home Learning Wednesday 6th January 2021
Good Morning Year 5, I hope you are all well and staying safe with your families at home. I'm so sad that we only got to be in class together for one day, but we must try our best to stay positive and work hard to keep learning every day, it is so important for you. I'll be counting the days until we are all happily and safely back in class together.
Every evening, I will post your Home Learning on the Year 5 blog for the next day. Please try hard to complete the work as though you were in school. That means best handwriting, spelling, vocabulary choices, remember good punctuation (capital letters, full stops, commas, speech marks, exclamation and question marks to name a few). In Maths, please keep practising times tables, counting and number facts. You can do this weekly on Sumdog and in maths tasks. Of course, reading every day is a must!
Please collect a Home Learning exercise book (to put all your home learning work in) from the school office and you can show me and your class mates the lovely work you have done when you return to school.
We can also provide reading books as needed.
I hope you will all stay happy and positive at home even though you’ll probably miss your friends. A great way to do this is to set yourself a small goal each day, because reaching our goals gives us a sense of achievement and makes us feel proud, happy and positive. Please print out or copy the ‘My Goals’ document below, this can be done weekly.
Here are some ideas for your goals, but I’m sure you can think of lots of your own as well:
- Exercise for 20 minutes.
- Bake a cake or do some cooking.
- Learn something new.
- Speak to a friend.
- Do some Yoga (have a look on youtube for children’s Yoga sessions).
- Do some drawing (there are loads of tutorials for children on youtube. I like the cute drawings of animals).
- Tidy your bedroom.
- Play a board game or build with lego.
- Write a letter or postcard to family or friends/write a poem.
- Have a screen free day.
- Create your own workout.
- Make a den.
- List ten things to be thankful for.
English
Our new short novel is Cloud Tea Monkeys. Please read the story and look at the pictures up to page 10. You will find this in the documents below.
After reading the text, write a list of 10 questions you would like to ask someone about the text. Please write these into your exercise book. The date and title are:
Wednesday 6th January 2021
Can I ask and write questions about a text I have read?
Try to focus some of your questions on how the world of the story is created. What words and phrases build a picture of the setting? What simile is used to show that there are lots of tea plants?
Try to include some questions which encourage other people to use their skills of inference to find the answer? For example, how do you think the girl is feeling today and why? Can you ask open ended questions? These are questions where the answer is not written directly in the text.
Remember to use capital letters and question marks!!! Also best handwriting and presentation.
Maths
For your mental starter play hit the button – mixed times tables, see if you can get faster each time.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
We are looking at statistics in Maths. Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths Website and watch the lesson - Interpret Charts. Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your book or copy the answers into your book.
The date and title are:
06.01.21
Can I interpret charts?
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/week-6-statistics/
Science
Our new topic in science is Properties and Changes of Materials. Please follow the link below, scroll up slightly and you will find lesson one - Introduction to materials.
Read through the slides and watch any clips included. Print out slide 6 and stick it into your exercise book or copy and draw your own Carrol diagram from slide 6 into your exercise book and complete.
French
Bonne annee!
In French this week, we are going to recap the conjugation of regular ER verbs which we looked at briefly before Christmas.
Watch this video to remind yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DarS8y_zrM&safe=active
Pause the video at 9 minutes 24 and write out the sentences, choosing the correct verb ending. Press play again and check your answers. Now read your sentences out loud, being extra careful with your pronunciation.
French people celebrate Epiphany on the 6th January with the Fete des Rois. Here's a story to listen to. See how much you can understand. You can always slow down the speed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04JiV_Ua6Wc&safe=active
Bonne chance! A la semaine prochaine! Mrs Quilliam
A big well done for working hard and completing your Home Learning. As it is Epiphany today, light a candle and say a prayer to Jesus.
