A message from Mrs Edge:
It’s been great to see some of the homework that you have been sending to our class email address. You should be very proud of the effort you are putting into your home learning. For those of you yet to share anything, don’t forget that you can take a photo of one piece of homework that you are very proud of and send it to the class email address:
cassowaryclass@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk
While the sun was still out I continued to be busy in my garden, planting up pots, weeding and growing vegetables. My cats were enjoying the sun too – bathing in its warmth.
I’m looking forward to chatting to some of you soon, and seeing even more of your fabulous work via our class email.
Best wishes,
Mrs Edge
A message from Mr Crozier
Hello Year 5 pupils! I hope you are all well and staying safe. I have also really enjoyed speaking to some of you this week. It has been great to hear about all the things you have been up to while the school has been closed! We are all missing you and looking forward to having you all back in school when we reopen. I’ve taken this opportunity to start practising my saxophone again. It’s been in its case for the last 7 years but I’ve finally opened it again, dusted it down and hopefully will be able to learn a few tunes! Wish me luck! As well as that, I’ve taken inspiration from Mrs Edge and Miss Stapley and have done some planting and I’m going for a run everyday to get my daily exercise – even in the rain! What have you all been up to? Don’t forget to post a picture of some of the work you have been doing this week on our new class email. Here’s the address again: Kookaburraclass@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk
Here you go Year 5, below are your home learning tasks for this week. We hope you enjoy completing them!
Check out the f0llowing link for a chance to watch Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of David Walliams’ story, ‘The Midnight Gang’
https://www.cft.org.uk/the-midnight-gang-broadcast
Reading:
Task 1: At least 20 minutes reading every day. Please make sure you are choosing an age appropriate book!
Task 2: Write a new blurb for a book that you have been reading. How would you summarise it for the reader without giving too much away?
Task 3: Draw a new front cover for a book that you have read. What would you include on the cover? Would you give it a new title?
Task 4: Draw and label a character from the book you are reading: think about their feelings, physical description and personality. What have you learnt about the character from the story so far?
Spellings and Grammar:
Task 1: Complete the spelling task on Sumdog.
Task 2: Complete the grammar task on Sumdog.
Task 3: Read through each of the homophones. Explain to your parents what each word means and write each word in a sentence so that they are in context.
cereal father guessed morning who’s
serial farther guest mourning whose
Writing:
Your learning this week uses the prologue to the fantastic book Moondial by Helen Cresswell
Pupils: You have 5 lessons to complete over the course of the week and each lesson should take you around 30 minutes. Complete the activities in order.
Parents you can help your child by:
- Reading the extracts aloud with your child
- Collecting interesting words and phrases on paper / post-its as they read
- Talking to your children about their ideas before they write
- Adapting any of the resources and materials as you feel necessary to support your child’s needs.
Lesson 1: Read and respond to the text
Read the prologue to Moondial below. It is set in the grounds of a large stately home, Belton House.
As you read make notes: – Do you have any questions? – Is there any vocabulary you don’t understand? – What does it remind you of? – How does it make you feel?
It is midnight in that most dark and secret place. If you should chance – and why should you? – to be walking there, you would be blindfolded by the night. You would hear the hooting of a lone owl from the church tower, the scuff of your own steps on the gravel. You would smell the ancient, musty scent of the yews that line the path, and the curious green odour of dew on grass. You put out a hand. It gropes to find the ungiving touch of stone. The shock of it brings an uprush of fear so strong that you can almost taste it. At that moment your fifth sense is restored. A slow silver light yawns over the garden. Shapes make themselves, statues loom. Ahead, the glass of the orangery gleams like water. You notice the shadow the moon has made at your feet as you would never notice a mere daytime shadow. You stand motionless, with all five senses sharp, alert as a fox. But if by some chance you should possess another, a sixth sense, what then? First a tingle of the spine, a sudden chill, a shudder. You are standing at a crossroads, looking up at a statue. A huge stone man seems to be locked in struggle with another figure, that of a boy. But the presence you feel is all about you now, and with a lifting of the hairs at the back of your neck you are certain, certain that you are being watched. You turn slowly, half dreading what you might see. But the path before you is empty. Your gaze moves to the great, moonwashed face of the house itself. The windows are blank and shuttered, though that strange sixth sense is insisting on hints, whispers, secrets. The scene fades and you realize that the moon is going back behind the clouds, and then you run. And as you run through the disappearing garden you feel that a mighty wind is blowing and voices are clamouring in that empty place. What you also hear, and what you will remember ever afterwards with a shudder, even in the full light of day, is the lonely sobbing of a child.
