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Home Practice Friday 2nd October 2020

Date: 2nd Oct 2020 @ 3:32pm

Year 4

Home Practice 2nd October 2020

 

This week we have read ‘How the Hare became’ and performed a role play between Hare and another character in the story.  Following this, we learnt how to punctuate speech correctly.  We also wrote a class poem and performed it together for National Poetry Day.  In French we practised numbers to 31 and the days of the week.

Well done to everyone who has been on Sumdog during the last week – practising these skills is the key to making progress, so keep up your fantastic efforts. 

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Make sure you discuss the story and the characters.  Find the meaning of any new words too.  Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding. 

Times tables

You have been given your own individual times table target.  Please make sure you continue to practise your times tables in preparation for your test next Thursday (8th October 2020).  Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?  Well done to everyone who has been practising their tables during the past week – it is fantastic to see the progress you are making.

Spellings

The spellings this week explore the ‘i’ sound spelt y elsewhere than at the end of a word. Please practise your spellings each evening at home.  You will be tested on them next Thursday (8th October 2020).  We have discussed in class different strategies you could use to help you learn them and you could always use ‘Look say cover write check’.

gym             myth            Egypt          pyramid       mystery

symbol         synonym       lyrics           system         gymnastics

hymn            typical         cylinder       physical       oxygen

Sumdog Challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

  • A multiplication challenge (Mixed tables 2’s 5’s 10’s 3’s 4’s and 8’s)
  • A grammar challenge (speech marks / inverted commas)
  • A spelling challenge (based on the sound ‘i’ sound spelt y elsewhere than at the end of a word)

Please make sure you log on and have a go!

Year 5 Home Practice 2nd October 2020

Date: 2nd Oct 2020 @ 3:28pm

Year 5 have worked so hard this week. They have finished their Concertina Story Books which look fantastic. There is a sample of them on the website, Year 5 - Gallery. National Poetry Day was a great success, we wrote some amazing poems. In Maths, we have worked on multiples, factors, multiplication/division and using facts we already know to work out trickier questions mentally. Our daily runs are going well and in RE the children have written and illustrated some lovely prayers.

Year 5 Home Practice Friday 2nd October 2020

Reading

Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. Write new vocabulary in your reading diary and include comments about the story.

Maths

This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on related facts for multiplication and division and times tables practice.

Spelling

There will be new spellings to learn each week on a Friday and a Sumdog spelling challenge linked to the spelling rule/pattern (spellings could be different from the ones below). If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult. Please learn these spellings for next Friday (9.10.20):

We are investigating the silent letters g, k and w in words.

know         gnome       knitting         wren          wriggle       

knee         gnat          wrapper         knuckle      sword

write         gnash        answer          resign         wrong

 

Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)

This week’s challenge on Sumdog (grammar section) is based on question words and types of sentences.

Have a lovely weekend, see you on Monday.

Miss Gravili

Year 6 Home Practice - 2nd October 2020

Date: 2nd Oct 2020 @ 1:11pm

Another super week of learning from Year 6. We have started our ‘Daily Mile’ exercise and already we have seen an improvement in our fitness levels. Well done to 90% of you for changing your Home Reading books this week – let’s aim for 100% next week! As another reminder, these groups can change their books on the following days:

Monday – Roller Coasters

Tuesday – Big Dippers

Wednesday – The Waltzers

This year we are using Sumdog as a great way to practice our learning that has been taught in school that week. We will always have a maths, spelling and grammar challenge to practice all week from Friday to the next Friday. We have had a brilliant response from Year 6 with 85% completing all the challenges by Wednesday – keep this up everyone, as little and often will help our learning for the following week.

 

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

  • In Maths, we are using our place value knowledge to add large and decimal numbers mentally.
  • We have begun our new novel, ‘Private Peaceful’ and investigated themes and predictions from the cover, blurb and first chapter.  
  • In Geography, we enjoyed a game of ‘Search, Find and Recover’ where groups had to search for information for the features of mountains and create their own mountain map – check out the pictures on our Year 6 gallery page.
  • For RE, we have completed our topic of ‘Unconditional Love’ through creating our own Beatitudes to help make our school a better place.
  • In Art, we continued to use Keynote to cleverly focus on one part of our face (eye, mouth, etc) like a ‘view finder’ and then practiced techniques to sketch those in our Sketch book.
  • In French, we have been developing our dictionary skills, looking up new words and understanding the abbreviations n/f/s = noun, feminine, singular.
  • Also, in Science, we researched non-flowering plants found on the school grounds and investigated the question, how do they reproduce without flowers?