Take care Miss Gravili
Happy Christmas Holiday Year 5 18th December 2020
Date: 17th Dec 2020 @ 4:07pm
Happy Christmas Year 5
Year 5, you have all done so well and worked very hard in your first term as Upper Juniors. I’m so pleased with the effort, positive attitude and fantastic learning that has taken place.
You should be very proud of yourselves and you all definitely deserve a good rest and some fun time with your families. Therefore, there will be no Home Practice for you to do, but I’m sure you’ll enjoy reading a good book or two! I know I will!
I hope you have a fabulous holiday with lots of the things you enjoy, plenty of happiness, rest and presents.
I will look forward to seeing you all in January, excited, fresh and ready for another term of learning.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
Miss Gravili
Date: 16th Dec 2020 @ 10:57pm
Online Safety over the Christmas Holidays
Date: 16th Dec 2020 @ 2:11pm
Here you will find some help and advice for keeping your family safe online over Christmas.
Year 5 Home Practice 11th December 2020
Date: 11th Dec 2020 @ 11:01am
The children did a great job singing their Christmas songs and playing the instruments on filming day. It’s starting to feel very ‘Christmassy’ all of a sudden. The Santa Dash was lots of fun, everyone looked great in their hats and costumes. In French, the children wrote stories called Le Sauvetage de Noel – The Saving of Christmas. Some excellent work in Maths, we were working on the grid method of multiplication. In English, we researched a country that we will do some travel writing about. The children have drawn some lovely Nativity pictures that are displayed in class. Well done Year 5.
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 11th December 2020
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. Write new vocabulary in your reading diary and include comments about the story. Y5 book changing day is Friday. Remember to sign when you have finished a book.
Maths
This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on multiplying 2-digit numbers and times tables practice.
Spelling
The Sumdog spelling challenge is focused on tricky words (different from the spelling test words below). If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult. Please learn these spellings for next Thursday (17.12.20):
We are investigating animal homophones.
boar hair deer place flea bare tern towed
bore horse dear whale flee lynx turn
hare hoarse plaice wail bear links toad
Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)
There will be no grammar challenge this week.
Have a lovely weekend, Miss Gravili.
Year 5 Home Practice 4th December 2020
Date: 2nd Dec 2020 @ 10:24am
Another busy and hard working week Year 5, well done to everyone. In Maths, we have looked at written methods for subtraction. The children have finished Goth Girl and written some great book reviews and summaries. We decorated the Christmas tree in the hall with stars and lovely messages for our loved ones. In Science, we learnt how day and night occurs due to the Earth rotating. Thank you all those who painted Baby Jesus on pebbles and hid them around school for classes to find. We enjoyed using the school maps to find Jesus and read the scriptures and words of inspiration. As part of our outdoor learning, we decorated a tree with ribbons. It looks beautiful and the children thoroughly enjoyed it. Keep working hard on your home practice.
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 4th December 2020
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. Write new vocabulary in your reading diary and include comments about the story. Y5 book changing day is Friday. Remember to sign when you have finished a book.
Maths
This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on addition, subtraction and times tables practice.
Spelling
The Sumdog spelling challenge is focused on homophones (different from the spelling test words below). If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult. Please learn these spellings for next Friday (11.12.20):
We are investigating more homophones.
meat wrap thrown daze marshal rays build symbol
meet threw throne kernel martial whirled billed
rap through days colonel raise world cymbal
Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)
This week’s challenge on Sumdog (grammar section) is also based on homophones
Have a lovely weekend, Miss Gravili.
Year 5 Home Practice 27th November 2020
Date: 25th Nov 2020 @ 10:18am
Another fantastic week Year 5. In Maths, we have learned how to calculate the area of a shape and solved problems involving area. The children are really enjoying Goth Girl and have written some great sentences using adverbs of possibility. We have also researched stately homes, similar to Ghastly Gorm Hall in our novel. For PE, we took part in a virtual orienteering event with the children completing the tasks in very quick times. In Geography, we learnt about the seas and rivers of the U.K. Mrs Quilliam was very pleased with the French work on time and pronouns. Keep up the good work Year 5.
