Year 5 Homework due on Thursday 28th November

Essential Homework

  • Reading- 20 to 30 minutes a day at home.

  • Times Tables- 5 minutes per day.

  • Spellings- to complete the sheets in their books and 2 trail spelling tests

  1. money

  2. change

  3. buy

  4. learn

  5. promise

  6. group

  7. reign

  8. manor

  9. hymn

  10. choose

  11. aggressive

  12. competition

  13. identity

  14. profession

  15. soldier

Mrs Barker’s group

  1. cause

  2. coin

  3. raffle

  4. money

  5. change

  6. buy

  7. learn

  8. promise

  9. group

  10. choose

Christmas Concert Practice

We have been practicing for our KS2 Christmas Concert, which will take place on Monday 16th December.

We have practiced the next three songs in our booklet;

Below are also the lyrics of ‘The Prayer’ as they are wrong in the booklet.

Geography

To complete their Biomes Research Project which is stuck in their books.

The children have been given 3 different biomes and will have to collect research for each of the four categories.

The children have made notes to help them with their research.

Year 5 Homework due Thursday 21st November

Essential Homework

  • Reading- 20 to 30 minutes a day at home.

  • Times Tables- 5 minutes per day.

  • Spellings- to complete the sheets in their books and 2 trail spelling tests

  1. pound

  2. coin

  3. note

  4. eight

  5. arrive

  6. quarter

  7. flour

  8. groan

  9. write

  10. aisle

  11. criticise

  12. interfere

  13. community

  14. opportunity

  15. symbol

Mrs Barker’s group

  1. phone

  2. toy

  3. toes

  4. pound

  5. coin

  6. note

  7. eight

  8. arrive

  9. quarter

  10. write

Christmas Concert Practice

We have just began practicing for our KS2 Christmas Concert, which will take place on Monday 16th December.

We have practiced the first three songs in our booklet;

  • The Gift

  • Hark! the herald angles sing

  • Silent Holy Night

Each child has been given a booklet with the song lyrics on but they are also available here if needed.

Book Work

  • Maths- How many coins make…

    Work out the equivalences of the coins e.g. 10 x 10p = £1

  • Geography- Capital cities

  • Grammar- Using commas for relative clauses (embedded)

Year 5 Homework due Thursday 14th November

Essential Homework

  • Reading- 20 to 30 minutes a day at home.

  • Times Tables- 5 minutes per day.

  • Spellings- to complete the sheets in their books and 2 trail spelling tests on the spelling sheets in their books.

  1. when

  2. where

  3. went

  4. believe

  5. height

  6. difficult

  7. there

  8. their

  9. they’re

  10. flew

  11. accommodate

  12. controversy

  13. embarrass

  14. forty

  15. marvellous

Mrs Barker’s group

  1. fair

  2. night

  3. boat

  4. when

  5. where

  6. went

  7. believe

  8. height

  9. difficult

  10. there

Book Work

  • Maths- identifying hundredths

  • Geography- Flag Quiz and locating countries of Europe.

  • Grammar- Homophones (there, their, they’re).

Year 5 Homework due Thursday 7th November

Reading

New half term which means reading targets have reset- can you reach yours before we break up for Christmas?

Times Tables

Keep up to date and super speedy with your times tables- lots of TTRS!

Spellings

  1. favourite

  2. library

  3. surprise

  4. chosen

  5. given

  6. February

  7. guide

  8. stomach

  9. bruise

  10. muscle

  11. awkward

  12. privilege

  13. neighbour

  14. immediately

  15. determined

    Mrs Barker’s group

    1. never

    2. motor

    3. have

    4. our

    5. little

    6. favourite

    7. library

    8. surprise

    9. chosen

    10. given

Assembly practice

It is vital that we use this weekend to practice all of our lines and the lyrics to our song.

Children doing bidding prayers (Lorenzo, Gus, Grace and Isioma) you do not have to memorise these- they will be given to you on a sheet.

Song- Lean on Me by Bill Withers.

This will be played on playback speed of 1.25

This will be up to 3 minutes of the song.


Year 5 Homework due Thursday 17th October

Compulsory Homework

Reading

Lots of children are close to their reading target for the half term, just two weeks left so lots of extra reading at home.

Times Tables

Lots of TTRS to make sure we are super sharp and speedy on our times tables- these will come in handy this year. The children’s TTRS logins have been stuck on the inside of their homework books.

Spellings

Our spellings have changed slightly in that we are aiming to achieve more retrieval across our spellings. The children have been given a spellings practice sheet, which is to be completed as evidence of practice. Each child has also been given two spelling test sheets to practice over the week in order to identify which words require more focus.

