Hi,

I hope you are all well and are looking forward to the summer holidays. It all seems a little strange for those of us who haven’t been at school for a while.

I hope you enjoyed the class Zoom meeting. Unfortunately, I have a number of meetings this week, so won’t be able to hold one this week. Hopefully, you will now be meeting up again with your friends before too long.

This is also the last home learning pack. Don’t forget, that if you find some of the work a little tricky or too easy, then you can always have a go at the work on another class page that is more appropriate for you.

Remember, if you have any comments on the work, want to send anything to me or just share work with your classmates then feel free to email me at

c.chiverton@shawburystmarys.co.uk

I hope you have enjoyed the work over the last few weeks. Have a good summer, and I look forward to seeing you all in September.

PE

I see that Joe Wicks  is only putting out video content a couple of times a week. That’s not a problem, as you can revisit any of the older sessions on his webpage.

Reading

Hopefully, you have had a chance to access Cornerstones. There is so much good material on there if you have run out of books. Pick the one that is most appropriate for your reading level.

Spellings

I hope you managed to practise your spellings from last week. See if you can work through the spellings below. At the end of the week see if someone in the family can test you on them.

This week we will be looking at statutory spellings from the Year 5.

1. sufficient
2. opportunity
3. disastrous
4. awkward
5. interfere
6. signature
7. government
8. foreign
9. appreciate
10. temperature

Maths

I hope you have been enjoying the White Rose Maths. Don’t forget, if you get stuck on any of it, BBC Bitesize is a good place to find help.

Some of the pages this week are too large to post as an attachment.

Video link

Lesson 1 – Metric units

Lesson 2 – Imperial units

Lesson 3 – Converting units of time

Lesson 4 – Timetables

Times Tables

Literacy

BBC Bitesize continues to have some useful activities that are usually linked to punctuation and grammar. However, I like to take the opportunity to write creatively and use my imagination. I would therefore like you to write a story around the following image.

Question time!

What colour is water?

Is the water in the sea different to the water in rivers and lakes?

Is this water different to the water we have in our homes?

What happens to water when it goes down the drain?

Can you continue the story verbally? You could tell it from the perspective of the boy or the fish!

Focus on describing the boy’s feelings, and what he can see. The boy might come across some other creatures as they travel out to sea. What creatures might they be?

Sentence challenge!

A relative clause is a type of subordinate clause. It usually adds more detail about the noun in the main clause.

Relative clauses turn simple sentences into complex sentences.

For example, this is a simple sentence:

The boy held on to the fish’s tail.

It can be turned into a complex sentence by adding a relative clause:

The boy, who was having amazing fun, held on to the fish’s tail.

The main clause could stand alone as a simple sentence, but the relative or subordinate clause cannot.

Can you use relative clauses to add extra information to a sentence using who, which, where, when, whose or that?

Story starter!

It was the most exciting ride ever! Even better the highest, fastest rollercoaster!

The boy held on to the fish’s tail with both hands as it rocketed through the water. Its scales felt slimy and slippery, yet his grip remained strong.

The warm water whipped against his cheeks as they raced along; the sand from the seabed tickling his toes. Where was the fish taking him? He couldn’t wait to find out!

Good luck

Science

I hope you enjoyed researching some famous naturalists. This week, I’d like you to do something slightly different. Can you select an animal of your choice and carry out as much research as possible about it. Try and find out about their habitat, what their diet consists of, any factors that might be affecting these, reproduction, predators and anything else you think is relevant. When selecting an animal, ensure that it’s one that you can research easily. I’ll leave it up to you to decide how you present this information.

Topic

This week, I’d like you to explore sources about police crime prevention in order to make a poster to help prevent wrong-doing or accidents in school.

You will:

• Explore sources about police crime prevention.
• Make a poster or a presentation inspired by a historical theme.

The police don’t just find criminals after they have committed a crime, they also try to make sure that crimes aren’t committed in the first place. The way they do this is by trying to let people know how they can keep themselves safe from criminals. In the past they often made posters to do this, and, more recently, TV adverts too.

Have a look at examples of crime prevention posters and how they have used pictures, text and colour to get their point across.

I’d like you to to make a poster (and/or a video/presentation – it’s your choice what the end result is) to try to get the rest of the school to avoid accidents or bad behaviour. Think about accidents or bad behaviour that sometimes happens in school. Don’t forget that bad behaviour in school isn’t a crime, and the police enforce the laws made by government.

Choose one issue that you want to make a poster (or video/presentation) about and then  make a poster to give people advice on how to avoid accidents or bad behaviour.

Hi,

I hope you are all well and are looking forward to some relaxation in the social distancing rules.

I hope you enjoyed the class Zoom meeting. I have arranged another one for this week.

Don’t forget, that if you find some of the work a little tricky or too easy, then you can always have a go at the work on another class page that is more appropriate for you.

