Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 1st February

Spelling

This weeks focus are words ending in -ant, -ance and -ancy.

  1. distance

  2. defiant

  3. hesitancy

  4. assistant

  5. elegance

  6. vacancy

  7. tolerant

  8. relevance

  9. pregnancy

  10. observant

  11. buoyancy

  12. instant

English

We have been creating lots of desciption in our sci-fi writing by using various techniques such as;

  • Extended noun phrases

  • Modifying verbs and nouns

  • Personification (imagery)

  • Similes

The children are to complete a set of extended noun phrases by using the pictures to help them.

Science- daily interaction for the whole of February

Now the children have learnt the 8 phases of the moon, there homework will be to check each night which phase is currently in motion. This homework will begin on Thursday 1st February and the children will track this in their calendar. If you are going abroad somewhere in the southern hemisphere during half term, then make a note of this on your calendar and what the phase is in that country.

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 25th January

Reading

All children have been given a post it note which should be inside their reading book. This is a target that they have set for themselves in the time to complete the book. Big house points up for grabs for each target complete.

Spellings

This week we have looked at homophones again but have focused on ‘near-homophones’ which are words with the same sound and very similar spelling. The first 8 spellings focus on this theme. I have attached some of the techniques that we used to help differentiate these words. It would be great if the children could practise writing these words in sentences. The next four spellings are other homophones that we have covered this year.

  1. affect

  2. except

  3. practice

  4. advise

  5. effect

  6. accept

  7. advice

  8. practise

  9. aloud

  10. passsed

  11. guest

  12. stationery

    • affect effect accept except- The words that begin with an a are verbs

    • advise practise advice practice

      words ending in se are verbs. Words ending in ce are nouns.

Maths

Will be on IXL. We have began to focus on multiples in relation to factors.

  • D9- Choose a multiples of a given number up to 12.

  • K10- Square numbers.

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 18th January

Spellings

The focus this week has been spellings with the ee sound which is spelt ei. The first 9 spellings focus on this with the final 3 being previous tricky words that we have covered.

  1. receive

  2. deceive

  3. ceiling

  4. receipt

  5. conceit

  6. seize

  7. protein

  8. caffeine

  9. conceive

  10. determined

  11. familiar

  12. persuade

Maths

Will be on IXL to practice our factors work. Children are to jot down their ‘factor bugs’ to help present their work and any further jotting such as their times tables are advised.

  • K3- Identify factors

English

In English, we have been reading/analysing a sci-fi story to look of how we can improve the chosen word classes (noun, adjective, verb and adverbs). Our focus has also been to choose the appropriate word to fit the context.

  • S2- Using stronger verbs

Year 5 Christmas Homework

Reading

Lot’s of time to finish our books so we are expecting lots of quizzing when we come back. If you have finished a book at the beginning of the holidays, then continue reading as the book may be available to quiz on Accelerated Reader.

Maths

The children have been given times tables sheets to complete over the holidays. These focus on some of the trickier times tables. It is important that we practice our times tables over the break and master these to prepare us for our multiplication topic when we come back.

Year 5 Weekly Homework- Due 20th December

Spellings

  1. develop

  2. determined

  3. familiar

  4. definite

  5. awkward

  6. persuade

  7. especially

  8. guessed

  9. rhythm

  10. curiosity

Christmas Concert Practice- PRIORITY

We have now finished all of our concert practice sessions and with our concert being on Monday, it s crucial that children spend the weekend going over any of the songs that they do not know as well. All of the songs and lyrics are on last weeks blog.

The song in particular that needs the most practice is ‘While Shepherds Watched’. This is because each class sings a different verse so it is more independent of each child to loudly and confidently sing the lyrics. We are singing Verse 2 which is;

“Fear not,” said he for mighty dread

had seized their troubled mind

“glad tidings of great joy I bring

to you and all mankind

Year 5 Homework- Due Thursday 14th December

Spellings

  1. silence

  2. absence

  3. magnificence

  4. intelligence

  5. obedience

  6. dependence

  7. innocence

  8. patience

  9. confidence

  10. evidence

Christmas Concert Practice- PRIORITY

With only two whole group practice sessions left, it it vital that we are practicing our songs for the KS2 Christmas concert. Here are the videos from our previous practice sessions. Some children have lost their lyric sheets so I have uploaded the lyrics for all of our songs down below.

Year 5 Homework- Due December 7th

Spellings

The focus for this week has been double letter words. The first 5 are words we have learned this week and the rest are other double letter words- some of which we have covered already this year.

  1. embarrass

  2. excellent

  3. exaggerate

  4. especially

  5. interrupt

  6. accommodate

  7. appreciate

  8. aggressive

  9. address

  10. access

Christmas Concert Practice

The next 3 songs of our Christmas concert have been practiced this week. Next week, we will begin practicing at church so it is vital that children are learning the lyrics at home so they are prepared.

