Year 5 at Little Heath

      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 Vicious Thought Knowledgeable Terrible Bruise Rough Available Incredibly Muscle    Ext: Category Disastrous Cemetery Embarrass Identity       Mrs Onley’s group have their individual spellings in their Home Spelling Book to be tested and reviewed on Friday. Please practise these and put them into sentences to help your understanding.

 Year 5, That has been quite a week! You have worked on written methods for addition and subtraction, including 5 digit numbers and those with decimals, and in English, you wrote your pieces inspired by The Errand. In science, you planned and then undertook an experiment to test the insulative properties of materials. History this week looked at the differences between Sparta and Athens some of you write brilliant adverts for these polis (even if you did mention that Spartans threw sick babies off cliffs!)   For design and technology, you did very important market research-   taste testing- of different types of bread. In RE today, you have thought about important journeys to you (thank you for your thoughtful and honest examples, even if these were hard to think about) and you then applied this to why Christians might go on pilgrimages. Next week we will begin a new focus in English and will be moving on to written multiplication in maths. Science will look at a diff...

 Year 5, I don’t know about you, but it feels to me like this week has flown by. This week you have planned creepy chapters in English and have considered mental addition and subtraction strategies, and practised written addition in maths. In science you were able to join a STEM talk about the design of artificial limbs and you learnt about the usefulness of insulation as a property with materials. In Spanish you have continued to learn how to tell the time and in history you considered the location of Ancient Greece and how this might impact the lives of the Ancient Greeks. In RE we learnt about the importance of Bar Mitzvah and Mat Mitzvah, comparing the two, and in design and technology you researched breads from around the world and found that there are many variations! This week has also been Anti-Bullying Week which began with ‘Odd Socks Day’ where we also joined a live lesson to inspire our learning. You then worked together to plan, script, film and produce your own Newsr...

    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. Accompany Community Equipped Individual Prejudice Soldier According Competition Communicate Sincerely   Ext:   Committee Environment Immediate Persuade Sincere   Mrs Onley’s group have their individual spellings in their Home Spelling Book to be tested and reviewed on Friday. Please practise these and put them into sentences to help your understanding.

 Year 5, This week you have shown great determination in your learning. It was lovely to see you working on developing your description and development of story for the reader in your English when writing about The Raft. In maths, you have developed your mental strategies using regrouping, rounding and recapping some divisibility rules. In science, you use scientific vocabulary to describe the properties of materials, considering why these properties make them useful, and then focussed this on identifying whether items were magnetic. In history, you have sequenced a giant timeline which has now been turned into a display in our classroom and you have put a version of this in your books. For the last couple of days, we have focused our writing on Remembrance and you have written and illustrated some beautiful and considerate poems linked to this. Next week is anti-bullying week. It is an opportunity for us to remind ourselves about what bullying is and how to prevent it. This wi...

  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 Monday 12 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

    Below are your spellings for this week. Please practise those which you got wrong or were not confident with. These spellings are more about learning the rule for moving from singular to plural than the words themselves. Please practice doing this with a range of different words. Please put these into sentences  as well as trying a spelling challenge as this will help you remember them. Plural rules we are working on: 1. Most nouns end in 's' 2. nouns ending in a hissing/buzzing/ shushing sound end in 'es' 3. nouns ending in 'y' change the 'y' in to 'ies' (this is one we really need to work on) 4. many nouns ending in 'o' add 'es' (e.g. potatoes) but newer ones end in just 's' (e.g. radios) Buses Balloons Parties Schools Potatoes Ropes Babies Patches Tries Boxes      Ext: Accommodate Communicate Equip Immediately Physical      Mrs Onley’s group have their individual spellings in their Home Spelling Book to be tested an...

 Year 5, You have returned with a great eagerness to learn. This week you have considered effective use of verbs and expanded noun phrases, where to spend time describing and where not to, and tailoring your writing to evoke emotion in a reader. You have continued this through in to your art with your watercolour paintings to depict different emotions and show the skills which you rehearsed. Maths has developed strategies for mental calculations of multiplication and division. In science, you have considered how materials change state and what makes a solid, liquid or gas. You have finished Being Me in My World this week by considering the rights you have in school, and the responsibilities that come with this. Next week we will be continuing with ‘The Raft’ in English but you will be in a new scenario. We will also dedicate a couple of lessons to work on Remembrance in recognition of Remembrance Day. Maths will involve some problem solving and we will practise some more roundi...