 

Home Practice all relates to this week’s learning. These are the tasks needed to be completed:

  • Reading – In Year 6, we read for a minimum of 20 minutes every day. You still have your new Reading Journal so any opinions, thoughts, discussions or vocabulary you come across, write them in there. We can then discuss these when you bring it into school.

 

  • Spellings (-tion / -sion / -ssion words) which will be looked in detail from Monday:
      • direction, collection, addition, action, rotation, creation, punctuation, subtraction, division, television, discussion, session, mission, percussion, profession
  • Sumdog challenges:
    • Addition – whole numbers
    • SPAG – Verbs
    • Spellings (-tion / -sion / -ssion words)
      • Once again, I suggest to first write these out on a piece of paper, then play the games. We will look at these spellings in more detail from Monday so the spelling of these words will be easier after we have investigated them.

Year 3 Home Practice 2nd October 2020

Date: 1st Oct 2020 @ 9:01pm

We have had a very creative and exciting week in Year 3.

Thursday was National Poetry Day so we read some poems with actions and lots of expression. We chose our favourite which was ‘How to Turn Your Teacher Purple’ by James Carter. We performed this poem together and made a video – this is on the school website.

On Monday we travelled back in time and did some Stone Age art (pictures to follow when we have finished). We realised how talented people were in the Stone Age using what they could find to survive and communicate.

In Maths we have been using equipment to add hundreds, tens and units, in English we are still enjoying reading The Twits and in French we have been counting to 20 focussing on the different sounds of the letters.

 

Home Practice for 2nd October – 9th October

  1. Read to somebody at home every night for 20 minutes.

 

  1. Practise the x2 tables –

 

  1. Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenge:

Number Challenge: 2nd October – 9th October – target 100 questions.

 

 

  1. Spellings:

gem, gym, giant, magic, giraffe, energy, digit, engine, religion, gentle

Make a word search with your spellings in, ask somebody at home to find the spellings.

 

  1. Research and then create a poster about different types of rocks.

Visit - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z9bbkqt

There are 4 learner guides and 7 class clips which you can look at.

 

The three types of rock you need to include are:

Igneous rock

Metamorphic rock

Sedimentary rock

 

Make your poster easy to read and colourful. See if you can find some really interesting facts to share with the class.

Year 1 Home Practice 2nd October 2020

Date: 30th Sep 2020 @ 2:14pm

Home Practice                                                                                                                             2nd October 2020

Well done everyone for their response to the home practice we have set on Sumdog over the past weeks. Almost everyone has gone on and practised their learning at home and this has shown in the progress the children have made since returning to school.

We have added a few extra challenges this week but are keeping the number of questions in these to a managable level so all children can complete the tasks. Little and often is the key to home practice so keep up the great work.

Keep reading for 10 minutes every night. We have added an extra day for book changing on Mondays incase you forget on a Friday. We will still give out three books a week so please limit your change to one a week. We have also signed up to a huge library of ebooks on Oxford owl, tailored for our youngest children. Click here for access and sign in using our class login - sto1, password -1234. Choose books from phase 3 or 4 to practice taught sounds. This practice will benefit all readers in Year 1.

Sumdog

We have added 4 new challenges this week.

2 x Maths, 1 x Spelling and 1x Reading.

Try to do a little every night and keep up the great learning at home.

Keep checking our class page for new galleries to see what we have been learning in the week.

 

The Year One team.

 

Reception 25th September 2020

Date: 25th Sep 2020 @ 4:04pm

We have had a wonderful week learning all about Elmer. We have spoken about all the things that make us special and learning it is ok to be different. We have made our own patterns and experimented with colour mixing. 

We have began to learn our phonics sounds - s, a, t and our humpty words too! 

It was very tricky to choose our superstars this week for golden assesmbly because everyone is trying so hard all the time. But have a look at the picture to find out who has been spotted. 

