Herefordshire

A typical week in Herefordshire: 

This week in Herefordshire 5

Week beginning Monday 14th October

This week, Herefordshire have been writing in role as various characters from our book. They have done well to put themselves in the characters' shoes, thinking hard about what emotions they might be feeling and how we could express those emotions using show not tell.

In Maths, the children have demonstrated a strong times table knowledge when leaning about square numbers. They also applied this to learning about cube numbers and used counters and cubes to demonstrate their knowledge.

In Science, we have been looking at water resistance and how it applies to real life objects. The class competed an experiment where they had to think about what shape to make their plasticine for it to move through water quickly.

In PE, the children are showing good progress of their netball skills. The class have been working well in their teams to make sure they are passing the ball quickly and moving efficiently down the court whilst marking players from the other team.

In History, we have looked at how the Shang Dynasty made items out of bronze and what decorations they used to add detail. The children applied this new information to their existing knowledge of the Shang's uses for bronze to create very informative knowledge organisers.

Home Learning

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

Home Learning Topic Task 17.10.24 due in 22.10.24:

For your home learning this week, building on World Mental Health Day (November 10^th) and our upcoming Kindness Week, we would like you to do some ‘positive noticing’.
Positive noticing is when you actively look for and name the positives that are going on all around you.

At home, see if you and your families can work together to identify all of the positives that you are all doing in turn. For example, what are the individual actions and strengths that each of your family members demonstrate (be sure to be really specific) and what do you do that’s positive and a strength in their eyes? It could be anything. Sometimes they can seem very small and even be overlooked! See what you can spot.

For next Tuesday 22^nd October, please make sure you write down and collect your ideas. This could be in the form of a poster, a knowledge organiser, a speech or even a PowerPoint presentation.
We will be sharing all of the positives we have noticed in class with our friends.

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/

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

In Year 5, children should be reading for a minimum of 15 minutes per day.

All children have been given a new AR bookmark and know their AR bands. They have selected a book to read at home and school.

Please ensure you hear your child read regularly and record on Boom Reader. Some helpful questions to ask the children as they read have been pasted below. 

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.