Year 5,
It has been quite a term! You have worked so hard and been a pleasure to teach. I am looking forward to all that is to come in 2024. Please have a lovely break over the holidays, whatever you may be doing.
Thank you very much for all of my goodies and a thank you from the whole of the Year 5 team for your generosity. We look forward to making the most of what we have received.
I look forward to seeing you on 8th January 2024 well rested and ready to learn.
Best wishes,
Mrs Cresswell
Year 5,
This week you have concluded your narrative in English and solved
addition problems with fractions in maths. In art, you refreshed your skills
with watercolour and colour blended for a winter theme. You then combined your
watercolours with fine line perspective drawing to create winter landscapes. This
week you have completed a STEM Christmas quiz and used coding and micro:bits to
create winter themed displays. You were also fantastic in your Carol Concert
rehearsal today – I look forward to seeing you perform on Monday evening.
Next week is a half week. You will have a chance to watch the
Foundation and KS1 performances, and to have a Christmas party. In RE, you will
learn about incarnation and how it is linked to Christmas, and in science you
will be learning about mixtures. Maths next week will involve reading and
plotting co-ordinates, with a Christmas theme.
I have not set any additional home learning this week as I
would like you to spend the time practising the songs for the Carol Concert and participating in the Sumdog competition.
Reminders:
You have been working on the songs for the Carol Service which is on
Monday evening. Here is the link to the video organised by Ms Lawrence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWc1g5zqMrQ
You have football on a Monday so please remember your second pair
of trainers (otherwise a text will be sent to parents as a reminder for full
kit)
Your Christmas party is on Tuesday
afternoon. You can bring a change of ‘party’ clothes for the afternoon if you
wish.
- Reading
– You have now all got reading books and 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.
-- Sumdog - Please remember to use this to practise your maths. Your passwords are now in the back of your Reading Journal.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
Mrs H Cresswell 😊
Below are your spellings for this week. We will not be having a pre-test this week due to school's closure today. Please practise any which you are not confident with. Please put these into sentences as well as trying a spelling challenge as this will help you remember them. This is a recap of spellings you have been working on.
bought
though
definitely
accompany
advice
aisle
guessed
cereal
babies
national
Ext:
Changeable
Exaggeration
Embarrassment
Incredulously
Pronunciation
Mrs Stevenson'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 almost completed a narrative in English.
You have written fantastic labours for Herakles and considered your grammar as
you edited. In maths, you compared and ordered fractions, including improper
fractions and mixed numbers. Science this week focussed on whether materials
are able to dissolve or not. Your history consisted of writing fact files about
gods and goddesses, and then researching about the daily lives of the Ancient Greeks.
You have designed bread based on a brief in design and technology, then
conducting market research to see what was most popular, and designing a final
product. Today, I was really impressed with your thoughts and discussion in our PSHE session where you budgeted, worked in groups and as a whole class, and worked democratically to allocate money towards items for our Christmas donation to a homeless charity.
Next week we will be keeping you busy with a range of
learning, and a few changes. In maths, you will continue to work with fractions
but will begin calculating with them. In English, you will finish your
narrative and then begin using your history research to create a non-chronological
report about the daily lives of Ancient Greeks. You will also be using your art
learning on perspective to create some winter themed art. We will be linking
our science to previous learning with a webinar on Monday and you will have the
opportunity to share some projects too!
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 11th December, when you
will begin share your learning with the class.
You could study:
Reminders:
Wednesday from 3pm is an open afternoon for parents to come into class
and look at the learning you have done so far this year.
Friday is Christmas Jumper Day and Christmas dinner day. We will also be
practising for our Carol Service in the church on Friday morning.
You have been working on the songs for the Carol Service and requested a
link to the video organised by Ms Lawrence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWc1g5zqMrQ
You have football on a Monday so please remember your second pair
of trainers (otherwise a text will be sent to parents as a reminder for full
kit)
- Clubs
- If you have been signed up, please ensure that you attend as numbers are
limited and demand is high.
