Class 4 Blog

What a week! The year 5’s have been unbelievable! It has been Design and Technology week this week and they have put their all into it. The pictures will be available on Twitter to have a sneak peak.

Over the half term I am going to give year 5 a bit of break, there will be some homework but not too much.

Spellings:

advice
device
ambitious
tenancy
compliancy
shoulder
relevant
infectious
superstitious
vicious
devise
prophesy

Homework:

I would like our class to complete at least an hour on TT Rockstar’s over the holidays. This will hugely benefit the children going into their next math unit.
As our next English unit is debate/argument writing I would like the children to pick a side and write an argument for the following:

1. School starts at 7am and finishes at 1pm
2. School starts at 10 and finishes at 5pm

The children should pick either 1 or 2 and write their argument which one they would like and why. When we get back into school we then as a class have an argument surrounding the subject.

Have an amazing half term year 5!!!!!!

If there are any questions or queries please do not hesitate to contact me on trotta@brandesburton.eriding.net 

Many Thanks,

Mr Trott,

Another week finished for year 5 and they have smashed it again! This week they have started writing their biographies based on Sir David Attenborough, these are looking fantastic and are hopefully going to be finished by Monday next week. Year 5 have achieved a reading percentage of 96% which is an amazing improvement on our two recent weeks of 80%, so well done!

Spellings:

dictionary

existence

especially

neighbour

average

conscience

vehicle

shoulder

relevant

twelfth

Homework:

The homework for year 5 this week is to collect some more in-depth research regarding Sir David Attenborough. The children should be focusing on researching in a chronological way. This is to help their biography writing. This is needed for Monday

The children also have a sheet in their bookbag regarding their recent maths. This needs to be completed before Wednesday.

I would like 4 reads and at least 30 minutes on TT Rockstar’s before Wednesday.

If there are any questions or queries please do not hesitate to contact me on trotta@brandesburton.eriding.net 

Many Thanks,

Mr Trott,

Another action packed week for year 5. Unfortunately our reading percentage stayed at 80%, I would really like the children to be hitting 100% this week as I think they really deserve it!

Spellings:

advice

advise

device

devise

licence

license

practice

practise

prophecy

prophesy

Homework:

There is no homework this week. Year 5 have worked their socks off this week. However, I would like 4 reads and at least 30 minutes on TT Rockstar’s before Wednesday.

If there are any questions or queries please do not hesitate to contact me on trotta@brandesburton.eriding.net 

Many Thanks,

Mr Trott,

Another good week for year 5 this week. We have been all steam ahead this week with year 5 completing a lot of work. Our reading percentage has fallen slightly this week with a score of 80%, I would really like to see us get 100% next week to bounce back from this. Also as a class I would love for us to partake in the Brandesburton Bake off, this is on the 11th of March and it is to bake a cake relating to your favourtie book. It is £4 to enter and this is paid through parent pay. also our spellings last week were not the best they have been, can we really try and push them this week.

Spellings

hesitancy

truancy

accountancy

discrepancy

infancy

vacancy

buoyancy

tenancy

compliancy

occupancy

Homework

As we are getting closer to year 6 one thing I would love the children to work on is their reasoning in maths. We are amazing at arithmetic but our reasoning is not on the same level. Therefore I have given the children a reasoning paper, this paper will only take 20 minutes.

 Also could the children please complete 30 minutes on Timestable Rockstar’s this will be done every Wednesday. This is to help them in our math’s currently, this is working amazingly and I can already see improvements on this.

If there are any questions or queries please do not hesitate to contact me on trotta@brandesburton.eroding.net 

Many Thanks,

Mr Trott,

Year 5 have had a good first week back this week! We have managed to achieve 99% attendance and 92% reading ( pleas keep these numbers up !! ). The children have been exploring a new English topic of Newspaper writing and they are blowing me away! Year 5 have really been putting the work in this week, the workload has been extreme and they have taken it in their stride so a very well done from Mr Trott.

Spellings

ambitious

cautious

fictitious

infectious

nutritious

repetitious

superstitious

gracious

precious

vicious

Homework

Year 5’s homework this week is to create a script for our news report we will be creating on Monday, this should be surrounded by the events that are going to take place on Monday ( TOP SECRET – if the children forget email me). I would also like the children to bring some clothes they can pop over their uniform to make them look like “news reporters). No maths homework this week. However if you would like some I will be happy to e-mail some over. Also could the children please complete 30 minutes on Timestable Rockstar’s this will be done every Wednesday. This is to help them in our math’s currently, this is working amazingly and I can already see improvements on this.

