Extended Learning Opportunities

Year: 5

Week beginning: 25.9.16

Weekly This week has been a hive of activity in Year 5. As well as all of the exciting learning detailed
overview in our LO’s, we also took part in European Day of Languages. This was a wonderful occasion
with children across the year group engaging in learning a new language and learning about
different cultures.
In terms of our curriculum, a key focus this week has been to develop the children’s
understanding of complex sentence structures. The purpose of this is so that the children can
become familiar with them and use them, independently, in their own writing. A rather
poignant moment was spending Thursday’s English lesson reviewing the get writing activity
from the previous week so that the children could spend valuable time realising and
understanding the stepping stones they personally need to make to keep improving their
writing. We were able to conference with individuals and talk them through the markings. This
will happen each week following a get writing task and each child should have a photograph of
their work to discuss with you.
It was also fantastic to welcome all of you into our classrooms for our first Parent’s
Afternoon of the year. This was a fantastic opportunity to discuss the learning of your child and
to discuss any concerns you may have as well as celebrate their achievements in the first few
weeks of Year 5.
If you have any questions or concerns, then please don’t hesitate to contact me:
dwatson@dohacollege.com. I look forward to speaking to you all at the upcoming meeting
regarding our trip to Oman.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mr Watson
Area of Learning Additional information Suggested activities
Learning objectives
To use the Addition 1. Video yourself doing the column
column addition or subtraction method.
method for
addition 2. Teach someone at home how to do
the column addition/subtraction
To use the method. NB. Make sure you are using
column the correct mathematical language.
method for
subtraction 3. Use the following website to
calculate your weight on different
To be able planets.
to visualise http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/
Maths 3D solids weight/
Subtraction
Explain the scientific reason for this.
To use a
calculator to
convert my
weight on
Earth to
other
planets.
 Use QR reader app to follow the
codes printed here.

To identify
and write Look at the photograph of the
complex biography you wrote in week one.
sentences. Share with an adult at home and
discuss the points for development
To apply from marking and talking points from
knowledge the review lesson.
and
understandi Use the book you are reading at home
ng of to find and create a list of 5 complex
complex sentences.
sentences.
Write about a childhood memory of
your own and include some complex
English To assume sentences. Make sure the full features
the role of a of a complex sentence are present –
character don’t mix them up with compound
from an sentences!
autobiograp
hy. Interview someone at home to find out
When interviewing what their first day at High School was
To review someone, especially when like. Find out how they felt and what
and up-level recording the interview, think of happened. What did they think would
my own some top tips to create a high happen before they went? What are
writing. quality interview. Camera position, their strongest memories? Think about
background noise, volume of Roald Dahl meeting his head teacher at
voices, quality of questions and his boarding school.
avoiding one word answers are
some of the things to consider.
To record
data of Research the number of hours of
increasing daylight in another country. Create a
complexity line graph to show your findings. How
does the line compare to those of the
UK and Australia that we made? Can
To you explain why it is the same or
understand different? Remember to use the
that the correct vocabulary in your explanation
moon does We have been learning about the (for example: equator, hemisphere,
Topic
not have its phases of the moon and had fun tilt).
own source making a representation with Oreo
of light and cookies! Make a photo diary of the phases of
the moon. Take a photograph from the
is
same position, at the same time each
illuminated We created our graphs from evening. Could you keep this for a
in ‘phases’. analysing key data on hours of whole month to see all the phases?
sunlight throughout the year in the
UK. Have a go at this game to correctly
identify the phases of the moon.
 http://sciencenetlinks.com/inter
actives/moon/moon_challenge/
moon_challenge.html

Test yourself on this BBC quiz!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/s
cienceclips/ages/9_10/earth_su
n_moon_fs.shtml

Week 2 Learning Objective

FRENCH
To develop accuracy in pronunciation and intonation

To be able to say the French alphabet

To be able to ask how to spell out a word in French

Arabic and To be able to spell out their name

French
ARABIC

To be able to read and write words with the one way

connecting letters and identify them when seen in a word.

To be able to recognise their different forms in the

beginning, middle or end of a word.

Reading: Read 30 minutes each night. Ensure that the books read are a mix of
Ongoing fiction/nonfiction and challenging to promote use of higher order vocabulary and sentence
activities structure.
Times tables: All times tables need to be revised so that rapid recall of all facts can be used
to support learning within the mathematics curriculum.
PE and Swimming
Key PE and Swimming are both up and running and children should come prepared for
information appropriately for these lessons. If PE or Swimming is timetabled for any of the first two
periods, then children should come to school in their PE kit.

ELO
Activities carried out from the extended learning can be handed in throughout the week to
the class teacher. Some children have been incredibly organised and looked ahead, planning
which activities are to be completed over the course of the week and assigned days to do
them in their blue diaries.

Art
Please could all Year 5 children bring an old shirt or t-shirt, oversized, to cover their uniforms
when we are carrying out art based activities? They can then be kept in class.

Oman meeting
An information meeting regarding the trip for Oman will be held on the 3 rd October. The
meeting will be at 7.30am in AW and at 12.30pm in WB. If you have any difficulties with these
dates and times then please contact me and I can ensure that you are appraised of the
important information.
Class Mum/Dad
Each class would benefit from being represented within the parent community and so we
invite a parent of a child in each class to assume the role of ‘Class Mum/Dad’. This is not an
onerous task, the main aspects of the role being to provide a link between teacher and
parents. Please could you make yourself known to your child’s class teacher if you would like
to take on this role. At the moment we are low on volunteers, chat to your child’s class
teacher to find out more about what it entails.