Spellings wc29.11.21

 Please ensure that you practice your spellings through the week. We have our pre-test on Monday and test on Friday (using the same words in a different order). I will be looking for an improvement in your score between the pre-test and test.

As discussed in class, please put your spellings into sentences on paper as this will help you to learn the meaning as well as the spelling. 

co-ordinate

co-operate

co-own

co-author

co-exist

re-enter

re-examine

re-evaluate

re-emerge

re-ignite

re-invent

re-energise

Ext:

bad-tempered

cold-hearted

hot-headed

jet-propelled

mean-spirited

If you are in Mrs Onley’s group, you should have your spellings in your Home Spelling book either today or tomorrow and these will be tested on Friday.

 

 

26.11.21

  Good afternoon Year 5,

I have been really impressed by your approach towards your learning this week. You have now unpicked and planned an Ancient Greek myth and I am very excited to read your writing once it has begun. In Maths, you have secured long multiplication and begun to apply it to problems and in Science you discussed the thermal insulator and conductor properties of materials before planning and undertaking an experiment. You also recorded and concluded your results. Our History topic has continued and you have become warriors and understood how they organised their warfare.

Next week, you will finish your plans and begin writing your myths by looking at the setting and introducing your main character. In Maths, we will be looking at written division and applying this to problems. In History, we will begin looking at the daily lives of the Ancient Greeks. In computing we will populate a spreadsheet with your data from today and use this to create graphs, and in RE we will learn about Hanukkah. Next Friday is a Mufty day with you being asked to bring in donations for the PTA hampers (please ask your adults to check the letter and newsletter for more details).

Reminders:

Your project has been set and is on the blog below

-        Wednesday is swimming

-        Reading – You have now been given your Reading Journals and shown how to write in them. Please ensure that you read and record it at least 5 times a week. You can do the recording; it does not have to be your adult. You must complete a Reading Journal Activity before changing your book and if you are not enjoying your book you must read at least 40 pages and write why you have not been enjoying it in your journal.

-        Spellings – You will have your next pre-test on Monday and are asked to practise these throughout the week ready for the test on Friday (they will be on the blog). Remember I am looking for improvement.

-        Sumdog/Times Tables Rockstars- Please remember to use these to practise your maths. Your passwords are stuck in the back of your Reading Journal. 

 

I hope you have a lovely (if rather chilly) weekend.

Miss H Huntley  J

 

 

Spellings wc22.11.21

  

Please ensure that you practice your spellings through the week. We have our pre-test on Monday and test on Friday (using the same words in a different order). I will be looking for an improvement in your score between the pre-test and test.

As discussed in class, please put your spellings into sentences on paper as this will help you to learn the meaning as well as the spelling. 

equipment

interfere

privilege

stomach

achieve

conscience

especially

interrupt  

their

they’re

there

which

witch

with 

Ext:

mystical

parliament

conscious 

signature

If you are in Mrs Onley’s group, you should have your spellings in your Home Spelling book either today or tomorrow and these will be tested on Friday.

 

19.11.21

 

Year 5,

This has been quite a week. You have written diaries as Herakles, considered the importance of Jerusalem to multiple faiths and learnt how to tell the time in Spanish. In Maths, you have developed your use of addition and subtraction including written methods and in History considered whether you’d rather be Spartan or Athenian – with some great reasons given. Alongside this, you have participated in Anti-Bullying week through your odd socks on Monday, creating anti-racism ribbons and creating anti-bullying mini-movies from notes, to scripts, to filming and editing. 

Next week, you will continue to develop your formal written methods in Maths but this time with multiplication. We will finish reading ‘The 12 labours of Herakles’ in English and then begin to plan your own version. We will also continue to read ‘Who let the gods out’ and find out a little more about Thanatos’ plan. In Science, we will plan and undertake an investigation. Our History will look at something you were rather enthusiastic about – Ancient Greek warfare and Art will continue to be inspired by Andy Warhol.

Please remember that swimming begins next week so you will have that in a Wednesday morning instead of your Thursday afternoon slot.

Well done to those of you who have already begun to consider your project (in a blog entry below)- I have heard about some fantastic and exciting ideas.

Reminders:

Your project has been set and is on the blog below

-        Wednesday is swimming

-        Clubs have now begun and need to be registered for on School Gateway

-        Reading – You have now been given your Reading Journals and shown how to write in them. Please ensure that you read and record it at least 5 times a week. You can do the recording; it does not have to be your adult. You must complete a Reading Journal Activity before changing your book and if you are not enjoying your book you must read at least 40 pages and write why you have not been enjoying it in your journal.

-        Spellings – You will have your next pre-test on Monday and are asked to practise these throughout the week ready for the test on Friday (they will be on the blog). Remember I am looking for improvement.