The home challenge this week is to go on an Autumn walk and find lots of treasures to share with us next week :) 

 

Home Practice Friday 25th September 2020

Date: 24th Sep 2020 @ 5:23pm

Year 4

Home Practice 25th September 2020

 

Another busy week in Year 4 – we’ve nearly worked our socks off!

In English we read ‘How the Tortoise became’ and created our own blurb and book cover for the story. In Maths we have been rounding numbers to 10, 100 and 1000 and using symbols to compare numbers.  In French, we read and wrote classroom instructions and learnt more about the Tour de France - we know the winner this year was Pogacar.  Friday was European Sports Day and we learnt how to play handball!  Well done Year 4.

This week's Home Practice can be found below.  The purpose of Home Practice is to ensure the basic skills of reading, spelling and number are practised on a regular basis at home - the tasks consolidate classroom learning.  Practising these skills little and often will ensure firm foundations for learning throughout the year.  

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Make sure you discuss the story and the characters.  Find the meaning of any new words too.  Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.

Times tables

You have been given your own individual times table target.  Please make sure you continue to practise your times tables in preparation for your test next Thursday (1st October 2020).  Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?

Spellings

The spellings this week explore different letter patterns for the same ‘ei’ sound. Please practise your spellings each evening at home.  You will be tested on them next Thursday (1st October 2020).  We have discussed in class different strategies you could use to help you learn them and you could always use ‘Look say cover write check’.

prey            wait             bait             afraid          grey

eight           weight         sleigh          neighbour    freight

paint            eighteen      eighty          reign           vein

Sumdog Challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

  • A multiplication challenge (Related facts for x3 x4 and x8)
  • A maths challenge (Rounding and place value to 10 000)
  • A spelling challenge (based on the sound ‘ei’ spelt different ways)

Please make sure you log on and have a go!

Year 3 Home Practice 25th September 2020

Date: 24th Sep 2020 @ 4:51pm

Another amazing week in Year 3. smiley

We went outside and had our first ‘Time To Talk’ where we discussed how to be a good friend. Throughout the week we have really worked well together and have been great friends to each other. We read some more of the Twits and wrote news reports about a mysterious sighting in the sky (Mrs Twit attached to balloons). We used clues to find out what life was like in the Stone Age and sorted and compared different rocks in Science. You can see some pictures of this in the galleries. In Maths we have been using number lines to round to the nearest 10 and used equipment to make and compare numbers up to 1000. Mrs Quilliam is proud of Year 3 for their first attempt at using a French dictionary.

I am already looking forward to another great week next week!

 

Home Practice for 25th September – 2nd October

 

  1. Read to somebody at home every night for 20 minutes.

 

  1. Practise the x2 tables – listen to this song every night. Sing along and dance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGWMPqh04o4&safe=active

 

  1. Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:

 

Number Challenge: 25th September – 2nd October – target 100 questions.

 

x2 tables: 25th September – 2nd October – target 50 questions.

 

Grammar Challenge: 25th September – 2nd October – target 50 questions.

 

 

  1. Spellings:

age, huge, change, charge, bulge, village, range, orange, hinge, stage

Write out the spellings and stick them up somewhere you will see them every day. Use look, cover, write, check to practise your spellings.  

Year 1 Home Practice 25th September 2020

Date: 24th Sep 2020 @ 4:38pm

Year 1 Home Practice                                                                           25th September 2020

 

This week we  have started our new story, Percy the Park Keeper, After the Storm. The children designed some animal homes, wrote some super sentences and even received a letter from Percy himself.

On Friday we participated in European sports Day, learning how to play Handball. We had an experiment in Science, looking at our hands and feet and in French we’ve been counting and learning new greetings.

For your home practice this week, we have set three Sumdog challenges in Reading, Spelling and Maths. Have a go and answer as many as you can. Practise of these skills is the key to making progress so keep up your fantastic efforts.

Read for 10 minutes every night. If you have read all your books, have a look at Oxford Owl on our class page (Home learning button). We will change the books on Fridays so please remember to send them in.

Keep a look out for new galleries on the Year 1 class page. All the children have settled in brilliantly and have shown great attitudes to all their learning this week.

 

Reminders

Please check that all items of clothing have names on them so we don’t misplace any items.