Remember, if you have any comments on the work, want to send anything to me or just share work with your classmates then feel free to email me at

c.chiverton@shawburystmarys.co.uk

There is now a new way of accessing Twinkl materials. If I have included any you will need to type in a pin number in order to gain access to any materials that have been posted. I will post the number if required.

PE

I see that Joe Wicks  is only putting out video content a couple of times a week. That’s not a problem, as you can revisit any of the older sessions on his webpage.

Reading

Hopefully, you have had a chance to access Cornerstones. There is so much good material on there if you have run out of books. Pick the one that is most appropriate for your reading level.

Spellings

I hope you managed to practise your spellings from last week. See if you can work through the spellings below. At the end of the week see if someone in the family can test you on them.

This week we will be looking at common words from the Year 5.

1. accommodate
2. conscience
3. existence
4. muscle
5. rhythm
6. accompany
7. conscious
8. explanation
9. necessary
10. sacrifice

Maths

I hope you have been enjoying the White Rose Maths. Don’t forget, if you get stuck on any of it, BBC Bitesize is a good place to find help.

As some of the questions require you to measure an angle you could try estimating using this protractor to help.

Video link

Lesson 1 – Regular and irregular polygons

Lesson 2 – Reasoning about 3D shapes

Lesson 3 – Reflection

Lesson 4 – Translation

Times Tables

Literacy

BBC Bitesize continues to have some useful activities that are usually linked to punctuation and grammar. However, some of you might like the chance to do some story writing. There are so many ways you could take your writing that I wouldn’t like to restrict you by saying you have to do it in a particular way. There are a few ideas to start you off from talk4writing but then it’s up to your fantastic imagination and creativity.

Science

This week, I’d like you to:

• Make observations, as a natural scientist would, recording data and reporting findings.
• Learn about some famous naturalists.

Activities

1. Make observations, record findings and draw conclusions, as natural scientists.
2. Research and present, in role, information on a significant naturalist.

If you can, o out into the  local woodland or park and get sit and observe nature. You will need to sit comfortably and remain still and quiet. What can you see, what can you hear, and what can you smell? Move slowly as you write so as to not disturb any wildlife. Hopefully over 10-15 minutes birds and mini-beasts should be seen and heard. Not everything you hear will be natural – you may hear and see vehicles on nearby roads, or planes in the sky.

What is a natural scientist?. A natural scientist, or naturalist, studies natural history, i.e. the study of plants and animals by observation rather than by experimentation. An animal behaviourist makes a scientific study of everything an animal does (from amoebae to gorillas!), so again they observe very carefully. You have just ‘been’ natural scientists and in fact have been working as natural scientists over the past few weeks as you have observed the insects and frogs.

Can you name any scientists who are naturalists or animal behaviourists? (Charles Darwin, Chris Packham, David Attenborough, Alfred Russel Wallace, Steve Backshall, Steve Irwin, Jane Goodall, George McGavin, etc.) You may have seen many of these people presenting natural history programmes on the television. What sort of behaviour or processes of animals and plants might be studied? Feeding, sleeping, finding/building shelter, interacting with other members of their species or with other animals, reacting to stimuli, playing, fighting, learning skills, mating or reproducing, excreting, etc. All things to do with being alive, well and happy! Watch David Attenborough presenting one of his natural history programmes. These programmes introduce people who are not scientists to many interesting and wonderful aspects of animal and plant life. People can see things happening or visit places virtually which they are unlikely to see or visit themselves. The programmes take a long time to make – the naturalists and film crew have to be very patient and can spend long hours waiting to capture a particular behaviour on film; they are filmed in often quite extreme conditions or difficult to access places; some of the plants and animals are rare or timid (in the case of animals) or the behaviour only happens at night (so sometimes infra-red cameras are used).

Jane Goodall is an expert on primates, particularly well-known for her work with chimpanzees. Listen to her talking about her life in the links above. She started working with just a notebook and binoculars – observing carefully.

I’d like you to complete your final observations and diary entries for the insects. You need to look at your propagated plants (if you had a chance to complete it), taking measurements and making observations and draw labelled diagrams, graphs, etc., then drawing conclusions on the success of the cuttings. Examine the runners and potatoes as well.

Exploring important natural scientists: Research and make notes on one of the naturalists.

Scientific illustrations exhibition: You can create your own art books that contain your illustrations from the block as well as select your best specimen to be put forward for the school website.

Vocabulary
Natural scientist, naturalist, observation, conservation, endangered

Weblinks
Jane Goodall Org from www.janegoodall.org.uk
Jane Goodall from http://video.nationalgeographic.com

Topic

This week I’d like you to look at questions of cause and significance when drawing the story of a detective case as a cartoon.

You will:

• Address questions of cause and significance based on historical sources.
• Improvise the story of a historical criminal case.
• Write and/or draw a narrative version of an historical event.