Welcome to Year 5
The class teacher is Mrs Stewart and the teaching assistant is Mrs Manders.
Homework Help:
PE Days
Curriculum Planning:
Let’s Celebrate:
Spellings
This week’s spellings focus on a selected group of homophones. They will be tested on Friday 14th March and can be found below with a hint to their meaning:
Spelling tip: ‘ow’ can make a long sound ‘o’ sound (slow) or a short ‘o’ sound (now).
fowl (bird)
flower (blossom)
dowse (drench)
how’s (how is?)
allowed (permitted)
Spelling tip: ‘ou’ can make a sound like ‘ow’ (e.g. flour-flower). There are many of these words.
foul (offensive)
flour (baking)
douse (drench)
house (to accommodate)
aloud (out loud)
Spelling tip: ‘ou’ can make a sound like short ‘o’.
poring (studying closely)
pouring (flowing)
morning (before noon)
mourning (grieving)
You can access all of the spelling patterns that will be taught throughout Year 5 and 6 as well as the statutory spelling list at this link – Year 5/6 Spelling
Maths
This half term we are continuing to look at fractions before using this knowledge to inform our learning on working with decimal numbers. For further reading on fractions, have a look at the BBC Bitesize website.
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