Home Learning Activities for Friday, 25th of September 📚✏️

Hello Year 5! 

Here are some tasks that we would love you to complete while the school remains closed. Have a go, try your best, and most importantly, enjoy your learning!

1. Maths: Roman Numerals revision - can you recall the Roman Numerals that you know?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z8trxg8

BBC Bitesize is here to help!

Have a read through and test yourself with the quiz.

You can use BBC Bitesize for more fun maths games and activities. 

2. TT Rockstars 🎸

Why not log on to TT Rockstars and have some fun practising your times tables?

Challenge yourself to improve your score and see if you can climb to the top of the leaderboard! 🏆

3. Enjoy a Good Read!! 📖☀️ 

There’s always time to enjoy a good book!

Find a comfy spot, head outside into the sunshine if you can, and enjoy getting lost in a great story. 🌞📚

✅ Ask an adult to sign your reading record after you have read. 

⭐ Finished your book? Become a book reviewer! 

Tell us: 

• What was your favourite part of the story? 

• Who was your favourite character and why? 

• Would you recommend this book to a friend? 

You could even draw a picture of your favourite scene! 

4. English – Creative Writing! ✏️📖
Your task: 
Look outside your window or, if you can, go for a short walk. Take your time to notice what is around you.

1. Look closely 👀
Notice:

* What can you see?
* What colours, shapes and textures do you notice?
* Is anything moving?
* What is the weather like?

2. Listen carefully 👂
What sounds can you hear? Try to describe them using interesting vocabulary.

3. Imagine 💭
Choose one thing you noticed and imagine it has a secret story.

4. Write ✏️
Write a creative piece of at least 250 words. You could write:

* a short story
* a setting description
* a poem
* a diary entry from the point of view of something you saw

⭐ Challenge yourself!

Use:

* expanded noun phrases
* powerful verbs and adjectives
* similes and metaphors
* personification
* show, don’t tell
* a variety of sentence openers

Starter idea:
“I had never noticed it before. Hidden between the…”

Remember: You don’t need to go outside if you can’t. You can use your imagination and observe from a window instead!

5. Enrichment Passport (also linked on the previous page):

How many of these can you complete? 

This is a fantastic opportunity to have fun, try something new and learn new skills. Challenge yourself and see how many you can tick off! ⭐

📸 We'd love to see photos, drawings or any work you complete! 

Have fun, be creative and let your imagination shine! 🌈

 

Have a great day everyone and see you on Monday,

Mrs Hyett and Miss Dennis 

 

 

WC - 21.9.26

What an unexpected turn of events this week, we hope it has not impacted too many of you at home! We hope to be back to normal and in school soon. Despite the unexpected interruption in our week, we have been working hard and pushing ourselves to be amazing across a range of lessons.

In maths, we learnt a range of Roman numerals – including working out our birth year! Next, we moved on to negative numbers (which will resume when we return). As always in our maths lessons, we like to make connections with real life and the children were able to identify a variety of places they have seen Roman numerals (clocks and in movie credits) and negative numbers (lifts and thermometers). In English, we learnt the features of a biography and used this to help us plan our upcoming biographies on Queen Victoria – the children really are experts on her now, so we expect some fantastic writing from them! The children were so impressive in their recall of facts about Queen Victoria that a number of adults came into class from different years to test them! In computing, we had our first AI lesson, in which we identified images that were created by AI and also emphasised the importance of recognising that AI can never replace a human when we need a friend or connection. We want to keep this discussion ongoing throughout the year so we can help support the children in their understanding of the fast-evolving AI world. Please have these conversations at home too.

 This week, in our assembly, we were fortunate enough to have Essex Police in to discuss hate crimes – the children listened attentively and respectfully. We were very proud of them.

We hope to see you all very soon!

Mrs Hyett and Miss Dennis

 

WC - 14.9.26

It was another busy week in year 5 last week!

In maths, we continued our place value topic. We challenged ourselves by working with larger numbers; ordering numbers; and counting in 10s, 100s and 1,000s. This week we are moving onto Roman numerals and negative numbers! In History, we learnt about Queen Victoria and her significant reign. We will use all the research we have gathered to write biographies this week. Did you know Queen Victoria made Christmas fashionable? Our art was also linked to the Victorian era, and we focused on the floral designs in William Morris' artwork – using watercolour paints to create effective pieces. In music, we have been lucky enough to be enrolled on a fabulous course to learn the toot – an instrument similar to a flute. We met the lovely Mrs Hundle on Thursday and we will continue lessons with her for around 10 weeks. In science, we recapped our prior learning (the order of the planets) and delved deeper by identifying that planets are spherical. In PE, we continued tag rugby and started some small games. In the coming weeks, children who demonstrate talent, and most importantly teamwork, will be selected to represent the school in a tournament! 

We hope you had a lovely weekend and we are looking forward to an exciting week ahead.

Mrs Hyett and Miss Dennis

WC - 1.9.26

Welcome to year 5! We hope you enjoy and keep up to date with this page as we aim to include an abundance of information and photographs, showcasing the year 5 journey throughout the entire year.

The children have started the year with great maturity and resilience; we are very impressed with our first impression! It has been a joy to get to know them and hear about their exciting summers. We have had a soft start to our year this week, writing diary entries based on a highlight of our summer holiday; enjoying some OTTER time; undertaking some baseline assessments; starting our tag rugby lessons in PE; starting our new history topic 'Victorians'; and creating some incredible art inspired by Picasso and the story 'The Dot' (please see some lovely examples below). We are looking forward to jumping headfirst into our timetable and exciting year 5 curriculum next week. 

On Monday, lots of us will enjoy the attendance award of a day at Legoland - be sure to be prepared for all weathers if you are coming! On Friday, we will be holding a parent information session at 2.50pm - we will outline the year ahead and answer any questions you may have about year 5. 

Wishing you all a lovely weekend.

Mrs Hyett and Miss Dennis

WC - 7/9/26

It has been a very busy week in year 5! It started with a large portion of us going to Legoland for the day - it was a very enjoyable day, full of rides and laughter, and we are incredibly grateful to the adults who came to support the trip! The children who remained at school played some games outside in the sunshine and created some wonderful cat art - inspired by our class book 'Varjack Paw'.

In maths, we started our place value topic and the children have impressed the teachers so much! We enjoyed using dice to create numbers together and breaking down the place value of each digit. In PE, we started tag rugby and played some fun games to practise throwing and catching as well as dodging defenders. In art, we created our annual Christmas cards (if you can believe it), these will be sent home next week - should you want to order any merchandise from Cauliflower. In History, we have continued our Victorian topic by creating some awesome timelines! We are going to conduct some research on Victorian inventions in the ICT suite tomorrow!

It has been a tiring week and the children really have worked hard, it isn't easy getting used to early mornings and getting back into the swing of school, so we really are proud of them.

We hope to see lots of you at our parent meeting tomorrow afternoon (2.50pm), where we will outline the year ahead and hopefully answer any questions you may have. If you cannot make it, we will be updating our website with the slides.

Mrs Hyett and Miss Dennis