Year 5 Virtual School

11 May 2020

Daily Message

Hello everyone! Another Monday is upon us!

There’s some guided reading for you that has been lovingly prepared by Miss Fraser.

Next comes Mr Huxley’s Maths lesson. From now on, Monday’s are mixed maths tastic where Mr Hux will go through some familiar concepts for you to practice as well as some problems to challenge you in different ways.

The afternoon is a joyous mix of Science and Dance.

Ms Spears has made another video for our time capsule project. You can see this in the humanities section.

Enjoy!


This week’s suggested timetable is here

Maths

Maths

Hello everyone and welcome to our new Mixed Maths Mondays! Every Monday, Mr Huxley will give you the chance to practice previous learning and challenge yourself with something a bit different. Please let us know what you’d like included next week by email us with your requests.

Click here to watch the video.

We use Maths No Problem textbooks and workbooks. If you are not a Charles Dickens pupil you can get them here

English

English

Your guided reading text today is an extract taken from the classic story Arabian Nights. Watch the video here.

Click here for the text if you do not have it.
Click here for the answers if you do not have them.

Year 5 Virtual School

12 May 2020

Daily Message

Hi all, another jam-packed day of fun on the virtual school!

Today you will be;

  • continuing your fantastic work on perimeter in maths with Mr Huxley.
  • putting on your thinking caps and sparks up your imagination in preparation for English as we’ll be planning our own creative writing of Kasper in the Glitter.
  • looking at some top spelling tips with Ms. Fraser.
  • your suggested lessons for today are history and music.

Don’t forget to keep us updated on how you are doing by sending in pictures of your work.


This week’s suggested timetable is here.

Maths

Maths

More perimeter work lies ahead in today’s Maths lesson! We will be using floorplans to understand the use of scale when measuring perimeter. Enjoy!

Click here to watch the video.

English

English

Check out your unit 18 spelling lesson here.

Click here for the booklet if you don’t have yours.
Click here for the worksheet if you don’t have yours.

Switch on your writer’s brain for your planning lesson with Ms. Smith, Click here to watch the video.

And if you need some help with ideas for your story mountain, take a look at the attached PDF example here .

Year 5 Virtual School

13 May 2020

Daily Message

Hi there, It’s already Wednesday?! How quickly did that happen? Time flies when you’re busy and having fun on the virtual school.

Today you will be;

  • continuing your fantastic work on Perimeter in Maths with Mr Huxley.
  • putting on your thinking caps and sparking up your imagination in preparation for English as we’ll be planning our own creative writing of Kasper in the Glitter.
  • looking at some grammar tips with Mr. Huxley.
  • You’ve also got another inspirational art lesson with Mr. Yusuf and a PSHE lesson with Mr. Vanson.

Have a great Wednesday. Fingers crossed the sun stays out for the weekend.


This week’s suggested timetable is here

Maths

Maths

We’ve moved on from perimeter to study area! Have a think back to what you’ve learnt previously on area.

Click here to watch the video.

English

English

Let’s kick off today’s English with some grammar practice. Click here to watch the video.

Then we get creative as we start to think about writing the missing chapters of Kasper in the Glitter. Click here to watch the video.

Year 5 Virtual School

14 May 2020

Daily Message

Good Morning super stars!

Today’s lessons entail more work on perimeter and area in Maths, more writing in English and then some French and Yoga for you to enjoy as part of today’s suggested timetable lessons.

Have fun!


This week’s suggested timetable is here

Maths

Maths

Happy Thursday everyone! What’s a square number? How does this relate to area? Those questions and more are answered in today’s fabulous Maths lesson

Click here to watch the video.

We use Maths No Problem textbooks and workbooks, if you aren’t a Charles Dickens pupil you can get them here.

English

English

Give your fingers a stretch and a wiggle as it’s time for some handwriting practice: ‘ear’ & ‘ough’ spelling patterns. Click here to watch the video.

And then we can continue writing the missing section of ‘Kasper in the Glitter’. Click here to watch the video.

For today’s success criteria look at the lesson guide here.

Year 5 Virtual School

15 May 2020

Daily Message

It’s Friday and we want to talk about READING!

Please send in pictures of you reading in some ‘unusual’ places in your home. We would also love to compile a list of your favourite books to share with one another. Can we get close to 50 of our most beloved books? Get reading and happy weekend when it comes.

The Year 5 Team!


This week’s suggested timetable is here

Maths

Maths

Happy Friday Maths fans! Let’s get area-tastic with the fantabulous Mr Huxley. How do you find the area you say? Watch today’s video here to find out more!

We use Maths No Problem textbooks and workbooks, if you aren’t a Charles Dickens pupil you can get them here.

English

English

Hurrah it’s Friday and the last day of our independent write. Today we continue to write our endings to Kasper in the Glitter by finishing up with the resolution and ending.

Watch today’s video to hear some examples of your writing so far and tips on how to edit and improve as you go. Click here to watch the video.

Continue listening to the story;

Contact

Contact

We love getting your emails! Please email us your work. If you have any questions or want to share any wonderful ideas, please email us at year5.charlesdickens@gmail.com

Today's English

English

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Today's Maths

Maths

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Humanities

Humanities

We’re trying something different in history today. We’re heading on a virtual trip to the Horniman Museum.

First, watch the virtual tour here and answer these questions

  • Where is the Museum?
  • Who founded it?
  • When was it first opened?
  • What can be found there?

Then join Ms. Smith on her journey around Ancient Benin. Click here to watch the video.

Today’s task can be printed off or you can jot down your answers to the clues in Lesson 6 of your booklets.

Click here for the booklet.
Click here for the worksheet if you don’t have one.

Here is the link to Ms Spears’ video on the time capsule project

Art & Music

Creative

Art

Using oil pastels from our art packs we’ll be creating our own Keith Haring TV dog. Click here for this week’s art lesson with Mr Yusuf, and follow along with the help sheet!

Music

You have a set of musical challenges this week! Singing a harmony line with a ‘Mr Nathan’ vocal ensemble and rhythmic dictation with a twist. Enjoy!
Click here to watch the video.

Science

Science

Today’s lesson will be on reversible and irreversible changes, but first, let’s catch up on our egg-speriment! Ensure you have your “Material World” booklet and click here for the video.

Click here for the lesson guide.
Click here for the booklet if you do not have it.

Active

Active

Click here for today’s Dance lesson.

Click here for this week’s yoga lesson with Ms. Fraser.

French

French

Bonjour Year five!

First please click here to see our Y5 celebration video. We talk about our “star Francaise” introducing Omar Sy, a famous French actor as well as sharing the great work children have sent me.

This week’s activity is learning to apply the rules of the agreement of adjectives in the singular and plural with some accuracy. This is the last preparation before we make our trioramas next week! Click here for our lesson.

When you have finished our lesson, click here to download the writing frame.

Au revoir

Wellbeing

Wellbeing

This week, you will be learning about feeling excited! You’ll then be given a range of strategies designed to help you regulate that emotion.

Click here to watch the video.

SRE

SRE

In today’s SRE lesson, you will be learning about the changes during puberty in more detail for males and females.

You can click here for the lesson.

RE

RE

This week in RE we are carrying on looking at how Muslims respond to climate change by finding out about a very special new mosque that has opened recently in Cambridge and how this eco-mosque is tackling climate change.

Click here to watch the video.

Click here for the worksheet if you don’t have one.

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