St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 5: Blog items
Year 5 Blog Friday 19th April 2024
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 12:52pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Look at different ways the author has started sentences. Which is your favourite? Write it down and bring it into school.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. They are some of the spellings you need to know by the end of Year 5.
twelfth rhyme rhythm explanation pronunciation convenience criticise interrupt guarantee committee community thorough
Practise every day using a range of strategies, for example:
Dot to dot
Look, cover, say, write, check
Trace, copy and replicate
Words without vowels
Pyramid words
Counting
Count out loud in:
20s from 0 to 400 and back again 0, 20, 40, …
25s from o to 500 and back again 0, 25, 50, …
9s from 0 to 108 and back again 0, 9, 18, …
Times Tables
Please practise your times tables every day. Remember, you can now compete and have lots of fun on Times Tables Rockstars.
Sumdog
Maths Competition – boys v girls
Spelling Challenge
Times Tables Rockstars
Complete the session and take part in the different games. You are all doing so well so far!
Below are some links for the website and for a video for parents and carers.
Video for parents and carers about Times Tables Rockstars
Link for Times Tables Rockstars
It has been a great week back after the Easter holidays.
In English, we started our new class novel – Varjak Paw by S.F.Said. We are loving it! We have spent the week writing a non-chronological report all about Mesopotamian Blues which are the cats in the story. The purpose of our non-chronological reports is to teach the Year 4 children about the cats to help them understand the novel when they read it next year.
In maths we have been learning about factors and common factors.
The factors of 21 are 1, 21, 3, 7
The factors of 9 are 1, 9, 3
The common factors of 21 and 9 are 1 and 3.
In Art we started our new topic all about architecture. We are going to be looking at different architectural designs, making our own, and discussing if we think architects should fill the world with big and beautiful buildings or build more modest, eco friendly buildings.
We also started our new topic in PSHE. It is called: How can drugs common to everyday life affect health? We discussed drugs that are legal and illegal and spoke about different drugs which are used as medicines.
Have a happy weekend!
Well done for an amazing week this week!
Year 5 Thursday 28th March 2024
Date: 28th Mar 2024 @ 4:32pm
Welcome to your Easter Blog
We have had a brilliant last week of the Spring Term
We retold some chapters of our novel in our own words and as characters from the story. Everyone has tried to improve their presentation this week, well done Year 5!
In maths we have been revisiting the formal written method for addition and subtraction. We have been working with 4 digit numbers and remembering our place holders.
In In Science we researched the planets in our solar system and created fact files for each planet.
In DT we completed our straw house designs. They all stood up on their own and resisted some rigorous testing!
In French we learned how to ask for help at the doctors and how to describe our condition. Tres bien!
Have a fantastic Easter break and keep up the regular home reading!
The Year 5 Team
Year 5 Blog Friday 22nd March 2024
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 3:39pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Look out for speech, discuss how it is punctuated.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week.
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favourite |
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temperature |
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opportunity |
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opportunities |
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identity |
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identities |
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cemetery |
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cemeteries |
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community |
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communities |
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curiosity |
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curiosities |
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dictionary |
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dictionaries |
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vegetable
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Counting
Count out loud in:
7s from 0 to 84 and back again 0, 7, 14, ...
8s from 0 to 96 and back again 0, 8, 16, ...
12s from 0 to 144 and back again 0, 12, 24, ...
Times Tables
Please practise your times tables every day. You either have your own tables target or please practise dividing by 12.
Sumdog
The winner of last week’s maths competition was …
Freya - well done :)
Times Tables Challenge
Maths Competition – individual
Spelling Challenge
Year 5 Blog Friday 15th March 2024
Date: 15th Mar 2024 @ 2:06pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Tell somebody your favourite thing about the book you are reading.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. Most of them contain the letters -ei or -ei.
achieve leisure mischievous neighbour soldier sufficient variety ceiling belief believe experience weight quite quiet quit
Counting
Count out loud in:
1s from 5 down to -20 and back again 5, 4, 3, …
5s from 5 down to – 60 and back again 5, 0, -5, …
3s from 3 down to -36 and back again 3, 0, -3, …
Times Tables
Please practise your times tables every day. You either have your own tables target or please practise square numbers e.g., 2 x 2 = 4, 3 x 3 = 9.
Sumdog
The winner of last week’s maths competition was …
THE DOGS by one point!
Times Tables Challenge
Maths Competition – individual
Spelling Challenge
We have had a great week this week. On Wednesday we were joined by Freddy Fit and enjoyed our workout. We spoke about the importance of both physical and mental wellbeing.
In English we continued reading our class novel - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. We finished our character description of the professor using dialogue and action. Our objective was to describe a character who sounds eccentric to the reader. We then read our descriptions to Year 4. We didn’t tell the children our objective. After reading, we asked them to write a word to describe the professor. When they wrote unusual, strange, etc, we knew we had achieved our objective.
In maths we learnt about negative numbers and different methods to add and subtract. We spoke about where we might see negative numbers including lifts, football matches, and thermometers.
In RE we started our new topic all about Lent. We thought about giving. We also had a visit from Father Michael. He spoke to us all about saying sorry for things we had done wrong. We then each had the chance to say sorry to God with Father Michael.
In history we started to learn about the Vikings who arrived in Britain around 790AD. We discussed what the Vikings were like and reasons they might have come to invade Britain.
We have had a fantastic two weeks with Atsuya and the other Japanese students. It was amazing to learn about their culture. We were lucky enough to play with some traditional Japanese toys which we loved! Safe travels back to Japan.
Have a fantastic weekend!
Year 5 Blog Friday 8th March 2024
Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 12:54pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Try to find 3 new words to bring into school.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. They are homophones. This means they sound the same but have different meanings. You need to know how to spell them and also what the different spellings mean.
isle aisle aloud allowed are our affect effect herd heard past passed led lead definite
Counting
Count out loud in:
10s from 217 to 417 and back again 217, 227, 237, …
1000s from 99 to 10,099 and back again 99, 1099, 2099, …
0.001s from 2.199 to 2.229 2.199, 2.2, 2.201, …
Times Tables
Please practise your times tables every day. You either have your own tables target or please practise dividing by 7.
