Class 5

Welcome to Class 5

Class Teacher:
Mrs Small

Learning Support:
Mrs Tapp

Welcome to Year 5. We hope that you have lots of fun and make good progress this year.

Summer Term 2020
Although we are all working at home, we can still learn about the Vikings! Rule Britannia is our new topic and should be interesting to do at home. As well as doing the little tasks I set, feel free to delve deeper and learn something new. Please share it with me too - I love getting 'post' from you!
English:
This half term, our English work is based around The Tempest. There is a video each week of a section, and then some work based around it. Although I will send you all the relevent bits and pieces, you can sign up yourself too and get access to even more excitng resources.
https://www.primaryshakespearecompany.org/tempest
I have left the Pobble 365 link on the page, as you might still like to use that too! Any extra writing would be amazing!!!!
Although you are at home, please try to do a bit of daily writing and read as much as you can - it will help your brain stay awake!

Maths:
We will be covering a range of areas over the next weeks, now that we have finished the decimals topic. There are lots of extra videos out there that might help, so don't forget you can use them too. I've put a link on to Corbett Maths videos, which are really good for another explanation.

Lots of you are making really good progress with your tables through TT Rockstars. Carry on practising every day as just a few minutes helps to secure the facts into your long term memory.
This Term our math's 'homework' (KIRFs) are focusing on square, cube, prime and composite numbers. Although we have taught this before, it is really important that this skill is embedded and practiced regularly.
Science:
These lessons will be set by Mr O'Shaughnessy on Purlple Mash.

Check out Ashlee's and Harrison's model boats - they're amazing!!

Pobble 365 link

We know that as you get older , decoding skills become more automatic so now is the time to focus on vocabulary and understanding. Ask yourself whether you really understand what is going on in the story? If not then you need to spend time discussing it with an adult. That way your comprehension skills will be strengthened too. Make sure that you are taking books home from the correct book band in school. You can discuss this with your teacher.
All of these basic skills are incredibly important as the basis of all you do in school. Don't underestimate them!

year 3 4 spelling list

year 5 6 spelling list

KIRF

OUTDOOR LEARNING SESSIONS
Everyday can now be an outdoor day - please take every opportunity you safely can to be in the outdoors - use chalk on the floor for maths, take your reading book into the garden, do some planting or weeding, make something out of natural things (and send me a photo!). Talk about what you can see, learn the names of your local flora and fauna - this is all great learning - it doesn't have to be in books!!

Homework Tasks, Reading & Multiplication Facts

Homework is an important part of school life and should help you to build confidence in key skills. In Year 5 we expect that you will be doing approximately 30 minutes per night. This is included in your regular set work at the moment, not extra!

Currently, our weekly homework schedule is as follows:
TTRockstars should be accessed daily if at all possible.
Key Facts for maths: add and subtract fractions.

Alongside written tasks, it is essential that you should continue to read at home with an adult at least three times per week. Reading to, and with, others will help you to develop your understanding of the plot and characters of your story and will also help you to discuss the meaning of any new vocabulary that you might come across.

Daily practice of multiplication tables facts is also very important in year 5 as you're going to need these facts on the tip of your tongue to help you to complete more formal calculations in class. We recommend that you spend 5-10 minutes each morning, possibly after breakfast, practising. There are lots of ways that you can practise: singing, matching cards, writing them down, using a timer to beat your score or using an app on a tablet are all very useful methods.

Year 5 Photos