We are going to trial out using Google Calendar to keep you all informed as to what is going on within the year group. Please let us know how we can improve things, thanks. Mr Woods
Following our homework/maths workshop we have decided to use the blog as a means to aid parents at home. We are aiming to have our own teachers record similar videos, however for the time being I found these on You tube….I hope you enjoy!
Multiplying TWO 2 digit numbers together using ‘The Grid Method’
Year Five Homework Outline Summer 1 Wk Beginning 12th April 2010
| Week | Hwk | Due Date | Done? |
| 1 | Who were the Greek Gods and Goddesses? | 19th April | |
| 2 | A creative evaluation of the film ‘Clash of the Titans’ | 26th April | |
| 3 | Create the lifecycle of a Frog | 4th May | |
| 4 | Investigate Greek architecture and design your own coliseum | 10th May | |
| 5 | Why do we have the Olympic games? | 17th May | |
| 6 | Can you make your own Greek God, Goddess or mythical creature? | 24th May | |
| 7 | Write a monologue for your character to perform as a short presentation in class | 31st May |
Year 5, don’t forget that we have a special log to monitor homework! The children who are bringing homework in on time will be rewarded in a special prize draw at the end of this half term!
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| ReadingAnd spellings | Maths-Written HWK | Reading and spellings | Times tables-10 minsReading 10 mins | Topic Research | Topic Written HWK | Independent writing (a story, poem, diary unaided but within a 20 minute time limit) |
In addition, try to use the following websites to top up your learning at home:
All Subjects: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/
Various Games: http://www.kenttrustweb.org.uk/kentict/content/games/index.htm
Spelling: http://www.spellingcity.com/ or http://www.kidsspell.com/
Science: http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/revision/Science/living/plants.html
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/science/s_plants/index.htm
http://www.catie.org.uk/plants_galore_page.html
Greeks:
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/Greece.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/ancient_greeks/
http://chalk.richmond.edu/education/projects/webunits/greecerome/Greecerelig1.html
Myths and Legends; http://www.planetozkids.com/
Numeracy: http://www.topmarks.co.uk/EducationalGames.aspx?cat=15
ANNOUNCEMENT
Mrs Bell will be running a homework club every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in 5SK for all Year 5 children.
If you are struggling with homework, need some creative ideas or resources or maybe just a quiet space to work, make sure you come along!
Homework Ideas
If your child is unsure of a way in which their homework can be presented, here is a list of useful mediums:
Making 3D models
Recipes
Songs
Drama sketch/ Script
Poem
Memory Map/ Brain shower
Photographs
Create a list of useful webistes you visited for research and annotate each site with a short summary of what it was about
Illustrations
Collage
Audio recordings
Made up games
Lift the flap questions/answers
Diaries
Leaflets
Photos of yourself doing something practical/places you have been
Create timelines
Labelled diagrams
Instructions
Cartoon strips
Fact lists
Maths questions with working explained
Powerpoint presentations
Interviews (transcribed or taped)
A magazine or newspaper article
Acrostics
There are lots more ideas which you may think of yourselves but hopefully there will be something in this list which inspires you!
Thank you to all of our parent/carers who attended todays assembly. I think you would all agree that the year five children really did themselves proud and displayed such maturity, creativity and enthusiasm! Thank you for all of your support, it was duly appreciated!!
The year 5 team x
Its our Year 5 Assembly and You’re invited!!!
To all Parents/Carers,
Year 5 would like to invite you to our special ‘Freedom’ Assembly on Friday 26th March 2010 at 9am in the hall!
The children are working extremely hard on this performance which has lots of moving and powerful scenes of both freedom as well as slavery, which are the subjects we have been studying in our Big Question this term.
The Year 5 staff are very excited to celebrate the childrens work with you and will be sending home personal invitations from your child very soon!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Mr Woods’ Parent Consultation Times
| Time | MONDAY 15 th | TUESDAY 16th | WEDNESDAY 17th |
| 15:30:00 | Ruby | Courtney | Mohammed |
| 15:45:00 | Eve | Tom | |
| 16:00:00 | Usman | Martha | |
| 16:15:00 | Aziz | Andrew | |
| 16:30:00 | Shaima | ||
| 16:45:00 | |||
| 17:00:00 | Joe | Peter | |
| 17:15:00 | Bethan | ||
| 17:30:00 | Reagan | ||
| 17:45:00 | Amy | ||
| 18:00:00 | ——————– | ——————– | |
| 18:15:00 | ——————– | ——————– | |
| 18:30:00 | ——————– | Louis | ——————– |
| 18:45:00 | ——————– | Connain | ——————– |
Year Five Homework UPDATE
| Week | Hwk | Due Date |
| 1 | Create your own Family Tree | 1st March |
| 2 | To create a recount of our Liverpool trip | 8th March |
| 3 | Make a rap about yourself | 15th March |
| 4 | Create a 1 / 2 minute Presentation about yourself | 22nd March |
| 5 | Observe the phases of the moon and create a Lunar diary | 29th March |
Thank you once again to those Parents who came to the Homework Forum. We have compiled all your comments and will be implementing changes this half term. The table above gives you a break down of what the homework will be over this half term.