Sumdog
The winner of last week’s maths competition was …
THE GIRLS
Times Tables Challenge
Maths Competition – Cats v Dogs
Spelling Challenge
We have had a very exciting week this week. We are very lucky to have been joined by 4 Japanese students who are training to become teachers in Japan. Atsaya has spent the week with us in Year 5 and has been very impressed.
In English we started our new class novel – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. So far, we have been introduced to the main characters and are starting to learn about Narnia and The White Witch. In our writing we have been using action and dialogue to describe the professor from the story. We all agreed that he was an eccentric character so we have been discussing things that an eccentric character would say (dialogue) and do (action).
In maths we learnt about the place value of numbers up to 3 decimals places. We also used our knowledge of place value to order and compare numbers.
In RE, we considered different parts of the Eucharist and discussed their significance. We read the Eucharistic prayer and wrote our own prayer to God remembering Jesus and the sacrifices he made for us.
We had a fantastic World Book Day. It was wonderful to see all of the different book characters and discuss our favourite books. We even managed to take part in our dance lesson dressed as the characters!
Happy Weekend!
Year 5 Blog Friday 1st March 2024
Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 8:01am
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Look at how speech is used. Try to use good expression when reading speech. Next week we will be writing a character description from our new book. If you have a character that you like, bring your book into school.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. They are words which have apostrophes for contraction. This means a word or group of words have been shortened. The apostrophe represents missing letters. It is important that you remember to put the apostrophe in the right place.
don’t they’re can’t doesn’t won’t I’ve I’ll she’s he’s you’re you’ve couldn’t wouldn’t shouldn’t persuade
Counting
Count out loud in:
5s from 0 to 60 and back again. 5, 10, 15, …
Tenths from 0 to 2 and back again. 0.1, 0.2, 0.2, …
Halves (0.5) from 0 to 10 and back again. 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, …
Times Tables
Please practise your times tables every day. You either have your own tables target or please practise dividing by 9.
Telling the time
Visit the following website to practise telling the time.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock
Sumdog
Times Tables Challenge
Maths Competition – boys v girls
Spelling Challenge
We have had a wonderful week this week.
In English, we wrote two different adverts to persuade different audiences. The first was an advert to persuade children to go to the circus. The second was an advert to persuade an adult to donate money to a charity which helps animals. The language we used was very different in each advert as they had different audiences and different purposes. We also recorded our adverts and used our voices as an additional way to persuade our audience. We tested out our circus adverts on Years 2, 3 and 6 who gave us a star rating for how likely they were to go to the circus after hearing our advert. There were lots of 7/7 ratings.
In Maths, we calculated the area of different shapes and also solved problems involving time. This included converting between 12-hour and 24-hour times and reading analogue and digital clocks. If you are not confident with reading the time, please practise at home this week.
In RE we made links between the Passover and the Last Supper. We discussed how Jesus would have celebrated the Passover each year to celebrate his people being freed from slavery. We also discussed how the Last Supper was a very special Passover feast as this was when Jesus knew he was going to die, and was the first time Jesus turned the wine into his blood and the bread into his body.
In art, we started our new topic about landscapes. Throughout the topic we will be using different media to create pictures of landscapes. These will include pencil, ink, paint, charcoal, pastels, etc. This week we used different sketching pencils. Everybody did such a fantastic job.
Year 5 Blog Friday 23rd February 2024
Date: 23rd Feb 2024 @ 3:27pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Discuss the characters and what you know about them.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. These are some of the words you need to know by the end of Year 5. Some of the spellings have the suffix -ly.
competition definite definitely immediate immediately special especially sincere sincerely frequent frequently desperate desperately
Counting
Count out loud in:
6s from 0 to 72 and back again.
7s from 0 to 84 and back again.
12s from 0 to 144 and back again.
Times Tables
Please practise your times tables every day. You either have your own tables target or you can practise square numbers.
Sumdog
Times Tables Challenge
Maths Challenge
Spelling Challenge
We have had a wonderful week this week.
In English, we finished reading our class novel Street Child. We wrote a persuasive radio advert to persuade children to go to the circus, this was after reading about the circus that the main character Jim visited. The focus was on using vocabulary and sentences that would persuade a child.
In Maths, we have been solving problems involving multiplication. We used different strategies including doubling and halving, and drawing bar models.
In RE, we watched videos about the Jewish festival Passover. We then wrote a diary entry as if we were one of the slaves freed from Egypt. We focused on what life had been like and how Passover would be remembered in the future. We also made our Lenten promises, we spoke about saying sorry for the things we have done wrong and turning over a new leaf. We all decided something we would do during the season of Lent to become a better person.
We had a sporty day on Thursday with a dance session from South Ribble and our PE lesson. We loved learning a new dance and in PE we did some tag rugby and gymnastics. Everybody was amazing!
Have a happy weekend
Year 5 Blog Thursday 8th February 2024
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 3:27pm
Happy Half Term and welcome to your weekly blog
Please spend this half term:
Resting
Relaxing
Having fun
Spending time with loved ones
Try to keep up with the reading – you can do all of the above whilst reading.
If you would like to go on Sumdog, there will be challenges available to practise times tables and the Year 5 and 6 spellings.
We have had a wonderful week this week.
On Monday, we finished our set designs for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They all look amazing! Take a look at our gallery to see us in action and our finished pieces.
