Sussex

Sussex

Year 5 Home Learning

This week in Sussex 5:

Dear parents and carers,

Our cricket lesson on Tuesday was brilliant - the sun shone and the children were brilliant. We practised over arm throwing, trying to hit long poles and having good success at hitting the target. We then got into groups of 5 or 6 and practised our throwing to the batter, remembering our catching skills when back-stop and fielding. We had a go at the daily mile and we are building our stamina well.

In maths, we have almost completed our shape unit, learning how to or consolidating how to find angles and perimeter of shapes. We will be moving onto position and direction next week, including using coordinates, working out reflections, rotations and translations on a coordinate grid.

In English, we have been writing stories, following a model, about the Cyclops. Parts of the story are quite revolting - ask your child which bit they most enjoyed or found repulsive! We're going to be writing setting descriptions about the land of the dead next - not a cheerful piece of writing but great for using figurative language and expanded noun phrases.

In science learning we conducted an experiment to find out how quickly water cools over time. We predicted that it would cool but didn't realise it would become the same temperature as the classroom. In our next science lesson, we will use our home learning knowledge of conductors and insulators to keep the water as warm as possible.

In History we have found out about the geography of Ancient Greece and how the Greeks used the sea to trade with other countries. They developed their city states on the coast and used the mountains to protect themselves from invasion.

Thank you and have a wonderful week.

Mrs Townshend and Ms Walker.

Spellings are set on a Wednesday for testing on the following Wednesday.

Times tables will be tested on a Friday - this week we will be testing 8x times table and 18 x teens times table.