The objectives of home learning at Kilmorie are:

• to consolidate and reinforce learning done in school and to allow children to practise skills taught in lessons
• to help pupils develop the skills of an independent learner
• to promote a partnership between home and school in supporting each child’s learning and helping them to developing a love of learning
• to help children develop good work habits for the future, building an understanding of the process of learning

Children are expected to read or spend time discussing their reading at home for at least 20 minutes, 5 times a week. As they become more fluent readers, they do not always need to read out loud, but they should discuss their reading with an adult and check unfamiliar words.

Questions to support with reading discussions:

• What do you think might happen in this story by looking at the front cover?
• What do you think might happen next?
• Which word or sentence do you think should come next?
• Which words do you think best describe this character?
• Do you like the characters? Why? Why not?
• Does anything in this book seem familiar to you?
• How might this story be different if it was told from another character’s point of view?
• Can you make up a different ending to this story?
• If you wrote a story like this one, how would you change it? Why?

Recommended Reading List

Children are expected to learn 5 words each week linked to their current spelling focus, which will then be used in a dictation in class on Friday, after which they will get the next week’s spellings. In addition, two words will be set as ‘focus’ words from the statutory spellings word list for the relevant year group. These will also be focus words in class for the week; they will not be tested. Children will bring home a spelling book containing their week’s spellings. This is intended to consolidate work done in class on spelling patterns and common exception (‘tricky’) words.

The children in each year group who have been given their own set of high frequency words to work on at home will not need to learn the weekly spellings in addition to these.

Fun ways to learn spellings at home

Spelling list

This is to work on the basic maths skills specific to your child’s year group. Details about these basic skills are available on each year group page on the Kilmorie website and include resources and suggested activities. There is no weekly work to be handed in, but the expectation is that children will continue to practise the key skills for their year group at home, as and when this works for your family. One of the most important skills children need to practise at home is fluency with their times tables and all children have a TTRockstars account to facilitate this.

Year 5 Basic Maths Skills

TT Rockstars - Guide for Parents / Carers

Topic projects or activities: linked to the current topic in class are suggested on the website at the beginning of each half term. These are optional home learning activities which are designed to stimulate a creative or research-based approach to the topic, to enrich your child’s understanding. Please see below for this term’s suggestions. We can’t wait to see what amazing creations you bring in. You can complete the tasks in any way that interests you and if you have any fantastic ideas that are not on the list, please let your imagination run wild!

• Imagine you are in charge of the country and write a set of laws. Include what the punishments would be for breaking your laws!
• Research and present information about how people are punished now. Do you agree with all our current punishments?
• Find out about the work of police officers or public defenders. Choose how to present your findings.
• Listen to the news or read a newspaper for a week. Make notes on the crimes reported and how the criminal was punished.
• Create a model that represents our Crime and Punishment topic. You could recreate a courtroom, make a model of one punishment that was used at some point in history, like stocks or a ‘scold’s bridle’.
• Make a wanted poster for a famous real or fictional criminal. Don’t forget to include their crimes, and a reward!
• Write an acrostic poem for crime or punishment.
• Write a timeline of punishments throughout the ages.
• Design your own police uniform. What features would you include? Label your diagram.
• Using an old boot as a portal key, write a short story where you are transported to the scene of a crime. Describe the setting using as much detail as possible. Or write your own story linked to our topic.

Internet for research, please remember that you may not have the same level of filtering and monitoring at home as we have in school. If your child is carrying out free research please be vigilant about what they are accessing online.

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