This week has been Children’s Mental Health Week. The theme this year is My Voice Matters. This theme was chosen to help us develop the skills we need to express our opinions, beliefs, values and feelings. We spoke about ways we can express ourselves including:
- Making choices
- Talking to a trusted adult
- Writing a letter or note to ourself or somebody else
- Voting on decisions
- Drawing a picture
- Creating a journal or diary
- Writing a song
- Having a check in system with somebody
We also celebrated our achievements and spoke about these proudly. We then came up with some positive affirmations all about My Voice Matters.
- I have important contributions to make
- When I speak, people listen
- I take time to listen and learn from others
- I feel empowered when I share my thoughts and feelings
- MY VOICE MATTERS
Have a happy Half Term.
Year 5 Blog Friday 2nd February 2024
Date: 2nd Feb 2024 @ 1:19pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Talk to somebody at home about the punctuation used in speech and look out for it when you are reading.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. Most of the words have double letters, try to remember where the double letters are. These are tricky spellings; you will need to practise every day.
accommodate attached apparent appreciate community communicate especially exaggerate conscience conscious government environment equipped according excellent
Shape Practice
Next week in maths we will be learning about perimeter and area. Visit the following websites to recap your learning from Year 4.
Times Tables
Please practise a mixture of times tables including squared and cubed numbers.
Sumdog
Maths Competition: Boys v Girls
Times Tables Challenge
Spelling Challenge
This week in maths we ordered and simplified fractions. This was tricky but everybody embraced the challenge and did an amazing job!
In English we wrote stories all about time travel. Everybody decided where in time their character would travel to and decided how to make their stories interesting to the reader.
In RE we spoke about different Christian communities. We discussed some of the differences between the different denominations, but we focussed on the similarities, especially that we all share Jesus’ mission. Christians believe that we should love one another.
In art we started our set design for the chocolate room in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It was amazing to see everybody use their imagination. We can’t wait to see the finished pieces!
Have a happy weekend.
Year 5 Blog Friday 26th January 2024
Date: 26th Jan 2024 @ 1:03pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday blog.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Look out for speech, see if the books follow the rules that we came up with in class.
- Opening speech marks before the spoken words.
- Capital letter for the first spoken word.
- Punctuation after the spoken words.
- Closing speech marks after punctuation.
- Use a comma to separate the speech and the rest of the sentence.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week.
science mischief quiet medieval ancient glacier weigh neither height restaurant vegetable cemetery temperature
Times Tables
Please practise cubed numbers or your own individual target.
Counting
Count out loud in square numbers from 1 to 144 and back again.
1, 4, 9, ...
144, 121, 100, ...
Sumdog
Spelling Challenge
Times Tables Challenge
Fractions Challenge
Reminders
Online Safety
Please try to find a cardboard box for art over the next couple of weeks. A shoe box would be perfect.
Remember to bring in anything else you want for our model set of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's chocolate room.
Here are some ideas you came up with in class:
Plastic cup
Paper cup
Cellophane
Bottle caps
Fabric
Pom poms
Lollipop sticks
Maths
In maths we learnt how to find equivalent fractions. We also compared fractions by finding a common denominator.
English
We revised the rules for speech and wrote our own conversations.
We came up with some funny conversations between the teachers in the staff room.
We also became sub-editors by reading sports reports and checking them carefully for spellling, punctuation and grammar mistakes.
PE
We enjoyed learning some hockey skills and playing little matches to put our new skills into practice. Everybody played fairly and had a great time!
Computing and Science
We made PowerPoint presentations all about Earth and Space.
This week we recapped our skills and managed to:
Add new slides
Change the background
Insert wordart and textboxes
Change the font
Import, move, rotate and resize an image
We also learnt how to:
Add bullet points
Add outlines and fill colours to our text boxes
Have a very happy weekend!
Year 5 Blog Friday 19th January 2024
Date: 16th Jan 2024 @ 2:55pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Try to find one amazing word and bring it into class - we will add these to our English display.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. They all contain the letters ei. Can you figure out what different sounds the ei makes and identify any patterns or rules?
ceiling receive receipt deceit perceive vein rein reign veil
weigh eight neighbour weird their height
Counting
Count out loud in:
Tenths from 0 to 1 and back again one tenth, two tenths, three tenths, (ten tenths = one whole)
Thirds from 0 to 4 and back again one third, two thirds, three thirds or one whole, one and one third, ... (three thirds = one whole)
Fifths from 0 to 2 and back again one fifth, two fifths, three fifths, ... (five fifths = one whole)
Times Tables
Please learn cube numbers or your own individual target.
Sumdog
Spelling Challenge
Times Tables Challenge
Maths Competition in teams
Reminders
Please remember to collect things for our art project this half term when we will be making a model set for the chocolate room in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
You might collect:
Fabric
Cardboard
Plastic
Chocolate and sweet wrappers
Cocktail sticks or lollipop sticks
Maths
In maths this week we have been using our new method to divide and interpet remainders. It is so important that we know our times tables!
Our new method includes looking at our times tables and using related facts
2,600 ÷ 5 =
We can partition 2,600 into 2,500 and 100
25÷ 5 = 5
So 2,500 ÷ 5 = 500
100 ÷ 5 = 20
So 2,600 ÷ 5 = 520
English
In English we read more of our class novel Street Child. We also wrote a non-chronological report all about the Victorians.
A non-chronological report gives the reader facts about a topic and can be read in any order.
RE
In RE we spoke about Jesus' mission to teach, preach and spread the Good News. We read Good News for the Poor from Isaiah which was one of the scriptures Jesus first read when he started his mission in Nazareth. We thought about how the words would have helped and comforted people. We then came up with ways we can comfort people when they need us.
Geography
We thought about different ways humans have affected the landscape in Britain and had a really interesting discussion about: what if the government banned any more building in the United Kingdom?
Have this discussion at home, does everybody agree?
Science
In science we carried out a fair test to find out the effect water resistance has on different shapes.
We know that water resistance is a force which slows objects down as they move through water, it is a type of friction.
We made different shapes out of playdough and timed how long they took to fall to the bottom of a cylinder of water.