The Great Our Lady Bake Off & Christmas Jumpers- Friday 8th December

We are one week away from the Our Lady Christmas Bake Off. Both children and staff will be entering separate competitions and everyone will take part in judging all of our entries. This is all in aid to raise money for Brian House- to give children less fortunate than ourselves a wonderful Christmas.

£3 - Bake Off Entry Fee

£1 - Cake Sale

£1 - Christmas Jumper

9:00 - 9:30am - Judging! 

This will take place in the classroom for individual bakes and in the hall for the family bakes. The bakes will be judged on 2 things: flavour and festive appearance. Teaching team are judging the taste and the children are judging the appearance -one winner per class. For those children who are doing a family bake, these will come into the hall and Mrs Gregan and Mrs Nel will judge these. Make it special. Have a gingham altar at the front of your class and make it a real event. 

Breaktimes - Cake Sale

We will then separate the bakes and have some for the class bake sale and keep some for the parents in the afternoon. The children will be bringing in £1 for the cake sale. See how much is brought in and then decide how much the children can buy. 

2pm - 3pm: Parents Carols and Cakes

Year 5 Homework- Due 30th November

Spellings

  1. frequent

  2. patient

  3. ancient

  4. innocent

  5. dependent

  6. intelligent

  7. obedient

  8. magnificent

  9. different

  10. confident

Christmas Concert Practice

We practiced the next few songs of our Christmas concert this week. Please dedicate some time to learning these songs to help make our concert amazing when in church.

Maths- Money

Will be on IXL;

  • R1- Comparing money amounts

  • R3- Add and subtract money amounts

Geography- Rivers

Next week, we will be starting our first geography topic of rivers. In preperation, choose one famous river in the world and create a poster about this river. Your poster might include facts such as location, size, length and other interesting facts about your chosen river.

Here is a list of some of the most known rivers around the world;

  • Thames

  • Nile

  • Amazon

  • Mississippi

  • Ganges

  • Yangzee

  • Rhine

  • Dandube

Year 5 Homework- Due 23rd November

Spellings

The focus for this week are homophones. There are 3 pairs of homophones in the list that we have learned this week and the rest are other homophones that have been previously learnt.

  1. allowed

  2. guest

  3. passed

  4. stationery

  5. cereal

  6. farther

  7. pear

  8. aloud

  9. guessed

  10. past

Christmas concert practice

We have practiced ourfirst 3 songs of our nativity concert. These songs are;

  • Joy to the World

  • Mary Did you Know

  • Bring him Home (God on High)


Maths

Will be on IXL;

  • K10- Square numbers

English

Will be in their homework books. The children are to complete the main clauses of the ‘ed’ sentence starters which are about our class novel- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

The children are then to research and choose 3 of their own ed sentence starters and write a sentence for each of them about our class novel.

Year 5 Homework- Due 16th November

Spellings

The focus for this weeks spellings are words ending in -ibly and -ably.

  1. understandably

  2. sensibly

  3. comfortably

  4. incredibly

  5. considerably

  6. terribly

  7. miserably

  8. possibly

  9. suitably

  10. horribly

Science- Gravity

In our forces topic, we have been looking at gravity and have experimented with measuring the force of gravity (weight). In the experiment, we were measuring the mass of objects (using a weighing scale) and also the force of gravity of the object (using a forcemeter).

Their 2 tasks for this week are;

1) Find 10 fun facts about gravity- design this into a poster or fact file in your homework books.

2) Measure the mass of 5 objects in your house using a weighing scale. Then using our conversion rate, calculate the force of gravity for that object.

100g (mass) = 1N(force of gravity)

1kg = 1000g

Maths

In our maths lessons, we will be doing 10/15 minutes of multiplication fluency at the start of every lesson to make sure that our times tables are mastered before starting our big multiplication topic after Christmas. This will be on IXL;

  • D7- Multiplication facts up to 12

Year 5 Homework- Thursday 9th November

Assembly Practice

All lines to be fully rehearsed by Monday- will be practising without scripts.

Focus on fully remembering our prayer and the lyrics to our song.

Song- ‘Count On Me’ by Bruno Mars

Prayer

Please help our world leaders and ourselves to make the right decisions (Red ties)

To keep our world safe and to make peace amongst each other (Blue ties)

We pray that the wars across the world come to an end. (Red ties)

That our world is kept safe by keeping it clean as we tackle climate change. (Blue ties)

And that us people, your creation, can find more peaceful ways of dealing with our differences. (Red ties)

May we remain hopeful that peace and good fortune will come good and that your faith fills the hearts of the world. (Blue ties)

Spellings

The first 6 spellings are new words that we have learnt this week. The last 4 are other tricky words that we have covered this year.

