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Year 5Welcome to Year 5! Welcome to the Year 5 area! Your one-stop shop for updates on the latest topics, homework, trips and news. Summer 1 topic: The Rainforest Rainforests are forests which grow in areas of high rainfall. Tropical rainforests are found between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn and receive between 175-200 cm of rainfall a year. E-Safety websites In ICT, we have been creating e-safety websites. We would love to share our work with you so please find the website links below: Stingrays: https://sites.google.com/view/5w2020/home Sharks: https://sites.google.com/view/5m2020/home Swordfish: https://sites.google.com/view/5s2020/home Spellings This week, we are looking at 'ion' or 'ous' suffixes:
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Things you could do at home Reading As you know, reading a range of high quality books will help your child in all areas of the curriculum. Here is a helpful website which recommends books for each year group: https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/category/reading-lists-for-ks2-school-pupils/ Mental arithmetic In Year 5, we are having a huge focus on times tables - with the intention of all children knowing their times tables up to 12 x 12 by Year 6. Here are some useful links to help with this goal: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/ordering-and-sequencing-numbers https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/index.html https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/category/22/most-popular Chanting, writing and singing times tables is also a great way to remember them. Here is a link to some songs: Spelling Year 5 & 6 Spelling List: http://ludgvan.cornwall.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Word-list-5-and-6.pdf |