Have a happy weekend.
Date: 12th Jan 2024 @ 4:14pm
With your children returning to school, it is a great time to review Online Safety in your homes and make sure we are all up to date with developments in the online world. At St Oswald's, all classes will be continuing with their Online Saftety learning where they will learn all about safe practices online in the following areas.
Self image and identitiy
Online relationships
Online bulllying
Health, Well-being and lifestyle
Online reputation
Managing online information
Copyright and ownership
To access a huge range of information on the National Online Safety website click the link below and join our school online safety hub.You will get access to videos, training and guides to keep you informed of the best practices in keeping your children safe online.
http://nationalonlinesafety.com/enrol/st-oswald-s-catholic-primary-school-pr45eb
Year 5 Blog Friday 12th January 2024
Date: 9th Jan 2024 @ 2:33pm
Happy New Year.
Welcome to your Friday Blog.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Find the meaning of new words and try to use them in your own sentences.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. Please use your favourite strategy and Sumdog to practise every day.
centre bicycle calendar peculiar woman women suppose quarter century unfinished undone unable unlikely
Counting
Count out loud in:
0.3s from 0.3 to 3.6 and back again 0.3, 0.6, 0.9, 1.2, ...
0.4s from 0.4 to 4.8 and back again 0.4, 0.8, 1,2. ...
0.6s from 0.6 to 7.2 and back again 0.6, 1.2, 1.8, ...
Times Tables
Please practise the 12x tables or your own individual target.
Sumdog
Spelling Challenge
Times Tables Challenge
Maths Competition - individual
Reminders
Year 5 will have PE on a Friday for this Half Term. Children will need spare shoes and socks for cross country.
Please start to collect materials for our art project this half term, we will be making a model set for the chocolate room in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. You might want to start collecting:
Fabric
Cardboard
Plastic
Chocolate and sweet wrappers
Cocktail sticks or lollipop sticks
Maths
We have been learning different methods to multiply and divide.
Partition to multiply:
64 x 4
60 x 4 = 240
4 x 4 = 16
64 x 4 = 256
Known facts:
1,200 ÷ 4
12 ÷ 4 = 3
120 ÷ 4 = 30
1,200 ÷ 4 = 300
English
We started our new class novel Street Child by Berlie Doherty.
We have been carrying out research about the Victorian times to help us understand the novel.
RE
We started our new topic all about our mission and life choices. We started by learning about inspirational people. We watched this video all about Thomas Barnardo and spoke about what made him inspirational.
History
We continued with our learning about Anglo-Saxons. We learnt that Britain used to be split into seven kingdoms each with its own king and government. We located these kingdoms on a map.
Year 5 Blog Thursday 21st December 2023
Date: 21st Dec 2023 @ 1:16pm
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all
Home Practice
Have an amazing happy time with family and friends.
Reminders
PE will be on a Friday for the 5 weeks after the Christmas holidays.
Please bring in spare shoes and socks for Cross Country.
We have had such an exciting week.
On Monday we watched the All Hallows roadshow where we saw lots of children performing our favourite Christmas songs.
On Tuesday we went to church for a Christingle service led by Year 6.
On Wednesday we enjoyed our Christmas lunch in our Christmas jumpers. We also had a farewell assembly for Mr Mears.
On Thursday we LOVED our Australian themed celebration day for Ollie. The effort made by everybody was super!
Year 5 Blog Friday 15th December 2023
Date: 14th Dec 2023 @ 4:59pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday blog
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Talk about your impression of each character.
Spelling
Everybody has brought home their own spellings this week. Please practise using one of the strategies we have used in class. One of the favourite strategies was trace, copy, replicate.
There is also a Sumdog challenge to practise the words you need to know by the end of Year 5.
Counting
Count out loud in:
12s from 0 to 144 and back again. 12, 24, 36, ...
9s from 0 to 108 and back again. 9, 18, 27, ...
6s from 0 to 72 and back again. 6, 12, 18, ...
Times Tables
Please practise the 12x table or your own individual target.
Sumdog
Times Tables Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Maths Competition
Reminders
On Thursday 21st December we will be having our Australian themed celebration. Children are invited to come in Australian themed clothing. Please see the letter brought home last week for more information.
After Half Term, children will need spare shoes and socks for cross country in PE.
Maths
We learnt about multiples, factors and common factors.
12 is a multiple of 4.
4 is a factor of 12.
3 is a common factor of 12 and 15.
English
We used The Highwayman poem to create our own booklet, we also created some artwork to go with it.
RE
We learnt about Advent and Christmas for Christians and created posters.
PSHE
We started our new topic - What decisions can people make with money?
We spoke about:
Ways to spend money
Ways to earn money
Ways to save money
Influences
Have a super weekend.
Year 5 Blog Friday 8th December 2023
Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 1:05pm
Welcome to your Friday Blog
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Look at how speech is punctuated.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. Some of them are homophones, this mean they sound the same but have different meanings. You need to know how to spell these words as well as their meaning.
led lead steel steal alter altar allowed passed
aisle bridal bridle occupy occur opportunity parliament
Counting
Count out loud in:
3s from 0 to 36 and back again 0, 3, 6, ...
8s from 0 to 96 and back again 0, 8, 16, ...
7s from 0 to 84 and back again 0, 7, 14, ...
Times Tables
Practise your tables target every day.
Make sure you know the square numbers up to 144 and the square root.
1 x 1 = 1
2 x 2 = 4
5 x 5 = 25
Sumdog
Spelling Challenge
Tables Challenge
Maths Competition in teams
Reminders
Everybody has brought home a letter about an Australian themed celebration we will be having in Year 5 on Thursday 21st December.
Start thinking about what you want to wear for the celebration.
Maths
We have been learning about multiples and divisibility.
A multiple is a number made by multiplying two whole numbers greater than one.
English
We have been reading The Highwayman poem.
We have been learning about famous highwaymen and finding the meaning of new words by exploring their context in the sentence.
