An introduction to Year 5:
Welcome to Maple Class’ page of the website! In Year 5 we are always working hard to stretch our brains! We have PE on Wednesdays and Fridays, do our ukulele lessons on Fridays and have new spellings and homework on Tuesdays (due for the following Tuesday).
We had a great time visiting the Earth Trust this week. Check out some of the photos below:
Below you will find copies of the homework and spelling sheets for this week. You will also find a link to the website 'Spelling Training' that contains a number of games you can play using this weeks spelling words. The words are all linked to the suffix -cious.
Thank you to everyone that popped by to 'Meet the Teacher' earlier this week. If you couldn't make it (don't worry, we've all got busy lives!), please find below a letter containing much of the information you need to know at the start of Year 5. For those that did attend, I've already changed the homework days so you'll now find both homework and spellings go out on a Tuesday due for the following Monday.
Thank you!
Find the spellings on Spelling Training below. Unfortunately, the games won't work as well this week due to the fact that your rules this week are linked to homophones. Good luck!
Below is a list of suggestions for our school musical, Porridge. We would be grateful if you could have a look through your wardrobes and see if you have anything appropriate for your child’s character to wear, or possibly for someone else. Please do not worry if you haven’t got an item your child requires as we may be able to source your costumes from other people / places. Please let is know if you are unable to supply a costume.
Character | Costume Suggestion |
Jack Spratt | Dark trousers, shirt & tie, trilby |
The Bears | Papa – Dark trousers, shirt and tie, jacket, trilby Mama – dress with an apron Junior – bear outfit or dark trousers, shirt & tie |
Chief Inspector Drain & the Police Officers | Chief - White shirt and black tie, captains hat PCs – Blue shirt & black tie, dark trousers, police helmet |
Waiters / Waitresses: Roxy, Ruby, Ruthie, Renee, Rosie, Rita, Rhona and Robyn | ‘American Diner’ look. Red t-shirt, red skirt and white pinny (apron) |
Lumberjacks: Woody, Twiggy, Splinter, Chopper, Barker, Timber and Plank | Classic lumberjack costume – jeans / dungarees and a checked shirt. Builders hard hat adds to the look. |
Nursery Rhyme Characters: Goldie, Ma Hubbard, Simple Simon, Nurse Polly, Tom-Tom, Peter Piper, Dr Foster, Bo Peep, Humpty, Miss MUffett, Wee Willie Winky, The Witch, The Big Bad Wolf & the Kings Men | Colourful yet traditional. E.g. Bo Peep should have her crook and bonnet, Wee Willie Winky needs a cap and nightgown. Each character should have a colourful ‘storybook’ quality. Check images of the characters online to get some ideas.
The Witch, Wolf and Kings Men are mostly seen through a ‘picture frame’ so heads in costume with black t-shirt and black trousers would work well. |
The Goats: Big, Middle and Little Bill | Gangster style – dark trousers, shirt, jacket, trilby, goat horns? |
Dwayne & Rusty | As with all good news reporters, smart clothes! |
Pip the Paper Boy | Dark trousers, shirt, flat cap. |
Marigold the Cow | Cow onesie or two-man cow costume. |
If you have any questions, please catch one of us.
Many thanks!
We saw some amazing homework projects this term, check them out below!
Please find this weeks spellings on the trainer below. Remember, we are working on the suffix -ive which has three rules. You are either:
Good luck!
We had an amazing day with your children, dressing up and acting like we were in the 1940s. We spent much of the day learning how strict teachers could be and we've decided that bringing back the cane doesn't seem like a good idea!
Spelling training link below as usual. Remember, this week they are all challenge words! Enjoy!
Hopefully your child has come home and told you that we are now working on World War II as our Topic for this term. We’ve been doing lots of drama and roleplay to help us understand what it was like to be a child in 1939, but we’d like to take this even further by having a WW2 day on Thursday 23rd May (in the final week of this half term). For this, we’d love for your child to come dressed like a child from 1939 / the early 40s. We guarantee that every single household has clothes that would appropriate for that era tucked away in cupboard somewhere so there is hopefully no need to buy anything. Please find below links to some other schools that have done similar themed days with photos to give you some ideas and take a look at the general ideas below:
| Boys | Girls |
Button up shirt Plain tie Shorts School shoes Plain socks Knitted jumper / vest Flatcap | Blouse & Skirt or plain dress Plain cardigan School shoes Plain socks Hair in plaits or tied back |
This week our spellings are linked to the suffix -en. Remember the key rules:
This weeks spellings are linked to the suffix -ify. Remember, the root word is sometimes obvious but other times is a little unclear. One very useful rule is that if your root word ends in an 'e' or a 'y,' we remove it before adding the suffix. Enjoy!