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 27th November 2020
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. Write new vocabulary in your reading diary and include comments about the story. Y5 book changing day is Friday. Remember to sign when you have finished a book.
Maths
This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on the perimeter/area of a shape and times tables practice.
Spelling
The Sumdog spelling challenge is focused on homophones (different from the spelling test words below). If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult. Please learn these spellings (more than usual) for next Friday (4.12.20):
We are investigating homophones.
heel feat cheep plain blew stare pair fare
heal feet peak plane knot stair berry fair
he’ll cheap peek blue not pear bury
Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)
This week’s challenge on Sumdog (grammar section) is also based on homophones
Have a lovely weekend, Miss Gravili.
Year 5 Home Practice 20th November 2020
Date: 19th Nov 2020 @ 5:14pm
A super week Year 5, well done to everyone for working so hard. In Science, we started making an Orrery, it helped us to learn about the planets in our solar system and how they orbit the sun. In Maths, we learnt to find the perimeter of shapes with missing lengths and solved problems linked to perimeter. There were some excellent sentences about the characters from Goth Girl and you all used realative clauses. In PE, we did Tag Rugby and orienteering skills. It’s been a good friendship week, with lots of discussions about kindness and how to be a great friend.
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 20th November 2020
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. Write new vocabulary in your reading diary and include comments about the story. Remember to sign when you have finished a book.
Maths
This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on mixed times tables practice.
Spelling
The Sumdog spelling challenge is focused on tricky words. If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult. Please learn these spellings for next Friday (26.11.20):
We are investigating tt-ed and dd-ed words.
patted thudded knitted lidded skidded
batted knotted trotted nodded kidded
plodded spotted slotted splatted swotted
Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)
This week’s challenge on Sumdog (grammar section) is based on relative pronouns and adverbs.
Have a lovely weekend, Miss Gravili.
Year 5 Home Practice 13th November 2020
Date: 13th Nov 2020 @ 1:50pm
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 13th November 2020
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. Write new vocabulary in your reading diary and include comments about the story. Remember to sign when you have finished a book.
Maths
This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on revising time and times tables practice.
Spelling
The Sumdog spelling challenge is focused on words with double suffixes. If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult. Please learn these spellings for next Friday (20.11.20):
We are investigating words with double suffixes.
beautifully dutifully faithfully mercilessness recklessness
forgetfully thankfully skilfully lawlessness breathlessness
regretfully dreadfully hopelessness pointlessness fearlessness
Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)
This week’s challenge on Sumdog (grammar section) is based on advanced antonyms and synonyms.
Have a lovely weekend, Miss Gravili.
Year 5 Home Practice 6th November 2020
Date: 6th Nov 2020 @ 11:40am
A great first week back, lovely to see everyone after the holiday. Well done to all those who have worked hard on their home practice and reading. We have started our new novel, Goth Girl by Chris Riddell which includes some really interesting vocabulary. In Maths, we have looked at regular and irregular 2D polygons. Outdoor Curriculum Day was fun, we spent some of the morning cloud watching and learnt the names of types of clouds – Geography. In the afternoon, we spent time in our nature area and made journey sticks. They were really good and the children thoroughly enjoyed making them.
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 6th November 2020
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. Write new vocabulary in your reading diary and include comments about the story. Remember to sign when you have finished a book.
Maths
This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on regular and irregular 2D shape and times tables practice.
Spelling
The Sumdog spelling challenge is focused on tricky words. If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult. Please learn these spellings for next Friday (13.11.20):
We are investigating ‘rr-ed’.
purred stirred deferred conferred ignored
spurred slurred preferred bored explored
occurred referred scarred stored blurred
Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)
This week’s challenge on Sumdog (grammar section) is based on parts of speech (nouns, verbs etc).
Have a lovely weekend, Miss Gravili.