RE
We have been learning about Advent. We talked about how Christians are waiting in hope during Advent for the coming of Jesus, and how we can use the period of Advent to do good deeds and remember Jesus.
All Hallows PE day
The children were fantastic taking part in various sports including football, dance, netball, handball, basketball, etc.
You can see our gallery on the Year 5 class page.
Year 5 Blog Friday 1st December
Date: 29th Nov 2023 @ 4:59pm
Happy Friday and Happy December.
Welcome to your Friday Blog.
On Wednesday, we brought home a sheet of paper with a list of things that we need for our DT work.
Our DT brief is to design, make and evaluate a Greek snack.
We have decided as a class to make pitta breads. School will provide the ingredients for everybody to make the pitta bread.
Most children decided they wanted to include something along with the pitta bread. This is what they need to bring in from home, for example: feta cheese, olives, salad, tzatziki, etc. The children also wrote a list of utensils we will need. Anything that we can borrow would be much appreciated, but if not, don't worry.
We will be making our Greek snack in school on Monday 4th December.
In Geography this week, we used maps and our knowledge of the UK to plan a trip for somebody coming to England. Our trip had to include a flight to our closest airport, a visit to our local area and some local attractions, and finally a visit to the closest capital city to us and some points of interest. Everybody's knowledge of the UK was very impressive and we came up with some exciting sounding trips.
In History, we have been learning about the Anglo Saxons. We discussed why we thought the Anglo Saxons settled in Britain. Some of the reasons we discussed included:
They settled in Britain to fight the Britons after they were left weak.
They were invited to help out when the Romans left the Britons vulnerable to attack.
They came because the land in Britain was better for growing crops.
They came for a better life where there would be more opportunity to earn money.
In RE we have started our new topic Advent.
Advent is a time to remember God’s promise to send a Messiah. It is about waiting in joyful hope for the coming of Jesus at Christmas.
In Maths we have been naming, measuring, and drawing different angles including:
Acute angles - between 0 and 90 degrees.
Right angles - 90 degrees.
Obtuse angles - between 90 and 180 degrees.
Reflex angles - between 180 and 360 degrees.
Home Practice
DT
Don't forget to bring in anything from home that you want to use in DT.
We will make our pitta breads on Monday 4th December.
Reading
Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes.
Counting
Count out loud in:
9s from 0 to 108 and back again 9, 18, 27, ...
90s from 0 10 1,080 and back again 90, 80, 270, ...
25s from 0 to 500 and back again 0, 25, 50, ...
Visnos angles
Test somebody at home on their angles knowledge.
Times Tables
Please practise your tables target every day.
Next week in maths we will be using our times tables - you will find it much easier if you are quick and confident with your tables.
Spellings
Your spellings will be uploaded onto the blog next week. In the meantime, they are on the Sumdog challenge and on the sheet you brought home on Wednesday, so try to practise every day.
Sumdog
Spelling Challenge
Times Tables Challenge
Maths Competition
Have a happy weekend, enjoy your Advent calendars
Year 5 Blog Friday 24th November 2023
Date: 21st Nov 2023 @ 11:02am
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
We have had a super week this week.
As you know, this week we did our RSE lessons. We talked about changes that males and females go through during puberty including physical and emotional changes. The children were extremely mature and sensible, and asked lots of questions. The children said they felt happy to learn about the changes they are experiencing or will experience in the future, and said that it was good to know that it is all normal.
In English we continued reading our clas novel Room 13, we have nearly finished now and it is getting very exciting. We have really enjoyed this book and can't wait to find out what our next novel is.
This week we have been focussing on starting our sentences in different ways so that our writing is more interesting for the reader. We found sentence starters in some books and pieces of writing and then tried to use these in our own writing. Here are some that we came up with:
Adverbials of time
At the stroke of midnight,
Eventually,
Suddenly,
Adverbials of place
The abandoned house...
Out of the darkness...
Somewhere in the distance...
Adverbials of manner
Hesitantly,
Carefully,
In maths we have been using bar charts, tables and line graphs to answer questions. We know that before answering questions we need to first look at the graph to learn:
What is it about?
What steps are the axes counting in?
In science we planned and carried out a fair test to investigate the amount of friction on different surfaces. We chose 5 different surfaces and measured how far a toy car could travel on each surface.
In order for our investigation to be a fair test, we knew we could only change one thing, and everything else would have to stay exactly the same.
We then made our predictions by stating which surface we thought would produce the most friction and which surface would produce the least and why.
We carried out our investigation in groups, recording our results in a table. Finally we wrote a conclusion where we stated whether our not our prediction was correct and how we could make the investigation more accurate. We also spoke about anything that surprised us.
Everybody did an amazing job at working scientifically.
In PE we did some rugby skills and also some handball skills. In rugby we learnt how to throw and receive a swing pass, and then we played some games to put our new learning into practice.
Home Practice
Angles
Next week in maths we are going to be measuring and identifying different types of angles. Please go on the Visnos website to have a go at measuring angles and deciding if they are acute, right angle, obtuse, or reflex.
Reading
Please read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Please write down any sentence starters that you find interesting to share with the class.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. Please practise every day.
incredible incredibly sensible sensibly reliable reliably respectable respectably aggreeable aggreeably enviable enviably awkward vegetable competition
Counting
Count out loud forwards in 1s from:
-7 to 17 -7, -6, -5, ...
-1 to 21 -1, 0, 1, ...
-51 to -31 -51, -50, -49, ...
Times Tables
Please practise your tables target every day. Make sure you know the related division facts too.
