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:

mischievous

sufficient

foreign

perceive

deceit

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 the children will be tested on:

Key decimal facts

They will be tested on these 12 decimal facts:

1 = 1.0

1/10 = 0.1

1/2 = 0.5

1/4 = 0.25

1/5 = 0.2

3/4 = 0.75

3/5 = 0.6

8/10 = 0.8

1 and 1/2 = 1.5

2 and 3/4 = 2.75

3 and 6/10 = 3.6

7 and 2/5 = 7.4

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