Read regularly and get your diary signed. Reading books and diaries need to be in school every day.

Bedrock - complete at least one lesson. Bedrock can be can be found at https://app.bedrocklearning.org/ Please note that Bedrock can be accessed daily. However, to ensure long term retention of vocabulary please only complete one lesson each day at home.
IXL -
Maths
Y.1 Find the perimeter of rectangles using formulas
Y.2 Perimeter of rectilinear shapes
English
HH.3 Pronoun-verb agreement
HH.4 Use the correct subject or verb – with compound subjects
Times tables - x3 x9 ready for a test next week. These will also include divisions e.g. 81÷9? How many 3s are in 21? If you’re secure in these ones, then practise one that you are not so familiar with. Use TTRockstars to build up your speed.
This week you have been challenged to a Times Tables Battle with Year 4. The battle commences at 3.15pm today (25/1/22) and will end at 6pm on Sunday (30/1/22). I’ll be checking on the progress of this battle throughout the week. Good luck everyone!
Spellings Learn your spellings for a test next week.
Group 1:
competition conscience conscious controversy convenience correspond criticise curiosity definite desperate
Group 2:
breath breathe build busy business community conscience convenience curiosity desperate
Homework will need to have been completed by Monday 31/1/22 when I will check their results and points will be rewarded. Parents will be informed by text if homework is incomplete.

PostedJanuary 25, 2022

AuthorKay McVey

Read regularly and get your diary signed. Reading books and diaries need to be in school every day.

Bedrock - complete at least one lesson. Bedrock can be can be found at https://app.bedrocklearning.org/ Please note that Bedrock can be accessed daily. However, to ensure long term retention of vocabulary please only complete one lesson each day at home.
IXL -
Maths
E.3 Multiply by multiples of 10, 100 and 1,000
E.4 Multiplication patterns over increasing place values
English
HH.1 Is the subject singular or plural?
HH.2 Use the correct subject or verb
Times tables - x7 ready for a test next week. These will also include divisions e.g. 70÷7? How many 7s are in 28? If you’re secure in these ones, then practise one that you are not so familiar with. Use TTRockstars to build up your speed.
Spellings Learn your spellings for a test next week.
Group 1:
available average awkward bargain bruise category cemetery committee communicate community
Group 2:
answer appear arrive believe bicycle awkward bargain bruise cemetery communicate
Homework will need to have been completed by Monday 24/1/22 when I will check their results and points will be rewarded. Parents will be informed by text if homework is incomplete.

PostedJanuary 18, 2022

AuthorKay McVey

Read regularly and get your diary signed. Reading books and diaries need to be in school every day.

Bedrock - complete at least one lesson. Bedrock can be can be found at https://app.bedrocklearning.org/ Please note that Bedrock can be accessed daily. However, to ensure long term retention of vocabulary please only complete one lesson each day at home.
IXL -
Maths
J.1 Understand square and cube numbers
J.2 Evaluate indices: squares and cubes
English
X.1 Choose the synonym
X.2 Which sentence has the same meaning?
Times tables - x5 and x10 ready for a test next week. These will also include divisions e.g. 60÷10? How many 5s are in 30? If you’re secure in these ones, then practise one that you are not so familiar with. Use TTRockstars to build up your speed.
Spellings Learn your spellings for a test next week.
Group 1:
accommodate accompany according achieve aggressive amateur ancient apparent appreciate attached
Group 2:
accident accidentally actual actually address amateur ancient apparent available average
Homework will need to have been completed by Monday 17/1/22 when I will check their results and points will be rewarded. Parents will be informed by text if homework is incomplete.

PostedJanuary 11, 2022

AuthorKay McVey

Read regularly and get your diary signed. Reading books and diaries need to be in school every day.

