Spellings 20th December
mansion
erosion
excursion
revision
occasion
invasion
succession
confusion
collision
pension
principle
punctuate
quotation
whether
competitive
Maths
St James’s Trust Competition
All students in years 5 and 6 have been given new log in details to Mathletics. They are now competing against years 5-8 children across the 3 schools that make up the St James’s Trust. The children are ranked by how long they spend competing activities, not by ability.
Have fun!
Projects
Children can now start bringing in their half term projects. We will start presenting them on Friday. Electronic presentations can be emailed to the school.
Christmas Performance
Year 5 are Till Workers in the school performance. Preferably they should wear a blue t-shirt or shirt and can include a name badge if they want. Similar to a supermarket till worker. Trousers or skirts and school shoes can make up the costume.
Spellings 14th December
potential
partial
substantial
initial
martial
celestial
impartial
credentials
audience
applaud
condemn
quarrelling
squabble
quarantine
confidence
Maths (Due 10th December)
English (Due 10th December)
Christmas Jumper Comprehension
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Please write answers directly into your homework book.
Spellings 6th December
gnaw
gnome
feign
campaign
champagne
mortgage
gourmet
depot
raspberry
breath
dreadful
heaven
leather
pleasant
literature
Maths (Due 3rd December)
Please select 5 of the problems from the selection. You will need to use a formal division method (‘Bus Stop/ or ‘Chunking’), with workings, to solve the problem. If you have any mental strategies for solving the problem, please include the workings for this separately.
English (Due 3rd December)
Write a short paragraph based around this photograph. Your paragraph should create suspense using: short sentences, ellipsis, similes and metaphors.
Spellings 29th November
You will need to use the correct homophone during your dictation so make sure you learn the meaning of all the words.
aisle
aloud
allowed
alter
altar
ascent
bridal
cereal
serial
compliment
complement
farther
father
guessed
guest
English (Due date Monday 26th)
Rather than printing off the sheet you are welcome to write the answers directly into your book. This is a difficult task, you can leave questions you are unsure of.
Maths (Due date Monday 26th)
Please complete 6 questions from which ever challenge(s) you want.
Spellings 23rd November
official
special
artificial
beneficial
specialist
commercial
financial
insulation
survey
disaster
aggravating
excavating
phenomenon
tsunami
despicable
Music (Due date: Monday 19th)
English (Due date: Monday 19th)
Please find the titles of between 5 and 10 autobiographies.
Record under the name of each autobiography who it was written by.
e.g. Diary of a young Girl
Anne Frank
It is strongly recommended that you read an autobiography this year however it is difficult to find one that is age appropriate for children. If you type autobiographies for kids into Google, they have some suitable recommendations.
Maths (Due date: Monday 19th)
This week we are learning to use formal methods to add and subtract. Please choose either challenge 1, 2 or 3. If you have a method that you think is more efficient than using columns you are welcome to use it.
Spellings November 16th
vehicle
genre
vacuum
eczema
plateau
guarantee
minuscule
government
develop
environment
language
lightning
anxious
physical
neither
Spellings November 9th
neutral
amateur
feudal
Europe
category
dictionary
twelfth
thousand
career
sincerely
dimensions
radius
intersect
triangular
rectangular
English
Reciting a poem. This week I would like you to recite all or part of a poem (Flanders Fields)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47380/in-flanders-fields
You can record this in your book with a photo of you reciting the poem or you can write a sentence explaining when and who you recited the poem to.
In addition to this please find the definitions for 3 words from the poem that you are unsure of the meaning of.
e.g. foe = a foe is…
Maths
Please complete at least 1 of the questions.
If you would prefer a challenge 1 activity please write 4 number sentences that have the sum 9.5. e.g. 8.9 + 0.6 = 9.5
Spellings October 26th
balance
replace
glacier
cease
scarce
convince
crevice
descent
circulation
preference
ceramics
procedure
existence
ancient
proceed
No homework during half term.
Spellings October 19th
Please don’t scribe spellings into homework books.
ambitious
fictitious
infectious
nutritious
scrumptious
altitude
horizontal
vertical
degrees
schedule
strategy
diameter
equilateral
calibration
symmetry
Maths
Choose one challenge to complete.
English
Make 2 lists, with arguments for and against having a class pet.
Autumn Projects are due Friday 19th October; ready to be presented the following week.
Spellings 12th October
deceived
receive
infectious
receipt
deceitful
ceiling
received
menace
piece
success
cinema
century
ambitious
cautious
fleecy
Homework due in Monday 15th October
English
Modal verbs Modal verbs
Maths
Negative numbers Negative numbers