This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due on Wednesday 09 March.
I can suggest ways of becoming or remaining calm.
As part of our ‘Getting On’ SEAL theme, we’ll look at different ways to keep calm in a range of situations. Discuss how we feel in difficult situations and note down some things you can do to become calm again.
This week’s spellings all require ‘ed’ to be added for past tense and are words that we often make mistakes with in class (for example, by missing the ‘e’).
| to happen happened |
| to wonder wondered |
| to abandon abandoned |
| to stutter stuttered |
| to listen listened |
| to chat chatted |
| to chatter chattered |
| to clatter clattered |
| to remember remembered |
| to whisper whispered |
These must be practised in your red spelling book ready to be tested on Friday 11 March.
As part of the health aspect to our Big Topic, Life, we tried out some yoga, stretching our muscles and relaxing.
Have a go at activities such as knitting a 3D sculpture, finding out more about joint replacements, looking at the effects of energy generation on the human body and having your face 3D scanned.
There’s a great day coming up soon at the University of Leeds…
Ever wondered what happens in a university? Ever been curious as to what studies and research are done in Leeds and where they lead to? Now is your chance to find out and feel immersed in the vast array of exciting things that go on at the University of Leeds.
Have a go at activities such as knitting a 3D sculpture, finding out more about joint replacements, looking at the effects of energy generation on the human body and having your face 3D scanned.
Visit the website to find out more.
This week’s spelling are a little different. I won’t be sending a list of spelling for the children to learn but a spelling rule to practise instead:
double up for a short vowel sound
At home, see if you and other members of your family can think of words that follow this rule and practise these. Remember the different ways we’ve used to practise spelling:
There will be a test on Friday and all of the words tested will follow the double up rule.
This week’s Creative homework is due on Wednesday 02 March.
To be able to work with money.
We don’t often get creative with Maths but that’s our challenge for this homework. Next week’s Maths will be all about money so think about how you can work with money for your homework. There are all sorts of things you could do for this:
The more creative the better and I look forward to seeing what comes in as Year 5’s homework is always great fun to look at.
This week’s Practice Makes Perfect homework is due on Wednesday 02 March.
To be able to learn a poem by heart.
We started learning ‘Daffodils’ by William Wordsworth in our English lesson this week. Most of us could recite the first verse by the end of the lesson. We challenged each other to see who could recite the most and Emre impressed us all by remembering all of the first two verses!
See how much you can learn at home and we’ll have another ‘poem-off’ on Wednesday.
A big thank you to Year 5 who have all come back after the half term ready and raring to go.
In English, we’ve enjoyed performing, learning, reading and writing poetry this week. As it turns out, lots of us are natural performers or great a getting creative with the pen.
In Maths, we’ve explored decimals and we’ll continue this learning next week by focussing on money.
We all really enjoyed PE this week, particularly returning to our work with the Leeds Beckett students. Grace and Aleena were awarded with this week’s ‘Wow work’ for their great efforts marking each other during a game of basketball. Both of them were exhausted by the end of the lesson.
Next week, we’ve got World Book Day on Thursday where children are invited to come dressed as a character from a book and to bring in their favourite book from home.
Following the gas leak on Monday…
On Monday morning, we noticed a smell of gas from the cellar in school (this is located below the front building of the school).
We followed advice from Transco which was for all children and staff to leave the site. We did this straight away. We have plans in place for situations like this so we were well-prepared; set out in the plan is for people to walk to Highfield Primary.
In the event, Transco arrived really quickly – as a school, we are a priority – and, following checks, advised us that children could return. Children had only just arrived at Highfield.
Through all of this, staff remained calm and concerned, with children’s safety as a priority. In addition, children were well-behaved, as always – it helps that we carry out regular fire drills so they are well-prepared.
Transco has identified the problem and we are getting it fixed as a matter of priority.
…so there’s no homework this week. Enjoy the break – walks to spot the first signs of Spring, restful reading huddled up at home, or whatever else you get up to!