Year 5

Welcome to Year 5

School production week! The children have been working hard on costumes, props, songs and dances - they have done incredibly well and I'm sure that Tuesday's performance will be great.

On a more personal note, this will be my last full week with the class and I just want to say what a delightful group Y5 have been and how proud I am as to the progress they have made this year, both academically and in confidence. I wish them all the very best for Year 6 and beyond.

Au revoir,

Mr. Maury.

Key Messages/Updates

• Times tables

  • Bootcamp group: all times tables

• Spelling

  • I've looked at the spelling results for the Summer term, and have selected the most problematic 25 words for the end-of-year test. Children will be given hardcopies to bring home with them to practise. The words can be found below in the 'Homework & Spelling' section.

Upcoming Dates

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Week Commencing 8th July 2019

English

• Completing non-chronological reports (NCRs), linked to Science.

SPaG

• Review of Y5 requirements for inclusion in writing NCRs.

Maths

• Small group workshops.

For the Summer term:

• Describe the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird.
• Describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals.

• Shading skills (pencil), mask & puppet making.

Geography

• Developing an understanding of the wider world and Africa.
• Understand position and significance of longitude, latitude .
• Get a deeper understanding of climate zones and biomes.

• Learn about the Christian creation story.
• Discussing whether it is complementary or conflicts with science.

Homework and Spellings

Maths

Times Tables:

• Children are expected to know up to 12x12 by end of Year 4
• Please support your child by ensuring they have good recall of these times tables
• Rote/chant learning and repetition is by far the best method, don't bother with online apps and games

I recommend the following website to pre-learn/review/follow-up on the maths taught:

https://www.mathsisfun.com/

Spellings homework

The words for the end-of-year spelling test are as follows:

1. applicable

2. beneficial

3. borough

4. ceiling

5. conscious

6. deceit

7. fictitious

8. guessed

9. independence

10. initial

11. malicious

12. obedience

13. past

14. preference

15. preferred

16. receipt

17. receive

18. referee

19. referral

20. referring

21. solemn

22. superstitious

23. surreptitious

24. thorough

25. transferred

Reading for Pleasure

Please ensure that reading with an adult is taking place regularly. It is vitally important to hear your children read and to ask them questions about what they've read: words, meaning and prediction.

To earn the end of term reading certificate, they will need to read four times a week for the entire term.  I will only know if they have completed this task if you sign their partnership books. The 'LF' stamp in their planner indicates that they've met the criterion for the week. They then need to update the Reading Challenge Chart in the classroom - this requires organisation on their part!

The following website may be a source of inspiration for books:

https://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/

Awards

Stars of the Week

Mercy & Rosie: Both for the perseverance with maths and independently extending themselves to become even better!

Class Dojo

Johan