High Flyers Yr 5

Monday 11th May 2020

We are beginning the week on week 3 completing Thursday's lessons on Oak National Academy.

https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-5#schedule

English - Persuasive Letter: SPaG focus – List of three

Maths - To apply length conversions to problems

Foundation - Was Elizabeth I ‘weak and feeble’?

As well as all this I will be hosting another live writing session from 2pm - I would to catch up with as many as you as possible.

https://www.jotcast.com/chat/monday-jotcast-11th-may-2020-7719.html

Friday 1st May 2020

Hey High Flyers.

April seems to have come and gone so quickly. It has been fantastic being able to hear so many of you over the phone recently. I've reminded a lot of you about using Seesaw and the Live Writing sessions I have been doing. I hope more of you are able to join.

So here is the link for another one. It will go live just before 1pm on Friday 1st May.

https://www.jotcast.com/chat/live-writing-session-friday-1st-may-7639.html

Wednesday 22nd April

Tuesday 21st April

Happy Tuesday everybody. Everyone at St Michael's are missing you guys so much. Keep me updated with what you're up to on Twitter and Seesaw. 

If you need any passwords then use this link contact@stmichaelscatholicprimary.co.uk

Wider Curriculum - Science (The Solar System)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhk2mfr

Monday 20th April

Let's Jotcast again. I will be going live from 2pm for a live writing session. I hope to see as many as you on there as possible. Click the link below and be ready to write.

https://www.jotcast.com/chat/monday-20th-april-live-writing-7505.html

Wider Curriculum Monday - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zwxhfg8

Welcome to the High Flyers' Class Page.

We will be using this as a window in to what goes on in class. Attached is a welcome PowerPoint and Letter that briefly highlights the routines of a typical day, along with some information about how you can help your child to achieve their full potential.

Thanks

Knowledge Organisers

To help with this term's topic - Crime and Punishment - we have created a knowledge organiser that each child can use to begin to understand what will be taught throughout the topic. This document contains the essential knowledge we will be studying in class.

If your child could learn this section by section, as each week we will be testing them. 

Some ways you could use the Knowledge Organiser at home - 

• Children read the information and try and recall it either verbally or writtten down
• An adult tests them on small sections
• Repeat it over and over
• Keep revisiting information that has already been learnt in previous weeks

Any other hints and tips that you have found useful would be welcomed.

AUTUMN 1

What we are studying this term;

English - Letter writing, Non-Chronological reports

Arthurian legends - Knights of the Round Table

Sword in the Stone

Fiction Narrative - Create legends

Class Read - Artemis Fowl

Maths - Place Value, Addition and Subtraction, and Measure

Place Value - Roman Numerals to 1000, Interpret negative numbers

Addition and Subtraction - Add and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (columnar addition and subtraction)

Add and subtract numbers mentally with increasingly large number

Measure - Area and Perimeter

Science - Materials and their properties

Children will be asked to compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets.
They will also know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution.

Topic - Anglo-Saxons - Invaders and Settlers

Geography - Where did the Anglo-Saxons come from? Describe using the 8 compass points.

History - Describing historical events on a timeline and explaining some of the reasons why Anglo-Saxons wanted to settle in Britain.

Computing - Algorithms and Programs:

Use VR to explore the landscape of Modern Britain. Places where the Anglo-Saxons settled.

Homework 

I have included a number of website links below that your child could be accessing to help improve their English and Maths skills.

Feedback

Any other websites that your child uses and finds effective - I would love to able to add them here too. Please let me know.