-        Sumdog/Times Tables Rockstars- Please remember to use these to practise your maths. Your passwords are stuck in the back of your Reading Journal.

 

    Have a lovely weekend.

      Miss H Huntley  :-)

 

 

 

Spellings wc15.11.21

 

Please ensure that you practice your spellings through the week. We have our pre-test on Monday and test on Friday (using the same words in a different order). I will be looking for an improvement in your score between the pre-test and test.

As discussed in class, please put your spellings into sentences on paper as this will help you to learn the meaning as well as the spelling. 

Accompany

Community

Equipped

Individual

Prejudice

Soldier

According

Competition

Communicate

Sincerely

Immediately

Physical

Accommodate

Equip 

Ext:

committee

environment

immediate

persuade

sincere

If you are in Mrs Onley’s group, you should have your spellings in your Home Spelling book either today or tomorrow and these will be tested on Friday.

 

12.11.21

 

 Year 5,

Another full-on week and another impressive range of learning. This week you have painted and written beautiful pieces of learning relating to Remembrance, including some very poignant cinquains. You demonstrated fantastic levels of respect and real consideration of others when completing the 2 minutes silence. In Maths, you considered a range of mental methods for addition and subtraction and in science you identified and classified different materials that are used around school; then considering the reason for their use. In History, you studied the geography of Greece and ancient Greece as we began our new topic.

Next week is ‘Anti-Bullying week’ and we will be theming our learning on Monday around this. Be sure to wear odd socks on Monday as it is ‘Odd Socks Day’ to celebrate that everyone is different. You will be beginning a new focus in English and it will result in a myth over the next few weeks. You will be using your refreshed knowledge of fronted adverbials and expanded noun phrases when writing. In maths, you will be developing your understanding of column addition and subtraction (including decimals). You will be looking at the differences in people in ancient Greece in history and in art we will complete an artist study on Andy Warhol.

Reminders:

- Your project has been set and is on the blog below

-        Monday is Odd Socks Day

-         Friday is Children in Need

-        Clubs have now begun and need to be registered for on School Gateway

-        Reading – You have now been given your Reading Journals and shown how to write in them. Please ensure that you read and record it at least 5 times a week. You can do the recording; it does not have to be your adult. You must complete a Reading Journal Activity before changing your book and if you are not enjoying your book you must read at least 40 pages and write why you have not been enjoying it in your journal.

-        Spellings – You will have your next pre-test on Monday and are asked to practise these throughout the week ready for the test on Friday (they will be on the blog). Remember I am looking for improvement.

-        Sumdog/Times Tables Rockstars- Please remember to use these to practise your maths. Your passwords are stuck in the back of your Reading Journal.

 

    Have a lovely weekend.

      Miss H Huntley  :-)

 

 

Half term project - Ancient Greece

 

Your project for this half term – The Wonders of Greece 

As you know, this half term we are studying Ancient Greece in History. I would like you to study some of the areas of Ancient Greece that we will not have time to cover in detail. Your learning outcome could be a PowerPoint, a Word processed or handwritten project, a model or sculpture. This should demonstrate the research you have put in over the weeks before the deadline of Friday 10^th December, when you will share your learning with the class.  

You could study: 

• Greek theatre 
• The Parthenon/ temples 
• The first Olympics 
• The everyday lives of Ancient Greeks 
• Greek astronomy 
• The Battle of Troy (and the Trojan horse) 
• The mapping and geography of Ancient Greece 
• Ancient Greek soldiers 
• Ancient Greek Myths

 

Spellings wc8.11.21

 

Please ensure that you practice your spellings through the week. We have our pre-test on Monday and test on Friday (using the same words in a different order). I will be looking for an improvement in your score between the pre-test and test.

As discussed in class, please put your spellings into sentences on paper as this will help you to learn the meaning as well as the spelling. 

Buses

Balloons

Parties

Schools

Potatoes

Ropes

Babies

Patches

Tries

Boxes

 

Ext:

Accommodate

Communicate

Equip

Immediately

Physical

Sincerely

 

If you are in Mrs Onley’s group, you should have your spellings in your Home Spelling book either today or tomorrow and these will be tested on Friday.

 

 

Spellings wc1.11.21

 Please ensure that you practice your spellings through the week. We have our pre-test on Monday and test on Friday (using the same words in a different order). I will be looking for an improvement in your score between the pre-test and test.

As discussed in class, please put your spellings into sentences on paper as this will help you to learn the meaning as well as the spelling. These are words you have covered before but we could do with revising (remember some are homophones). Some of you have an extension specific to you as you scored full marks in the pre-test. Be sure to work on your words.

Though

Allowed

Heard

Enough

Opportunity

Thought

Plough

Marvellous

Twelfth

Passed

If you are in Mrs Onley’s group, you should have your spellings in your Home Spelling book either today or tomorrow and these will be tested on Friday.