Monkey Puzzle – Rugby Skills 26.02.2020
This morning Monkey Puzzle were lucky to have a Tag Rugby session with a highly skilled coach. They worked really hard on their fitness and passing skills as well as team work. Some really good skills were shown when searching for space and intercepting the ball and they were all worn out after the session.
Monkey Puzzle had a great afternoon celebrating all the learning they have done about Allotments. They celebrated with family and friends, showcasing all of their hard work.
Everyone brought in food and drink where the main ingredient could have been grown on an allotment. We had everything from Apple Crumble to Fruit Jelly and Smoothies to Carrot Cake.
I would like to thank all the parents hard work and effort that went into producing this wonderful spread.
This morning Year 5 unlocked their imagination and dived into a world of Secret Gardens. They pushed down the heavy wooden door and discovered walled gardens, golden fruit trees and a variety of plants and flowers. Year 5 will be writing stories around what they saw and hopefully it will have set pathways in their imaginations for a spectacular, creative narrative.
This afternoon Year 5 had a visit from the local fire brigade to discuss their safety around fire. They were shown things such as what could happen if you left electrical devices on charge and how serious the consequences could be. Year 5 were also told about the importance of calling 999 in an emergency and how hoax calls can be detrimental to others who are in danger. They may be coming home tonight showing you the ‘stop, drop & roll’ and asking you to test your smoke alarms!
Monkey Puzzle were lucky enough to have a talk today from a gentleman who has vast experience in renting allotments. He spoke to the children about produce he grew, how it made him feel and also he spoke about the history of allotments as well.
Monkey Puzzle cam up with some great questions about crops and were really interested in the answers the speaker gave.
Today Monkey Puzzle had chance to prepare a vegetable soup using ingredients that can be grown in an allotment – our current learning journey.
They had the opportunity to peel, chop and taste the ingredients. they made some vegetable stock for the liquid and added mixed herbs for flavour. Miss Franks has taken the soup home and she will cook and blend it. Tomorrow the children will get a chance to taste their home made vegetable soup.
Monkey Puzzle used their knowledge of angles to become RAF Pilots and navigate their way across Europe. The children had to be collaborative and work together to understand the map and the task in hand. As well as finding all the bearings using a 360 degree protractor the children had to match up the city with a letter to unlock the code to rescue the troops.
Monkey Puzzle have been creating their own board games this afternoon based around Alchemy Island. They have had to work collaboratively to create a board game from scratch. They started by thinking of their ideas and then creating everything from the actual board games down to any resources they needed to be able to play. Some children created the characters, other magpied ideas and others were resourceful by using pieces from other games. Everyone had a great afternoon playing each others games – what a great way to end a Friday!
Monkey Puzzle have been busy finding out everything they can about Gold. Gold has been found on Alchemy Island and our researchers need to know lots about it to inform other islanders. They have been finding out any chemical reaction so that happen, what it can be used for, why it’s a sign of wealth along with many other facts. Everyone fold this really interesting and the class worked collaboratively together to help each other out.
Year 5 have had a go at CiP words in maths today to help them understand a variety of mathematical vocabulary that sometimes can confuse them. This will help then children when different vocabulary comes up in questions and will give them more confidence in what’s required of them to work out the question.
This morning Monkey Puzzle played Bonsai in a friendly netball tournament. We had 4 teams playing at any one time. If the children weren’t involved in the game that was being played they were practising their footwork, shooting skills and were building up their cardio endurance. Everyone seemed to have a great morning! A lot of our school values were showcased including collaboration and resilience. All thof children were excellent at supporting those less confident and working together to know when to pass the ball and cheer each other on.
Monkey Puzzle spent their Literacy lesson investigating ambitious, descriptive vocabulary to uplevel their sensentences. They worked really hard showing their understanding of learning values and how they can be used in all lesson to help them. We now have a great working wall of sentences that we can use in our narratives.
This afternoon Monkey Puzzle have been busy creating their own islands, using co-ordinates to find their way through Alchemy Island and writing detailed descriptions of their journey. A lot of the children have really thrown themselves into their new learning journey and have created excellent mystical islands full of imaginative creations.
