Year 5 at Little Heath

  Year 5, You have been very busy this week with a range of areas covered. In English, you applied what you had learnt in poetry and wrote your own animal poems, then performing them. In maths, you worked on rounding numbers and then moved onto recognising and calculating with negative numbers. You have also begun recognising and showing numbers with up to 2 decimal places. In geography, you identified the location of South America, countries within the continent, and considered the climate. In PSHE, you took the perspective of a refugee and considered the challenges they may face, you also decided which aspects of education children should have the right to, and whether everyone always has access to these. You also considered how to be 'Bucket Fillers' by doing kind things for people.    Next week, you will be beginning to look at explorers guides in English, and numbers with up to 3 decimal places in maths. You will continue to develop your understanding of search...

   Below are your spellings for this week. Please practise those which you got wrong or were not confident with. Please put these into sentences  as well as trying a spelling challenge as this will help you remember them. knight wreckage writer knowledge knuckle wreath knife doubt island lamb   Ext: solemn whistle debt knickers muscle   Mrs Onley’s group will have their individual spellings in their Home Spelling Book on Tuesday, we apologise for the delay in your personalised spellings. Please practise these and put them into sentences to help your understanding.

  Year 5, You have had a very busy week. This week you have secured your knowledge of place value in maths and have applied this to rounding too. In English, you have used figurative language and specific vocabulary for imagery when writing poems. You considered how to be safe when using devices in computing and you considered how we have day and night in science. On Wednesday, you created beautiful firework artworks using one of the 3 techniques you learnt. You set yourself targets in PSHE and considered the rights of children. You have also reminded yourselves of aspects of the Christian Church in RE and have used inference when reading our class text.   Next week you will continue to write poetry in English but inspired by the video we watched. Your maths will focus on negative numbers, and science will look at the sun’s apparent movement across the sky and shadows. We will begin to study South America in geography and will look at aspects of Jewish places of worship ...

  Your project for this half term –  Exploring Space   As you know, this half term we are studying space in Science. I would like you to study some of the areas of space that you have an interest in. 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 Monday 17th October, when you will share your learning with the class.   You could study (but are not restricted to):  The moon landings Could there be life on other planets? Black holes, meteors and other space features Constellations of stars You could create (but are not restricted to): -         A model of a planet -         A game themed around space -         A story based in space -         A...

  Below are your spellings for this week. Please practise those which you got wrong or were not confident with. Please put these into sentences  as well as trying a spelling challenge as this will help you remember them. sought although tough nought doughnut thought rough thoughtfulness though bought   Ext: Accidentally Continue Group Natural Question   Mrs Onley’s group have their individual spellings in their Home Spelling Book. Please practise these and put them into sentences to help your understanding.  

 Dear Year 5, I look forward to seeing you all on Monday. We have plenty to begin the year with and will settle in with a range of activities.  On Monday afternoon, you will have PE with Mr Mills and he hopes to begin your Football lessons so please bring your kit with you.  See you next week, Mrs Cresswell