Sumdog
Times Tables Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Maths Competition in teams: Gryffndor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin
Year 5 Blog Friday 17th November 2023
Date: 15th Nov 2023 @ 4:24pm
Help the homeless – Foxton Centre Big PNE Sleepout Friday 17th November
Miss Smith and Mrs Dexter are sleeping by the football pitch at PNE’s football ground, Deepdale Stadium this Friday 17th November. This is to raise money for a day centre called The Foxton Centre who provide food and warmth to the homeless people of Preston. Miss Smith and Mrs Dexter will sleep on cardboard and will only have with them what they can carry. This will give them an insight into how difficult it is for people sleeping on the streets, particularly as the nights are getting colder. We are all fortunate that we have food and somewhere warm to go to sleep every night, this is not the case for some people in Preston. Miss Smith and Mrs Dexter are asking for sponsorship, any donation would go a long way to help Preston’s vulnerable homeless community.
You can read more and donate here:
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog
We have had a very busy week this week. We spent a lot of time writing, practising, and perfecting our assembly which we performed for parents on Thursday. Everybody was extremely proud as it was all our own ideas and things that we felt proud of. It was nice to remind ourselves that – IT’S GOOD TO BE ME!
We had a visit from a familiar face on Tuesday, Freddy Fit. We always love our lessons with Freddy Fit where we learn about teamwork, resilience, and looking after our body as well as our mind. Freddy was impressed with everybody!
You can see us getting sporty in our gallery here.
This week has also been Anti-Bullying Week. The theme this year was Make a Noise About Bullying. We spoke about bullying online and offline and considered who we could speak to if we have concerns about bullying, advice we can give, and ways we can comfort and stand by each other.
You can see a film about Anti-Bullying Week here:
On Friday we all dressed in our pyjamas to raise money for Children in Need. It was great to see everybody come together for such a great cause.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Look for different ways to start sentences, try to use them in your own writing.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week, some spellings contain a hyphen, can you figure out why?
bruise yacht guarantee vehicle immediately co-operate co-own coexist co-ordinate re-enter re-emerge reinvent retell
Counting
Please count out loud in:
12s from 0 to 144 and back again 12, 24, 36, …
7s from 0 to 84 and back again 7, 14, 21, …
8s from 0 to 96 and back again 8, 16, 24, …
Times Tables
Please practise your tables target every day.
Sumdog
Spelling Challenge
Times Tables Challenge
Maths Competition
Year 5 Blog Friday 10th November 2023
Date: 9th Nov 2023 @ 5:05pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
It has been a great week filled with lot of exciting learning.
In maths we have been using the written method to add and subtract. It is really important that we know our number facts so that we can calculate quickly and accurately. Please practise these at home.
In English we have continued reading our class novel Room 13. This is a suspense story so we have been looking at different ways the author builds suspense. We then wrote our own suspense story. We tried to use as many different techniques as we could to make the reader feel worried and scared. Some of the techniques included:
Don't reveal the threat e.g. a dark figure
Rhetorical questions e.g. Was something following her?
Reveal the character's thoughts e.g. She wondered if this was all just a terrible dream.
Cliff hanger e.g. There was nobody there, unless...
Suspenseful vocabulary e.g. murky, gloomy, staggering, dark, whisper.
Everybody did such an amazing job writing their suspense stories!
In PE we did some indoor athletics including long jump, hop skip jump, high jump, and speed bounce. Mrs Cookson was very impressed!
In DT we sampled some Greek food. This was to help us prepare to design and make our own Greek snack which we will be doing over the next couple of weeks. Most of us enjoyed the feta cheese, pitta breads and tzatziki. The olives weren't very popular. You can see us carrying out our sensory evaluation of the food here. We focussed on the appearance, smell, texture, and taste.
This week in French, we started our new topic of ‘Les Émotions’. We started the lesson by going through the vocabulary and discussing the differences between the pronunciation for masculine and feminine adjectives. We then wrote these in our books, translating what they mean. To check our understanding, we chose the right picture for each emotion shown and then started a game of ‘Qui veut gagner 1200€?’ (Who wants to win €1200?) where every correct answer from a multiple choice question would ‘win’ €100. This week was a practice, we will complete this again next week to see if we can remember the vocabulary.
In RE we have been learning about Judaism. We learnt about a special feast called the Passover. We discovered why and how the Passover is celebrated. Each year during spring the Jewish people get ready to celebrate the Passover or Pesach. Jewish people remember the story of how God delivered them from slavery in Egypt, how God still takes care of them and how there is still the need for freedom in some places of the world.
Home Practice
Number facts
Please go on Hit the Button and click on number facts. Make sure you know these number facts without having to count.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Counting
Count out loud in tenths from:
203.01 to 205.01 203.11 203.21 203.31 ...
79.01 to 81.01 79.11 79.21 79.31 ...
83.81 to 85.81 83.81 83.91 84.01
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Talk about what you have read.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. Please practise every day including the challenge on Sumdog. The Sumdog challenge includes extra spellings.
telephone telegraph grapheme graphics autograph automatic headphones microphone microwave microscope sign design signal
Sumdog
Spelling challenge
Times table challenge
Maths competition in teams
Have a happy weekend.
Year 5 Blog Friday 3rd November 2023
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 8:28am
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
It has been a lovely week back after Half Term, so nice to all be back together again doing lots of exciting learning.
In English we started our new class novel - Room 13 by Robert Swindells. We are absolutely loving it. We have been looking at ways the author builds suspense to make the reader feel nervous and scared. We have been practising some of these techniques and will be writing our own suspense stories next week. Here are some of the ways we have identified to build suspense:
Short sentences to make the reader panic.
Longer, more detailed sentences to give the reader chance to reflect.
Show don't tell sentences where we talk about the character's actions to show the reader that they are scared.
Writing about an abandoned setting to make the reader worry for the main character.
In maths we have been practising different mental strategies for addition and subtraction. We then looked at a range of calculations and chose the most efficient strategy. This week we have been practising:
Reordering the numbers to make the calculation easier, for example 27 + 15 + 3 + 14 we reordered to 27 + 3 + 15 + 14 as we spotted that we can use number bonds to ten to quickly calcuate 27 + 3.
