Home Learning

Spellings and Mental Maths

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

Spellings

This week’s words to learn are:

neighbour

persuade

rhythm

opportunity

recognise

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 practice 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

This week’s mental maths skill to learn is:

Multiplying by 10 and 100

The children will be tested on multiplying the following numbers by both 10 and 100; 73, 42, 198, 364, 2739, 8105.

i.e. 73 x 10 = 730

73 x 100 = 7300

On Friday after school, please ask your child their score, we’ll send it home on a slip of paper.