Hello Year 5, We hope you’ve had a sensational swashbuckling, plank-walking week!

It was boys versus girls in the Year 5 Battle of the Bands this week. This was a pretty close one for much of the

week but a huge well done to the girls who edged to a victory! Sweet revenge for the whole school defeat a

couple of weeks ago. It’s the launch of the Robert Miles Times Tables Rockstars Cup this week. Will one of the

Year 5 classes become the school champions over the coming weeks? Both classes have been

drawn against Year 4 this week - let’s make sure we don’t fall at the first hurdle!

Time to set sail and discover the secrets of lands afar! With this week’s theme of ‘Around the

World’, it’s your chance to find out more about the wonderful world that we live in. Hopefully,

you will find some great things to keep you busy, interested and learning.

Maths

This week White Rose Maths focus is decimals. There is a lesson for every day of the week for you to complete. Click here to access the website for the videos and here to find the paper resources on the school website. This week, go back to Summer Term Week 7 Summer Term Week 7. Lesson 1: Decimals as fractions (Worksheet & Answers) Summer Term Week 7. Lesson 2: Understanding thousandths (Worksheet & Answers) Summer Term Week 7. Lesson 3: Rounding decimals (Worksheet & Answers) Summer Term Week 7. Lesson 4: Order and compare decimals (Worksheet & Answers) Summer Term Week 7. Lesson 5: Friday maths challenge If you are finding this too tricky, chat to your parents and go back to the Year 4 work for the same week. This will really help your understanding. For those of you finding that White Rose isn’t the best option, have a look at the Oak Academy lessons for another option. You can find it by following this link. You might also want to look at I See Maths to find different lessons. This week’s focus is The Number System Times Tables Remember to keep practising your times tables every day. Ten minutes every day instead of one longer block once a week will help you really remember them. You could use Times Tables Rockstars, Hit the Button or other games you know. This week’s TTRS Battle of the Bands are: 5L versus 4E 5AR versus 4CM Fancy another challenge? These are particularly helpful if you don’t have access to a printer Maths workouts. Keep those key skills ticking over every day by copying out each question and working out the answer. There are 10 questions for each day of the week. Click here to find them. Answers. Daily 10 on Topmarks is another great way to practise your arithmetic. Level 5 = Year 5. Here are some puzzles and games you could have a go at this week. If you can’t print anything you can do them from a screen or copy out the key information: Two Digit Numbers Bow Tie Number Puzzle The Deca Tree A Bit Fishy

English It has been wonderful to hear that some of you are enjoying ‘Secrets of the Sun King’ that was mentioned recently. We have also heard from one of you about a book called ’Left Out’ by Tim Green, which is about a boy named Landon who is deaf but his disabilities make people want to stop him playing football. First News has also been suggested as a very interesting newspaper for kids to read and a great way of keeping up to date with current events.

The link to the Talk for Writing Wonderful Wizards Writing Booklet for Year 5 is here. If you haven’t

already started, look back at last week’s letter for activities. If you have started well done and here are the next few tasks. This week you become a designer and advertise your own school—just like we did for Hogwarts before Christmas! But this time you can design your own type of school, draw it and use catchy words and phrases to persuade the reader to want to go to your school. Have fun!

Monday Weasel Words! Explore and practise using words and phrases which persuade the reader. (pg 11-14 of Talk For Writing Booklet)

Tuesday Alliteration. Play the alliteration game which uses the same sounds at the start of words which make phrases memorable and catchy like slogans for adverts.

Wednesday Design your own school. Get creative and design your own school—could it be a Skateboarding School? A Unicorn School? A Cookery School or a Dragon School? Draw a bird’s eye view of what your school looks like from above. What will you have in each room?

Thursday Make a plan. Use the table on page 17 to jot down ideas about what your school is like and what it has to offer students. Use questions and alliteration to grab the reader.

Friday Write! Use your plan to write your stupendous advert for your school. use all the tricks to make it very persuasive and very exciting. Remember to read your finished masterpiece to a family member. They are sure to be impressed. Well done for your clever work this week! If these don’t fit into your week, you could try dipping into one of these: BBC Bitesize - search here for great Year 5 grammar, reading and writing activities Oxford Owl Pobble365 Super Sentence Stacking

Spelling

We are basing our weekly spelling tasks on Spelling Frame (Year 5/6).

Spelling Rule 47 - words containing silent letters

This week’s spelling list:

doubt, island, lamb, solemn, thistle, knight, limb, tomb, whistle, plumber, column

If you have access to the internet, you can practise these using the Spelling Frame games and activities:

Monday/Tuesday - Spelling Tiles: choose from these activities to help you to learn the spellings for this week.

Wednesday - Game: have a go at playing ‘Spelling Road Hopper’

Thursday - Practice: have a go at the ‘practice’ section - click on ‘practice/test’ and then ’begin practice’

Friday - Test: have a go at the test - click on ‘practice/test’ and then ‘begin test’. If you don’t get them all right,

perhaps have another go and see if you can beat your previous score.

To help you practise your spelling without using the internet, you could also:

• look through your books at home – collect as many words as you can that include this rule.

• use the above words to have a go at playing hangman with somebody at home.

• write a super sentence for each word, underline your spelling word.

• design a word search including all of the above spellings.

Enjoy your travels, Year 5. Don’t forget your passports! Have a great week, Mrs Alcock, Miss Lanagan, Mrs Ryan and Mrs Tang

Staying Active

Hello everyone! We hope you have had a fab week staying active in and outdoors. Torrential storms to brilliant

sunshine - we seem to have had it all! A number of you have mentioned new walks and biking routes that you

have explored - we always enjoy hearing about these! If you have any activities you’d like to share, let Mrs

Mosley or your teacher know so that we can share them with the school. Keep active and stay safe!

Notts School Games

This week’s sports theme is all about designing your

own sports day. Even though we have already had

our own whole school version, we thought we’d

share it with you anyway - there are plenty of good

ideas to have a go at. Click here and here to access

the resources.

Competition Time! You have a week after each theme week to get your competition entries in. This means:

Friday 26th June you can enter the Gymnastics Virtual Competition and Friday 3rd July is when you can enter

the Sports Day Competition. Once complete, submit your entry (poster, video, medal, or bunting design) before

9:00am. You will be earning points for your school and you will also be able to download your certificate Entries can be

uploaded to https://www.activenotts.org.uk/forms/view/sgvc

Go on, give it a go!

Weekly Fun Challenge:

How did you get on with last week’s Chalk Walk challenge? If you didn’t see it, have a look

back at last week’s page. We had some great ideas sent to us that included: do ten burpees,

do a handstand and catch a ball 10 times with one hand.

This week, it is all about your socks! We would like you to attempt The Sock Challenge! Lay 6

of your socks in a ladder and see how many times you can run up and down in 30 seconds.

Both feet must step into each rung. Challenge yourself to beat your own score.