  1. where

  2. room

  3. food

  4. minute

  5. special

  6. popular

  7. chatting

  8. knitted

  9. shredding

  10. grabbed

  11. rhyme

  12. signature

  13. mischievous

  14. appreciate

  15. environment

    Mrs Barker’s group

    1. key

    2. saw

    3. bird

    4. where

    5. room

    6. food

    7. minute

    8. special

    9. popular

    10. skipping

Optional Homework

Music- The Blues

Ask your parents if they are interested in any blues songs?

Play with ‘Expressions Test’ with them and see how similar/different your thoughts are with your family (starter activity in lessons)

Listen to some of the biggest/best blues songs to be made– can you choose a favourite and tell me why.

 History- Ancient Greeks

There are so many Ancient Greek Gods/Goddesses. All with amazing abilities and qualities.

Create a set of Top Trumps Cards– Ancient Gods Edition.

Choose your own stats and battle against your friends.

Science- Materials

Pick a material in your house and analyse its properties (ticks and crosses)

 examples of properties:

-Hard or Soft?

-Rough or Smooth?

- Transparent, Translucent or Opaque?

-Flammable

-Magnetic

 My Happy Mind

Do your parents know about the different parts of the brain (HAP)? Can you teach them this so they can learn something new?

Happy Breathing is a technique used to calm us down when were stressed or scared. Teach your family how to do this and write down when you have used this technique

Year 5 Homework due Thursday 10th October

Compulsory Homework

Reading

Lots of children are close to their reading target for the half term, just two weeks left so lots of extra reading at home.

Times Tables

Lots of TTRS to make sure we are super sharp and speedy on our times tables- these will come in handy this year. The children’s TTRS logins have been stuck on the inside of their homework books.

Spellings

Our spellings have changed slightly in that we are aiming to achieve more retrieval across our spellings. The children have been given a spellings practice sheet, which is to be completed as evidence of practice. Each child has also been given two spelling test sheets to practice over the week in order to identify which words require more focus.

  1. some

  2. come

  3. their

  4. bicycle

  5. medicine

  6. question

  7. potatoes

  8. heroes

  9. geese

  10. people

  11. amateur

  12. communicate

  13. familiar

  14. physical

  15. twelfth

    Mrs Barker’s group

    1. show

    2. there

    3. chew

    4. some

    5. come

    6. their

    7. bicycle

    8. medicine

    9. question

    10. potatoes

Optional Homework

Music- The Blues

Ask your parents if they are interested in any blues songs?

Play with ‘Expressions Test’ with them and see how similar/different your thoughts are with your family (starter activity in lessons)

Listen to some of the biggest/best blues songs to be made– can you choose a favourite and tell me why.

 History- Ancient Greeks

There are so many Ancient Greek Gods/Goddesses. All with amazing abilities and qualities.

Create a set of Top Trumps Cards– Ancient Gods Edition.

Choose your own stats and battle against your friends.

Science- Materials

Pick a material in your house and analyse its properties (ticks and crosses)

 examples of properties:

-Hard or Soft?

-Rough or Smooth?

- Transparent, Translucent or Opaque?

-Flammable

-Magnetic

 My Happy Mind

Do your parents know about the different parts of the brain (HAP)? Can you teach them this so they can learn something new?

Happy Breathing is a technique used to calm us down when were stressed or scared. Teach your family how to do this and write down when you have used this technique

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 3rd October

Compulsory Homework

Reading

Just 4 weeks into school and we are over 1,000,000 words! With many children still needing to quiz- we can definitely hit our target.

Times Tables

Lots of TTRS to make sure we are super sharp and speedy on our times tables- these will come in handy this year. The children’s TTRS logins have been stuck on the inside of their homework books.

Spellings

Our spellings have changed slightly in that we are aiming to achieve more retrieval across our spellings. The children have been given a spellings practice sheet, which is to be completed as evidence of practice. Each child has also been given two spelling test sheets to practice over the week in order to identify which words require more focus.

  1. took

  2. goes

  3. can’t

  4. accident

  5. island

  6. probably

  7. berries

  8. leaves

  9. babies

  10. elves

  11. correspond

  12. individual

  13. sacrifice

  14. variety

  15. bargain


    Mrs Barker’s group

    1. slow

    2. look

    3. shout

    4. goes

    5. took

    6. can’t

    7. accident

    8. island

    9. probably

    10. babies

Optional Homework

Music- The Blues

Ask your parents if they are interested in any blues songs?