Date: 2nd Nov 2020 @ 3:28pm
A new film version of The Sectret Garden has been released. To celebrate this a competition is being run by the RHS Campaign for School Gardening and Sky. You can draw, paint, create a collage or model or even plant up a minature garden. If you would like your child to be in the competition the entry needs to be on a single sheet of A4 paper. The entry needs to include the design elements and why they have chosen them.
Please send your child's entry into school by Monday 16th November and we will send them off.
Good luck!
Click here to find out more.
Year 5 Home Practice 23rd October 2020
Date: 23rd Oct 2020 @ 3:55pm
Year 5 have had a great start to the new school year. The children have worked so hard and shown interest and enthusiasm for all their learning. We have finished our first novel, Street Child by Berlie Doherty and learnt so much about Victorian Times. In maths, we worked on written methods of addition. The children learnt about Halloween traditions in France and wrote some excellent sentences in the future tense. The costumes were great for Halloween Day, thank you for your kind donations. Have a wonderful holiday and stay safe.
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 23rd October 2020
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. Write new vocabulary in your reading diary and include comments about the story. Remember to sign to say you have finished a book.
Maths
This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on written addition and tables practice.
Spelling
The Sumdog spelling challenge is focused on tricky words. If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult. Please learn these spellings for the Friday after half term (6.11.20):
We are investigating ‘pp-ed’.
slipped cropped dropped swapped wrapped
skipped tapped stepped nipped bopped
hopped stopped flipped clipped whipped
Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)
This week’s challenge on Sumdog (grammar section) is based on pronouns.
Have a great holiday.
Miss Gravili
Year 5 Home Practice 16th October 2020
Date: 16th Oct 2020 @ 3:49pm
Another fantastic week Year 5. We’ve moved on to comparing and measuring angles using a protractor in Maths. For English, we have looked at the different types of recounts and their key features. Our new topic in Science starts next week, Earth and Space and in RE we have been looking at friendship. French with Mrs Quilliam was great, you all counted in fives so well. This will come in handy for telling the time. Keep up the good work by doing all your home practice.
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 16th October 2020
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. Write new vocabulary in your reading diary and include comments about the story.
Maths
This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on angles and mixed times tables practice.
Spelling
There will be new spellings to learn each week on a Friday and a Sumdog spelling challenge linked to the spelling rule/pattern (spellings could be different from the ones below). If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult. Please learn these spellings for next Friday (23.10.20):
We are investigating the silent letters n, p and u in words.
Autumn circuit psalm plague guillotine
rogue cupboard tongue condemn pneumonia
build hymn raspberry baguette plaque
Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)
This week’s challenge on Sumdog (grammar section) is based on antonyms and synonyms.
Have a great weekend. Miss Gravili
Year 5 Home Practice 9th October 2020
Date: 9th Oct 2020 @ 11:25am
The weeks are flying by in Year 5 due to all the learning we are doing. Well done to everyone for working with interest and positivity. The diary recounts about an alien adventure were excellent. I really enjoyed reading them. We have learnt some new things in Maths – factors, multiples, square numbers, prime numbers and prime factors! In French, the children have learnt to read unknown words using the sounds an/en/am and em. Amazing pronunciation Year 5! #Hello Yellow Day for Young Minds was really fun. We did a lot of talking and some great activities.
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 9th October 2020
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. Write new vocabulary in your reading diary and include comments about the story.
If you would like to find even more books to read, please look on Oxford Owl ebooks. You will find the link on the website - Year 5, Home Learning and there is a password for you.
Maths
This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on multiples, factors, prime numbers and mixed times tables practice. There is also a Lancashire Maths Contest on Sumdog. Look out for this on the green panel on the left of the screen when you start your games. It must be there for your scores to count!
