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

Spellings

This week’s words to learn are:

observant

observance

hesitant

hesitancy

tolerant

tolerance

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:

Negative numbers

The children will be given these 12 sums to complete:

-7 + 5 = -2

-6 + 3 = -3

-10 + 6 = -4

-11 + 15 = 4

-8 + 10 = 2

-5 + 8 = 3

7 – 10 = -3

8 – 12 = -4

5 – 7 = -2

-4 – 5 = -9

-2 – 4 = -6

-1 – 3 = -4

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