Play with ‘Expressions Test’ with them and see how similar/different your thoughts are with your family (starter activity in lessons)

Listen to some of the biggest/best blues songs to be made– can you choose a favourite and tell me why.

 History- Ancient Greeks

There are so many Ancient Greek Gods/Goddesses. All with amazing abilities and qualities.

Create a set of Top Trumps Cards– Ancient Gods Edition.

Choose your own stats and battle against your friends.

Science- Materials

Pick a material in your house and analyse its properties (ticks and crosses)

 examples of properties:

-Hard or Soft?

-Rough or Smooth?

- Transparent, Translucent or Opaque?

-Flammable

-Magnetic

 My Happy Mind

Do your parents know about the different parts of the brain (HAP)? Can you teach them this so they can learn something new?

Happy Breathing is a technique used to calm us down when were stressed or scared. Teach your family how to do this and write down when you have used this technique

Year 5 Homework- Due 26th September

Compulsory Homework

Reading

A fantastic week of reading with the class reading over 600,000 just this week, taking our total to just under a million. With many children still needing to quiz- we can definitely hit our target.

Times Tables

Lots of TTRS to make sure we are super sharp and speedy on our times tables- these will come in handy this year. The children’s TTRS logins have been stuck on the inside of their homework books.

Spellings

Our spellings have changed slightly in that we are aiming to achieve more retrieval across our spellings. The children have been given a spellings practice sheet, which is to be completed as evidence of practice. Each child has also been given two spelling test sheets to practice over the week in order to identify which words require more focus.

  1. one

  2. look

  3. build

  4. earth

  5. circle

  6. witches

  7. foxes

  8. bushes

  9. passes

  10. buzzes

  11. achieve

  12. category

  13. dictionary

  14. excellent

  15. nuisance


    Mrs Barker’s group

    1. play

    2. seek

    3. high

    4. all

    5. look

    6. one

    7. build

    8. earth

    9. circle

    10. witches


Optional Homework

Music- The Blues

Ask your parents if they are interested in any blues songs?

Play with ‘Expressions Test’ with them and see how similar/different your thoughts are with your family (starter activity in lessons)

Listen to some of the biggest/best blues songs to be made– can you choose a favourite and tell me why.

 History- Ancient Greeks

There are so many Ancient Greek Gods/Goddesses. All with amazing abilities and qualities.

Create a set of Top Trumps Cards– Ancient Gods Edition.

Choose your own stats and battle against your friends.

Science- Materials

Pick a material in your house and analyse its properties (ticks and crosses)

 examples of properties:

-Hard or Soft?

-Rough or Smooth?

- Transparent, Translucent or Opaque?

-Flammable

-Magnetic

 My Happy Mind

Do your parents know about the different parts of the brain (HAP)? Can you teach them this so they can learn something new?

Happy Breathing is a technique used to calm us down when were stressed or scared. Teach your family how to do this and write down when you have used this technique

 


 





Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 19th September

Compulsory Homework

Reading

Nearly half of the class have now quizzed on a book and have begun their journey to their own personal reading targets. Lots of reading to be done this year as we begin on our journey to our end of year target- can you remember what it is?

Times Tables

Lots of TTRS to make sure we are super sharp and speedy on our times tables- these will come in handy this year. The children’s TTRS logins have been stuck on the inside of their homework books.

Spellings

Our focus this week has been words containing the letter string ‘ough’. Lots of these words sound differently to each other so make sure you practice over the weekend so you feel confident next week.

  1. fought

  2. nought

  3. ought

  4. bought

  5. cough

  6. trough

  7. tough

  8. rough

  9. enough

  10. thorough

  11. dough

  12. drought

    Mrs Barker’s group

    1. there

    2. could

    3. house

    4. children

    5. looked

    6. little

    7. she

    8. that

    9. now

    10. her

Optional Homework

History

We have started learning about the Ancient Greeks. One of the most interesting topics that the children love about the Greeks are the vast amount of Gods that they had.

  • Research some of the different Gods of Ancient Greece and compare them to each other.

  • Choose your favourite Ancient Greek God and tell me why.

  • Ask your parents if they know any of the Ancient Greek Gods- do they have a favourite.

Year 5 Homework- Due on Thursday 12th September

Compulsory Homework

Reading

The children have completed their first STAR reader assessment of the year (I have been so impressed with the results!) and they all now have their ZPD scores. Lots of reading to be done this year as we begin on our journey to our end of year target- can you remember what it is?

