Blueberry Class - Year 5
What we have been up to:
At Tiptree Heath we are: Ready, Respectful, Safe
Year 5 Greek Day- December 2024
Our topic this term is 'Tiptree'. As part of this unit of work, we will be exploring the geography of Tiptree and completing a walk around the village to see various points of interest. We will be visiting Wilkin & Sons jam factory to learn more about the history of the company, as well as learning about how they are farming sustainably. We will be considering how Tiptree has changed over time and how it may look in the future.
We show respect, we are safe and we are ready.
Our Year 5 Curriculum
Our Topic:
In Science, our topic is 'Properties and Changing Materials'. We will be learning to compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, discover some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution.
In our Maths lessons, the children will be building on their multiplication and division skills. They will be multiplying up to 4 digits by 2 digits using the formal written method and working on their mathematical reasoning skills when solving problems in this area.
We will also cover Fractions, Decimals & Percentages, Perimeter & Area and Statistics.
We will cover a range of skills in our English lessons this term. Our class reader is The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie.
We will be using this text as inspiration to write an adventure story, whilst incorporating our grammar learning from last term on relative clauses, semi colons and fronted adverbials. We will also be writing formal letters, biographies and diary entries this term. We will continue with our 2 weekly cycle of spellings, which can be found below attached to the weekly homework.
In Computing, we will be exploring databases; learning how to search them effectively and creating a class database. We will also be building on our coding knowledge to design, write and debug a program.
Information for parents:
Everyday we start at 8:45am We leave at 3:15pm
Our PE days are Tuesdays and Fridays. Please ensure that full PE kits are in school.
Homework
Your homework is set each week on a Friday to be completed by the following Friday.
Please see our weekly homework sheet below.
| Name | |
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| Friday 24th Jan 2025.docx | Download |
Read at least three times each week.
Your number of reads will be added up every week so that we can reward you with a Bronze (50 reads), Silver (100 reads) or Gold (200 reads) badge.
For a list of recommended reads for Year 5 click here
Recommended Books for Year 5:
https://peters.co.uk/uploads/downloads/files/Year%205%20100%20books%20A4%20AW.pdf
https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-5
https://www.booktrust.org.uk/booklists/1/100-best-books-9-11/
Week Commencing (20.6.22)
On Mathletics, I have set 3 activities:
-Decimals on a number line
-Comparing Decimals 2
-Multiplying by 10, 100 and 1,000
On Timestables Rockstars, I have set 6 soundcheck sessions for you to complete.
Week Commencing (27.6.22)
On Timestables Rockstars, I have set 8 soundcheck sessions for you to complete.
Week Commencing (13.6.22) - Practise your spellings words for a spelling test next Friday (17th June 2022)
bought, fought, rough, tough, although, through, plough, enough, cough, thought
Week Commencing (20.6.22) - Practise your spellings words for a spelling test next Friday (24th June 2022)
I would like you to practise these spellings again, as we did not do a spelling test before half term:
sign, signal, assign, design, signature, assignment, resignation, signalling, designer, resigning
Week Commencing (27.6.22) - Practise your spellings words for a spelling test next Friday (1st July 2022)
doubt, island, lamb, solemn, thistle, knight, subtle, receipt, wrist, listen
100 High Frequency Words
200 next High Frequency Words
Year 3/4 Statutory Words
Year 5/6 Statutory Word List
White Rose Maths Resources: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/
BBC Teach: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ks2/zvh3jhv
Geography: https://world-geography-games.com/
Science: https://explorify.uk/login - sign up for free
https://www.stem.org.uk/home-learning/primary
KS2 grammar: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhrrd2p
Recommended Reads
The Daily Mile
Blueberry Class have been taking part in the Daily Mile every day- The aim of The Daily Mile is to improve the physical, social, emotional and mental health and well being of the children. Each day, the children are asked to start walking with a partner and find out a fact about them.