Today Monkey Puzzle had fun in maths learning a song to help them with the 9x table and then applying it to their arithmetic.
Year 5 had an interesting afternoon looking at grand Tudor houses and finding the area of the rectangles they could find within the house. Some children really challenged themselves to estimate the irregular shape areas as well.
Year 5 have been working hard using a Thesaurus to uplevel their vocabulary. They then had to decide on a order for their selection of words from the least amount of impact to the most.
Some of the Year 5s worked hard today to order a range of decimals with 3 decimal places. They picked the numbers themselves so they challenged themselves appropriately. Great work was achieved and they showed really good collaboration figuring out the challenges with their partners.
Year 5 had an exciting Literacy lesson developing their dictionary skills and learning the definitions of complex words such as coronation and imprisonment.
Year 5 have had an interesting afternoon learning about how the brain works. They have been investigating words such as synapse, neurones and neural pathways. This week they are going to gain a further understating of how we learn and what happens to our brain when we do.
Year 5 Spelling Group 1 Week 9 Focus: Prefixes
Handed out on Monday 24th June; Tested on Monday 1st July.
- Midfield
- Precipitate
- Presume
- Forward
- Fortune
- Nonverbal
- Non-renewable
- Conceive
- Individual
- Profession
Year 5 Spelling Group 2 Week 9 Focus: Prefixes
Handed out on Monday 24th June; Monday 1st July.
- Midday
- Midnight
- Prepare
- Preview
- Fortune
- Forgive
- Nonfiction
- Conceive
- Individual
- Profession
Year 5 Spelling Group 3 Week 9 Focus: Tricky Words
Handed out on Monday 24th June; Tested on Monday 1st July
- Canoe
- Thumb
- Listen
- Ski
- Ocean
- Busy
- Would
- Our
- Through
- Town
Year 5 Spelling Group 1 Week 8 Focus:
Prefixes Under, over, en, em
Handed out on Monday 17th June; Tested on Monday 24th June.
- Underestimate
- Underweight
- Overreaction
- Encapsulate
- Enclosed
- Embrace
- Embellish
- Confidential
- Weary
- Doubt
Year 5 Spelling Group 2 Week 8 Focus: Prefixes Under, over, en, em
Handed out on Monday 10th June; Monday 17th June.
- Underneath
- Underwater
- Overdue
- Endanger
- Enrich
- Embark
- Embed
- Confidential
- Weary
- Doubt
Year 5 Spelling Group 3 Week 8 Focus: Tricky Words
Handed out on Monday 17th June; Tested on Monday 24th June.
- Laugh
- Behind
- Autumn
- Beautiful
- Pretty
- Break
- Every
- Eat
- Food
- Head
Year 5 Spelling Group 1 Week 7 Focus: Mixed Spellings
Handed out on Monday 10th June; Tested on Monday 17th June.
- Exist
- Further
- Weary
- Hygiene
- Gracious
- Influential
- Artificial
- Secretary
- Sincere
- Physical
Year 5 Spelling Group 2 Week 7 Focus: Mixed Spellings
Handed out on Monday 10th June; Monday 17th June.
- Relevant
- Mischief
- Currency
- Operation
- Technician
- Outrageous
- Indicate
- Secretary
- Sincere
- Physical
Year 5 Spelling Group 3 Week 7 Focus: Homophones
Handed out on Monday 10th June; Tested on Monday 17th June.
- See/Sea
- Here/Hear
- Bear/Bare
- Blew/Blue
- To/Too/Two
- Night/Knight
- There/Their
- Lots
- Going
Year 5 showed fantastic confidence this afternoon learning skateboarding skills!!! They were all brilliant!!!
Year 5 showed fantastic collaboration in Ultimate Frisbee and had a great morning learning new skills for this unusual sport.
Year 5 Spelling Group 1 Week 6 Focus: Homophones
Handed out on Monday 3rd June; Tested on Monday 10th June.