Times Tables

Lots of TTRS to make sure we are super sharp and speedy on our times tables- these will come in handy this year. The children’s TTRS logins have been stuck on the inside of their homework books.

Spellings

Our focus this week has been words containing the silent letter b. Lots of these words sound differently to each other so make sure you practice over the weekend so you feel confident next week.

  1. thumb

  2. numb

  3. crumb

  4. debt

  5. doubt

  6. limb

  7. climb

  8. tomb

  9. comb

  10. subtle

  11. lamb

  12. plumber

Optional Homework

History

We have started learning about the Ancient Greeks. One of the most interesting topics that the children love about the Greeks are the vast amount of Gods that they had.

  • Research some of the different Gods of Ancient Greece and compare them to each other.

  • Choose your favourite Ancient Greek God and tell me why.

  • Ask your parents if they know any of the Ancient Greek Gods- do they have a favourite.

Class Councilor

If you would like to be a class councilor and you haven’t already been one (excluding the COVID years) then feel free to prepare a speech to tell your class the following:

  • Why do you want to be a councilor?

  • Why should people vote for you?

  • What changes are you going to bring about?

  • What should a good class councilor do/don’t when in the job?

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 18th July

Compulsory Homework

Spellings

  1. competition

  2. criticise

  3. disastrous

  4. embarrassment

  5. environment

  6. government

  7. hinderance

  8. independence

  9. immediately

  10. sufficient

English

Every child has the second half of their grammar and punctuation booklet in their homework folders to complete (questions 24-50).

Maths

Congratulations if you have ‘Gone Green’ on TTRS. Many of you are so close to getting green so keep practicing. If you are already green, focus on getting your time down to under one second- you know what the score to beat is! Check the new TTRS scoreboard just outside the create room.

Reading

Final reading target of the year! Let’s go out with a bang and reach our target to top off an excellent year of reading.

Year 5 Weekly Homework- Due on Thursday 11th July

Compulsory Homework

Spellings

  1. conscience

  2. conscious

  3. community

  4. environment

  5. especially

  6. foreign

  7. frequently

  8. guarantee

  9. immediately

  10. nuisance

English

Every child has a grammar and punctuation booklet in their homework folders to complete

Maths

Congratulations if you have ‘Gone Green’ on TTRS. Many of you are so close to getting green so keep practicing. If you are already green, focus on getting your time down to under one second- you know what the score to beat is! Check the new TTRS scoreboard just outside the create room.

Reading

Final reading target of the year! Let’s go out with a bang and reach our target to top off an excellent year of reading. The children will receive their new ZPD codes on Monday to help them pick books when in the library.

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 4th July

Compulsory Homework

Spellings

  1. temperature

  2. thorough

  3. twelfth

  4. variety

  5. vegetable

  6. vehicle

  7. yacht

  8. yoghurt

  9. independence

  10. determined

  11. soldier

  12. restaurant

English

The children’s weekly punctuation and grammar sheet has gone home with them and should be stuck in their homework books.

Maths

All children who have not ‘Gone Green’ yet, last few weeks of practice before the end of school. It is crucial that we ae going into Year 6 in September full of confidence with our times tables.

Reading

Have a check of how many words you have read this year? Are you happy with this? Can you set yourself one final target for the end of the year?

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 20th June

Compulsory Homework

Spellings

  1. sacrifice

  2. secretary

  3. shoulder

  4. signature

  5. sincere

  6. sincerely

  7. solider

  8. stomach

  9. sufficient

  10. suggest

  11. symbol

  12. system

Maths

Congratulations if you have ‘Gone Green’ on TTRS. Many of you are so close to getting green so keep practicing. If you are already green, focus on getting your time down to under one second- you know what the score to beat is! Check the new TTRS scoreboard just outside the create room.

Reading

Final reading target of the year! Let’s go out with a bang and reach our target to top off an excellent year of reading. The children will receive their new ZPD codes on Monday to help them pick books when in the library.

Year 5 Half Term Homework

Last chance to complete any of Summer 1’s optional homework. This can be documented/evidenced in a separate homework book marked ‘Learning Journal’. Please check last weeks blog to find these options.


Compulsory Homework

Spellings

  1. privilege

  2. profession

  3. programme

  4. pronunciation

  5. punctuation

  6. queue

  7. recognise

  8. recommend

  9. relevant

  10. restaurant

  11. rhyme

  12. rhythm

SPAG

The weekly SPAG sheet consisting of 10 questions has been stuck into the children’s homework books ready to complete.