Compensation. This is where you round a number to the nearest multiple of 10, 100 or 1000 to make it easier to add or subtract. You then add or subtract the difference.
This week in French, it was Halloween! We completed a French wordsearch with Halloween vocabulary and translated each word into our books. We discussed whether some facts about Halloween in France were vrai o faux. We practised some of the Halloween vocabulary again and played ‘What’s missing?’ to help remember them.
In music we started a new jazz piece on the glocks, Three note bossa, looking at the structure and learning related vocabulary. We enjoyed a new song, Try Everything. We explored music with 2 beats in a bar.
Our trip to Rock and River was incredible. We loved doing zip line, climbing tower, low ropes course, air bag jump and going out on the lake in canoes. Check out the gallery on the Year 5 page to see us in action.
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud to an adult every day for 20 minutes. Retell the story in your own words.
Counting
Count out loud in 10s from:
217 to 417 and back again 217, 227, 237
509 to 709 and back again 509, 519, 529
899 to 1099 and back again 899, 909, 919
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. They do not follow a rule or pattern so you need to practise at home.
accommodate accompany according achieve aggressive amateur ancient apparent appreciate attached available average awkward bargain bruise
Sumdog
Spelling Challenge
Times Tables Challenge
Maths Competition in teams
Have a fantastic weekend and please be safe if you are going to a bonfire.
Year 5 Blog Thursday 19th October
Date: 19th Oct 2023 @ 8:19am
Happy Half Term!
What an amazing first half term we have had in Year 5. We have done so much learning and have settled so well into Year 5.
This week we finished reading our novel Goth Girl. We wrote our own epilogue for the story to tell the reader what the characters are doing a year in the future.
We have also been looking a poetry this week. We read a poem called - Please Don't Feed the Animals.
Please do not feed the ostriches
sandwiches
or the polar bears
éclairs.
Do not offer the wombats
kumquats
or the rattle-snakes
fruit-cakes.
Remember that piranhas
are not allowed bananas
or partridges
sausages.
Never approach a stork
with things on a fork
or the bustard
with a plate of custard.
No leopard
likes anything peppered
and meerkats
dislike Kit Kats.
Remember that grapes
upset apes
and meringues
do the same for orang-utans.
Most importantly– do not feed the cheetah
your teacher.
We practised performing this poem thinking about actions and which words to emphasize. We then made a list of nouns for precision. These are specific names of things e.g. Poddle instead of dog, Black Mamba instead of snake, Siamese instead of cat, etc. We found that these made the poem interesting and funny. We then used these nouns to write our own poem following the same structure as the model. Finally, we performed our poems using actions. They were incredible!
In maths we have continued looking at different methods to add and subtract. One of the methods we have practised this week is counting on to find the difference. This was a bit tricky but we did lots of practice.
This week in our French lesson we completed the rest of our Review sheet, which included the vocabulary for sports, hobbies and the weather. The children had to write down and say which was their favourite sport, which hobby they like, which hobby they love and what the weather was like today. Year 5 have worked hard this half term recapping a lot of vocabulary and completing both review sheets. Next half term, we will be ready to have some new sessions about ‘emotions’ (after we’ve learned about French Halloween!).
In music we learnt a new rap, Fresh Prince of Bel Air. We learnt more about strong beats, clapping along to the song Crazy Glue. We made a video of our final performance of Sailor Sailor on our recorders.
Have an amazing, happy, safe half term.
You all deserve a rest you have worked so hard!
Please try to keep up with the reading and Sumdog is still available to practise spellings and times tables.
Year 5 Blog Friday 13th October 2023
Date: 12th Oct 2023 @ 5:49pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
We have had a brilliant week in Year 5.
In English we finished writing our letter as Maltravers from Goth Girl. Our aim was to persuade a character to come to our party. We then spent some time editing and thinking about how well we met our objective. Everybody did such a great job that we are going to go and read them to Year 6 next week. We also learnt what a pronoun is. A pronoun is word used to replace a noun, usually to avoid repetition e.g., he, she, it, they, yours, theirs. Next week we are going to be writing our own epilogue for Goth Girl. An epilogue tells the reader what the main characters are doing in the future e.g., one year later. See if any of your books at home have an epilogue.
In maths we have been using different strategies to add and subtract mentally. When we see a question we ask ourselves:
Do I know the answer?
Can I work it out in my head?
Do I need a jotting?
Do I need to use a written method?
We practised using partitioning on a number line to add and subtract numbers up to thousands and numbers with decimal places. Here is an example of the partitioning strategy.
Another strategy we practised is called bridging. This is where you add or subtract to get to the next multiple of 10, 100 or 1,000 and then add or subtract the rest. Here is an example.
In geography we did some atlas work where we were using the contents page and the index to find out various things about the UK. We looked at the countries which make up the UK, their capital cities, where they are in relation to each other, which countries they border, etc.
In PSHE we celebrated World Mental Heath Day. We looked at the meaning of wellbeing. We defined it as: Looking after and feeling good in your body and mind. We then thought about ways we can look after our physical and mental wellbeing and the main things we came up with were:
Move - get moving every day
Sleep - get plenty of rest and sleep
Eat - eat a balanced diet and drink plenty of water
In PE we used all of the throwing and catching skills we have been practising to play some small games of netball. The focus was on passing the ball around and getting into space so that our opponent couldn't get it and to have the best chance at scoring. See us in action here.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes.
Have a look at your school book and any of your books at home, do any of them have an epilogue at the end? If you find any, bring them in to show the class.
Counting
Count out loud in 0.01 (hundredths):
From 7.67 to 7.87 7.67 7.68 7.69 7.7 7.71 ...
From 120.09 to 120.29 120.09 120.1 120.11 120.12 120.13 ...
From 8.15 to 7.95 8.15 8.14 8.13 8.12 8.11 ...