- Reading
– You have now all got reading books and 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 have your 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
- Please remember to use this to practise your maths. Your passwords are now in
the back of your Reading Journal.
Any additional home learning provided is optional but must be
handed in by Wednesday to be marked before the next is provided on the Friday.
Remember, if your home learning is not named, it will not be marked.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
Mrs H Cresswell 😊
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.
reliably
dependably
comfortably
possibly
horribly
terribly
visibly
incredibly
respectably
sensibly
Ext:
Necessarily
Mischievously
Agreeably
Enviably
Tumultuously
Mrs Stevenson’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.
Hello Year Four,
The children had some great lessons in my absence. They continued to work on multiplication and division in maths. The tables test today was a huge success as many children have now learned up to 12 now and are currently having mixed questions. All the children are working hard to master the tables and should be very proud of their progress.
For English the children learned about singular and plural spellings and possessive s, using an apostrophe.
They were able to complete their adventure stories and write dramatic endings!
The focus in science was the human ear, as we are learning about sound.
For Spanish they are learning to ask when it is someone's birthday and to state their own birth dates.
For the ICT lesson this week the children learned the process of writing an email. We will continue to work on this next week.
NEXT WEEK
Maths
Next week we will complete our multiplication and division block. There will be an end of block assessment and the children will bring home the booklets for revision of this focus.
We will be moving on to finding factors.
English
The English focus will be using paragraphs, understanding when, why and where to break for a new paragraph.
We will also be beginning to explore report writing.
The children will have a comprehension lesson related to the book 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King, which we are currently reading in class.
Science
We will continue to investigate sound and recognise how different sounds are produced. We will be recording the volume of sounds and will create a bar chart plotting the sound data we collect.
ICT
The children will be writing and sending emails with attachments.
RE
We will continue to explore and understand The Holy Trinity.
Spanish
The children will continue to practise asking when someone has a birthday and responding to the same question.
D and T
As we look at different recipes and flavours we are getting closer to designing and making our vegetable/lentil soup.
Spellings
Group 1
didn't
responsible
logical
literate
legal
trouble
country
sleigh
young
descend
Group 2
report
newspaper
didn't
wouldn't
couldn't
shouldn't
apples
ponies
ice
snow
The children are getting good results for their spellings now. Keep it up!
I hope you have a peaceful and happy weekend
Ms Davis
Year 5,
It's December! This week you have worked on lots of different things. In English,
you have written about Herakles' labour being set, and his journey to the
monster. In maths, you have converted between mixed numbers and improper
fractions using images and then calculation strategies. Science this week
combined with computing where you created line graphs using Microsoft Excel to represent the data
gathered in last week’s experiment, then drew conclusions about the best insulator
for Kate’s coffee shop cups, and then you move onto investigating magnetic
properties of different metals. History this week has involved designing your
own vase to depict Ancient Greek warfare, and you began creating fact files on the
different gods and goddesses. In design and technology, you conducted market research
where you taste tested different types of bread – some were more popular than
others! In PSHE, you created games of snakes and ladders while considering
types of bullying, their impact on others, and what can improve or worsen the situation. You then had a chance to play
them in your groups.
Next week, in maths, you will be continuing to work with
fractions but ordering and comparing them. English will involve writing about the
creature Herakles encounters, and the battle between them. In history, you will
finish creating your fact files and in science you will investigate another
property of materials.
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 11th December, when you
will begin share your learning with the class.
You could study:
Reminders:
You have been working on the songs for the Carol Service and requested a link to the video organised by Ms Lawrence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWc1g5zqMrQ
You have football on a Monday so please remember your second pair
of trainers (otherwise a text will be sent to parents as a reminder for full
kit)
- Clubs
- If you have been signed up, please ensure that you attend as numbers are
limited and demand is high.
- Reading
– You have now all got reading books and 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 have your 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
- Please remember to use this to practise your maths. Your passwords are now in
the back of your Reading Journal.
Any additional home learning provided is optional but must be
handed in by Wednesday to be marked before the next is provided on the Friday.
Remember, if your home learning is not named, it will not be marked.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
Mrs H Cresswell 😊
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