Spelling
There will be new spellings to learn each week on a Friday and a Sumdog spelling challenge linked to the spelling rule/pattern (spellings could be different from the ones below). If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult. Please learn these spellings for next Friday (16.10.20):
We are investigating the silent letters b, h and t in words.
whistle ghoul rhythm subtle comb
thistle ghastly rhinocerous Christmas debt
ghost rhyme nestle doubt climb
Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)
This week’s challenge on Sumdog (grammar section) is based on verbs.
Have a great weekend. Miss Gravili
Year 5 Home Practice 2nd October 2020
Date: 2nd Oct 2020 @ 3:28pm
Year 5 have worked so hard this week. They have finished their Concertina Story Books which look fantastic. There is a sample of them on the website, Year 5 - Gallery. National Poetry Day was a great success, we wrote some amazing poems. In Maths, we have worked on multiples, factors, multiplication/division and using facts we already know to work out trickier questions mentally. Our daily runs are going well and in RE the children have written and illustrated some lovely prayers.
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 2nd October 2020
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. Write new vocabulary in your reading diary and include comments about the story.
Maths
This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on related facts for multiplication and division and times tables practice.
Spelling
There will be new spellings to learn each week on a Friday and a Sumdog spelling challenge linked to the spelling rule/pattern (spellings could be different from the ones below). If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult. Please learn these spellings for next Friday (9.10.20):
We are investigating the silent letters g, k and w in words.
know gnome knitting wren wriggle
knee gnat wrapper knuckle sword
write gnash answer resign wrong
Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)
This week’s challenge on Sumdog (grammar section) is based on question words and types of sentences.
Have a lovely weekend, see you on Monday.
Miss Gravili
Year 5 Home Practice 25th September 2020
Date: 23rd Sep 2020 @ 10:19am
Another great week in Year 5, well done to everyone for working so hard in all subjects. Your stories are great and the concertina books will look so good when they are finished. European Sports Day was fun and you did so well playing Handball. Mrs Quilliam was very pleased with the work you did on L'alphabet francais and I loved reading your poems about being unique (RE). It’s super to see that you have enjoyed doing your first Home Practice on Sumdog. Excellent effort with your reading and spelling too. Keep up the good work!
Year 5 Home Practice Friday 25th September 2020
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. Write new vocabulary in your reading diary and include comments about the story. Please sign to say you have read the book.
Maths
This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based adding and subtracting within 100 and times tables.
Spelling
This week's challenge on Sumdog is linked to the same spelling rule (spellings could be different from the ones below). If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult. Please learn these spellings for next Friday (2.10.20):
The rule is i before e except after c (there are some exceptions to the rule!).
field their weigh sleigh lied
weird shield neither beige wield
friend pierce fierce view spied
Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)
This week’s challenge on Sumdog (grammar section) is based on sentence punctuation and adverbs.
Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Gravili
Date: 18th Sep 2020 @ 4:47pm
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Date: 16th Sep 2020 @ 6:22pm
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Year 5 Home Practice 18th September 2020
Date: 16th Sep 2020 @ 5:15pm
Year 5 Home Practice 18th September 2020
Year 5 have settled back to school brilliantly and have learnt all the new rules and routines so quickly, well done everyone! We have enjoyed reading our class novel, Street Child and story, The Hole. I'm very impressed with the excellent work the children have produced. There is a big focus on times tables, place value and number facts in maths. Our history topic - The Victorians is very interesting. Keep up your positive attitude and hard work whilst doing your home practice year 5.
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. Write new vocabulary in your reading diary and include comments about the story.
Maths
This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on place value, rounding to the nearest 10/100 and times tables.
Spellings
There will be new spellings to learn each week on a Friday and a Sumdog spelling challenge linked to the spelling rule (spellings could be different from the ones below). The children will be tested on those spellings the following Friday. If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult. Please learn these spellings for next Friday (25.9.20):
The rule is i before e except after c (there are some exceptions to the rule!).
chief niece piece seize receipt
thief priest belief relief ceiling
grief mischief deceive fiend relieved
Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)
This week's challenge on Sumdog (grammar) is based on basic punctuation and adjectives.