 

Thank you for your continued support,

The Year 1 team

Year 2 Home Practice - 25th September 2020

Date: 24th Sep 2020 @ 4:25pm

We have had a fantastic week in Year 2. In English we have been basing all our writing around the novel Flat Stanley. In Maths we continue to focus on number and place value. In Geograpghy we have explored hot and cold countries as well as looking at specific climates. In French this week the children have learnt how to say greetings as well as their numbers to 20. We have really enjoyed European Sport Day today and have learnt key skills in Handball. 

 

Reading

In Year 2 we aim to read for a minimum of 15 minutes every night and discuss the book with an older sibling or adult to help deepen your knowledge.

Reading books are changed every Monday.

Reading resources:

Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - https://www.literacyshedblog.com/uploads/1/2/5/7/12572836/ks1_reading_vipers.pdf

 

Spelling

This week we have been learning how to spell words with the ‘ai’ sound.

Please complete practise these spellings ready for your quiz every Friday.

This week’s spellings are:

away

tray

brain

mail

bake

snake

eight

they

any

because

 

Maths

This week we will be looking at place value and number. We have learnt all the numbers in word form to 20.  Please have a go at using the resources and work set on Sumdog. 

 

Sumdog

Sumdog can be played from home, as well as in the classroom. To log in from home, students use the same details as they do in class.

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Additionally, students can access Sumdog via the app, which are free to download and play. In both cases, they'll need an internet connection.

 

Sumdog challenges

Multiplication –  x10 tables

Maths - Place Value

Grammar – Verbs

Spellings - /ay/ and /ai/ a_e words

 

 

Year 6 Home Practice - 25th September 2020

Date: 24th Sep 2020 @ 2:54pm

Nearly one month has passed in Year 6 and you have all done extremely well. You are now organising yourselves efficiently with handwashing, the morning tasks and working on your individual targets. The past week we have introduced new Home Reading books and to clarify, these are the days each reading group will change their books:
Monday – Roller Coasters

Tuesday – Big Dippers

Wednesday – The Waltzers

We have had an amazing response with 100% of you changing your books this week. Remember, as always, read 20 minutes every day.

 

Our learning in Year 6 this week:

  • Our place value knowledge has widened as we have ordered, compared, identified, rounded, added and subtracted numbers up to three decimal places.
  • Using our novel, ‘Clockwork’, we have improved our reading skill of retrieval and learnt how to describe scenes using exciting vocabulary.
  • In Geography, we located the three peaks of the UK (Ben Nevis, Snowdon, Scafell Pike) and compared Ordinance Survey maps to Google maps to help us figure out the best route up Scafell Pike.
  • For RE, our topic of ‘Unconditional Love’ continued with the ‘Prodigal Son’ story where the children animated one of the scenes to show their understanding of how the story relates to our lives today.
  • In Art, we have used the Apple version of PowerPoint, Keynote, to create some self-portrait art. Check out some of the pictures in our Year 6 gallery.
  • In French, we have been practicing our numbers to 100 and learning how to say the different family names. 

 

Home Practice all relates to this week’s learning. These are the tasks needed to be completed:

  • Reading – you have all chosen your second Home Reading book for Year 6 this week so reading every night for 20 minutes is essential. You still have your new Reading Journal so any opinions, thoughts, discussions or vocabulary you come across, write them in there. We can then discuss these when you bring it into school.

 

  • Spellings (-ious and ous words) which will be looked in detail from Monday:
      • cautious, various, vicious, precious, conscious, conscientious, gracious, suspicious, perilous, hazardous, marvellous, adventurous, dangerous, glamourous, famous
  • Sumdog challenges:
    • Decimal Place Value
    • SPAG – More Amazing Adjectives!
    • Spellings (-ious words)
      • I suggest writing these out first three times, then play the games. We will look at these spellings in more detail from Monday so the spelling of these words will be easier after we have investigated them. 

Year 5 Home Practice 25th September 2020

Date: 23rd Sep 2020 @ 10:19am

Another great week in Year 5, well done to everyone for working so hard in all subjects. Your stories are great and the concertina books will look so good when they are finished. European Sports Day was fun and you did so well playing Handball. Mrs Quilliam was very pleased with the work you did on L'alphabet francais and I loved reading your poems about being unique (RE). It’s super to see that you have enjoyed doing your first Home Practice on Sumdog. Excellent effort with your reading and spelling too. Keep up the good work!

