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Our blog gives parents & children in Y5 messages & homework from the Y5 team.

Use it for checking homework tasks & for any last-minute messages (see Info page for important messages and register for Parentmail for all school letters direct to your email inbox).

Don't forget to use our Links page to access some of the best interactive educational websites around and our Gallery page to see some of the work we've been producing.

You can reply via the comment box below. Let us know what you think; ask us what this week's homework is; ask for help with a task.

Phonics resources

July 23, 2010

We'll be working intensively with some children in Y6 next year on phonological awareness (basic building blocks of reading & writing). If you'd like to do some work with your child over summer, here are a few websites & resources that we'll be using from September:
Letters & Sounds resources
Letters & Sounds pack
Topmarks Letters & Sounds interactive activities
Digby
Coventry L&S resources

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Music work on Gallery page

July 19, 2010

Listen to our strings work on the gallery page

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Homework 9.7.10

July 9, 2010

English

Mr Cooper’s group

Write a diary entry for a character from your favourite programme or film. Focus on their feelings – not events.

Mr Brooks/Miss Wood’s group

Take one of your favourite books from home. Read the beginning and write your own opening paragraph, using the same format as the book. Eg: if it opens with speech, you do the same; if it opens with a description, you write a similar description, etc.

Maths

Mr Cooper’s group

Complete the double-sided w...

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Great graph making site

June 14, 2010

Try this site out for making brilliant graphs really easily: http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/images/graph-multi.swf

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Homework 11.6.10 (due 22.6.10)

June 11, 2010

English

Mr Cooper’s group
Choose a scene from your favourite programme or film. Can you write about the features that help to create the mood? Is it sad? Happy? Scary? What do you think makes it so? What technical features (camera angle etc) add to this effect?

Mr Brooks/Miss Wood’s group
Complete the punctuation worksheet.

Maths

Mr Cooper’s group
Complete the double-sided worksheet on line graphs.

Mr Brooks/Miss Wood’s group
Complete the worksheet on rounding numbers and p...

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The Grand Y5 Spellathon 2010

June 8, 2010

Dear parent/carer,

We are holding a spelling competition in Y5 this term: The Grand Y5 Spellathon. Spelling is a particular issue in Y5 this year and we thought it would be a fun way to encourage the children to learn their spellings - it has worked very well in Y2 and Y6 previously.

We have given the children one of three spelling lists with around 100 words (click here for a replacement copy) with these instructions:

You should learn all of the spellings on the list, using the techniq...

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Literacy Mr Brooks & Miss Wood's English group. To be completed & returned by

May 21, 2010

Choose a single idea for an argument for or against any subject. Write a full paragraph to expand that idea the same way as we did in class on Friday. Try to use some formal language to show how clever you are and how good your argument is.
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