Task: Now answer the following questions:
Q1: What does the inclusion of the question “and why should you?” suggest about the house and its grounds?
Q2: What does the author describe as “your fifth sense”?
Q3: Imagine you are walking the National Trust walk around Belton using this website:
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/belton-house/trails/beltons-moondial-walk
Would you like to visit Belton House? Would you prefer to visit in the daytime or after dark?
Lesson 2: Vocabulary focus
Read the prologue again. Read the text aloud and think about how different sections should sound to create atmosphere. The prologue uses vocabulary that appeals to the senses to place the reader in the setting.
Task: Record vocabulary from the text relating to the five senses in the table below (or draw the table out in your own book).
Hear
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Taste
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Touch
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Smell
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“the ancient, musty scent of the yews |
See
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Lesson 3: Exploring the Writing
Read the prologue again.
The purpose of the writing is to entertain.
The author has successfully created an atmosphere of suspense – how has she achieved this?
Think about how the author makes you feel like you are there.
Task: Collect examples from the text that demonstrate how this has been achieved and create a word bank of these to use later in the week.
Lesson 4 – Grammar Practice and Play
You are standing at a crossroads, looking up at a statue. A huge stone man seems to be locked in struggle with another figure, that of a boy. But the presence you feel is all about you now, and with a lifting of the hairs at the back of your neck you are certain, certain that you are being watched. You turn slowly, half dreading what you might see. But the path before you is empty. Your gaze moves to the great, moonwashed face of the house itself. The windows are blank and shuttered, though that strange sixth sense is insisting on hints, whispers, secrets. The scene fades and you realize that the moon is going back behind the clouds, and then you run. And as you run through the disappearing garden you feel that a mighty wind is blowing and voices are clamouring in that empty place.
Task: Explain
Q1: What is the effect of the repetition of the word ‘certain’?
Q2: The prologue is written in the second person (‘you’) and present tense. How does this add to its effectiveness?
Task: Change
1: Replace the underlined noun phrase with an alternative.
2: Select synonyms for the underlined words.
Lesson 5: Writing Challenges
Using what you have learnt so far, and thinking back to what you have learned in Year 5, choose one of the following three challenges to complete:
1) Who would live in a place like this? Write a character description of the owner of the house and include details about their occupation, hobbies and family.
2) Imagine that the house and its grounds are to be sold. Using evidence from the prologue, write an estate agent’s advert for the house. Think about the purpose, audience and form of the advert and how you will need to adapt your language choices.
3) Write the opening to the first chapter of the novel. How will the story develop from this spooky prologue? Who will the characters be?
Maths
Task 1: 20 minutes of times tables work every day. Use TT Rockstars to help you practise.
Task 2: Arithmetic task and times tables task on Sumdog.
Task 3: There are 2 activities set on My Maths to complete. Use your log in details to get onto the website.
Task 4: Solve the maths problems, involving money –
Q1 Swimming sessions at a swimming pool cost £3.15 for children and £4.70 for adults. How much does it cost for 3 children and 2 adults to go swimming altogether?
Q2: If the swimming sessions at a swimming pool cost £3.15 for children and £4.70 for adults, what would be the cost for 3 adults and 5 children?
Q3: If the swimming sessions at a swimming pool cost £2.95 for children and £4.25 for adults, what would be the cost for 3 adults and 7 children?
Task 5:
Challenge 1:
The sum of four whole numbers is 23.
The difference between the smallest and the largest number is 6.
All four numbers are different.
What could the four numbers be?
Extra challenge: Find all the possible answers to this question.
Challenge 2
MULTIPLICATION, RANK BY DIFFICULTY
Question 1: Think of different ways to calculate 16×9
Question 2: Think of different ways to calculate 20×18
Question 3: Rank these questions by difficulty. Explain your choice.
23×25 16×25 39×20
History VE Day Home Learning
Friday 8th May is VE day celebrations so please take part in this home learning to engage with what the soldiers may have felt at this time.