 

Year 5 Home Practice Friday 25th September 2020

Reading

Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. Write new vocabulary in your reading diary and include comments about the story. Please sign to say you have read the book.

Maths

This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based adding and subtracting within 100 and times tables.

Spelling

 This week's challenge on Sumdog is linked to the same spelling rule (spellings could be different from the ones below). If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult. Please learn these spellings for next Friday (2.10.20):

The rule is i before e except after c (there are some exceptions to the rule!).

field          their          weigh          sleigh        lied       

weird         shield       neither         beige        wield    

friend         pierce      fierce          view          spied

Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)

This week’s challenge on Sumdog (grammar section) is based on sentence punctuation and adverbs.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Gravili

Year 1 Meet the Teacher

Date: 18th Sep 2020 @ 4:51pm

Year 2 Meet the Teacher

Date: 18th Sep 2020 @ 4:51pm

Year 3 Meet the Teacher

Date: 18th Sep 2020 @ 4:50pm

Year 4 Meet the Teacher

Date: 18th Sep 2020 @ 4:49pm

Year 5 Meet the Teacher

Date: 18th Sep 2020 @ 4:47pm

Year 6 Meet the Teacher

Date: 18th Sep 2020 @ 4:45pm

Reception 18th September 2020

Date: 18th Sep 2020 @ 4:10pm

We have completed our first full week in school! 

We would like to say a huge WELL DONE to all of the Reception children for really trying their best, every single day. They have all been amazing and we can't wait for next week already :) 

We had a lovely Golden Assembly this morning with Mrs Wood and would like to share our Golden Stars of the week! Have a look in the picture below :) 

Year 3 Home Practice 18th September 2020

Date: 17th Sep 2020 @ 4:03pm

Happy Friday.

We have had a fantastic week in Year 3. We started reading the Twits this week and showed our cheeky side by coming up with our own prank ideas. We enjoyed some outdoor learning in the sunshine and loved painting Mr Twit’s beard. We have been trying really hard with our times tables and have been doing lots and lots of counting. We have been focussing on listening and following instructions so that we are always ready to learn J

 

Year 3 Home Practice

 

Year 3 home practice will be uploaded onto the school website every Friday. You will be tested every Thursday on the spellings and times tables.

The purpose of home learning is to practise the essential skills needed in reading, writing and maths.

 

Home Practice for 18th September – 25th September

 

  1. Read to somebody at home every night for 20 minutes. Reading with an adult and discussing your reading will help you to become fluent, expressive and independent.

 

  1. Practise the x2 tables – ask somebody at home to call out 10 questions each night in order and 10 questions each night mixed up. Hopefully by the end of the week you will be quick and won’t have to count on.

 

  1. Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:

 

Number Challenge - 18th September- 25th September – target 50 questions.

Grammar Challenge: 18th September- 25th September – target 50 questions.

Spelling Challenge: 18th September- 25th September – target 50 questions.

 

 

  1. Spellings:

badge, edge, bridge, dodge, fudge, ridge, smudge, judge, wedge, lodge

 

Write out the spellings and stick them up somewhere you will see them every day. Practise splitting them up into chunks you can remember and writing them out in different colours each night e.g. badge, edge

 

Have a lovely weekend

Year 2 Home Practice - 18th September 2020

Date: 17th Sep 2020 @ 1:20pm

We have had a fantastic week in Year 2. In English we have been basing all our writing around the novel Burglar Bill. In Maths we have focused on number and place value. We have also enjoyed using outdoor areas to carry out science investigations. We love staying active and healthy in Year 2 so we have been completing the Daily Mile every day.

 

Reading

In Year 2 we aim to read for a minimum of 15 minutes every night and discuss the book with an older sibling or adult to help deepen your knowledge.

Reading books are changed every Monday.

Reading resources:

Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - https://www.literacyshedblog.com/uploads/1/2/5/7/12572836/ks1_reading_vipers.pdf

 

Spelling

This week we have been learning how to spell words with the ‘ee’ sound.

Please complete practise these spellings ready for your quiz every Friday.

