Class 5

This half-term is very short - only four and half weeks.

Important Dates

Monday 5th May Bank Holiday - School Closed

Thursday 15th May Summer Census!

Friday 16th May PTA Disco

HALF TERM - 26th May - 30th May

Monday 2nd June INSET Day

All the best,

Miss Newman

Mrs. Eder

Miss Walters

Mrs. Robinson

Home learning: set 27th March, due 1st April (Spelling test: 3rd April).

Home Learning to be handed in on Tuesday 1^st April 2025
This week the children have been set an activity named “Mixed Sums All Numbers” on MyMaths. The children have also been set a competition activity linked to our Creative Arts week next week. Please see the attached information leaflet for details. It is not our intention for home learning to cause unnecessary anxiety in the household, therefore if there any concerns, please ensure you speak to the teacher in advance of the Tuesday deadline to ensure we can put the necessary support in place.
Weekly expectations
Times tables	Reading
Please ensure your child practises their times tables daily on TTRS. This only needs to be for 5/ 10 minutes per day but daily practice is proven to lead to greater fluency.	Please ensure your child has read a minimum of 5 times and logged it into their reading record. Reading is the key to them accessing the full curriculum and they will struggle with further learning without the necessary practice.
Spellings- these will be tested on Thursdays. Please ensure they have been practised prior to this. Please complete activities on Spelling Shed, using the login in the reading record.
Group A spellings	Group B spellings
battle	caffeine
settle	conceive
article	deceive
humble	either
struggle	neither
terrible	perceive
possible	protein
example	ceiling
capable	receive
adjustable	seize
Reminders
PE is now on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Happy learning! Miss Newman, Mrs Eder, Mrs Walters and Mrs Robinson

Spelling strategies:

Practising regularly throughout the week, not just once
Spotting groups of letters that are common to each word, and focusing on the bits that are different (eg if we are learning '-sion' words we can memorise these letters, then look at the initial letters in words such as confusion and illusion)
Thinking of 'hooks' that can help them remember particular spellings - perhaps something they think it sounds like, or a funny way of saying it.
The 'look, cover, write, check' technique where children try to write out the words correctly from memory and then compare them to the original
Asking someone to test them, and then going back to re-learn the words they got wrong.

Please remember that these strategies will all complement the use of the Spelling Shed web site, where learning games are set to support the spellings every week.