<![CDATA[Buckden C.E Primary School Blog Feed - Year 5]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org%2Fblog%2F%3Fpid%3D93%26amp%3Bnid%3D93 Juniper Education Content Management System (CMS) Version: 4.5 (junipereducation.org) Sat, 2 Aug 2025 14:01:10 GMT Sat, 2 Aug 2025 14:01:10 GMT <![CDATA[ End of year ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2645 Have a great summer and good luck in Year 6

]]> Mon, 21 Jul 2025 09:10:33 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2645 <![CDATA[ 4.7.25 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2640 Please complete DoodleMath (for Thursday) and practise spellings (for Monday): immediate, sincere, changeable, afterwards, referring, knight, doubt, amateur, ancient, deceive. 

]]> Mon, 7 Apr 2025 20:58:36 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2640 <![CDATA[ 20.6.25 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2633 Homework: DoodleMath, Math homework and spellings: achieve, community, apparent, bargain, bruise, mischievous, muscle, necessary, system, vehicle.

]]> Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:53:15 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2633 <![CDATA[ 6.6.25 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2624 Homework: Learn your lines for the play and stage directions please. Doodlemath, Math sheet and spellings: cereal, serial, compliment, complement, principle, principal, stationary, stationery, wary, weary. As these are homophones, please learn them in context of their meaning. 

]]> Sun, 6 Jul 2025 18:24:52 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2624 <![CDATA[ 23.5.25 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2617 Enjoy your half-term break! There is no spelling or grammar homework, but we do ask that you complete 30 minutes of DoodleMath and you learn your performance lines. 

]]> Thu, 29 May 2025 10:54:27 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2617 <![CDATA[ 16.5.25 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2610 Please practise spellings for Monday, and complete homework/30 minutes of Doodle Maths for Thursday. Spellings: bridal, bridle, guessed, guest, heard, herd, morning, mourning, passed and past.

]]> Sat, 17 May 2025 22:19:47 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2610 <![CDATA[ 2.5.25 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2596 Please complete 30 minutes of Doodlemaths and practise your spellings: advice, advise, prophesy, prophecy, licence, license, practice, practise, device, devise. It's important to continue to learn these within the context of a sentence to be able to identify them as verbs or nouns in order to choose the correct homophone spelling on Tuesday. 

]]> Sun, 5 Jan 2025 19:49:42 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2596 <![CDATA[ 25.4.25 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2595 Please practise spellings for Monday's quiz (accompany, communicate, conscience, desperate, disastrous, interfere, nuisance, queue, restaurant, rhythm). 

]]> Sun, 5 Jan 2025 20:00:20 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2595 <![CDATA[ Happy Easter ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2589 Homework: Please play as much Doodle Math as possible, read ready for an AR quiz on your return and learn your play parts. Enjoy your Easter break. 

]]> Fri, 4 Apr 2025 19:38:24 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2589 <![CDATA[ 21.5.25 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2578 Please complete homework (SPAG/Math) tasks set by Thursday, including 30 minutes of TTRockstars.  Make sure you know our spelling words for this week and are ready for our quiz on Monday.  This week's words are though, although, dough, doughnut, rough, enough, tough, plough, bough, toughen 

Remember to read every day and record your reading in your reading diary.  These will be checked on Monday. 

Make sure you watch Newsround over the weekend and be ready to write about a news story that has interested you please on Wednesday,  

]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:02:15 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2578 <![CDATA[ 14.3.25 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2570 Please complete homework tasks set by Thursday, including 30 minutes of TTRockstars.  Make sure you know our spelling words for this week and are ready for our quiz on Monday.  This week's words make the 'or' phoneme spelt 'ough': bought, fought, ought, thought, sought, nought, brought, afterthought, wrought, thoughtfulness.

Remember to read every day and record your reading in your reading diary.  These will be checked on Monday. 

Make sure you watch Newsround over the weekend and be ready to write about a news story that has interested you please. 

]]> Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:52:50 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2570 <![CDATA[ 7.3.25 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2565 Practise spellings for Monday's quiz: deceive, conceive, receive, perceive, protein, caffeine, seize, either, neither and ceiling. Math/SPAG homework is due on Thursday, as is 30 minutes of TTRockstars. 