  1. rhyme

  2. rhythm

  3. symbol

  4. system

  5. forty

  6. curiosity

  7. appreciate

  8. invisible

  9. believable

  10. attached

Maths

Will be on IXL;

  • DD2- Model decimals and fractions

  • DD4- Place values in decimal numbers

Music- Clarinets

To practice;

  • Jingle Bells- E G C x 10

  • Dancing in the street- G G G A G x 5

Year 5 Homework for half term

Spellings

  1. fasten

  2. listen

  3. glisten

  4. soften

  5. castle

  6. rustle

  7. hustle

  8. bustle

  9. jostle

  10. whistle

Reading

Lots of time for reading over half term so I am expecting lots of children ready to quiz when we get back. Aim for at least 20 minutes a day.

Assembly practice

Everyone has been given their script and the whole class have had a rundown of what the assembly is out. The key at the top of the script page will indicate what colour tie you are to wear. Please can you bring your coloured tie in when back in school. Tips for helping to practice for assemblies;

  • Highlight your lines in the script.

  • Make a note of who you’re speaking after and the last word of their line.

  • Focus on expression and how you want to say your lines.

IXL

Any child who did not complete last weeks IXL homework then please get this finished over half term. The homework’s were

Maths- A5

English- CC7


Year 5 Homework to be handed in on Thursday 6th October

Spellings

This weeks focus is homophones. In order to practice these, children will have to hear the word in context to differentiate it from the homophone pair.

  1. cereal

  2. steal

  3. father

  4. stationery

  5. heard

  6. serial

  7. farther

  8. stationary

  9. herd

  10. steel

English

The children are to complete the grammar sheet in their books which is about using commas to separate clauses. They are then to write 5 of their own sentences which have to include;

  • a main clause and subordinate clause.

  • a comma to seperate the clauses.

Music

G G G A G

To practice ‘Dancing in the street’ with the backing track on to these notes.

Challenge- can you walk up? C D E F G A

Year 5 Homework to be handed in by Thursday 28th September

Spellings

  1. terrible

  2. possible

  3. sensible

  4. visible

  5. legible

  6. edible

  7. reversible

  8. credible

  9. responsible

  10. horrible

English

A worksheet about fronted adverbials has been stuck in their homework books. The children are to re-write the sentences so that the adverbial is at the start of the sentence. The first sentence has already been done by the children.

Maths

Will be on IXL;

  • A9- Writing numbers up to one million in words

Music- Due in on Monday 25th September

Will be on Charanga. The children are to go onto rhythm gird and create a rhythm similar to what we practiced on Monday. Go to settings and select 4:4 and do this by using notes E and D only.

Year 5 Homework to be handed in on Thursday 21st September

Spellings

  1. fought

  2. nought

  3. ought

  4. bought

  5. cough

  6. trough

  7. rough

  8. tough

  9. enough

  10. thorough

Maths

Will be on IXL;

  • A1- Place value names up to millions

  • A2- value of a digit

DT

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.

Year 5 Homework to be handed in on Thursday 14th September

Spellings

This weeks focus has been words with the silent letter b

  1. thumb

  2. numb

  3. crumb

  4. debt

  5. doubt

  6. limb

  7. climb

  8. tomb

  9. comb

  10. subtle

Class Council Speeches

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.

Homework Books

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).

History- London preparation- Due Monday 12th September

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.

Year 5 Homework 14.7.23

Spellings

  1. variety

  2. vegetable

  3. vehicle

  4. yacht

  5. exaggerate

  6. sufficient

  7. physical

  8. prejudice

  9. awkward

  10. committee

  11. environment

  12. mischievous

    Mrs Mathers group

English

Debate time

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;

For argument (homework should be banned)

Lily-Mae Rosa

Christian Ruby-Lilly

Emilia Anncia

Nicola Evan

Max Iris

Dominic Leon

Tabby Owen

Against argument (homework shouldn’t be banned)

Stanley Angel

Connor-Sean Leo

Harvey Millie

Daisy Edi

Jay Matilda

Georgia Alex

Molly-Ann Charlie

Franek

Year 5 Homework to be handed in on Thursday 13th July

Spellings

  1. shoulder

  2. signature

  3. sincerely

  4. soldier

  5. stomach

  6. sufficient

  7. suggest

  8. symbol

  9. system

  10. temperature

  11. thorough

  12. twelfth

    Mrs Mather’s group

    1. young

    2. watch

    3. white

    4. until

    5. their

    6. they’re

Maths

Will be on IXL;

  • H13- Divide 3 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers.

Music- PRIORITY

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’