Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School
Will be on IXL;
A1- Place value names up to millions
A2- value of a digit
Children are to select their own greek myth (cartoon only). This is to be found on YouTube and they need to find the 4 main points of the story for each page of their book. This can be done as a drawn sketch with annotations or just written out.
This weeks focus has been words with the silent letter b
Our leadership assemblies will take place next week, where our roles of responsibility are announced. For anyone who would like to be a class councilor this year and also be apart of the school council, then you are to prepare a speech to tell your classmates why they should vote for you. One boy and one girl will be selected as our class councilors. You can not apply for class councilor if you have already been one in a previous year.
As it is the first week homework handout of the year, the children are to design the front cover of their homework books. You can choose to back these books as it helps protect the condition of them. This is so we do not get these books mixed with our computing books (same size and colour).
The children are to write 5 curious questions in their homework book that they would like to find out about the Houses of Parliament or anything else to do with London and their task is to find the answer when we go on Tuesday.
The children have been split into 2 groups and they will have to prepare arguments to put forward for their debate. Children are to come up with reasons for their argument and use research to help support their team. The question is ‘Should homework be banned?’ The groups for this are;
Will be on IXL;
H13- Divide 3 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers.
Our music concert is less than two weeks away (10th July) so it is vital that we are all practicing the songs for this. They are all on charanga saved under the file ‘Music Concert 2022-23’
Will be on IXL;
F14- Multiply 2 digit numbers by 3 or 4 digit numbers.
Our music concert is less than two weeks away (10th July) so it is vital that we are all practicing the songs for this. They are all on charanga saved under the file ‘Music Concert 2022-23’
Our music concert is in two weeks time so it is vital that we are all practicing the songs for this. They are all on charanga saved under the file ‘Music Concert 2022-23’
The date for our music concert has been set which is Monday 10th July. All of the songs have been posted on Charanga under ‘Music Concert 2023’. Children are to practice singing these songs and also playing them on the clarinet.
These are the songs that we will be singing for the end of year play in Year 6’s performance of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. The children have all been given a copy of the lyrics for each song as these have been adjusted slightly to fit the theme of our play.
DISCLAIMER- The songs that we are singing will be slightly slower than the original versions of these songs so I would recommend slowing the audio down on the video.
Money, Money, Money
Flash Bang Wallop What a Picture
Mrs Mather has set you a task to prepare for the next lesson. This needs to be brought in on Tuesday 20th June.
Mama Mia, Spaghetti Bolognaise!
Design and Technology Task.
Dear children,
In readiness for next weeks lesson, I would like you to collect Nutritional
Value labels from Spaghetti Bolognaise jars, packs and ready meals.
You can either:
Have a look in your cupboards, fridges and freezers.
OR
You can search on line for examples.
Please bring these with you on Tuesday, as we will be using them in the
lesson.
Please feel free to email any photos to me on
s.mather@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk
It will be wonderful to see how many examples we can collect!
Have fun with it
Mrs Mather
Will be on IXL;
Z14- Write fractions in lowest term (simplifying fractions)
To research the capital cities of the 23 countries of North America. These are to be included in the style of a poster, similar to last weeks geography homework.
Children to focus on getting through their book and ready to quiz on Monday when they’re back in school.
We are beginning our next geography topic next week, all about North America. Children are to create a research poster about North America with them putting their own design on their poster. This is for the children to build up some prior knowledge before coming into the lesson. Things to include in their poster;
Countries within North America
Location in the world e.g. hemispheres, oceans etc
Climate and weather
Will be on IXL. As the children have had a full week of area and scaling. It is important to keep topping up with their fractions understanding as we pick this up again next week.
AA13- Add three or more fractions with the same denominator.
AA14- Add three or more fractions with the same denominator: word problems.
Will be on IXL;
Y1- Identify homophones with pictures.
FF9- Identify relative pronouns.
We have now finished our Read Write Inc spellings (orange spelling books) and are now focusing on the statutory spelling list for Year 5. Most of these spellings have been covered in the Read Write Inc books so the main focus will be retrieving tricky spelling words.
accommodate
accompany
according
achieve
aggressive
amateur
ancient
apparent
appreciate
attached
available
average
country
don’t
earth
group
hard
important
Will be on IXL;
Z10- Select fractions equivalent to whole numbers using models.
Z18- Compare fractions with different denominators using models.
Will be on IXL;
X3- Find synonyms in context.
To practice ‘The Eye of the Tiger’ on charanga, focusing on the clarinet section.
This week, we have been focusing on our tricky words again and looking at ways of how to spell tricky words that may not be as common in our writing. The first 4 words are new words we have done with the rest being other tricky words that we have covered this year.
Will be on IXL;
Z1- Fractions review
Z17- Compare fractions with the same numerator or denominator
In order to be prepared for next weeks lesson, Mrs Mather would like you to bring a paragraph of your favourite text to the lesson.
This may be;
A poem
An extract paragraph from your favourite book
A handful of sentences that describe you, your character/personality
A list of your favourite things
Your favourite prayer
The sheet used for this writing has been stuck in their homework folders.
There will be no formal homework over half term but it is important for the children to keep practicing their TT rockstars to keep up with their multiplication skills. Mr Cornwell is getting tired of all the children beating him on TTRS so he will also be practicing over the half term.
