Mathletics!

By l hearn7th June 2017

 

All children in Year 1 – Year 6 have access to a learning website called ‘Mathletics’. Many children are already using this website both in and outside of school to consolidate the learning they do in the classroom. The children particularly enjoy ‘Live Mathletics’, where they can compete against their friends and improve their recall of number facts such as times tables.

Today Mathletics is updating its website so that it is more ‘user friendly’. Please encourage your child/children to log on to Mathletics and explore the new layout. If they get more than 1000 points in a week, they will even receive a certificate! In the past month, 200 certificates have been achieved by Brooklands Farm children! Let’s see if there can be even more this month!

If you have any queries about using Mathletics, please ask your child’s class teacher.

Good luck!

Y5 Fen Street Half Term Homework

By S Forbes26th May 2017

Individual Half-term holiday home learning

 

Literacy

 

Over the holidays, please can you create a storyboard of our visit to Warner Bros Studio tour. Think about the order in which we saw all of the different exhibits and the highlights of your day. It will need to be detailed as you will be writing a recount of the day after half term. Think carefully about what content is appropriate for a recount and what information does not need to be included.

 

Maths

 

Please complete an activity to do with measuring with your family. Take a picture or write an account of what you did to share on the first day back.

This could be:

  • Measuring the length and width of your garden accurately (in m and cm) and then calculating the perimeter (the total distance around the outside)
  • Bake a cake using g and kg
  • Create a summer drink for your family, measuring the different amounts of ingredients in ml and L.
  • Finding out the distance between your house and Brooklands Farm School (in m/km)
  • Compare the different heights of people in your house (in m and cm)
  • Write a diary of the activities that you do in the day, calculating the time it took to do each activity and recording the time you started the activity.

 

Please continue to use Mathletics and Hit the button over the half term as well.

 

Well done for all of your hard work over this half term. Enjoy a well earned rest over the next week.

 

Mrs Forbes, Miss Downey, Mr Stott and Mr Peters

5D home learning

By Miss Rebecca Snowdon25th May 2017

Brookfest is 10th June! Your home learning over half term is:

  • Make sure your family knows about Brookfest and ask them to come!
  • Ask your parent to sign and return a slip if they can help on the year five coconut shy at some point during the day of Brookfest
  • Keep practising your songs:
    • We Are Giants – Take That
    • The Greatest – Sia
    • Titanium – David Guetta (stop after 2nd chorus, roughly 2:45)

As no other tasks are being set, it is the expectation that these tasks are completed by everybody. If your families are not able to help/ come to Brookfest, they still need to return the letter. Your letter is being sent home with you on Friday.

Have a fun and musical half term!

 

5D home learning

By Miss Rebecca Snowdon19th May 2017

This week in 5D, we have begun our recount writing learning journey, following our trip to the Warner Brothers Studio Tour (photos coming soon!).

As a class, we created a detailed list of criteria required for each of the three components of a recount: introduction, main body and conclusion; and paired these criteria with successful examples from some supplementary literature.

This week for home learning, we would like to you to collect different types of recounts to bring to school. Throughout the week, beginning on Monday, we will be comparing these recount types to our recount features criteria and selecting successful examples to add to our supplementary literature bank.  These will be very helpful to us, when we are writing.

Types of recounts to look for:

  • a write-up of a trip or activity
  • an account of something that happened in history
  • a newspaper article about something that happened
  • a letter to tell someone about an event
  • a diary or a blog
  • an encyclopedia entry
  •  a biography or autobiography
  • an account of a science experiment

We would like recount types to start arriving in school on Monday but are happy for them to continue arriving until Wednesday.  It is important that everyone brings at least one as we will be using them all week. Please try to be creative with the examples that you bring to school. We would like to have a broad and varied sample of supplementary literature.

Please also remember that daily reading and using Mathletics at least three times a week is an expectation of year 5.

Enjoy your weekend.

Miss Snowdon and Miss Sheppard

5D home learning

By Miss Rebecca Snowdon12th May 2017

On Tuesday 16th May, we are going to the Warner Brothers Studio tour! Hooray!

Please arrive to school at normal time, in uniform and with a packed lunch (named).

 

During the trip, we’ll be learning about how the film makers created the ‘magic’ that we see on screen.  We would like you to do some self study into mechanisms and moving parts. The aim is for you to familiarise yourself with these, how they work, how they are assembled and key words. You will be spotting as many of these mechanisms as possible during the day of the trip and will also connect this to making your own miniature moving models as part of your project outcome.

Use the link below to help

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByP-dD4eI-7ATWZZQjljTGE1M1k/view?usp=sharing

 

Have a lovely weekend,
Miss Snowdon and Miss Sheppard

5D home learning due 2nd May

By Miss Rebecca Snowdon27th April 2017

This week we have started to learn our text map for ‘The Tale of the Three Brothers’ as part of our Harry Potter project. We will be using the style of the story to write our own traditional tales.

