Dear Year 5,

Enjoy your Easter holidays! Between eating chocolate Easter eggs, here are some home learning activities for you to enjoy too. 

Thank you for all the blogs you have sent and for all the lovely emails too - it's great to hear how you are all getting on at home. Remember you can send photos/videos for us to use on the blogs. 

Remember, as well as the activities detailed below, you all have continuous learning opportunities on MyMaths, Spellzone, BugClub and Times Tables Rock Stars.

If you, or your parents, have any questions, please email your questions to us at:

ahughes@sphoward.herts.sch.uk

bives@sphoward.herts.sch.uk

Stay safe!

Kind regards

Mrs Ives and Miss Hughes

Maths

This week is the perfect opportunity for you to complete your overdue Maths on Mymaths. This is great revision for all the work that we have covered in Year 5! Keep up the good work in TIMES TABLES ROCK STARS!

Eggciting Easter Maths Competition

If you would like to enter a county-wide maths competition, just click on the link below. 

Find the Year 5 challenge and have a go! 

All entries should be emailed to your class teacher by 24th April and we will forward them to the Hertfordshire Maths Team. There are prizes, for the best responses, which will be announced in May. Good luck!

Eggciting Easter Maths Competition

• Herts for Learning - eggciting ESSENTIALmaths - March 2020.pdf

Spelling

This week's spelling task is ready for you to access. Continue on your Course Pathway too. 

Writing

This week we would like you to keep a diary of your Easter holidays. You can write a short diary entry of each day in your home learning book or blog it every day.

Activities that you could write about:

a good book that you have read.

an interesting movie that you have seen

an Easter egg hunt that you have organised for your siblings

some Easter art that you have produced

a new skill that your have acquired. 

a meal that you have cooked.

RE

During your Easter holidays, we would like you to make an EASTER garden. This garden must be religious in nature. Please use anything from home. The scene could include the resurrection and/or the 3 crosses. I will include some examples on my blog.

Examples of items to use: grass, stones, sticks, Lego, recycling, building blocks and food items.

We would also like you to complete one or both of the following:

A   Design a piece of ART with a faith-filled or joyful message. Write a paragraph to explain your work.

B   Write a poem, song, or psalm with a message of hope/good news.

Information

PE

Please make sure that you keep fit this week. With adult permission/help make sure that you:

go for a bike ride

play in your garden

Join Joe Wicks for his PE session

complete your daily mile(in your garden or with an adult)

Enjoy and have fun!

DT - Playground Design Competition

Below is a link to a resource pack, full of activities for creating a new playground.

https://creativeplayuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COMPLETE-PACK-HOME-LEARNING-PDP.pdf

Complete the activities and return your entry to Miss Goss (email: rgoss@sphoward.herts.sch.uk) to be in with a chance of winning a new playground worth more than £10,000 for our school.

All the information you need is included within the pack.

Closing date for entries is Wednesday 29th April.

Good luck and have fun!