Year 5
Homework Activities
Year 5:
- Weekly reading target (should be about 20 minutes at a time, minimum of 4 times a week)
- Spellings for weekly test (see homework diary for how well they did)
- Mental maths practice for weekly test (see Home School Record for how well s/he did)
- Maths homework once a week
- Additional maths/English tasks where necessary
- Doodlemaths at least 3 times and at least 30 stars per week
Class Rules
In Year 5 we agree to:
- Work hard, always making sure we try our best
- Respect everyone in our school
- Be safe, looking after ourselves and other people
- Be responsible for all your own equipment, including your P.E. kit
- Wear proper school uniform and look after it
- Remember to do your homework and bring it on time
- Be on time for school and have excellent attendance
- Be truthful, friendly and polite
- Have excellent behaviour inside and outside the classroom
Year 5 have been learning about forces in Science. They used the parachute to explore gravity and air resistance.
Video of outside parachute.MOV
Year 5 then they made own parachutes to find out how the size of the canopy affected the time it took to land. Watch the slo-mo videos of our parachutes.
Video of inside parachute.MOV
Video of inside 2.MOV
Year 5 have been using paint effects and silhouettes to produce Blitz pictures.
Mrs Wallis, who is a STEM Ambassador and works at BAE, came in to work with Year 5 on their forces topic. We made Stomp rockets, built structures using wine gums and made Harrier Hawks to investigate air resistance.
Year 5 have been learning to dance the Charleston in PE – They will soon be appearing on Strictly come dancing!
Year 5 have been studying the work of Clarice Cliff and then designing and making their own plates out of clay. They have used the same features as Cliff did in her work.
