Half Term Home Learning

Spirituality Home Learning Project

Please see this document for details of an exciting whole school project that we would like the children and families to take part in for home learning over the half term break. 

We would like children to bring their findings in to school by Wednesday 29​​^th October please.

The Year 5 Team

Curriculum Overview

This week in Sussex 5:

Wednesday 15th October.

We reached the climax of our story this week and the children were so engaged and invested in the story and characters that they cheered and clapped - it was lovely to experience their enjoyment.  WE've been writing recounts and diary entries this week in response to the end of the book, as Danny and Nai Nai.  The children have also been detectives, looking for good features of sentences in my examples.  They're very good at spotting fronted adverbials, parenthesis and relative clauses.

In maths we have been revising multiples and factors.  A good knowledge of the children's times tables really helps with this area of the maths curriculum.  We have just finished a competition on TTRS between Year 5 and Year 6 which also helps with tables fluency - results to be announced tomorrow!

In science we have learnt more about forces - how levers and pulleys work.  We could understand levers and made a simple one with our pencils and rulers.  Pulleys were a bit harder to understand but we worked out that the more pulley wheels there were, the easier the mechanical advantage was so the less effort was needed to pull on the rope.

We have been on a leaf walk this week, admiring the beautiful shapes, colours and textures of leaves around the school site as they fall off the trees.  Alongside we have been thinking about our own spirituality.  Spirituality can be thought of as a personal journey of feeling awe and curiosity, asking big questions about life, reflecting on experiences, and feeling a connection to something greater than ourselves, such as nature, other people, or the world at large. It's not the same as a religion, but rather a deep, personal experience of awe, wonder, and connection to themselves, others, and the world around us.  There is some simple half term home learning to complete at the top of the class page.  Alongside this we have been making pom poms to stick on our class tree, a bit of light relief among the hard work!

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 7 x table and some of us will be tested on the 17 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