Spelling

15 September 2017

We continue to recap the different vowel sounds and their alternative spellings. This time, it’s the ee sound which be made in different ways: tree, meat, happy, Pete, me.

08 September 2017

This week, children have been given a list of words to learn in preparation for a test on Friday 15 September. Children should evidence some of their practice in their homework books.

08 September 2017

For the next few weeks we’ll be spending time recapping the different vowel sounds and their alternative sounds. This week we’re focussing on the ai sound which can be made in different ways: play, rain, grey, plate, eight.

08 September 2017

This week, you have a spelling activity which is due back on Thursday 14 September.

There will be no test on Friday 15 September. Instead, we’ll review what you’ve found out from this activity. It focuses on words ending in …ible and …able and being able to recognise which one to use.

Find out words with …ible and …able endings and create the word family for them.

adorable: adorably – adoration – adore – adored – adoring

14 July 2017

The spellings this week all contain double up for short vowel sounds.The words also have a range of the different suffixes we’ve learned in class across the year.

14 July 2017

This week, as it’s the final week of the year, children have been given one piece of homework to do. This is due on Thursday 20 July.

The homework is Creative: I can reflect on my time in Year 5 and look ahead to next year. 

We have discussed lots of ways that children could respond to this:

• you could write a letter to Mr Catherall and Miss Rushbrooke
• you could make a poster about the different topics we’ve covered this year
• you could make a Year 5 themed board game
• you could create a timeline of the year
• you could do a video diary of the year
• you could make a Year 5 themed comic
• you could write a newspaper report about Year 5
• you could create a collage of your favourite pieces of homework
• you could create poster of highlights
• you could create a vlog about a typical day in Year 5
• you could make a movie trailer of the year we’ve had
• you could use Scratch to reflect on the year

Obviously, there are many more ways, too.

07 July 2017

Top Tips Poster

This week, children should create a poster explaining the best ways they have learnt their spellings whilst in Year 5. These posters may then be displayed so that the next class of Year 5’s can ‘magpie’ some top tips.

07 July 2017

This week, the words have either an il, el or al ending.
The el ending sounds the same as the le ending (which we’ve previously practised) but is less common.

07 July 2017

This week’s spellings are common errors that the children are making in their writing and errors they made in a recent spelling test. Learn them in preparation for a test on Friday 14 July. 

07 July 2017

Next Friday, 14 June, we will have our final spelling test of the year. Words will be chosen at random from the statutory word list for Year 4.

Each child has been given another copy of this word list to use for practice. All the words have been covered throughout the year. Test your child by picking words at random, asking them to spell them and highlight any they are struggling with for more practice.

The children will be tested on 25 of these words.

Good learning!