Bedrock - complete at least one lesson. Bedrock can be can be found at https://app.bedrocklearning.org/ Please note that Bedrock can be accessed daily. However, to ensure long term retention of vocabulary please only complete one lesson each day at home.
No IXL or Education City this week.
Spellings Next week, we will have another spelling test of random spellings from the list you have been working on weekly over the Autumn term. This will allow me to see whether groups need to be reorganised.
Times tables - x4 and x8 ready for a test next week. These will also include divisions e.g. 40÷8? How many 4s are in 24? If you’re secure in these ones, then practise one that you are not so familiar with. Use TTRockstars to build up your speed.
Homework will need to have been completed by Monday 10/1/22 when I will check their results and points will be rewarded. Parents will be informed by text if homework is incomplete.

PostedJanuary 5, 2022

AuthorKay McVey

Read regularly and get your diary signed. Reading books and diaries need to be in school every day.

Bedrock - complete at least one lesson. Bedrock can be can be found at https://app.bedrocklearning.org/ Please note that Bedrock can be accessed daily. However, to ensure long term retention of vocabulary please only complete one lesson each day at home. Don’t forget Bedrock’s competition for this half term ends on 19th December and our in class competition will end on 16th December.
No IXL or Education City this week.
Spellings Next week, we will have a spelling test of random spellings from the list you have been working on weekly over the last term.
Times tables - x3 and x6 ready for a test next week. These will also include divisions e.g. 36÷3? How many 6s are in 24? If you’re secure in these ones, then practise one that you are not so familiar with. Use TTRockstars to build up your speed.
Homework will need to have been completed by Monday 13/12/21 when I will check their results and points will be rewarded. Parents will be informed by text if homework is incomplete.

PostedDecember 7, 2021

AuthorKay McVey

Read regularly and get your diary signed. Reading books and diaries need to be in school every day.
Bedrock - complete at least one lesson. Bedrock can be can be found at https://app.bedrocklearning.org/ Please note that Bedrock can be accessed daily. However, to ensure long term retention of vocabulary please only complete one lesson each day at home. Don’t forget Bedrock’s new competition for this half term - prizes to be won!!! Good luck Year 5!
IXL -
Maths
O.12 Interpret frequency charts
O.13 Create frequency charts
English
GG.1 Use action verbs
GG.2 Identify action verbs
Times tables - x2 and x4 ready for a test next week. These will also include divisions e.g. 36÷4? How many 2s are in 24? If you’re secure in these ones, then practise one that you are not so familiar with. Use TTRockstars to build up your speed.
Spellings Learn your spellings for a test next week.
Group 1:
awkward conscience convenience curiosity existence explanation persuade queue twelfth vegetable
Group 2:
knowledge separate though although thought through various weight woman women
Homework will need to have been completed by Monday 6/12/21 when I will check their results and points will be rewarded. Parents will be informed by text if homework is incomplete.

PostedNovember 30, 2021

AuthorKay McVey

Read regularly and get your diary signed. Reading books and diaries need to be in school every day.

Bedrock - complete at least one lesson. Bedrock can be can be found at https://app.bedrocklearning.org/ Please note that Bedrock can be accessed daily. However, to ensure long term retention of vocabulary please only complete one lesson each day at home. Don’t forget Bedrock’s new competition for this half term - prizes to be won!!! Good luck Year 5!
IXL -
Maths
O.10 Interpret line plots
O.11 Create line plots
English
CC.3 Order alphabetically based on the first three letters
CC.4 Order alphabetically: challenge
Times tables - This week you’ll need to practise all your times tables ready for a mixed times tables test next week. As usual these will also include divisions e.g. 144÷12? How many 6s are in 48? Use TTRockstars . This week I have set up a Times Tables Battle between the boys and the girls to help you practise for the test. The battle commences at 3.15pm today (23/11/21) and will end at 6pm on Sunday (28/11/21). I’ll be checking on the progress of this battle throughout the week. Good luck everyone!
Spellings Learn your spellings for a test next week.
Group 1:
available average communicate community dictionary equipment excellent occur rhythm stomach
Group 2:
remember sentence separate special straight strange strength suppose surprise therefore
Homework will need to have been completed by Monday 29/11/21 when I will check their results and points will be rewarded. Parents will be informed by text if homework is incomplete.

PostedNovember 23, 2021

AuthorKay McVey

Read regularly and get your diary signed. Reading books and diaries need to be in school every day.

Bedrock - complete at least one lesson. Bedrock can be can be found at https://app.bedrocklearning.org/ Please note that Bedrock can be accessed daily. However, to ensure long term retention of vocabulary please only complete one lesson each day at home. Don’t forget Bedrock’s new competition for this half term - prizes to be won!!! Good luck Year 5!
IXL -
Maths
O.3 Interpret line graphs
O.4 Create line graphs
English
F.1 Identify similes and metaphors
F.2 Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors
Times tables - x12 ready for a test next week. These will also include divisions e.g. 144÷12? How many 12s are in 108? If you’re secure in these ones, then practise one that you are not so familiar with. Use TTRockstars to build up your speed.
Spellings Learn your spellings for a test next week.
Group 1:
apparent cemetery develop equipped forty lightning nuisance physical rhyme shoulder
Group 2:
potatoes pressure probably promise purpose quarter question recent regular reign
Homework will need to have been completed by Monday 22/11/21 when I will check their results and points will be rewarded. Parents will be informed by text if homework is incomplete.

PostedNovember 16, 2021

AuthorKay McVey

Read regularly and get your diary signed. Reading books and diaries need to be in school every day.

Bedrock - complete at least one lesson. Bedrock can be can be found at https://app.bedrocklearning.org/ Please note that Bedrock can be accessed daily. However, to ensure long term retention of vocabulary please only complete one lesson each day at home. Don’t forget Bedrock’s new competition for this half term - prizes to be won!!! Good luck Year 5!
IXL -
Maths
C.10 Estimate differences: up to four digits
C.11 Estimate differences: up to six digits
English
KK.6 Identify adverbs
KK.8 Choose between adjectives and adverbs
Times tables - x11 ready for a test next week. These will also include divisions e.g. 121÷11? How many 11s are in 77? If you’re secure in these ones, then practise one that you are not so familiar with. Use TTRockstars to build up your speed.
Spellings Learn your spellings for a test next week.
Group 1:
ancient bruise cemetery determined equip foreign government harass interfere leisure
Group 2:
opposite ordinary particular peculiar perhaps popular position possess possession possible
Homework will need to have been completed by Monday 15/11/21 when I will check their results and points will be rewarded. Parents will be informed by text if homework is incomplete.

PostedNovember 9, 2021

AuthorKay McVey

Read regularly and get your diary signed. Reading books and diaries need to be in school every day.

Bedrock - complete at least one lesson. Bedrock can be can be found at https://app.bedrocklearning.org/ Please note that Bedrock can be accessed daily. However, to ensure long term retention of vocabulary please only complete one lesson each day at home. Please see the poster below for details of Bedrock’s new competition for this half term - prizes to be won!!! Good luck Year 5!
Education City - Log in to find your maths and English homework on the homework tab. You will need to use your log in details that are in the front of your reading diary - the laminated one that you have at home no longer works.
Times tables - x9 ready for a test next week. These will also include divisions e.g. 45÷9? How many 9s are in 81? If you’re secure in these ones, then practise one that you are not so familiar with. Use TTRockstars to build up your speed.
Spellings Learn your spellings for a test next week.
Group 1:
occupy persuade programme queue recognise rhythm secretary soldier temperature vegetable
Group 2:
material medicine mention minute natural naughty notice occasion occasionally often
Homework will need to have been completed by Monday 8/11/21 when I will check their results and points will be rewarded. Parents will be informed by text if homework is incomplete.

PostedNovember 2, 2021

AuthorKay McVey

Read regularly and get your diary signed. Reading books and diaries need to be in school every day.

Buddy reading challenge!

This week I’ve not set any IXL or Education City homework but I do have a challenge for you instead! For your role as a buddy to Reception, why not record yourself reading a favourite short story, one that perhaps you enjoyed when you were in Reception, which can then be played for Reception at story time. Film this at home and then send the video to me at our Year 5 email address (year5@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk) and I will pass them on to Mrs Holden. Reception are already looking forward to receiving your stories.

Moon watch - don’t forget to keep note of what the moon looks like each night - if it’s visible! 🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘

Bedrock - complete at least one lesson. Bedrock can be can be found at https://app.bedrocklearning.org/ Please note that Bedrock can be accessed daily. However, to ensure long term retention of vocabulary please only complete one lesson each day at home. Please see this poster, if you haven’t already, regarding Bedrock’s competition for this half term - prizes to be won!!! Try to get 140 points by the 24th October for a chance to be in the prize draw.
Times tables - x8 ready for a test the first Tuesday back. These will also include divisions e.g. 56÷8? How many 8s are in 32? If you’re secure in these ones, then practise one that you are not so familiar with. Use TTRockstars to build up your speed.
Spellings Learn your spellings for a test the first Tuesday back.
Group 1: amateur bargain curiosity desperate environment familiar individual language muscle neighbour
Group 2: history imagine increase important interest island knowledge learn length library

PostedOctober 19, 2021

AuthorKay McVey

Read regularly and get your diary signed. Reading books and diaries need to be in school every day.

Bedrock - complete at least one lesson. Bedrock can be can be found at https://app.bedrocklearning.org/ Please note that Bedrock can be accessed daily. However, to ensure long term retention of vocabulary please only complete one lesson each day at home. Please see this poster, if you haven’t already, regarding Bedrock’s competition for this half term - prizes to be won!!!
IXL -
Maths
A.12 Roman numerals
B.6 Complete the addition sentence: three-digit numbers
English
KK.3 Identify adjectives
KK.4 Order adjectives
Times tables - x7 ready for a test next week. These will also include divisions e.g. 28÷7? How many 7s are in 56? If you’re secure in these ones, then practise one that you are not so familiar with. Use TTRockstars to build up your speed.
Spellings Learn your spellings for a test next week.
Group 1:
queue recognise rhyme rhythm secretary shoulder soldier stomach temperature twelfth vegetable
Group 2:
forward forwards fruit grammar group guard guide heard heart height
Homework will need to have been completed by Monday 18/10/21 when I will check their results and points will be rewarded. Parents will be informed by text if homework is incomplete.

PostedOctober 12, 2021

AuthorKay McVey

Read regularly and get your diary signed. Reading books and diaries need to be in school every day.

Bedrock - complete at least one lesson. Bedrock can be can be found at https://app.bedrocklearning.org/ Please note that Bedrock can be accessed daily. However, to ensure long term retention of vocabulary please only complete one lesson each day at home. Please see this poster regarding Bedrock’s new competition for this half term - prizes to be won!!!
IXL -
Maths
A.18 Compare numbers up to one million
A.20 Put numbers in order: up to one million
English
M.1 Order alphabetically based on the first letter
M.2 Order alphabetically based on the first two letters
Times tables - x5 and x10 ready for a test next week. These will also include divisions e.g. 45÷5? How many 10s are in 110? If you’re secure in these ones, then practise one that you are not so familiar with. Use TTRockstars to build up your speed.
Spellings Learn your spellings for a test next week.
Group 1:
leisure lightning muscle neighbour nuisance occupy occur persuade physical programme
Group 2:
eight eighth enough exercise experience experiment extreme famous favourite February
Homework will need to have been completed by Monday 11/10/21 when I will check their results and points will be rewarded. Parents will be informed by text if homework is incomplete.

PostedOctober 5, 2021

AuthorKay McVey

Read regularly and get your diary signed. Reading books and diaries need to be in school every day.

Bedrock - complete at least one lesson. Bedrock can be can be found at https://app.bedrocklearning.org/ Please note that Bedrock can be accessed daily. However, to ensure long term retention of vocabulary please only complete one lesson each day at home. Please see this poster regarding Bedrock’s new competition for this half term - prizes to be won!!!
Education City - Go to the homework page on your Education City account for your English and Maths homework for this week.
Times tables - x6 ready for a test next week. These will also include divisions e.g. 36÷6? How many 6s are in 24? If you’re secure in these ones, then practise one that you are not so familiar with. Use TTRockstars to build up your speed.
Spellings Learn your spellings for a test next week.
Group 1:
existence explanation familiar foreign forty government harass individual interfere language
Group 2:
complete consider continue decide describe different difficult disappear early earth
Homework will need to have been completed by Monday 4/10/21 when I will check their results and points will be rewarded. Parents will be informed by text if homework is incomplete.

PostedSeptember 28, 2021

AuthorKay McVey

Read regularly and get your diary signed. Reading books and diaries need to be in school every day.

Bedrock - complete at least one lesson. The children now have login details for an online vocabulary programme called Bedrock (please see the letter sent home Tuesday 21 9 21 which contains links for parents/guardians to be able to monitor your child’s progress). Bedrock can be can be found at https://app.bedrocklearning.org/ The children have used this in school on Monday and Tuesday and should now be able to use this programme independently.
IXL - Do each activity for at least 15 minutes (or score 100)
English:
J.4 Capitalising the names of places and geographic features
J.5 Capitalising proper adjectives, nationalities and languages
Maths :
A.10 Writing numbers up to one million in words: convert digits to words
A.17 Compare numbers up to one hundred thousand
Times tables - x3 ready for a test next week. These will also include divisions e.g. 27÷3? How many 3s are in 21? If you’re secure in these ones, then practise one that you are not so familiar with. Use TTRockstars to build up your speed.
Spellings Learn your spellings for a test next week.
Group 1:
curiosity desperate determined develop dictionary environment equip equipped equipment excellent
Group 2:
breath breathe build busy business caught centre century certain circle
Homework will need to have been completed by Monday 27/9/21 when I will check their results and points will be rewarded. Parents will be informed by text if homework is incomplete.

PostedSeptember 21, 2021

AuthorKay McVey

Read regularly and get your diary signed. Reading books and diaries need to be in school every day.

IXL - Do each activity for at least 15 minutes (or score 100)
English:
J.2 Capitalising the names of people and pets and titles of respect
J.3 Capitalising days, months and holidays
Maths :
A.8 Writing numbers up to 100,000 in words: convert digits to words
A.9 Writing numbers up to one million in words: convert words to digit
Times tables - x4 ready for a test next week. These will also include divisions e.g. 40÷4? How many 4s are in 20? If you’re secure in these ones, then practise one that you are not so familiar with. Use TTRockstars to build up your speed.
Spellings Your children have now been grouped for spellings and will know which group spellings they need to learn.
Group 1:
available average awkward bargain bruise cemetery communicate community conscience convenience
Group 2:
accident accidentally actual actually address answer appear arrive believe bicycle
Homework will need to have been completed by Monday 20/9/21 when I will check their results and points will be rewarded. Parents will be informed by text if homework is incomplete.

PostedSeptember 14, 2021

AuthorKay McVey

Year 5 will continue to use online learning for their homework this year and on a Tuesday afternoon I will post the details of Year 5’s homework here. Homework should be completed by the following Monday ready for spelling and times tables tests on a Tuesday.

Websites we will use for homework…

IXL English and Maths - please see letter that children have brought home.

Education City

TT Rockstars

Bedrock Vocabulary programme- still awaiting logins from Bedrock

Today the children have come home with a reminder of their logins for Education City and TTRockstars. All logins can be found in the front of their reading diaries. In addition to these sites, the children will also have access to two new sites - IXL , which I know they used as part of a trial in Year 4, and a new site called Bedrock (once Bedrock send me the logins for the children, I will introduce this to them and send the details home).

Homework 7.9.21

Read regularly and get your diary signed.

It is the expectation that Year 5 should read regularly (every night if possible) and parents please sign your child's reading diary each time they read so that they can collect their bookmark stickers. The children choose books from within their ZPD range and once these are finished they can quiz on their book and this helps us to assess their progress in reading. Reading books and diaries need to be in school every day. Please note that reading diaries will be checked daily in school, however, please be patient with us whilst we get into routine - all diaries will be updated as soon as we can and children will be rewarded for their reading.

IXL - Do each activity for at least 15 minutes (or score 100)

English:

B.1 Which word is a noun?

