04 December 2015
For Practice Makes Perfect, we’re returning to Mathletics. All of the children have been assigned three tasks related to time.
- What time will it be?
- Elapsed time.
- Using timetables.
This homework is due on Wednesday 09 December. If there is any reason that this homework cannot be completed at home, please let me know on Monday (before the homework is due).
04 December 2015
This week’s homework is Talk Time and will be discussed on Wednesday 09 December.
To reflect on our topic, ‘Mission to Space’.
As Tim Peake’s launch draws closer, the end of ‘Mission to Space’ does, too. Over dinner, in the car, on your way to and from school, have discussions about the topic.
- Have you enjoyed it? Why?
- What new things have you learnt?
- Is there anything you’d still like to find out?
- What’s been the best thing about it?
- How could it have been improved?
Remember to write yourself some short notes to help with our discussion in class.
27 November 2015
Following our Health themed week, this week, our whole school homework is creative and is due on Wednesday 02 December.
I make healthy choices.
Each class has taken part in a variety of learning this week including a range of visitors to support our teaching of keeping healthy (please see our Class News pages).
Your child could present this creative homework in a variety of different ways:
- a quiz which tests the knowledge of other children
- art work
- poetry
- a poster
- writing: diary, story, letter, instructions, report
- a rap
- a mindmap
- your own creative idea
We look forward to seeing your creative ideas to demonstrate how to keep healthy and this homework will be the focus of our open afternoon, next week.
Homework open afternoon, 2.40pm on Wednesday 02 December – parents/carers of children in Years 1 – 6 are invited into the classroom to help you to be aware of the standards of homework in your child’s class; it will also give you an insight into how we give feedback to your child even if the homework does not appear to be marked.
19 November 2015
Our homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due Wednesday 25 November.
In Maths, we’ve been focussing on methods of addition. Your child will have six calculations to practise these methods. There are two class news posts from earlier this week which will help to explain the methods we’ve been using.
Try going through the calculations with your child:
- challenge them to explain how they reached a certain answer
- get your child to teach you something they’ve learned from their homework
- encourage your child to justify why they reached their answer and not another answer
As always, please ask if you’ve any questions or concerns.
20 November 2015
The homework this week is talk time homework / practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 25 November.
How can you learn which way is left and which is right?
In maths this week, we’ve been learning about ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd…) and the left and right positions. Many children (and adults) struggle with remembering their left and right, but there are lots of ways to remember them if it doesn’t come naturally!
If your child cannot remember their left from right after doing the homework, it is not the end of the world! The homework acts as a chance for them to discuss their learning with you and for you to share any ways of remembering their left from right.
20 November 2015
The homework this week is talk time and is due in on Wednesday 25 November.
What makes a healthy person?
It’s Health Week next week so the homework is a chance for children to talk about and show what they know about being healthy.
Keep checking the Class News page next week to see what the children have been learning.
20 November 2015
This week’s Practice Makes Perfect is due on Wednesday 25 November.
I can use homophones correctly in a sentence.
One of the things we’re finding tricky in Year 5 is to recognise which spelling we need when a word is a homophone.
Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings. Write 10 sentences using homophones. There are lots to practise from our spellings last week but everybody needs to practise ‘there’, ‘their’ and ‘they’re’ as we make mistakes with these a lot.
20 November 2015
This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due on Wednesday 25 November.
Should children play outside or play with technology?
Choose one side of the argument to debate.
Be prepared to have a class debate on this topic. Choose one side of the argument to debate but don’t forget to consider both sides so that you can counter the other team’s points.
Use the sentence openers to organise your ideas and create counter arguments for our debate.
13 November 2015
Practice Makes Perfect is all about multiplication and is due on Wednesday 15 November.
To be able to use column multiplication.
We’ve been sent a very important secret message from the ISS for Tim Peake. It’s our mission to solve this and respond to it. Use your column multiplication skills to decode what they’ve said. There might be some slightly trickier calculations thrown in for you to use what you know in order to crack these too.
13 November 2015
This week’s homework is Talk Time and will be discussed on Wednesday 18 November.
I wonder how astronauts can stay healthy on the ISS?
Tim Peake’s launch is growing ever closer and our learning focus next week is all about being healthy in space. Around the dinner table, in the car, as you walk around the supermarket, discuss how they might stay healthy and don’t forget to write a few sentences so that you remember your ideas for our discussion on Wednesday.
We’re also using Makewaves, a social networking site, to share our work throughout this topic; if you want to upload anything you discuss, log on at home.