If there are any questions or queries please do not hesitate to contact me on trotta@brandesburton.eroding.net 

Many Thanks,

Mr Trott,

What a final week! Class 4 really had their work cut out this week but they gave it their all as always! We have been concentrating on our art unit this week. We have been making John Dyer inspired Mayan Art, So far we have made our stencils and we have printed our first piece ( many more left to do ). Our reading percentage this week was not amazing with 74%. I would like class 4 to respond to this with a 100% the first week back please!

However, hats off to class 4 for this half term, they have really put 100% into every piece of work these past five weeks and they really do deserve a break to recharge and re-set.

Spellings for our first week back will be a mixture of the spellings we have already completed.

through
thorough
cereal
serial
communicate
bough
although
dough
thoroughness
ought
drought
assent

Homework

Below I have attached two sheets of homework for the children to complete. These are both math sheets and they are going over what we have recently done within Math. This will need to be in for the first day back. Also for math’s could the children please complete 30 minutes on Timestable Rockstar’s this will be done every Wednesday. This is to help them in our math’s currently, this is working amazingly and I can already see improvements on this.

If there are any questions or queries please do not hesitate to contact me on trotta@brandesburton.eroding.net 

Many Thanks,

Mr Trott,

Class 4 have done amazing this week! Everyone has put so much effort into what they have done and as a teacher I could not be happier. Our reading percentage was 96% and our attendance was 100%! There has been a lot to do this week and year 5 have just got on. We now know the social circle of the Ancient Maya and we are about to write our suspense openers in English which are looking AMAZING.

Spellings

ascent
assent
bridal
bridle
cereal
serial
compliment
complement
precede
proceed

Homework

The children have been focusing on multiplication of numbers in maths. I have given each child a sheet with a range of different questions on, if this could be completed by Tuesday please. The children will also be doing their suspense story openers on Monday. I have given the children an opportunity to write up a mock of this to help them on Monday ( this isn’t homework but if they want to do it they can ).  Also for maths could the children please complete 30 minutes on Timestable Rockstar’s this will be done every Wednesday. This is to help them in our maths currently, this is working amazingly and I can already see improvements on this.

If there are any questions or queries please do not hesitate to contact me on trotta@brandesburton.eroding.net 

Many Thanks,

Mr Trott,

A great week with year 5 this week! A lot of writing and a lot of hard work! Our reading percentage was really good again with a score of 92%. I had 20 out of 24 children complete 20 minutes on Timestable Rockstar’s too which was an amazing effort from everyone!

We are in full flow next week as the children will be completing their suspense starters in English. Learning more about the Maya and how their society worked.

I would really like to push the reading at home also. It is amazing to see the improvement of the children’s reading when this is being completed week in week out and it really puts a smile on their faces in the classroom ( maybe not so much at home! )

Spellings this week:

especially

neighbour

determined

accommodate

interfere

committee

apparent

harass

aggressive

communicate

Homework

As we have moved away from fractions in maths we have now begun our second visit of multiplication and division. I have sent a list home with the children of multiplications I would like them to try out using our “column method”. This will be due in Tuesday. Also for maths could the children please complete 25 minutes on Timestable Rockstar’s this will be done every Wednesday.

If there are any questions or queries please do not hesitate to contact me on trotta@brandesburton.eroding.net 

Many Thanks,

Mr Trott,

Another really productive week for year 5 this week. We have started our new Mayan topic which the children are loving! We now know when the Ancient Maya started and finished, what happened during and where they lived. We have also started our new guided reading text “The Nowhere Emporium”. The Reading for year 5 this week was a huge improvement with 92%!

Spellings

dependable

comfortable

understandable

reasonable

enjoyable

reliable

excitable

preferable

adorable

believable

Homework.

As the children are coming to the end of their Fraction unit in Maths, there is a math sheet with a few worded fractions on ( see below, there are 3 different sets of questions ranging in difficulty 1st being the most challenging). The children have done these problems in class when I have helped so I want to see the children working this out independently(please show working out) , This will be due in Tuesday. Also for maths could the children please complete 20 minutes on Timestable Rockstar’s this will be done every Wednesday.

If there are any questions or queries please do not hesitate to contact me on trotta@brandesburton.eroding.net 

Many Thanks,

Mr Trott,

Welcome back! First of all it is great to be back and the children have had an amazing start. Our reading percentage wasn’t fantastic this week so I am hoping now we have a full week we can get this back up to 100%.

The spellings for this week are:

through

thorough

borough

enough

bough

though

although

dough

thoroughness

ought

Homework:

The children have taken home their planning for their explanation piece. They need to conduct some research on their subheading that they have chosen. This will be due in Monday to give them a helping hand in their explanation text.

Also for the maths homework could the children please complete 20 minutes on Timestable rockstars this will be done every Tuesday. .

If there are any questions or queries please do not hesitate to contact me on trotta@brandesburton.eroding.net 

Many Thanks,