]]> Thu, 3 Jul 2025 20:27:53 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2565 <![CDATA[ 28.2.25 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2558 Please can you log your reading, completed TTRockstars for 30 minutes and learn your spellings for a test on Monday: Science, species, efficient, deficient, glacier, scientist, sufficient, emergencies, inefficient, society. 

]]> Thu, 3 Jul 2025 20:29:53 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2558 <![CDATA[ 14.2.25 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2546 It's been a great half-term with lots of highlights and learning from the pupils. 

Please learn the following Yr5 spellings for when you return to school on the Monday: amateur, ancient, awkward, criticise, excellent, foreign, pronunciation, symbol, yacht, equipment. 

Read every day, and at least three times a week with an adult please – it's so important for developing every area of your learning journey.  

]]> Fri, 14 Feb 2025 20:16:10 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2546 <![CDATA[ 7.2.25 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2545 Please complete homework tasks by Thursday.  Make sure you know our spelling words for this week and are ready for our quiz on Monday/Tuesday.  This week's words have silent letters: autumn, doubt, island, lamb, solemn, thistle, build, receipt, ascend and disciple. 

Remember to read every day (three times a week with an adult) and 30 minutes of TTRockstars.

]]> Sat, 2 Aug 2025 14:01:10 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2545 <![CDATA[ Online Safety game ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2539 Online Safety Game 

]]> Thu, 2 Jan 2025 23:22:33 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2539 <![CDATA[ 31. 1.25 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2531 Please complete homework tasks by Thursday.  Make sure you know our spelling words for this week and are ready for our quiz on Monday.  This week's words are: knife, knight, wreath, wrestler, mnemonic, pterodactyl, wreckage, writer, knowledge, knuckle. 

Remember to read every day (three times a week with an adult) and record your reading in your reading diary.  These will be checked on Monday. 

Make sure you watch Newsround over the weekend and be ready to write about a news story that has interested you.

]]> Thu, 2 Jan 2025 22:14:43 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2531 <![CDATA[ 17.1.25 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2524 Practise TTRockstars (min 30 minutes), spellings and SPAG/Math homework

]]> Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:22:19 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2524 <![CDATA[ 10.1.25 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2518 Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:39:08 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2518 <![CDATA[ Merry Christmas ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2532 Continue to read each day at home for a period of at least 20 minutes and the children should record this in their reading diaries with a parent initial. Practise the spellings from this term you got incorrect in your quizzes.

]]> Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:20:43 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2532 <![CDATA[ 6.12.24 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2502 Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:45:28 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2502 <![CDATA[ 29.11.24 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2496 Please complete your spellings for Monday, homework for Thursday and TTRockstars

]]> Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:49:22 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2496 <![CDATA[ 22.11.25 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2489 Please complete homework. Spelling sheets are due Monday and SPAG/Maths due Thursday. Any problems with the homework please speak to your teacher before Thursday. 

]]> Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:51:08 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2489 <![CDATA[ 8.11.24 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2476 Spellings to learn for Monday: brilliant, dominant, abundant, tolerant, vacant, elegant, constant, fragrant, ignorant, distant

]]> Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:04:21 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2476 <![CDATA[ 1.11.24 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2468 Pencil case checklist for next term: Whiteboard pen, pencil, ruler, gluestick, orange pen/pencil, blue handwriting pen (not brio).

]]> Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:53:46 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2468 <![CDATA[ 4.10.24 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2451 Spellings: potential, essential, substantial, influential, residential, confidential, preferential, torrential, circumstantial, impartial

]]> Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:54:41 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2451 <![CDATA[ French poetry/art competition ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2445 Poésíæ competition

]]> Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:58:37 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2445 <![CDATA[ Keep track of your child's AR quizzes at home ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2441 https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/studentprogress/homeconnect?t=2152328

]]> Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:01:06 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2441 <![CDATA[ 27.9.24 ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2440 Homework: Math/Spag/ TTRockstars (by Thursday), spellings (for Monday) and daily reading

]]> Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:56:56 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2440 <![CDATA[ Welcome back ]]> https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2426 Well done to all Year 5 for a fantastic first week

]]> Fri, 13 Sep 2024 22:08:00 GMT https://www.buckdenacademy.org/blog/?pid=93&nid=93&storyid=2426