Much of our science work this year has been linked to forces, including buoyancy. We thought we could combine our knowledge of 3D modelling and printing with our knowledge of buoyancy and see if we could design a boat that was the most buoyant and could therefore carry the most weight. Once printed, we placed our boats in a container full of water and add 1g ball bearings until our boats eventually failed us! We have photos of the boats below and a sped up video of each. Enjoy!
So sorry it's taken a while to get these photos up for you guys. We had an amazing time at Young Voices this year and really hope you can all join us again next year! Take a look at the photos to check out the view from our seats:
Please find the link to the Spelling Training website for this weeks spellings below. Unfortunately, because were doing homophones this week, the online tests won't work as well (as they read you a word to spell, but you won't know which homophone it's asking for). Do what you can and good luck with your practice!
We were visited this week by Alan from a company called Exa. He was here (at the behest of the MoD!) to talk to us about roles in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subjects. We had the chance to test some of our STEM skills by using Micro:bits to decode a problem. A lot of fun all round!
Sorry for not putting the spellings up last week. Please check out the link below for this weeks.
We've had a fantastic World Book Day this year. Check out our costumes below!
Your spellings this week all use the suffix -ity. Feel free to use the resources at the link below to help you.
Please find the link to the Spelling Training website for this weeks spellings below. Remember, there is no spelling pattern this week as all the words are from our statutory end of key stage list. Good luck!
Please find the link to the Spelling Training website for this weeks spellings below. Unfortunately, because were doing homophones this week, the online tests won't work as well (as they read you a word to spell, but you won't know which homophone it's asking for). Do what you can and good luck with your practice!
Please find the link to our spelling activities here. Remember you can use this website to play games and take practice tests, just make sure you have headphones or the volume turned up. The theme for our spellings this week is 'modal verbs.' Please think carefully about the words and how they are used in the contracted versions of themselves.
Please find the link to our spelling activities here. Remember you can use this website to play games and take practice tests, just make sure you have headphones or the volume turned up. Our spelling pattern for this week is the suffix -ship. The root word rarely needs adapting when adding -ship to become a new noun.
We have been hard at work designing our own flags for the village of Woodcote. Check out some of our design process, along with prototypes and our final fabric designs coming together. Keep an eye out for the finished products coming soon!
What a week we've had, learning how to be safe out on the roads on our bikes. We're hoping to see more bikes in the bike-rack over the rest of this term! See a few photos caught early in the week out on the playground below:
Hi all. Please follow the link below for the spelling list on SpellingTraining.com. Remember you can use the website to complete spelling tests or to play games that will help you recognise and learn the words. The biggest thing to remember however are the rules we follow when adding the suffix -ness:
After a couple of weeks of hard work our hinged boxes are finally finished! They've gone home, but please check our gallery if you'd like to see the wide variety of designs we came up with!
Across the school we've spent the last few weeks looking at D&T. Each class has been exploring 'frames' and looking at how these simple designs can build out into a complex product. In Year 5 we decided to build a pair of rectangular frames, space them out to make a 3D box, wrap it in cardboard and use a piece of fabric to create a hinging lid. We'll add more photos as we make more progress:
Well, your children have certainly progressed quickly. Each week in school we have a new nursery rhyme to learn for our sharing assemblies on a Friday. This week's nursery rhyme was 'Mary had a Little Lamb' and can be played just using the F and C chords! We thought you might like to see!
We've started our ukulele lessons. Keep an eye out as we'll hopefully post some videos soon!
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This week we've been writing some kennings. They are a cross between a poem and a riddle that were written during the Anglo-Saxon period. We chose to write some about harvest! Check out a few below:
We had our 'Meet the Teacher' session this week, but if you didn't manage to make it then please take a look at the documents below. They include all the information we shared on the day. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to catch one of us at pick-up / drop-off or drop an email to the office. Thank you!
Over the last few weeks we've been exploring poetry written by soldiers during the Second World War. We've had a go at writing some of our own. Fair warning, the children did not hold their punches. Enjoy!
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Over the half term break we asked everyone in the class to complete a piece of homework linked to World War 2. We had a variety of projects, all of which were completed to a fantastic standard. They included:
Take a look at the photos below:
