Week 5 Home Learning Y5

Week 4 Home Learning Y5

Welcome to your final week as a Year 5 pupil. Well done on continuing to develop your skills up until the end of the school year. Miss Myler and I have been really impressed by your perseverance and hard work throughout these strange times; it has been super to see so many of you blogging your work too. Please remember that you can contact us via email or on PurpleMash if you have any questions.

Maths: This week, we will continue to focus on fractions skills with some open-ended investigations. There is also a problem solving challenge on Thursday which you may want to do with a partner. Perhaps you could be a computing whizz like Libby and Poppy and complete the work over video-chat together? Maybe you want to work through the problems with your parents or an older sibling?

Revision week 4

Science: I’d like you to find a few containers in your house. For example, an egg cup, a glass, a bowl and a saucepan. Fill each with the same amount of salt water (Add a teaspoon for each 100ml and mix in). Which container will evaporate the fastest and why? Keep checking on your containers throughout the week. What do you notice? Which shape would be the best for a bird bath so that the water doesn’t evaporate quickly?

Literacy:
Create your own game (this could be based on a current game and adapt its rules or be really creative and think of a new game from scratch). Perhaps you will design a board game rather than a sporting game.  Extension: Write a set of instructions including the players, their roles and the equipment that you would need to play them.

English – The Game

Guided Reading:
Set as 2dos on PM

Spellings:

Set on PM and uploaded to the spellings page on the Y5 Newdale page.

Art:
Research “aluxes” in Maya culture. We have been looking at these mischievous beings in school and I would like you to create one of your own. You could draw your aluxes, junk model it using your recycling or create it out of clay or playdough.

DT:
Watch an episode of the dengineers from CBBC on BBC iPlayer. Create a moodboard of your ideal den. Then draw out your initial design. You could even have a go at creating your den out of objects you can find around your home.

Topic – https://www.snowdonia.gov.wales/home# Use the Snowdonia tourist board website to create a poster persuading people to visit the area. Remember to include information about where to stay, what to do and how the land is looked after for future generations. You might want to research local food and beautiful towns to visit in the area. You could use Google Earth to explore the area and even see the view from the top of Mt. Snowdon!

Happy Friday Year 5!

I hope that you have all had a wonderful week 😊

This will be your final homework question from me this year – can you believe that you will soon be moving up into Year 6?!

As some of you have been revising space this week as part of your home learning, I have followed this theme for the Year 5 homework. I would like you all to research the modern-day scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock. Who is she? Can you tell me about her early life, education, career and research? What award was she honoured with in 2009? What is her ambition?

How you present your findings is entirely up to you – be creative!

Hopefully learning about Maggie will help you to see that finding a career you love can stem from your enjoyment of a subject that you learn in school. I look forward to seeing your research; please send it directly to me via Purple Mash or post it on the homework blog by next Friday.

Have a fantastic weekend Year 5, you wonderful bunch.

Mrs Stack

Hello Year 5!

Well here we are on yet another Friday! Whether you are at school or at home, I hope that you have had a wonderful week and well done for working so hard – give yourself a pat on the back.

Your homework question for this week is based on the growth mindset work that we have been focussing on in the afternoons. We have learnt the importance of having a positive attitude towards learning and our ability to progress and achieve with practise and determination.

For your homework, I would like you to spend some time thinking about what you might like to do for a career when you finally leave education. Some of you may already have some very definite ideas about your career path. If you do, then research around that role to find out what you need to achieve in order to get there. What qualifications do you need? Do you need to go to university? What skills and qualities do you need? Is there any voluntary work experience that you could undertake as you get older to support your development of these skills? Create a picture of yourself in your chosen career and present your research of this role (and your path to get there) around it.

Some of you may have absolutely no idea what you want to do – and that’s fine too! It took me a long time to discover that the job I love is that of a Teaching Assistant. It’s helpful to learn about yourself a little more first to establish what careers might appeal to your interests. Can you think about what your favourite subjects are at school? What do you enjoy learning about? Do you enjoy literacy or maths? Or is science, or maybe art, more your thing? What are your hobbies? Do you like being outside? Are you a baker? Do you enjoy sport? Create a picture of yourself and surround it with your favourite subjects and hobbies – an ‘All About Me’. You can then use this to help you reflect, as you progress through school, on where you might like your career path to take you.

I would love to see your finished pieces and to hear all about you and maybe what career path you have already decided you would like to follow. Please either email me directly with your work or post it on the blog. This is due in by Friday 10th July 2020.

Dream big because you are all capable of doing amazing things and remember that who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.

Have a fabulous weekend Year 5, you wonderful bunch.

Speak soon

Mrs Stack

Happy Monday!

I hope that this week brings the same glorious sunshine as last week. We are still loving seeing all the work you are sending in so keep it up in the last few weeks before the holidays!

Maths

This week we will be re-capping a range of skills to do with place value. These will really come in handy as you move into Y6.

Revision week 2  Friday Arithmetic 

Literacy

This week’s project is all about expressive, creative writing. I can’t wait to see your imaginations run wild. Remember that Guided Reading and Spellings will still be available through PurpleMash.

29th June 2020

Science

In Science this week, I would like you to use you independent research skills to create a poster about Forces. For example, you could explain all the forces acting upon someone who is going skiing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/znmmn39

Topic

In Geography this week, I would like you to produce an investigation into the River Severn with a focus on how the river erodes the landscape as well as what happens when it floods. You may want to look for a case study of flooding in Ironbridge in particular as it was hit badly over winter.

Natural impacts of rivers

Art

Hogwarts is looking out for yet another Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. Their job is to teach the pupils how to keep safe when facing dark magic. They need to teach young witches and wizards to produce powerful spells to overcome evil. I’d like you to design the new teacher and give them a fantastic outfit. You may wish to research what other witches and wizards wear, or use your own fashion sense to give them cool elements. You could also re-design one of these characters!