Home Learning during the school Closure

Learning at home in Year 5

Whilst we are at home and not at school for our learning, you will find some good learning activities on this page – more and more will appear! Some of these are highlighted in your learning packs and others are just good fun!

Follow the links to other useful pages on the website…

We are all missing you!

A final video of the year!

Breaking News in Guildford

A message from Mrs Carter

You can listen in to Mrs Carter reading from Wonder, below

The latest message from your teachers....

Week beginning 13th July

Dear Year 5,

Well done!

You have come to the end of the strangest school year that any of us have ever known. We are so proud of you all! Please can you remember to say a big thank you to your grown ups for helping you during this long time of learning at home. The height of your sunflowers is an indicator as to how long this time has been. How tall have yours grown to? Look at the photograph attached of Mrs Terry’s sunflowers- they are now even taller than she is!

We have missed you all so much and now September is on the horizon and we are looking forward to welcoming you back as our Year 6. In the meantime, have a wonderful, happy and fun summer.

See you all soon.

Love and every best wish from the Year 5 Team xxx

Mrs Gordon, Mrs Carney, Mrs Carter and Mrs Terry

mrscarney@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

mrscarter@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

mrsgordon@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

mrsterry@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Ideas for worship

As you think about making time each day for worship, you might start by making yourself a prayer table or corner – somewhere that you can be still, comfortable but still, not distracted by anything going on around you.

You might want to set up a “table” – a real one or the top of a chest of drawers or even an upturned box, cover it with a cloth if you can and maybe place your Bible on it, maybe your Rosary beads or a crucifix if you have them and if Mum and Dad are happy, a candle which you can light as you pray.

Plan your worship time…

How will it start – maybe lighting the candle, asking that the Light of Jesus represented by that candle may be in your heart…

You might want to start with a prayer – use our School prayer book for inspiration and ideas.

Read a passage from the Bible. The Gospels are always good to read. We are still in the season of Easter and the Readings this year come from John’s Gospel.

Take time to stop and think about what the Gospel writer is saying to you about Jesus and maybe decide on soemthing that you are going to do to change the way you behave or think about things to match Jesus’ teaching.

You could sing a hymn that you know or find one on the internet to sing along to and take the time for prayer.

Pray for yourself, for your family, for your friends. Pray for our doctors and nurses and all those who are working so hard now to keep us all safe and well. Pray for our world.

Prayers for use at home

Use these prayers when you are at home if you would like

and there are plenty of our school prayers in the School prayer book

Here are some prayers related to our Golden threads

More prayers around our Golden threads

Transition to Year 6

This week in school we would have been enjoying our Transition Day, a chance to be in our new year groups with our new teachers. We cannot do that in person but here is the PowerPoint to support your home learning activities around the transition. Please don’t forget to bring your completed learning booklet back to school in September for your new teacher.

Transition Week PowerPoint

2020-21 Autumn Year 6

The Rocky Road show!

Music Learning with Dr Mather

Year 5 Music Lessons Video Links – Weeks 13 and 14

REVISE YOUR SPOON PLAYING SKILLS

ACTIVITY 1: BASIC GRIP AND EXPERIMENTATION WITH DIFFERENT SPOONS

VIDEO LINK 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KriHpKZbnoA

ACTIVITY 2: DIFFERENT PATTERNS – STRAIGHT AND SWING BEATS

VIDEO LINK 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlckGxaJjx0

ACTIVITY 3: ROLLS

VIDEO LINK 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjEfF288ass

ACTIVITY 4: TRIPLETS – a group of three notes

VIDEO LINK 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X5udop8ZUs

Learn to play a triplet slowly, then gradually faster.
Learn to play a triplet across your legs
Learn to play a triplet using your fingers

ACTIVITY 5: SWING SPOONS! COMBINING DIFFERENT RHYTHMS

VIDEO LINK 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGjQqjKZ2SM

ACTIVITY 6: SPOONS ROCK!

VIDEO LINK 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35NYzvlcTYU

ACTIVITY 7: SPOON WALTZ

VIDEO LINK 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-yaVJflO9w

ACTIVITY 8: SPOONS AT SEA!

VIDEO LINK 8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW5MKiR1LZg

le français

Week 12

Singing Hot Dog video to learn the verb ‘to be’ in French!

Week 13

Mrs Gibbs saying the new adjectives to describe personality. Can you hear the difference between the masculine version of the word and the feminine version?

Week 14

Watch this powerpoint about Bastille Day ( le quatorze juillet) and see if you can ace the quiz!

Bastille Day Powerpoint

Learn some new French words and eat at the same time! If you enjoy mini Petit Filous Fromage Frais there are French words on the peel-off lids at the moment like this: