Walnut (Yr5)

Week beginning 13th July THE LAST WEEK!!!

Well, it looks like we might have made it!!! The end of probably the strangest school year. The learning this week is about transitions in English and Learning Quest, with some fun Maths challenges thrown in as well!

Have a fantastic summer break!!!!
 

regards

Mr Sharp and Mrs Sturmey

Term 6 Week 6 (Week beginning 6th July)

Hello everyone.

I hope you are all well!! Please see below for week 6 of the home learning. Along with the weeks learning, I have attached the letter from Mr Ballard about how to apply to become a prefect. There are so many candidates in this year group that would make fantastic prefects, so please do read and apply!

Teachers are really looking forward to seeing some familiar faces next week when some of you return to school. For those that don't - please keep sending the home learning. We love seeing it!

Here are the E-mail addresses for Sycamore and Walnut  class if you need to contact us. Remember if you have requested print outs of the learning, to go and collect on Tuesday afternoon.

sycamore@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mr Sharp)

walnut@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mrs Sturmey)

Stay safe

Mr Sharp and Mrs Sturmey

Term 6 Week 5 (Week beginning 29th June)

Hello everyone.

I hope you are all well!! Please see below for week 5 of the home learning. Thank you for all your efforts with the home learning - for some of you, this is hopefully the last week of you being home teachers! As we are welcoming back some of the children next week - I can't wait to see them! 

Here are the E-mail addresses for Sycamore and Walnut  class if you need to contact us. Remember if you have requested print outs of the learning, to go and collect on Tuesday afternoon.

sycamore@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mr Sharp)

walnut@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mrs Sturmey)

Stay safe

Mr Sharp and Mrs Sturmey

Term 6 Week 4 (Week beginning 22nd June)

Hello everyone.

I hope you are all well!! Please see below for week 4 of the home learning. Thank you for all your efforts with the home learning. It has been great to see the great learning that has been sent to us, check out the learning gallery to see for yourself. 

Here are the E-mail addresses for Sycamore and Walnut  class if you need to contact us. Remember if you have requested print outs of the learning, to go and collect on Tuesday afternoon.

sycamore@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mr Sharp)

walnut@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mrs Sturmey)

Stay safe

Mr Sharp and Mrs Sturmey

Term 6 Week 3 (Week beginning 15th June)

Hello everyone.

I hope you are all well!! Week 3 of the final term already! Time is flying. Thank you for all your efforts with the home learning. It has been great to see the great learning that has been sent to us, check out the learning gallery to see for yourself. 

The home learning continues for you this week and we have uploaded some Maths challenges and English learning for you all to try...The English and learning quest continues with our festival theme - Please do keep emailing us with what you have been up to as we really like seeing it. 

Here are the E-mail addresses for Sycamore and Walnut  class if you need to contact us. Remember if you have requested print outs of the learning, to go and collect on Tuesday afternoon.

sycamore@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mr Sharp)

walnut@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mrs Sturmey)

Stay safe

Mr Sharp and Mrs Sturmey

Term 6 Week 2!

Hello everyone.

I hope you are all well, It was nice to catch up with some of you on the telephone this week!

The home learning continues for you this week and we have uploaded some Maths challenges and English learning for you all to try...The English and learning quest continues with our festival theme - I know that the children that have been doing this in school with me have been really enjoying it. Please do keep emailing us with what you have been up to as we really like seeing it. 

Here are the E-mail addresses for Sycamore and Walnut  class if you need to contact us. Remember if you have requested print outs of the learning, to go and collect on Tuesday afternoon.

sycamore@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mr Sharp)

walnut@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mrs Sturmey)

Stay safe

Mr Sharp and Mrs Sturmey

Welcome to Term 6!!!

Hello everyone.

Welcome to the final term of a very peculiar year!! 

The home learning continues for you this week and we have uploaded some Maths Challenges and English learning for you all to try...We have also uploaded the knowledge organiser for this term with all the information on what we will be looking to achieve with the children this term. As Glastonbury has been cancelled this year, we are going to be designing our own festival to rival it!!! It's going to be lots of fun.

Please do keep emailing us with what you have been up to as we really like seeing it. 

Here are the E-mail addresses for Sycamore and Walnut  class if you need to contact us. Remember if you have requested print outs of the learning, to go and collect on Tuesday afternoon.

sycamore@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mr Sharp)

walnut@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mrs Sturmey)

Stay safe

Mr Sharp and Mrs Sturmey

End of Term 5!

Hello everyone.

Another term completed, a very strange one at that. We hope you are all safe and well in these strange times.

The good news is, we are giving you a well deserved break over half term from the home learning. But, we have uploaded some half term activities for you all to try at home ( see below).

Please do keep emailing us with what you have been up to as we really like seeing it. 

Here are the E-mail addresses for Sycamore and Walnut  class if you need to contact us. We will be checking them sporadically over the break.

sycamore@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mr Sharp)

walnut@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mrs Sturmey)

Please keep an eye on the website as the next block of home learning will be uploaded for the return to school on the 1st June. 

Stay safe

Mr Sharp and Mrs Sturmey

Summer Term Week 5 - Monday 18th May to Friday 22th May

Hello everyone.

Last week of term already!!! It has flown by! We hope you are all safe and healthy. 

Below we have uploaded this weeks learning. There is a English and Maths challenge for you to complete each day. The learning has been differentiated so that you can choose the level of challenge you can try. The green challenge is hard, the blue harder and red is the hardest if you really want to push yourself! There is also a PE block of learning for you to try each day. There are eight different sessions for you to try using household items as equipment. It would be great to see some action shots of you all trying them at home. There are some also some fun Dip  - in Activities for you to try with the while family to keep everyone busy during the lockdown.

On that note, please do keep emailing the learning in for us to see  - we really like seeing it. There are some great pictures in the gallery of the children's learning for you to look at this week!! Thank you to everyone who sent them in.

Here are the E-mail addresses for Sycamore and Walnut  class.

sycamore@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mr Sharp)

walnut@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mrs Sturmey)

If you have any issues with any of the home learning, need copies of the learning  or any other school work based queries please feel free to get in touch with us on these addresses. Please note, if you have requested print outs of the learning, these are available from the office for you to collect between 2:40pm and 2:50pm on Tuesday - please note the new time. 

Stay safe

Mr Sharp and Mrs Sturmey

Summer Term Week 4 - Monday 11th May to Friday 15th May

Hello everyone.

We hope everyone is well  -hopefully the sun will be making a reappearance soon!! It is hard to believe that it is already week 4 of the summer term -ordinarily we would be approaching half term!!

Below we have uploaded this weeks learning. There is a English and Maths challenge for you to complete each day. The learning has been differentiated so that you can choose the level of challenge you can try. The green challenge is hard, the blue harder and red is the hardest if you really want to push yourself! There is also a Design and Technology block of learning for you to try each day which is based on food technology.

I have also uploaded a gallery, showing some great photos of some of the activities you have sent in - we loved seeing them! Please send more!!!

Here are the E-mail addresses for Sycamore and Walnut  class.

sycamore@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mr Sharp)

walnut@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mrs Sturmey)

If you have any issues with any of the home learning, need copies of the learning  or any other school work based queries please feel free to get in touch with us on these addresses. Please note, if you have requested print outs of the learning, these are available from the office for you to collect between 12:20pm and 12:30pm on Tuesday. 

Stay safe

Mr Sharp and Mrs Sturmey

Summer Term Week 3 - Monday 4th May to Friday 8th May

Hello everyone.

We hope you are all well!

Below we have uploaded this weeks learning. There is a English and Maths challenge for you to complete each day. The learning has been differentiated so that you can choose the level of challenge you can try. The green challenge is hard, the blue harder and red is the hardest if you really want to push yourself! There is also a Science block of learning for you to try each day.

I have also uploaded a gallery, showing some great photos of some of the activities you have sent in - we loved seeing them! Please send more!!! There is also a 'dip in' activities folder packed with fun activities for you to try with your families.

Here are the E-mail addresses for Sycamore and Walnut  class.

sycamore@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mr Sharp)

walnut@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mrs Sturmey)

If you have any issues with any of the home learning, need copies of the learning  or any other school work based queries please feel free to get in touch with us on these addresses. Please note, if you have requested print outs of the learning, these are available from the office for you to collect between 12:20pm and 12:30pm on Tuesday. 

Stay safe

Mr Sharp and Mrs Sturmey

Summer Term Week 2 (Monday 24th April to Friday 1st May)

Hello everyone.

We hope you are all still healthy, safe and enjoying the sunshine!

Below we have uploaded this weeks learning. There is a English and Maths challenge for you to complete each day and the final week of our Olympic topic, so that you can attempt any of the challenges you didn't try last week.

Here are the E-mail address for Sycamore and Walnut  class.

sycamore@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mr Sharp)

walnut@churchfield.bwmat.org (Mrs Sturmey)

If you have any issues with any of the home learning, need copies of the learning  or any other school work based queries please feel free to get in touch with us on these addresses. It would be great if you could send in photos or examples of any of the learning you are doing at home - we would love to see it! Whether that be learning we have set on the website or activities that you and your children have been doing during the lockdown!

Stay safe

Mr Sharp and Mrs Sturmey

Summer Term!!

Welcome back to school - but not as we know it! Hope you had a safe Easter and are ready for some challenging home learning. 

While children are not in school, please find below the work we would like them to complete. We will update this page regularly with further work. We have put details of our topic for the next two weeks which is on The Olympics. The topic will have many great activities to attempt that can be done both inside and outside and cover may subjects across the curriculum. It would be great to see any of the completed tasks so if you would like to you can email them to me at office@churchfield.bwmat.org

In Maths and English, we will set daily tasks for the children to complete so everyone knows what the expectation is each day. I will put these up week by week to avoid confusion. Each day is clearly marked so you can see what day you should be learning.

Please try and read as much as you can. There are many books available on Amazon to download free. Make a Reading Diary for yourself, so you can see how much you are reading.

Children can also access the following websites to support their learning: 

• Spelling shed https://www.spellingshed.com/ 

• Times table rock stars https://ttrockstars.com/ 

• My Maths https://www.mymaths.co.uk/ 

Any questions please do ask on the email above and I will do my best to get back to you as soon as possible.

Stay safe and indoors!!

Mrs Sturmey

Week beginning Monday 6^th and 13^th April 2020

Happy Easter, everyone.

Hopefully, you’re keeping all your work in a folder or a book, so when you return to school, you’ll have lots of great quality learning to share with your teacher and friends.

EASTER:

Over the next two weeks, we’ll be focusing on Easter. We would like you to have fun but also keep your learning focus on track.

English/D & T:

Easter Cake:

Find an Easter cake recipe (there’s three to try below).

• copy it out in best handwriting and decorate it with illustrations;
• make the recipe, carefully measuring the ingredients, and take a photo of the finished cake;
• think of an enticing name for your cake;
• design a box or wrapping for your cake, then make it, carefully decorating it;
• produce an advert for your cake – it could be a magazine ad, or a web ad or tv (record yourself in the ad)

Easter poem:

There are two examples of Easter poems in our resources. Have a good look at both of them, then decide which you like best. Think about why you like this poem. Use this as a guide to writing your own poem about Easter. Things to consider:

• count the syllables in each line, in your favourite poem. You could copy this;
• use alliteration, similes or metaphors in your poem;
• you could use personification (Easter might be a person – what would they see or hear? How would they behave?)

Maths

There are 3 different challenges for you to try – each get slightly harder. Pick a challenge suited to you and go for it!! There is no harm in changing challenges if you are finding it too easy/hard. Each challenge has a variety of Maths problems to solve, each giving you a clue to solve the overall puzzle!!!

Challenge 1 is the Mystery of the Easter Bunny

Challenge 2 is the Mystery of the contaminated Chocolate Eggs

Challenge 3 is a super challenge!! Go on -push your self!!

RE: Why is Easter important to Christian?

• Read the Easter story – either in your school bible, or research this on the internet;
• Make an Easter card, remembering to show the true meaning of Easter

Geography:

As a reminder of our Geography work this year, we will revisit Physical Features on Oddizzi. Log onto their web site.

Our class log on: churchfieldwalnut   (churchfieldsycamore)

Password: walnut2018      (sycamore2018)

Complete the unit, using the information on the website. You can then complete the online quiz for Physical Features (you will need to use the dropdown menu in Quiz and find your name. Mrs Sturmey and Mr Sharp, can then see your score. Good luck!

PE

Continue to stay physically active. Use different youtube videos or go out with an adult for a long walk, or a jog. Remember to warm up properly, make sure you have plenty of space around you, and get other people in your family to join in.

Homework - Getting Ready for our Cafe!