Times Tables
Please practise your own individual target. Some of you have been given the target to find one quarter on a number. Please relate this your 4 times tables.
Spelling
Here are your spellings this week. They are plurals. You need to know the rules for changing singular words ending in a -y into plurals.
party - parties
worry - worries
potato - potatoes
baby - babies
try - tries
city - cities
library - libraries
cemetery - cemeteries
community - communities
dictionary - dictionaries
Sumdog
Times Tables Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Lancashire Competition
Have a happy weekend!
Year 5 Blog Friday 6th October 2023
Date: 4th Oct 2023 @ 7:19pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
It has been another fun week filled with lots of exciting learning.
In English we have been looking at techniques used to persuade and have used these to write a persuasive letter from the character in Goth Girl called Maltravers. We have written a letter from Maltravers trying to persuade creatures to come to his party. Some of the things we included in our letters were:
Sentence starters to link each paragraph such as:
Firstly,
Secondly,
In addition to this,
Another good reason for ...
Even more importantly,
Finally,
We have also tried to flatter the reader by telling them that they are very special, amazing, beautiful, etc.
In maths we have been counting in 10s, 100s, 1000, 10000s, and 100000s. We have been using these skills to complete number sequences.
In history we were looking at Britannia (England) at the end of the 4th century. During this time the Roman Empire was weakening. We learnt that groups like the Picts and Scots had taken over an area called Gaul, which was a region of Western Europe. This meant that Britannia was receiving less money from Rome and therefore the Roman soldiers were refusing to defend the land. In our next history lesson we will find out what happened next, did the Roman Empire fall? Who then ruled Britain?
We started our new topic in RE called Life Choices. We started the topic by thinking about friendship and the commitment it takes to be a good friend. We spoke about considering the needs of our friends as well as our own needs. We then filled each other's page with what makes them a good friend. It was lovely to see everybody smile when reading the reasons people thought of them as a good friend.
In computing we have been looking at different search engines and also learning about how to do specific searches so that we get the information that we want. We learnt that some search engines give us more ads than others and we also learnt that you need to include exactly what you want to search for e.g. Sale, Greater Manchester rather than just Sale. We have also done some vector drawing on the Ipads. A vector drawing is a drawing made up of lines and shapes.
Home Practice
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Talk about what you know about the different characters.
Counting
Count out loud in:
10s from 123,785 to 123,885 123,785 123,795 123,805 ...
10s from 324,584 to 324,684 324,584 324,594 324,604 ...
10s from 711,296 to 711,396 711,296 711,306 711,316 ...
Times Tables
Please practise your tables target every day.
Spellings
Here are your spellings this week. They are homophones. This means that they look or sound the same but have different meanings. You need to know how to spell these words and also their meanings. This will be part of your spelling test on Tuesday.
isle aisle aloud allowed affect effect herd heard past passed there their they're
Sumdog
Maths Competition in teams
Times Tables Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Have a happy and hopefully sunny weekend.
Year 5 Blog Friday 29th September 2023
Date: 28th Sep 2023 @ 3:51pm
Happy Friday and welcome to your Friday Blog.
It has been a brilliant week in Year 5.
In English we have read some more of our novel Goth Girl. The main character Ada has joined a club called the Attic Club and made some new friends. She has also met lots of strange creatures. We have looked at some character descriptions from Goth Girl and also from Fantastic Beasts. We have used these as a model to write our own description of a strange character.
One of the things we focussed on was using sentences with a relative clause.
Relative clauses add extra information, we used relative clauses starting with the relative pronoun which.
Here are some examples we came up with:
Its wide mouth, which is filled with razor sharp teeth, is usually grinning.
Its most distinctive feature is the purple horn in the centre of its forehead which flashes when it senses danger.
In maths we have continued practising rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, and 10000. We have done lots of practice with number lines for this. We have also been finding 10, 100, 1000 and 10000 more or less than a number. We used place value counters and charts to help with this.
We needed to know the value of each digit and that:
100,000 = ten 10,000s
In art we used different pencils to make a strong drawing. We got some old maps and drew a picture on them. We used different pencils, marks, and shading to try to make our picture stand out. We were in competition with the maps. We won! They were amazing.
In science we planned and carried out a fair test using paper aeroplanes. We spoke about what a fair test is and knew that we could only change one thing at a time. We then came up with a question we wanted to answer. Here are some of the questions we tested:
Which shape paper aeroplane goes the furthest?
Which material paper aeroplane goes the furthest?
Which type of throw makes the paper aeroplane go the furthest?
Which size paper aeroplane goes the furthest?
We had great fun testing out our paper aeroplanes outside and then recording our findings in a table, we were then able to answer our question.
You can see us in action here.
In RE we have been thinking about our qualities and talents, and talking about how we can use these to be a good role model. We came up with lots of ideas and Year 5 really are setting a great example to the younger children around school.
In PE we came up with our own games to practise throwing and catching skills including shoulder pass, chest pass, bounce pass, ready position, and outwitting an opponent. Once we had practised our own game, we taught it to another group and gave feedback. It was amazing to see everybody work together as a team and use their patience and communication skills to teach another group.
Home Practice
Art
Please bring in any of the following that you have at home to use in art next week:
Old maps
Old books
Old newspaper
Reading
Read out loud every day for 20 minutes. Look at how speech is used, what punctuation do you notice?
Counting
Count out loud in:
1s from 701,999 to 702,020 and back again 701,999 702,000 702,001 ...
1s from 324,999 to 325,020 and back again 324,999 325,000 325,001 ...
1s from 865,999 to 866,020 and back again 865,999 866,000 866,001 ...
Times Tables
Please practise your tables target every day.
Spelling
Here are your spelling this week, they all end in -able or -ible.
horrible terrible possible edible reversible invincible adorable forgivable enjoyable valuable breakable impossible respectable
Sumdog
Maths Competition - in teams
Times Tables Challenge
Spelling Challenge
Have a weekend filled with smiles!
