All home learning will be set here every Friday and will be tested the following Friday.

Spellings

This week’s words to learn are:

affect

effect

stationary

stationery

practise

practice

Parents: all words are selected from the age-appropriate National Curriculum lists, these are words your child has to know by the end of Year 5.   Please encourage them to practise at home during the week, and carry out an occasional test to prepare them for Friday morning.  The tests are linked to spelling objectives and learning during the week.

Mental Maths Facts

This week’s facts to learn are:

Adding decimals to make 1 whole:

0.5 + 0.5 = 1

0.2 + 0.8 = 1

0.6 + 0.4 = 1

0.1 + 0.9 = 1

0.3 + 0.7 = 1

0.75 + 0.25 = 1

3.7 + 6.3 = 10

4.8 + 5.2 = 10

2.7 + 7.3 = 10

1.9 + 8.1 = 10

You will be tested on these number facts next Friday.

On Friday after school, please ask your child their score. We’ll send a slip with their results recorded home every week.