B.2 Identify nouns

Maths :

A.5 Place value review

A.7 Writing numbers up to 100,000 in words: convert words to digits

Times tables - x2 ready for a test next week. These will also include divisions e.g. 14÷2? How many 2s are in 24? If you’re secure in these ones, then practise one that you are not so familiar with. Use TTRockstars to build up your speed.

Spellings for a test next week. These are taken from the Year 5 spelling list. A copy of this will be sent home and the children will need to be able to spell all of these by the end of Year 5. Please note that we are still assessing spelling, so it may be that I need to differentiate spellings in coming weeks for small groups of children.

accommodate accompany according achieve aggressive amateur ancient apparent appreciate attached

Homework will need to have been completed by Monday 13/9/21 when I will check their results and points will be rewarded. Parents will be informed by text if homework is incomplete.

Thanks for your support.

PostedSeptember 7, 2021

AuthorKay McVey

Read regularly and get your diary signed. Reading books and diaries need to be in school every day.

IXL - Do each activity for at least 15 minutes (or score 100)
English:
F.5 Does the adverb tell you how, when or where?
Maths :
Q.16 Identify lines of symmetry
Bedrock - complete at least one lesson . Bedrock can be can be found at https://app.bedrocklearning.org/ This is your last chance to ensure you get on to our top 5 score board and also to reach the 120 points needed to be in with a chance of being in the Bedrock prize draw. Come on Year 5!
No Times table and Spelling tests next week.

Homework will need to have been completed before Thursday next week when I will check their results.

PostedJuly 9, 2021

AuthorKay McVey

Read regularly and get your diary signed. Reading books and diaries need to be in school every day.

IXL - Do each activity for at least 15 minutes (or score 100)
English:
O.1 Identify similes and metaphors
O.2 Determine the meanings of similes and metaphors
Maths :
J.1 Objects on a coordinate plane
J.2 Graph points on a coordinate plane
Bedrock - complete at least one lesson . Bedrock can be can be found at https://app.bedrocklearning.org/ Please note that Bedrock can now be accessed daily. However, to ensure long term retention of vocabulary please only complete one lesson if you are doing Bedrock daily.
Times tables - x3 x6 x9 ready for a test next week. These will also include divisions e.g. 45÷9? How many 6s are in 72? If you’re secure in these ones, then practise one that you are not so familiar with. Use TTRockstars to build up your speed.
Spellings for a test next week. Please press the link for the group your child is in.

Homework will need to have been completed before Thursday next week when I will check their results.

PostedJuly 2, 2021

AuthorKay McVey

Read regularly and get your diary signed. Reading books and diaries need to be in school every day. Remember, there are extra dojo points for each day that you read!

This week instead of Maths and English work on IXL, I would like you to complete a piece of geography homework that we can use during our next lesson on digital mapping.

Geography homework - please hand in on Monday (ready for the lesson)

I would like you to draw a neatly detailed map of your route to school (in pencil) labelling roads and important natural and human features along the way. It is not necessary to draw all houses/buildings along the way as there will be too many but I would include your house to show the start and the school to show the end of the route.

Man-made features you could include shops, parks, churches, school crossing patrols, bus stops, post boxes, etc.

Natural features could include trees, beach, hill, fields, etc. You will probably find that you have less natural features than man-made features.

A key of symbols used on your map should be included. These symbols could be in different colours using coloured pencils.

On the back of your work write down the name of the road you live on and the postcode , so you can easily identify where you live on an ordnance survey map.

Bedrock - complete at least one lesson . Bedrock can be can be found at https://app.bedrocklearning.org/ Please note that Bedrock can now be accessed daily. However, to ensure long term retention of vocabulary please only complete one lesson if you are doing Bedrock daily. Don’t forget our competition!!!
Times tables - x2 x4 x8 ready for a test next week. These will also include divisions e.g. 48÷8? How many 4s are in 36? If you’re secure in these ones, then practise one that you are not so familiar with. Use TTRockstars to build up your speed.
Spellings for a test next week. Please press the link for the group your child is in.