Friday 3rd July 2020
Good morning everyone! Well done for making it to the end of another week of home learning!
Star of the day - Kayden
Kayden you are working hard at home and impressing all of your teachers with how amazing you are!
Morning Activity
Catch up with what's going on in the world with today's Newsround.
Then, get moving with the final PE lesson of the week with Joe Wickes.
Reading
In reading today we would like you to apply all of the skills you have learnt.
Click here for the lesson. Read the extract, highlight any tricky words and answer the comprehension questions at the side of the text.
Maths
Warm up your mental maths skills with a game of ‘Daily 10’ – why not practise recapping your fractions learning?
To continue your learning with shapes, you can look at illustrating and naming parts of a circle by clicking here.
Alternatively, you can practise drawing angles using a protractor by clicking here. If you don’t have a protractor at home, scroll down the page to use an interactive protractor to practise drawing.
Writing
Today, we are going to re-cap our learning about imperative verbs and use them to write a set of instructions. We have done this at school and for our home learning so you should be amazing at this by now!
Challenge yourself by trying to include different fronted adverbials and subordinate clauses to up-level your sentences and make them even better!
Click here to get started – read the information, watch the videos and complete the different activities.
SPAG
Click here for today’s SPaG lesson – you will be practising spelling Year 5 common exception words through playing this interactive game.
Topic
Today we will be focusing on our Design & Technology skills, more specifically focusing on our use of annotated designs and freehand sketching.
Click here for the lesson – read the information and watch the videos. Afterwards, complete the activity where you will need to complete an annotated design of a product in your house.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Thursday 2nd July 2020
Good morning everyone! We hope you had fun making your entries for the art competition yesterday! Remember to send them to us so that we can enter them!
Star of the day - Summer P
Summer, you're working really hard to do some home learning! Keep it up!
Morning Activity
Catch up with what's going on in the world with today's Newsround.
Then, get moving with this online samba lesson.
Reading
Click the link to be taken to an extract from a diary about visiting the Rainforest. Once you have read the extract, there are some interactive comprehension questions for you to answer.
Maths
Use your mental maths skills to escape with the bio-rods in Mission 2110.
To continue your learning with shapes, you can look at identifying, describing and classifying triangles by clicking here.
Alternatively, you can learn how to measure and identify angles around a point by clicking here.
Writing
Today, you need to draw upon your sense of humour for writing. You are going to look at writing adverts and brochures for comedy.
Click here for the lesson. There are videos for you to watch and information for you to read before you have a go at some activities and then create your own brochure.
SPAG
Recap your knowledge of prefixes with this prefix game.
Topic
Back to our French topic this afternoon with the theme of 'what's in the bag?'
Click here to go through the Powerpoint that has all the information you will need. Once you have completed that, have a go at the beach bag task.
Have a great day everyone!
Wednesday 1st July 2020
Good morning everyone! Don’t forget to enter our Art Competition! Head over to the competitions page for more information. We will be using our topic lesson today to begin our entries!
Star of the day - Abrriet
Abrriet you are working so hard at home! Keep up the hard work!
Morning Activity
Joe Wickes is back today with his live PE lesson! Click here to get your heart pumping.
Reading
In reading today, we are going to practise our skills with some non-text based reading comprehension!
Click here to see the picture and find the comprehension questions!
Maths
Warm up with a round of Daily 10 – challenge yourself with a new topic!
For some brand new learning, you can click here to learn about recognising representations of 2-D and 3-D shapes.
Alternatively, you continue learning how to measure angles on a straight line using a protractor. Click here to get started.
Writing
Today, you are going to apply all of the skills that you have learnt this week and write your very own newspaper reports. Remember to think carefully about reported speech and direct speech and what features you should include to make your newspaper report amazing!
Click here for the lesson – watch the videos, complete the quiz and complete the worksheet at the end.
SPAG
Head over to spelling frame today and practise Spelling Rule 54. Today you need to practise the beginning spelling words from Years 5 and 6. Today’s words range from -aw to -cont.
Topic
Today we are going to begin our entries for the Art Competition! Each week there will be a new theme and there will be a prize for the best entry from KS2. Everyone who enters their artwork will receive a certificate!
This week’s theme is The Natural World.
It’s your turn to create some amazing artwork and interact with our natural world.
You can choose from the following four activities:
Have a look at the equipment you will need in the following slides and choose which art project you prefer. Feel free to do more than one! Click here for the powerpoint which will explain what to do next!
Have a great day everyone!
Tuesday 30th June 2020
Good morning everyone! We hope you are feeling fresh and ready for a new day!
Star of the day - Jayden
You are doing some fantastic independent home learning Jayden, keep it up!
Morning Activity
Start the day by getting your hearts racing with this HIIT workout.
Reading
Continuing with your work on newspaper reports, you are going to be answer some comprehension questions for reading today. Click here for the lesson - complete the quizzes, watch the video and have a go at the worksheets.
Maths
Warm up with TTRockstars.
For some brand new learning, you can click here to learn to identify and classify 3D shapes based on their properties.
Alternatively, you can look at how to measure angles with a protractor. Click here for the lesson - read the information and watch the videos. If you have a protractor at home, then there is the option to complete the worksheet. Alternatively, if you don't have a protractor, you can click on this link to use an online protractor to measure some angles!
Writing
For writing today you are going to be looking at direct and indirect speech. This is something we have spent plenty of time on now so this should be a recap for you! Click here for the lesson - have a go at the quizzes, watch the video and complete the activities.
SPAG
Head over to spelling frame to practise some homophones and other words that are often confused.
Topic
Have a go at finding the pulse in today's music lesson. Once you've completed the lesson, why not listen to some of your favourite songs and find the pulse in those as well?
Click here to get started.
Have a wonderful day everyone!
Monday 29th June 2020
Good morning everyone! Welcome to the start of a brand new week! We only have 3 weeks of this school year left so keep working super hard so that you can enjoy your summer holidays!
Star of the day - Connor
You continue to blow us away with your outstanding home learning Connor! Well done!
Morning Activity
Let’s get our heart racing by joining in with Joe Wickes – how much have you improved since Joe began his daily PE lessons?
You might also want to catch up with what is going on in the world – click here to watch today’s episode of Newsround.
Reading
In reading and writing this week we are going to focus on newspaper reports. We have looked at this genre in our writing at school so you should be familiar with their layout and the key features included within a newspaper report already.
Click here for today’s lesson – you will be answering a range of comprehension questions based on a newspaper report about the ‘French Spiderman’. Complete the quiz, watch the lesson and complete the worksheet at the end.
Maths
Warm up your maths brains with a round of ‘Hit the Button’.
For some brand new learning, you can learn how to identify and classify 3D shapes based on their properties by clicking here.
Alternatively, you can practise applying your maths skills to some tricky maths challenges by clicking here.
Writing
We are going to continue our learning about newspaper reports in writing today. Think back to the newspaper report we wrote all about a frog invasion on Moston Lane! What features did you include? What does a good newspaper report look like?
Click here for today’s lesson. You will need to read the WAGOLL and identify all of the key features needed to produce a fantastic newspaper report!
SPAG
In SPAG today, we would like you to complete a 10-minute test. At the end, use the answers to mark yourself and highlight any areas that you find tricky. Click here to have a go.
Then, either email us on the Y5 email address with an area you would like help with or head over to BBC Bitesize SPAG pages to find more information!
Topic
Back to Geography today. This half term, we are thinking about Non-European regions and how they are similar/different to life in the United Kingdom.
Today we would like you to learn all about the Galapagos islands. Click here to get started – read the information, watch the videos and complete the three activities.
Have a great day everyone!