For home learning, please use the text map and copy of the story provided to continue learning the text map.  Remember, you need to learn the story, use an expressive, storytelling voice; and come up with memorable actions.

Please also complete the practise tasks provided to help you to learn your traditional tales speed words.  We learn ‘speed words’ that are important examples of vocabulary for our chosen text type so that we can use them easily and accurately in our writing.

It is bank holiday Monday on 1st May.  So please learn your text map and speed words for Tuesday 2nd May.  We will need these for our lesson on Tuesday so it is very important that you have learned as much as you can.

Have a lovely bank holiday weekend,

Miss Snowdon and Miss Sheppard

5D Countess Way home learning

By Miss Rebecca Snowdon21st April 2017

This week we have been writing formal letters of application to be a highwayman, in response to the Highwayman poem.  These letters were written to be both formal and persuasive.

In preparation for our new Harry Potter project next week, please write a new formal letter of application.  You are writing to apply for the role of ‘head boy’ or ‘head girl’ of your Hogwarts house (to be given to you on Monday). These letters need to be persuasive and formal.

Job description – a head boy/ head girl…

  • is responsible and reliable
  • is honest and trustworthy
  • is fair and selfless
  • is a role model for others
  • always listen to others and value everyone’s voice

In Harry Potter, the head boy and girl are there to support Professor Dumbledore and the other teachers of Hogwarts, ensuring that school rules are followed and values are upheld.  They are the assistants to the teachers.  It is a very responsible role.

Use the job description above and the writing ladder provided to help you write your letters.

This task is required for Monday. For this reason, it is the only task you are being set this week.

Enjoy your weekend.

Miss Snowdon and Miss Shepard.

letter of applicationYr5MarkingLadder pdf

5D home learning

By Miss Rebecca Snowdon31st March 2017

In the first week back after the Easter holiday, we will be doing a poetry week before start our Harry Potter project.  Our poetry focus is going to be ‘The Highwayman’ by Alfred Noyes.

In preparation, please read your copy of the poem.  There will old-style language that you may not have come across before.  Take the time to understand it and find out what new words mean.

Please also pick your favourite stanza and learn it off by heart.  We will be reciting our favourite parts in circle of the first day back!

Have a lovely Easter break and be safe.

Miss Snowdon

Year 5 Fen Street Easter Homework

By S Forbes31st March 2017

Individual Easter holiday home learning

 

Literacy

 

Throughout our writing, we are always focusing on the writing ladder. It is really important that you know the ladder really well so that you can work on any gaps you may have. Over the holiday, can you please look through the ladder and research and practise the skills.

 

Some useful websites for researching grammatical skills are:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/spelling_grammar/

http://www.grammar-monster.com/

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar

 

When you have practised these skills, please identify what your next steps need to be. Do you need to apply these skills to your writing? Are you still unsure about a particular skill. Then, after the holidays, be prepared to discuss your next steps with your Literacy teacher.    

 

Maths

 

Over the holidays, we would like you to:

  • Use Mathletics to practise skills as often as you can.
  • Continue to learn the times tables songs
  • Practise and apply your learning of times tables using games like ‘Hit the button’.
  • Practise your written methods of multiplication, division, addition and subtraction. Make sure that they are accurate.

 

Project

 

Next term, our project will be focusing on Harry Potter. Over the holiday, we would love you to ignite your learning by choosing some activities to do over your Easter holidays.

You could:

  • Read the first Harry Potter book (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)
  • Watch the first Harry Potter film (or any of the films)
  • Explore the Pottermore website
  • Create a character description for one of the characters.
  • Create a persuasive advert to encourage people to attend Hogwarts school.
  • Make an advert using iMovie for the film.
  • Create a cartoon strip of a chapter of the book.

 

Remember, you do not need to complete all of the tasks, but choose ones that you would like to do.

 

Well done for all of your hard work in the Spring term. Enjoy a well earned rest over the next two weeks.

 

Mrs Forbes, Miss Downey, Mr Stott and Mr Peters

5D home learning

By Miss Rebecca Snowdon24th March 2017

Next week, we will be learning about different life cycles of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds and insects.

In preparation for this learning, please bring in an example of an animal, birds or insect’s life cycle.  You could present this…

  • as a diagram with annotations
  • as a comic strip with written explanation
  • as a time line with labels/annotations

To help with this task, Miss Snowdon recommends:

Bitesize or home work help webites

 

This task is needed for Monday please because that is when the learning is starting.  For this reason, this is the only task I am setting this week.

Enjoy your weekend