The recommended time for Year 5/6 children to spend on homework is twenty minutes a night. Although class teachers will only be setting two written pieces of homework a week (1 Topic/English and 1 Maths) you and your child can still carry out homework throughout the week. The table below is just an example of what you may decide to do for homework with your child.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Reading | Maths-Written HWK | Reading | Times tables-10 minsReading 10 mins | Topic Research | Topic Written HWK | Independent writing (a story, poem, diary unaided but within a 20 minute time limit) |
We have decided to keep the Maths homework the same with children collecting their own homework from the Year 5 corridor on a Monday and sticking it in their Maths book on the Friday. Many parents felt that they often needed more time to complete topic homework. For this reason Topic homework will be handed out on a Monday and should be stuck into their homework book the following Monday, this will give children more time to complete their homework and also allow staff time to mark and feedback homework.
We are trying to help each child become more independent with their work both at home and in school. With children having access to the internet it can be very easy for a child to use a search engine and then print out many pages on a subject without even reading anything. Therefore, we ask that if your child does use the internet and uses the ‘cut and paste’ option then we ask that they highlight the areas that they feel are important to the topic.In recognition of children completing homework they will each receive a raffle ticket, this shall be done each week. At the end of the Term all the tickets shall be placed into a hat and a prize draw will take place.We hope that this is of use to you and helps clarify what is expected of your child for homework.
Yours truly,
Year 5 Staff
Thank you to all the parents who came to the Homework forum AND also those who have attended the Maths workshops. I shall be looking at the notes made from the homework discussions and will create a homework leaflet outlining in more detail the structure within Year 5, as well as this I shall also compile a maths strategy booklet to place online and to handout in the new half term. Thanks once again!! -Mr Woods
Don’t forget to call into the school dinning hall on Wednesday 27th Jan for the Year 5 homework workshop/forum. This will take place at 9:00am and again at 3:45pm. The afternoon session will take place in my classroom (Mr Woods 5MW)
Chorlton Park Primary School
Year 5 Spring 1 -Topic Web
The BIG Question
What is Freedom?
Our topic this term looks deeply into the movement of slaves across the triangular trade route. Before we enter this phase we shall be trying to look at Africa and the people within before Europeans started to trade globally. This, we hope, will help give children an insight/perspective to what Africa was like as a Continent in its own right!
Our BIG Question – What is Freedom Part 1?
This terms topic is split into two parts. The first section will look into the following:-
• What freedom means to me
• Where is Africa & what will we find there?
• Why is it so poor?
• Triangular Slave Trade
• African Art
• African dance
I.C.T- Internet-email & Blogging
• Being safe on the internet
• How to attach documents/pictures
• Creating a blog
• Placing web-links
• Search Engines
MUSIC
African Drumming, Singing
Keeping a pulse & Rhythm
PSHE:-
Going For Goals
What we want to strive for and achieve not just in year 5 but also within our lives!
P.E.
Hand-Eye co-ordination
Games
Team Games
NUMERACY
• Diagrams, graphs and symbols
• One & Two step word problems
• Counting in Decimal steps and going beyond zero
• Know and explain what each digit represents of ANY given number
• Use written methods to + and – decimal numbers
• Extend knowledge of rounding numbers
• Work out fractions of whole numbers
• Percentages
HOW YOU CAN HELP
1. Help your child with their times tables
2. Make observations of the Moon
3. Attend the Homework Workshop
4. If you or your relatives are from an African country then please speak to your class teacher, we may need you!!!
LITERACY
Persuasion
• Tv and Billboard Adverts
• Debate-for/against with reasoning & counter arguments
• Persuasive letter
Poetry
• Lyrics and meaning
• Emotion
• Telling a story
Diary Entry
• Empathy
• Description
• Layout
• Language used
Auditions for Chorlton Arts Festival Theatre Group:- TBC
Chorlton High school Reading Buddy Scheme starts 3rd Feb
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