Maths

Congratulations if you have ‘Gone Green’ on TTRS. Many of you are so close to getting green so keep practicing. If you are already green, focus on getting your time down to under one second- you know what the score to beat is! Check the new TTRS scoreboard just outside the create room.

Fractions will be our new unit of work after half term with lots to learn.

Z1- Fractions review

We have been doing lots of retrieval on percentages of amounts. Have a go at this IXL to keep our knowledge sharp. Remember these key rules:

10% (divide by 10)

1% (divide by 100)

50% = half

25% = quarter

HH9- Percent of a number

Reading

We have reached our class target of over 10,000,000 words for the year! Now it is time to focus on your own personal reading targets with only one half term to go!

Year 5 Homework 17.05.24

Homework will look slightly differently from now on, with us offering optional homework across the half term aimed at accessing the wider curriculum, engaging in fun and active tasks and to share your learning with your parents. Compulsory homework will still be live which will consist of:

  • Spellings

  • SPAG

  • Reading

  • Times Tables

The optional homework will have no deadline with this being optional but this can be documented/evidenced in a separate homework book marked ‘Learning Journal’.

Compulsory Homework

Spellings

  1. mischievous

  2. muscle

  3. necessary

  4. neighbour

  5. nuisance

  6. occupy

  7. occur

  8. opportunity

  9. parliament

  10. persuade

  11. physical

  12. prejudice

SPAG

The weekly SPAG sheet consisting of 10 questions has been stuck into the children’s homework books ready to complete.

Times Tables

Congratulations if you have ‘Gone Green’ on TTRS. Many of you are so close to getting green so keep practicing. If you are already green, focus on getting your time down to under one second- you know what the score to beat is! Check the new TTRS scoreboard just outside the create room.

Reading

We have really upped our reading this half term, with some children in the millionaire club, some doubling their word count for the year and lots of others making really good progress.

Year 5 Homework 10.05.24

Homework will look slightly differently from now on, with us offering optional homework across the half term aimed at accessing the wider curriculum, engaging in fun and active tasks and to share your learning with your parents. Compulsory homework will still be live which will consist of:

  • Spellings

  • SPAG

  • Reading

  • Times Tables

The optional homework will have no deadline with this being optional but this can be documented/evidenced in a separate homework book marked ‘Learning Journal’.

Compulsory Homework

Spellings

  1. harass

  2. hinderance

  3. identity

  4. immediate

  5. immediately

  6. individual

  7. interfere

  8. interrupt

  9. language

  10. leisure

  11. lightning

  12. marvellous

SPAG

The weekly SPAG sheet consisting of 10 questions has been stuck into the children’s homework books ready to complete.

Times Tables

Congratulations if you have ‘Gone Green’ on TTRS. Many of you are so close to getting green so keep practicing. If you are already green, focus on getting your time down to under one second- you know what the score to beat is! Check the new TTRS scoreboard just outside the create room.

Reading

We have really upped our reading this half term, with some children in the millionaire club, some doubling their word count for the year and lots of others making really good progress.

Year 5 Homework 03.05.24

Homework will look slightly differently from now on, with us offering optional homework across the half term aimed at accessing the wider curriculum, engaging in fun and active tasks and to share your learning with your parents. Compulsory homework will still be live which will consist of:

  • Spellings

  • SPAG

  • Reading

  • Times Tables

The optional homework will have no deadline with this being optional but this can be documented/evidenced in a separate homework book marked ‘Learning Journal’.

Compulsory Homework

Spellings

  1. equipment

  2. especially

  3. exaggerate

  4. excellent

  5. existence

  6. explanation

  7. familiar

  8. foreign

  9. forty

  10. frequently

  11. government

  12. guarantee

SPAG

The weekly SPAG sheet consisting of 10 questions has been stuck into the children’s homework books ready to complete.

Times Tables

Congratulations if you have ‘Gone Green’ on TTRS. Many of you are so close to getting green so keep practicing. If you are already green, focus on getting your time down to under one second- you know what the score to beat is! Check the new TTRS scoreboard just outside the create room.

Reading

We have really upped our reading this half term, with some children in the millionaire club, some doubling their word count for the year and lots of others making really good progress.

Year 5 Homework due Thursday 18th April

Spellings

  1. accommodate

  2. accompany

  3. according

  4. achieve

  5. aggressive

  6. amateur

  7. ancient

  8. apparent

  9. appreciate

  10. attached

  11. available

  12. average

SPAG

The children have been given a set of grammar and punctuation questions which have been stuck in their books.

Science- Materials

Pick an object/material in your house and analyse its properties by using the table to help you.