All the children have their end of year reading targets in their homework books so it is important for the children to continue with their reading over the half term and to try and reach their target.
Rehearsing assembly scripts- PRIORITY
Due to our visit of OFSTED this week, this meant that we lost 2 valuable assembly practice slots in the hall. Therefore, the main focus for homework this week is to practice our lines for the assembly. All children have been given a full copy of the entire script.
Egg Decorating Competition- Deadline Wednesday 5th April
A whole school competition to decorate a boiled egg in whatever fashion of your choosing. It will cost £1 to enter the competition, with the funds going to charity. There will be prizes for the best egg.
Spellings
Our focus this week were words ending in -cial or -tial but they sound like shul. All of these words are words containing this pattern.
We were focusing on tricky words again this week. This time with a focus on words including letters that are not silent but are quiet, meaning you can’t hear them but they can often be misspelt. The first 6 words are our new words for the week, with the other 6 words being other tricky words that we have done previously.
laughed
morning
mother
narrator
night
only
Maths
Will be on IXL;
F9- Multiply 2 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers.
Assembly practice
All children have been given their roles for the assembly so the priority is for children to rehearse their lines and to make a note of when they are speaking.
Our spelling focus this week has been words ending in -tious. The first 7 spellings are words we have learned this week and the other 5 are tricky words that we have previously done this year.
A weekly SPAG sheet which has already been stuck in the children’s books.
Will be on IXL. The children have finished angles with Mrs Hotchkiss and have moved onto their new topic of negative numbers. Children are to complete these angle tasks as a part of their retrieval.
V6- Measure angles with a protractor
V7- Draw angles with protractor.
Reminder for children to finish their solar system fact fans. Details about this are on last weeks blog. Please take a picture of your child with their completed fact fans and then email this picture to me or print it out and bring it into school. This picture can then be put into their science books as evidence.
To keep practising our song ‘Lean on Me’ on your clarinets which is available on Charanga.
Spelling
This weeks spellings are our orange words(tricky words). The first 5 words are new tricky words that we have learned this week. The following 7 words are previous tricky words we have done before.
Weekly SPAG sheet which has been stuck in their books.
Will be on IXL. Children are instructed to use the short multiplication method, rather than the long method. Here is a picture of both methods side by side, to see how they are presented differently. Children can also use the long method to double check if they have the right answers.
E10- Multiply 1 digit numbers by 2 digit or 3 digit numbers.
Here is a picture of how we have been modelling to the children of the different between the long and short method of muliplication.
Science
To finish their solar system fact files. The children have been working these for 2 weeks so they all know exactly what they are doing. The steps for completing the fact file are;
All information/research to be filled in.
Colour all of the planets.
Carefully cut out each planet, including its information box.
Cut out the small circle at the bottom of each of the boxes.
Place your split pin through all of your planet sheets to create a fan (cover sheet ‘The Planets, the Sun and the Moon’ should be at the front).
Take a picture of your child holding their fact fan, which is to be stuck into their book.
Children will have 2 weeks to complete this, so it will be due on Thursday 23rd March. Here is what a finished fact fan would look like.
Here is a picture of what a finished fact fan will look like.
To keep practicing our new song ‘Lean on me’ on the clarinets. This is available on Charanga. The children have been doing really well with this so it is important that we keep practising these skills.
This weeks focus are words with endings that sound like shus but are spelt -cious. The final two spellings are tricky words that we have covered previously.
Weekly SPAG sheet which has been stuck in their books.
Mrs Maddocks has asked the class to practice our new song ‘Lean on me’ on the clarinets. This is available on Charanga.
As we have started a new half term, the children’s reading targets have been reset so children can start earning points towards their new targets now and shoot up our solar system.
This week, we have been looking at words containing double letters. The first 6 words are the new words we have looked at this week. The last 6 words are other double letter words that we have covered this year.
Their weekly sheet has been stuck in their homework books for them to complete.
To the amazement of the Year 5 staff, majority of the children were unaware of the show ‘Countdown’, in which we have played this week to activate the children’s quick thinking skills . The game also gave us a chance to expand their vocabulary. Your task is to watch one episode of Countdown and play. This could be an opportunity for parents to play alongside the children. The children can write down their games in their homework book and we can share our answers next week.
This week we have been focusing on words ending in -ant,-ance and -ancy.
Mrs Mather’s group
All children have been given reading targets for half term (a post it note in their reading book) for them to challenge themselves with lots of reading over half term.
Will be on IXL (make sure you are doing lots of jotting to help work out the answer)
H13- Dividing 3 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers
H24- division word problems- estimating the qoutient(answer)
A weekly SPAG worksheet which has been stuck in their homework books.
This week, we have looked at the life cycle of a star and the children have recreated their own life cycle posters from our textbook ‘The Universe’. This life cycle focused on the birth of a star. Your task is to create another life cycle of a star: How a star dies. This can be either created as a poster( one side of A4) and then stuck into your homework books or it can be created as a poster on purple mash. The information sheet has already been stuck in the children’s homework books. Here is some examples of life cycle diagrams for the children to use for their layout.
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