WE HAVE PE ON TUESDAY 22ND APRIL.  PLEASE BRING YOUR PE KIT TO SCHOOL

A typical week in Herefordshire: 

This week in Herefordshire 5

Week beginning Monday 21st April

Welcome back! The class were full of energy and keen to share some of the fantastic things they've been up to over the Easter break. Luckily, they have come back with lots of energy for learning too and have thrown themselves into our book for this term, 'The Adventures of Odysseus'. This week, they will be creating a fact file about their chosen god or goddess.

In maths, we have continued with our learning about angles and have started to accurately measure and draw angles and shapes.

In History, to link with our English text, we will be learning about Ancient Greece including their beliefs, education and sporting events. The children are looking forward to this (especially as many of them have read books about it already). In Science, we will be learning about the properties of materials and thinking about why certain objects are made of specific materials. 

For extra help at home with maths use this link for skills on Decimals

Home Learning

Home learning and spellings will be set each week on a Thursday and will be due in the following Tuesday. 

Times Tables Rockstars! 

To keep practising the multiplication skills taught in class, and challenging yourself to keep the ones you already know fresh, don’t forget to log into your Times Tables Rockstars account.

You should be practising for at least 30 minutes a week.

We have a TT Rock Star of the week. Look out to see who the first one is!

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Rapid recall of multiplication is essential for success in maths and Times Tables Rockstars gives you self-confidence, recognition and motivation to improve.

We will have a times tables check each Wednesday. 

Challenge yourself to beat your score, build your knowledge and watch your confidence sore, as you become a Rockstar!

Please ask your class teacher if you need replacement log in details.

Spelling

The link below will take you to the spelling scheme we are working from in school.

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/english/primary-spelling/

Mr Borland

Set date- 23rd April

Test date- 30th April

controversy

twelfth

conscious

pronunciation

beautifully

occasionally

adventurously

immediately

architecture

hierarchy

This document contains spelling strategies that are used in class, and can be used at home to aid learning new words:

Southborough's Spelling Strategies

Spellings will be tested (including using them in a sentence) on Wednesdays.

Reading

We recommend children in Year 5 children read for at least 15 minutes a day. 

Please ensure you hear your child read regularly and record on Boom Reader using the parent app on your tablet/mobile no more than once a week:

boomreader.co.uk/parents

Some helpful questions to ask the children and check their understanding as they read have been pasted below. 

Children should bring their Accelerated Reading book to and from school each day. When they have finished reading their current book, children are asked to complete a quiz before choosing the next one:

https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/6704864

Please note: pupil login details have changed slightly due to an upgrade that has taken place on the Accelerated Reader platform. Pupil login details (user name and password) should now be enter in all lower case (no capital letters at all). These login details are used each time your child quizzes a school reading book which carries an accelerated reading quiz code.

Music Knowledge Organiser

Below is the music knowledge organiser for this term's music topic. To help with their in-class learning, please can the children read over this each week.