Spellings wc29.1.24

    Below are your spellings for this week. Please practise those which you got wrong or were not confident with. You must practise putting them into sentences as they are homophones. Please put these into sentences as well as trying a spelling challenge as this will help you remember them.

There

Their

They’re

Which

Witch

Here

Hear

Pacific

Specific

Would’ve

Ext:

Immediate

Awkward

Appreciate

Privilege

Recognise 

 

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.

26.1.24

 Year 5,

This week you have worked with formal methods of multiplication up to 3 by 2 digits. In English, you have planned persuasive advertisements for your potions, and in science you understood friction, testing it through an investigation of your shoes. In PSHE you considered your goals for the future and in RE you compared the coming of age celebrations of Christians, Jews and other non-religious coming of age experiences.

Next week you will be writing your persuasive adverts in English and moving onto written methods of division in maths. In science you will investigate air resistance and in PSHE you will learn about different jobs and their salaries.

 Half Term Project

Your project for this half term – Artist Study

This half term I would like you to focus your project on a particular artist. Your learning outcome should include a written section and a creative section which will be shared in our 'class art gallery afternoon', where we will all move around and learn about each other's artists.

The written part could be a Word processed or a handwritten project but must be able to be shown without a screen. Please ensure that this is your own work and not copied directly from somewhere else (remember our learning on copywrite).

The creative part could be a drawing, painting, model or sculpture, but must be inspired by the artist you have researched. You do not have to use the same technique as the artist e.g. looking at a painter but creating a sculpture inspired by a piece of their work is fine.

This should demonstrate the research you have put in over the weeks before the deadline of Monday 12th February, when you will share your learning with the class. 

You could study (but are not restricted to):

•           Stephen Wiltshire

•           Vincent Van Gogh

•           Barbara Hepworth

•           Charles Rennie Mackintosh

•           Freida Kahlo

 Reminders: 

As per the newsletter sent out last week, lip salves and balms, and hand cream are considered medications so must only be brought in to the office with a medical form for use. 

            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 other PE day is now Thursday instead of Wednesday. You need full kit

-        Clubs – These have now resumed. If you have been signed up, please ensure that you attend as numbers are limited and demand is high.

-        Reading – You have 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  😊

Spellings wc22.1.24

   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.

Sufficient

Suggest

Especially

Programme

Rhythm

Rhyme

Twelfth

Yacht

Pressure

Occasionally 

Ext:

Prejudice

Pronunciation

Vehicle 

Foreign

Lightning 

 

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.

19.1.24

 Year 5,

You have had another varied week of learning where you have worked hard. In English, you have planned and written instructions on how to turn your teacher into a …… . In maths, you finished this round of fractions; subtracting mixed numbers and improper fractions. In science this week, you focused on gravity and how it was discovered and is measured. Computing this week was all about typing speed, word processing and embedding images – you typed up your bread recipes. PSHE this week was all about considering priorities to make you happy and then comparing these to others in the class and then those in the wider world. On Tuesday, you did brilliantly when making bread – you created your chosen bread type and added your chosen flavourings.

 Next week, you will begin our new focus in maths – multiplication and division. In English, you will be creating persuasive pieces linked to your recipes, and in history, you will investigate the invasions of the Vikings in Britain. You will also have the opportunity to consider your aims for when you are older and how you might achieve them in PSHE, and you will investigate friction in science.

 

Half Term Project

Your project for this half term – Artist Study

This half term I would like you to focus your project on a particular artist. Your learning outcome should include a written section and a creative section which will be shared in our 'class art gallery afternoon', where we will all move around and learn about each other's artists.

The written part could be a Word processed or a handwritten project but must be able to be shown without a screen. Please ensure that this is your own work and not copied directly from somewhere else (remember our learning on copywrite).

The creative part could be a drawing, painting, model or sculpture, but must be inspired by the artist you have researched. You do not have to use the same technique as the artist e.g. looking at a painter but creating a sculpture inspired by a piece of their work is fine.

This should demonstrate the research you have put in over the weeks before the deadline of Monday 12th February, when you will share your learning with the class. 

You could study (but are not restricted to):

•           Stephen Wiltshire

•           Vincent Van Gogh

•           Barbara Hepworth

•           Charles Rennie Mackintosh

•           Freida Kahlo

Over this half term we will cover the following:

English 

Instructions (bread, creative) - modal verbs, imperative verbs, semi-colon lists, relative clauses, fronted adverbials of time - cohesive devices, parenthesis

Persuasive advert and leaflet (creative focus) – note taking, formal and informal tone, writing focusing on vocabulary choices, modal verbs, relative clauses and varied sentence structures. 

Poetry – Performance with intonation and movement, writing with specific vocabulary building for impact. 

Spellings – pre-test, test and practise (please also practise at home) 

Handwriting – practise of specific formations and in presentation of learning at pace 

Reading - class reader 'Who let the Gods out', reading focus - inferential questions on a range of texts, scanning and skimming the text to respond to questions (please ensure your child reads 5 times a week at home as this has dropped recently)

 

Maths 

Calculating with fractions, formal methods of multiplication and division, calculating fractions of amounts, decimals and percentages.

