St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 5: Blog items
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
Online Content - 10 tips to keep your children safe online
Date: 16th Sep 2020 @ 6:22pm
Monitor-Talk-Report
"In light of recent distressing content circulating on several popular social media platforms, we're reminding parents how important it is to monitor, support and talk to children about their online activities." - National Online Safety
Here are some top tips from National Online Safety on keeping children safe online when viewing content online.
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.