Year 5 Iveson Blog

Don't forget that the Easter holidays will be your final chance to do some extra reading and add this to your sponsor card.  Sponsorship money should be collected and returned to school after the holidays in the first week back (from Monday 15th - Thursday 18th April). Remember that the money we collect as a school will help children in our local hospitals by providing them with books and author visits, as well as helping us buy more books for our new library.  Many thanks for all your support so far - please see the website below to donate online or read more information. https://readforgood.org/ Read for Good - Readathon. Reading to help children in hospital. readforgood.org Readathon encourage children to read for fun through our sponsored read in schools. We use the money raised to give books & stories to children in hospital.

Holiday homework  You also must practise your multiplication and division facts - Use TTRockstars to help Have a go at the following questions.

Our spellings this week are: temperature vegetable suggest rhyme rhythmn possess possession particular peculiar pressure Can you put them into a sentence?

Check out the TT Rockstar Battle of the Band winners - terrific times tables and marvellous maths work happening from pupils across KS2.  A new battle has started... will you help your class win over the half-term holiday?  Earn as many points as you can by answering times table questions correctly. The new challenge starts now and lasts until the first day back at school.  Which class will earn the most points to win the prize?  https://ttrockstars.com/ Times Table Rockstars ttrockstars.com In either paper form or online, Times Tables Rock Stars is a carefully sequenced programme of daily times tables practice. Each week concentrates on a different times table, with a recommended consolidation week for rehearsing the tables that have recently been practised every third week or so.

A small group of pupils were selected to attend an 'Able Writers' event at a local primary school.  They had a fantastic time and produced some phenomenal work - writing can be fun!  

Y5 and Y6 reasoning and problem-solving together - with a focus on converting fractions, decimals and percentages. It was marvellous to hear the maths discussions taking place and seeing all pupils participating in the challenges. Look at the comments made by the pupils (gathered on the whiteboard). MATHS IS FUN! Next one - end of the Summer term