Activity 1
Watch this video to learn about what VE day celebration means:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/history-ks2-ve-day/z7xtmfr
Read the following extracts and complete the tasks that follow afterwards:
On the night that most of the German Army capitulated we were playing in a theatre at Emsdetten. During the show some one came in at the back of the theatre and called out, ‘The War is over!’ With one accord, the whole audience rose to its feet and cheered madly, it was wonderful. I don’t know how we finished the show, we felt almost choked with emotion. I shall never forget hearing during the interval hundreds of happy voices singing,’Take me back to dear old Blighty’, it meant so much. Afterwards of course we heard that the war was not completely over, but I know that the whole company will always look on that day as being our Victory Day.
It was the evening of the 8th May 1945. The cessation of hostilities was due to come into force at 00.01 hours the following day (in effect from midnight that very night). All the airmen, who were off duty, assembled outside the Hitler Youth hostel. Here we built a huge bonfire and we sat around drinking beer. The on-duty wireless operator sat just outside the W/T truck in an armchair, which had been ‘organized’ from the Gasthaus. With a Sten gun at his side he was doubling up as a picket as well as maintaining a radio watch. A few minutes before the very moment of the cease-fire, the festive atmosphere was shattered by a burst of gunfire. What appeared to be a hostile attack caused us to scatter and dash for cover in the hostel. Airmen appeared at the doors and windows armed with their personal weapons at the ready.
VE Day, As Seen from a Field near Venice
There we were, in this field in the middle of nowhere, when someone on another tank called out ‘They’re going mad back home, get the BBC on your set or you’ll miss all the fun.’ I tuned in my 19 set to the Home Forces station and for the benefit of those outside the tank, hung all the earphones over the side of the hull. The crackle of the headphones soon drew a small crowd around the tank and we all listened in amazement to an unknown announcer describing the scene in Trafalgar Square. I remember quite clearly that my emotions at the time were mixed. On the one hand it was good to feel that perhaps some of my loved ones back home were taking part in the scenes that were now taking place, on the other hand I, and in hindsight, I’m sure most of my comrades, felt somehow cheated that we, who had ‘risked life and limb’ and had been away from home for so many years, were not there in England to share in the triumph.
Task:
Highlight in red the words and phrases that indicate happiness.
Highlight in blue the words and phrases that indicate relief.
Highlight in green the words and phrases that indicate sadness.
Activity 2
After reading the extracts and doing any other research using online resources about VE day, imagine you are soldiers being interviewed by the BBC news correspondent on VE Day. You need to portray how the soldiers felt about the end of the war and what they felt their role was in order to help prepare for peace. You will need to be reminded that they will need to consider the impact that fighting during the war would have had on these men.
If possible, record yourself speaking about your recount and email Mrs Conlon the video link to put it onto the school curriculum blog via her class email address:
starfishclass@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk
If you would like to write a newspaper article instead of an interview then please do so and email me a photo of your work to add to the blog.
Have lots of fun learning all about this special celebration.
I am looking forward to seeing your great history learning.
Best regards
Mrs Conlon (History lead teacher)
ART
Art Challenge Celebrations for VE Day
Portsmouth Naval Base is looking to mark the occasion of VE day and need YOUR HELP!
They have asked for you to draw pictures on the subject of WW2 & VE DAY and as an extra challenge try to incorporate a rainbow somewhere in the picture (even in the corner). The pictures will be displayed within the Naval Base and once the day is over they hope to make contact with local nursing homes to distribute the pictures to help cheer our elderly community. If you would like your work sent to the Naval base you will have to email it to me by Monday evening. However, all work sent to me, even after Monday, will still be displayed, as usual, on the Art Blog.
In addition to the drawings for the Naval Base, I would appreciated any art and craft linked to this important historic occasion , such as bunting, chalk drawings, figures of soldiers, planes or medals. I know, as always, you will blow me away with your imaginative ideas and creativity.
Please email your artwork to me: n.pearson@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk Thank you Keep creating and keep safe! Mrs Pearson
Science
Family Science Activity – Friday 1st May
Other things to try – gently lay plain white paper on the surface and make a print of your colour swirls.
Other things to try – the shaving foam and sprinkles experiment. Squirt shaving foam onto a tray. Add coloured sprinkles over the top and watch how the colours mix as the sprinkles dissolve into the foam.
Further science experiments (including this one) can be found at www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
Have fun!!
Music
Florence B. Price
Go to the website below and watch Naomi Wilkinson’s video
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/classical-music-florence-price-symphony-no1/z48rscw
Why is Florence B Price considered to be a musical trailblazer?
Watch the video again and practise the Hand Bone Dance with one, then 2 hands.
Now watch the 2nd video. Can you perform the Hand Bone Dance in time to the music?
Year 5 team.