Science 

 Forces; understanding the impact of gravity as a force; identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces; recognise that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect; plan and undertake experiments to explore the knowledge above.

 

Computing  

Creating and publishing; using the internet and different tools available, understanding what a vector image is, and creating them, researching with refined searches.

 

Art and D&T

Designing and creating frame structures using woodworking tools.

 

History

Studying the Anglo-Saxons vs Vikings, with a focus on Vikings. Including our Viking workshop on Tuesday 13^th February.

 

RE 

Considering symbolic ways of expressing meaning, exploring belonging to a community, individual commitment and religious leadership.

PSHE

Dreams and goals

 Reminders: 

            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 other PE day is now Thursday instead of Wednesday. You need full kit

-        Clubs – These have now resumed. If you have been signed up, please ensure that you attend as numbers are limited and demand is high.

-        Reading – You have 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  😊

 

Spellings wc 15.1.24

  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.

Excellent

Harass

Immediately

Interrupt

Marvellous

Necessary

Opportunity

Occupy

Profession

Recommend 

Ext:

Demeanour

Impatient

Ghostly

Gnarled

Hideous 

 

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.

12.1.24

 Year 5,

Welcome back! You have returned with a real zest for learning – well done! This week you have added and subtracted fractions, and have worked on subtracting mixed numbers and word problems. In English, you have adapted and written recipes for your bread from design and technology, also typing this into Word in order to improve your typing speed in computing. In science, you finished our materials topic by considering whether changes are reversible or irreversible, and in history you finished our topic on the Ancient Greeks by considering what they did for the modern world. In PSHE, you were very sensible when discussing the topic of racism and today we spent much of our time discussing and celebrating books as we received such an incredible range of new books for our class library (photographs below).

Next week, you will be writing new recipes in English, this time with a twist. In maths, you will be subtracting mixed numbers and answering questions with increasing complexity. In science, you will begin our new topic of Forces, and have a STEM talk linked to our previous topic of space. History next week will look at Britain before the arrival of the Vikings, and their arrival to Lindisfarne, and PSHE will consider the similarities and differences between different cultures.  In RE, you will continue to learn and write about the different celebrations for coming of age; in Christianity, Judaism and non-religious aspects, also considering what that means to you.

This week I have set your project for the half term and we discussed what it entails. Please see the details below:

 Half Term Project

Your project for this half term – Artist Study

This half term I would like you to focus your project on a particular artist. Your learning outcome should include a written section and a creative section which will be shared in our 'class art gallery afternoon', where we will all move around and learn about each other's artists.

The written part could be a Word processed or a handwritten project but must be able to be shown without a screen. Please ensure that this is your own work and not copied directly from somewhere else (remember our learning on copywrite).

The creative part could be a drawing, painting, model or sculpture, but must be inspired by the artist you have researched. You do not have to use the same technique as the artist e.g. looking at a painter but creating a sculpture inspired by a piece of their work is fine.

This should demonstrate the research you have put in over the weeks before the deadline of Monday 12th February, when you will share your learning with the class. 

You could study (but are not restricted to):

•           Stephen Wiltshire

•           Vincent Van Gogh

•           Barbara Hepworth

•           Charles Rennie Mackintosh

•           Freida Kahlo

 

Reminders: 

Don’t forget that if you wish to enter the competition to name our reading tree in the KS2 library, you need to give your class teacher a piece of paper with your name and class written on it and the name that you would like to give the tree, by next Friday at the latest.

            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 other PE day is now Thursday instead of Wednesday. You need full kit

-        Clubs – These begin next week. If you have been signed up, please ensure that you attend as numbers are limited and demand is high.

-        Reading – You have 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  😊

 

Half term project Spring 2024

 Half Term Project

Your project for this half term – Artist Study

This half term I would like you to focus your project on a particular artist. Your learning outcome should include a written section and a creative section which will be shared in our 'class art gallery afternoon', where we will all move around and learn about each other's artists.

The written part could be a Word processed or a handwritten project but must be able to be shown without a screen. Please ensure that this is your own work and not copied directly from somewhere else (remember our learning on copywrite).

The creative part could be a drawing, painting, model or sculpture, but must be inspired by the artist you have researched. You do not have to use the same technique as the artist e.g. looking at a painter but creating a sculpture inspired by a piece of their work is fine.

This should demonstrate the research you have put in over the weeks before the deadline of Monday 12th February, when you will share your learning with the class. 

You could study (but are not restricted to):

•           Stephen Wiltshire

•           Vincent Van Gogh

•           Barbara Hepworth

•           Charles Rennie Mackintosh

•           Freida Kahlo

Spellings wc 8.1.24

   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.

accommodate

aggressive

apparent

attached

committee

communicate

correspond

embarrass

equipped

exaggerate

 

Ext:

  Nauseating

Unpalatable 

Extraordinary

Appealing

Disastrous 

 

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.