Greatworth Primary School

Oak Class - Year 5 & 6

Welcome

Welcome to Oak Class. 

 

 

Please click on the link see below to find out what happens in Year 5 and Year 6. If you're not sure about anything, please don't hesitate to contact me.

 

Follow the below link to find specific information from the SATs meeting for parents that was held in February. 

SATs Books revision schedule

SATs Meeting PPT

Welcome to Year 5 and 6

End of Year 5 national expectations (EXPECTED STANDARD)

End of Year 6 national expectations (EXPECTED STANDARD)

Teachers

Mrs Jefferies 

 

                                                                   

Class novel

 

After finishing Darwin's Dragons at the beginning of the week, we voted on a new class text. The winner was the Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. The class have looked at the beginning of the text previously in in a guided reading session but there were intrigued to hear the rest of the story! 

 

 

                                              

Weekly Homework

There is a new homework grid for the second part of the spring term. Although the focus is still on the Ancient Greeks, there are 9 new activities for you to choose from. 

You need to choose six activities from the grid supplied. Click here for the details. You will be expected to complete an activity per week. 

 Some of the projects from last term were fantastic and I could see a lot of time and effort had gone into producing them so I'm excited to see what this term brings! 

Your weekly homework needs to be handed in on Wednesdays  

Daily Reading

In Year 5 and 6 the expectation is that you are reading every day for at least 20 minutes.

You need to choose from the 100 books on our class shelves or another age-appropriate text. Please ask if you're not sure.

Click here for Oak Class 100 books list

Your reading habits are monitored weekly.

 

Daily Spellings

Click here for Week 6 spellings

Click here for week 5 spellings

Click here for week 4 spellings

Click here for Week 3 spellings 

Click here for Week 2 spellings

Click here for Week 1 spellings

 Click here for the statutory word list for Year 5 and 6. These are the words children are expected to be able to spell by the end of UKS2.

Click here for the statutory word list for Year 3 and 4. These are the words children are expected to be able to spell by the end of LKS2.

You may find this phonics chart useful when practising your weekly spellings.

Spelling test is on Friday

  

Daily Times Tables and mental maths

Your weekly times tables grids are shown below. Just click on the one that applies to you.

Times tables/ mental maths tests are on Wednesdays

Bronze award   2 5 10 tables    3 4 6 tables    3 6 9 tables    4 6 8 tables   7 8 9 tables     6 9 12 tables

                           mixed tables        mixed tables (easier)

 

Silver award    2 4 8 factors      3 6 9 factors    4 6 8 factors      6 9 12 factors

 

Gold award    2 4 8 decimals    3 6 9 decimals    4 6 8 decimals    6 9 12 decimals    2 4 8 whole  

Arithmetic 1      Arithmetic 2

  

Diamond award (arithmetic)     BODMAS      BODMAS (1)   Five a day      Fractions      Five a day(2)

percentages            Fractions (Dividing by integer)        Five a day(2)      Five a day(2) answers

Column addition      Column subtraction        Column addition (decimals)      Divide by 10/100/1000

 

Platinum award (5 a day)

Level 1  Wk 1 Bronze             Wk 2 Bronze      Wk 3 Bronze    Wk 4 Bronze

Level 2  Wk 1 Gold                Wk 2 Gold          WK 3 Gold        Wk 4 Gold      Wk 5 Gold

Week 6 Gold          Week 7 Gold      Week 8 Gold      Week 9 Gold

Level 3  Wk 1 Platinum          Wk 2 Platinum  Wk 3 Platinum    Wk 4 Platinum

Mental Maths (Summer term)

Year 6: Week 1        Week 2      Week 3      Week 4      Week 5      Week 6

Year 5: Week 1        Week 2       Week 3    Week 4        Week 5    Week 6

Year 5 and Year 6. Here is the link to Mathsbot for extra arithmetic practice. Remember to click on 'primary' and then KS2 Arithmetic

This week

 

Oak class have had another busy week to round off the spring term. Today in class we have had a design and technology focus with the children working hard to create toys with a moving cam. 

 

We spent the morning measuring, sawing and gluing to create our frame. Then this afternoon, was spent exploring the different cam shapes and what impact they would have on the movement in our toys. The children worked really hard (including to clean up!) and have made a fabulous start to their projects. These will be finished next half-term. 

 

 

Over the holiday, it would be really useful for the children to keep revisiting their spellings from this term as we will have our termly spelling test when we come back to school We will also have our cumulative quiz to test our knowledge of our Ancient Greece topic. The spellings for this term and the knowledge organiser for history can all be found on this page. 

 

I hope everyone has a restful break! 

 

Curriculum Overviews:

Knowledge Organisers:

100 Books

This area will show all documents uploaded to the /docs/classes/oak_100_reads folder.

Documents will be shown in alphabetical order.
To list in date order, the folder should contain the word 'letter' or 'minute'.