The Year 5 Team

Curriculum Overview

This week in Sussex 5:

Wednesday 19th November.

We have been writing stories about going into space and persuasive arguments about why Liam, the main character, should be chosen to go into space.  The children have become very good at arguing their case and finding answers to arguments!  We are writing a balanced argument next to determine whether Liam should tell the truth and go home or should continue into space.  It will be interesting to see whether the children are able to adapt their writing from persuasion to being balanced in their thoughts.

We are continuing our fractions learning, adding and subtracting fractions.  At the moment the denominators are staying the same but we will need to use our prior skills of converting the denominator to do our adding and subtracting later in the week.

In geography the children have been looking at different sizes of settlements and creating a hierarchy of settlements.  They have identified the differences between cities, towns, villages and hamlets.  Population changes as do services and facilities in different sized settlements.

Thank you to all those children and parents who engaged with the home learning this week.  It was interesting to hear what the children had found out and wanted to extend their knowledge about.  The children need to move onto the next activity this week and bring in their findings on Tuesday next week.

Spellings will now be set on a Wednesday for testing on the following Wednesday.

Times tables will be tested on a Friday - this week we will be testing 12 x table and some of us will be tested on the mixed x table.

A typical week in Sussex 5

Home Learning

Spellings - starting Monday 6th October.

Multiplication Tables

Weekly practise of multiplication tables is vital in supporting mathematical development. Below is a chart of the 36 essential facts to learn. This is especially helpful for children who are almost fluent.

Times Tables Rockstars! 

To keep practising the multiplication 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. 

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Challenge yourself to beat your score and build your knowledge as you become a Rockstar!

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

To continue to learn times tables, this website is useful:

Times tables games - Learn them all here!

Reading

Children should bring their Accelerated Reading Book to and from school each day. When they have finished reading, children are asked to complete a quiz before changing their book. 

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

Parents please log your child's reading on the BOOM reader Parent Portal or by using the BOOM reader parent app on your tablet/mobile no more than once a week.

boomreader.co.uk/parents

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