This week, we would like the children to make cakes, cookies or biscuits,(or buy some, if you're too busy) to sell at our Story-Telling Cafe. Please send in on Wednesday or Thursday. Thank you for your support.

Week 3:

Wow! We're in week 3 already, and have learnt so much in our Geography and Science lesssons about OUR WONDERFUL WORLD OF LIVING THINGS. We have studied the water cycle and how rivers affect the landscape and our lives, and we have begun to study living creatures, including how food chains are crucial to life on Earth.

Our class text is The Last Wild by Piers Torday, and is a fascinating dystopian novel about a boy, Kester who can speak to animals.

OUR WONDERFUL WORLD OF LIVING THINGS

In Spring 1 Term, we are learning about living things and their habitats, in UK and in South America.

In our writing, we will learn:

• how to describe settings with more descriptive language, including using comparatives and superlatives;
• how to increase sensory vocabulary to reflect the mood; and
• how to use pathetic fallacy to greater effect.

We shall also revisit

• how to use similes and alliteration to make our writing more interesting;
• how to include synonyms to avoid repetition;
• how to use fronted adverbials to show time, place and purpose;
• how to write non-chronological reports to give information on rivers, mountain ranges and volcanoes;

• how to write explanation texts, to describe a process, such as the water cycle.

 Homework

It's really important to make homework fun, so the school has invested in Spelling Shed, TT RockStars and My Maths, to help support learning at home. Please make sure you log in regularly to these three websites and practise spelling and maths skills.

Egyptian Exhibition

A big thank you to all parents and friends who visited our exhibition. Children made a terrific effort to produce beautiful artefacts, and it was also a good opportunity to show our Science Week work (War of the Worlds). 

Ancient Egypt/Science Week exhibition

Year 5 would like to invite you to their Ancient Egyptian exhibition on Tuesday 7th January at 2:40pm. The home projects have been amazing so far! For those that still would like to contribute something to display,  you can still bring your artefacts in up until the morning of the exhibition. We hope to see you then. 

EGYPTIAN PROJECT 

Please produce a piece of artwork or writing for our Egyptian Exhibition for you parents. You could make a pharaoh's head-dress, some coins, a cartouche, or produce a written piece about something you are particularly interested in. You have a lot of freedom to choose how you present your work, and you can use the internet for ideas. Hand in your project by Monday 16th December, as the exhibition will be sometime in the final week of term.

In English we have been studying non-chronological reports so that we can produce our own. This week we have focused on planning our own on King Tutankhamun. We worked on a sub heading each in teams and presented out findings to the rest of the class. Then using the knowledge from all the groups we have began drafting our Non Chronological Reports.

This week we have been working on our squared and cubed numbers - challenge the children to tell you the difference!

In English we have been studying non-chronological reports so that we can produce our own. This week we have focused on our shared report on Ancient Egypt - next week we are looking forward to researching and writing our own on Tutankhamun

This week we have been working on our factors, prime numbers and multiples. Ask your child to tell you the difference between the three different sets of numbers!

We have been using atlases, websites and our own knowledge to accurately pinpoint countries, cities and features such as rivers and mountain ranges on maps of the UK and the world

Art

This week we designed our own book corner based on the book we are about to start reading: The time travelling cat by Julia Jarmen. We are looking forward to reading this and our own books in our newly decorated book corner.

Next half term (Autumn 2)

Our topic is Ancient Egypt. We are holding an exciting day on Wednesday 13th November, where all children can dress up as an ancient Egyptian. We have invited an expert historian to lead the day, and we will learn about mummies, Egyptian gods and much, much more. Voluntary contributions are requested of £4.00 per child to cover costs, and we are anticipating a very exciting learning experience. Photographs will follow...

Weekly homework

Each week in Year 5, the children are expected to complete the following homework:

- Reading at least 5 times a week. Each week should be recorded in your reading record book. Remember that this can be any reading you choose to do - your school book, your favourite magazine, a sports' website or anything else you are interested in.

- Practising your times tables. Each child has a times table book. They should complete one page of practise each week ready for a test on Friday. There are 5 boxes on each page, so practise once a day to keep your times table knowledge fresh.

- Practising your spellings. Every week we have a spelling test. Spellings are put onto the website - please practise ready for the test on Friday.

Please see your child's teacher if you have any questions about the homework.