24 March 2016
Here are the spellings for this week:
24 March 2016
In addition to their Creative homework, some children also have some extra Practice Makes Perfect homework this week.
I can revise translation, reflection and using coordinates.
Children are expected to complete pages 82-85 of their maths revision books and evidence this in their homework books. They could make notes, show examples of completed questions or explain what they have learnt. Then, children should answer practice questions 9, 10 and 11 (these questions can be found on page 87. As always, we have discussed this in class so children should know what to do.
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Nude selfies: understanding why
A film explaining what they are, and what parents should know about them.Setting safety and privacy settings for social media apps
If you want to set parental controls on apps such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, here’s how to do it.Self-harm: what parents should know
Why do young people self-harm and what can you do to help them? Expert advice from SelfharmUK.Teens on Tinder
Shockingly, 13-year-olds can legally use Tinder. Here’s what parents need to know about the popular dating app…In case you missed it: Don’t pay the price for your child’s online fun
Parents sometimes end up paying unexpectedly large phone bills and don’t know why. PhonepayPlus, the premium rate services regulator, explains what to look out for when giving your child a mobile device…
After school snack
Our savoury scones, using cheese, sweetcorn, carrot and courgette, went down a treat as an after school snack today.
Ask your child:
- How do we get ready to cook?
- What equipment did we use?
- What were the ingredients?
Here are some of the skills we used – can they remember any others?
24 March 2016
This week’s spellings will test how well children are retaining information they are learning by focussing on spellings covered across the year so far.
There have been many different spelling rules and patterns explored up to this point in the year. Next week’s test will be from the spelling lists learnt in the first half term (07.09.15 – 23.10.16). Children should look over these lists and note the patterns we learnt about, picking out words they think they found most tricky at the time.
Ten spellings from this list will be tested as children are not expected to learn spelling simply for a test but for long term use of these words.
24 March 2016
This week’s Talk Time homework is due on Tuesday 29 March.
To be able to tell my Fighting Fantasy story confidently.
After lots of work in class on writing narratives, Y5 will be writing their own short story on Tuesday next week. In order to be confident with our stories and to enable us to write a well-thought-through tale, the children have brought their story plans home.
Ask them what the story is about. Question any gaps you think there might in their tale and look out for ideas that are too complicated and might sound muddled. Can they tell you their story orally, remembering key events and some details?
As always, the children are asked to write notes demonstrating what has been discussed. These notes could point out main story events, effective adjectives, verbs or phrases that they’ve used at home and don’t want to forget, or they could detail feedback they’ve had on their story from people at home.
We’ll write our stories on Tuesday so this homework is due on Tuesday 29 March, one day earlier than is usually the case.
24 March 2016
This week’s Practice Makes Perfect homework is due on Wednesday 30 March.
To be able to solve maths problems.
The children have got a selection of Maths problems to read, understand and solve in a given context. They need to think about what question they are actually answering and, sometimes, interpret correctly what remainders mean when dividing. This is work that has recently been learnt in class so they should be able to work independently.
Any working out can be completed in homework books and, for each question, a full sentence should be written to communicate their answer.
If you’re wanting to support your child in their work, check out our calculations videos to see how we do our working out in class.
Football training
Thank you to all the children who attended football training tonight. Everyone was focused, positive and tried hard – well done!
Also, a big thank you to the parents who were able to help with walking and being an extra adult.
The children were glad to hear that we have some matches lined up too. Look out for a letter with more details.
Here are some action shots:
Yoga
We enjoyed a yoga session today. It linked well to the Life Big Topic as the children used different animals to inspire their movements and poses.
Science
Here are some pictures of what we investigated today. Can your child give these pictures a caption to describe what they learnt?
