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Hobletts Manor Junior School

Learning and Achieving Together

Saffron

Saffron 2023-24

Welcome to Year 5 and Team Saffron

Your teacher is Miss Smith

Your teaching assistant is Mrs Archer & Mrs Brewster

This week in Maths we continued to solve lots of word problems. We identified the calculation needed to solve each problem and the most appropriate method to use. In English, we continued our work based on the book ‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’ and wrote some descriptive paragraphs using expanded noun phrases and a range of fronted adverbials. We also planned an imaginary discussion between two of the characters and thought about the action that might take place in between the dialogue.

In Science this week, we started our new topics for this half term, Space. We learnt how our solar system came into existence and named the planets in our solar system. We also learnt how long each planet takes to orbit the sun and why all the planets stay in their orbits around the sun. In Geography, we identified different features of rivers from the upper course, middle course and lower course. We also used topographical maps to identify where the source and mouth of some rivers are located. In Computing, we started to design our own computer games involving mazes, baddies and objects to collect to score points. In RE, we found out what some of the roles and responsibilities of a rabbi are and in Music, we continued to learn to play the cornets.

Next week in Maths we will be using bar models to help us solve more problems and we will learn to solve scaling problems too. In English, we will write the dialogue that we planned this week and then plan to write a more extended piece of writing, based on Cloud Tea Monkeys, that uses all of the skills we have practised last week and this week.

Have a great weekend!

Weekly Home Learning

Times Table Rock Stars and Spellings each day

Reading (5 times per week or 7 times for the challenge)

Your optional home learning this term is related to our topic about Enchanting Earth.

In class, we will be learning about rivers, mountains,

earthquakes and volcanoes

You might like to research lots of different rivers around the world or just focus on one river or you might want to research mountains or do a combination of rivers and mountains. You might like to research how earthquakes or volcanoes work or their devastating impact on humans. It is entirely up to you!

Things to think about:

Which countries do the rivers flow through? What wildlife can be found in and around the river? How much water flows through the river? Where is the source and mouth of the river? How is the river used by humans or how has it be used in the past? What can you find out about our local rivers or canals?
How are mountains formed? How high is your chosen mountain? What plants or wildlife can be found on the mountain? How is the mountain used by humans?

You could create a poster, information booklet, PowerPoint presentation, a model, a video (Newsround style).