This week’s spellings are:

sweep

asleep

steal

leap

thief

chief

monkey

honey

after

again

 

Maths

This week we will be looking at place value and number. Please have a go at using the resources and work set on Sumdog. Try to spot some numbers around your house or while on a walk. Talk to your parent or older sibling about them. Can you partition the number into tens and ones?

 

Sumdog

Sumdog can be played from home, as well as in the classroom. To log in from home, students use the same details as they do in class.

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Additionally, students can access Sumdog via the app, which are free to download and play. In both cases, they'll need an internet connection.

 

Sumdog challenges

Multiplication –  x10 tables

Grammar – Capital letters

Spellings - /ee/ and /ea/ words

Year 4 Home Practice 18th September 2020

Date: 16th Sep 2020 @ 8:09pm

We have had another fantastic week in Year 4! Here are just a few snippets of what we have been learning.

In English we have read ‘How the Fox Came to be Where it is’ and ‘How the Polar Bear Became’ – our writing has been based on these 2 stories.  We especially enjoyed learning about the clever but cunning fox and how he outwitted other animals!  In Maths we have revised place value and been using Base 10 and numerical counters to help when adding and subtracting 1, 10, 100 and 1000.  In addition, we have been revising rounding numbers to 10. We have continued our RE topic of Families and learnt more about Jesus’ human family and his descendants.  We have also been learning how to insert, rotate, re-colour and re-size shapes using Publisher. What a busy week Year 4 – well done!

Home Practice 18th September 2020

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Make sure you understand what you are reading and find out the meaning of any new words.  Someone at home could ask you some questions about what you have read and you could tell them what has happened so far in the story.

 

Times tables

You have been given your own individual times table target.  Please make sure you continue to practise your times tables in preparation for your test next Thursday (24th September 2020).  Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?

 

Spellings

The spelling rule this week is the ‘ee’ sound spelt ‘ey’. Please practise your spellings each evening at home.  You will be tested on them next Thursday (24th September 2020).  We have discussed in class different strategies you could use to help you learn them and you can always use ‘Look say cover write check’.  Your spellings are:

key              honey           money          phoney         donkey

monkey      turkey         hockey         barley          baloney

abbey         dopey           alley            trolley         chimney

 

Sumdog Challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

  • A multiplication challenge (x2 x3 x4 x5 x10)
  • A maths challenge (Counting in 10’s 100’s and 1000’s)
  • A spelling challenge (based on the spelling rule the ‘ee’ sound spelt ‘ey’)

Please make sure you log on and have a go!

Have a lovely weekend Year 4 - see you all next week.smiley

Online Content - 10 tips to keep your children safe online

Date: 16th Sep 2020 @ 6:22pm

Monitor-Talk-Report

"In light of recent distressing content circulating on several popular social media platforms, we're reminding parents how important it is to monitor, support and talk to children about their online activities." - National Online Safety

Here are some top tips from National Online Safety on keeping children safe online when viewing content online.

Year 5 Home Practice 18th September 2020

Date: 16th Sep 2020 @ 5:15pm

Year 5 Home Practice 18th September 2020

Year 5 have settled back to school brilliantly and have learnt all the new rules and routines so quickly, well done everyone! We have enjoyed reading our class novel, Street Child and story, The Hole. I'm very impressed with the excellent work the children have produced. There is a big focus on times tables, place value and number facts in maths. Our history topic - The Victorians is very interesting. Keep up your positive attitude and hard work whilst doing your home practice year 5.

Reading

Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every evening. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. Write new vocabulary in your reading diary and include comments about the story.

Maths

This week’s challenge on Sumdog is based on place value, rounding to the nearest 10/100 and times tables.

Spellings

There will be new spellings to learn each week on a Friday and a Sumdog spelling challenge linked to the spelling rule (spellings could be different from the ones below). The children will be tested on those spellings the following Friday. If you don’t know what a word means, look it up in a dictionary or ask an adult. Please learn these spellings for next Friday (25.9.20):

The rule is i before e except after c (there are some exceptions to the rule!).

chief          niece          piece          seize          receipt      

thief          priest         belief          relief        ceiling     

grief          mischief      deceive      fiend          relieved

Spelling, Punctuation And Grammar (SPAG)

This week's challenge on Sumdog (grammar) is based on basic punctuation and adjectives.

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