- Principle/Principal
- Muscle/Mussel
- Wait/weight
- Key/Quay
- Serial/Cereal
- Allowed/Aloud
- Higher/Hire
- Category
- Environment
- Relevant
Year 5 Spelling Group 2 Week 6 Focus: Homophones
Handed out on Monday 3rd June; Monday 10th June.
- Leak/Leek
- Sore/Saw/Soar
- Mail/Male
- Board/Bored
- Which/Witch
- Weather/Whether
- Flour/Flower
- Category
- Environment
- Relevant
Year 5 Spelling Group 3 Week 6 Focus: ‘tion’ words
Handed out on Monday 3rd June; Tested on Monday 10th June.
- Action
- Nation
- Fiction
- Station
- Section
- Portion
- Lotion
- Us
- Work
- Couldn’t
Group 1
Focus: Silent Letters
Handed out on Monday 20th May; Tested on Monday 3rd June.
- Doubt
- Comb
- Island
- Foreign
- Limb
- Reign
- Gnome
- Suggest
- Marvellous
- Accommodate
Group 2
Focus: Silent Letters
Handed out on Monday 20th May; Tested on Monday 3rd June.
- Knee
- Autumn
- Soften
- Wrong
- Foreign
- Lamb
- Crumb
- Suggest
- Marvellous
- Accommodate
Group 3
Focus: ‘ly’ suffix
Handed out on Monday 20th May; Tested on Monday 3rd June.
- Hardly
- Fairly
- Lonely
- Nicely
- Slowly
- Curly
- Likely
- Shouted
- Car
- After
Group 1
Focus: ‘ent/ence’ words
Handed out on Monday 13th May; Tested on Monday 20th May.
- Obedient
- Confidence
- Abhorrent
- Ambivalent
- Transient
- Licence
- Audience
- Obedient
- Transparent
- Government
Group 2
Focus: ‘ent/ence’ words
Handed out on Monday 13th May; Tested on Monday 20th May.
- Accident
- Sufficient
- Fluent
- Client
- Sentence
- Silence
- Absence
- Obedient
- Transparent
- Government
Group 3
Focus: ‘less’ suffix
Handed out on Monday 13th May; Tested on Monday 20th May.
- Spotless
- Timeless
- Thankless
- Endless
- Homeless
- Useless
- Reckless
- Small
- Did
- New
Group 1 Week 3 Focus: ‘c/s’ words
Handed out on Tuesday 7th May; Tested on Monday 13th May.
- Dessert
- Decent
- Proceed
- Cycle
- Criticism
- Electrician
- Musical
- Desert
- Bruise
- Occurred
Group 2 Week 3 Focus: ‘c/s’ words
Handed out on Tuesday 7th May; Tested on Monday 13th May.
- Notice
- Bounce
- Police
- Cycle
- Pencil
- Dice
- Acid
- Desert
- Bruise
- Occurred
Group 3 Week 3 Focus: ‘ful’ suffix
Handed out on Tuesday 7th May; Tested on Monday 13th May.
- Joyful
- Useful
- Playful
- Cheerful
- Wishful
- Painful
- Hopeful
- Never
- Narrator
- How
Group 1 Week 2 Focus: ‘ough’ words
Handed out on Monday 29th March; Tested on Tuesday 7th May.
- Although
- Dough
- Enough
- Cough
- Drought
- Thoroughly
- Wrought
- Develop
- Exist
- Attached
Group 2 Week 2 Focus: ‘ough’ words
Handed out on Monday 29th March; Tested on Tuesday 7th May.
- Fought
- Plough
- Dough
- Cough
- Ought
- Thought
- Through
- Develop
- Exist
- Attached
Group 3 Week 2 Focus: ‘ness’ suffix
Handed out on Monday 29th ; Tested on Tuesday 7th May.
- Darkness
- Sadness
- Kindness
- Sickness
- Fitness
- Weakness
- Sweetness
- Long
- Over
- Tree
Year 5 had a fun afternoon making some children’s Home Learning Volcanoes erupt. Thank you to everyone for your hard work at home, they all looked great!
Handed out on Monday 25th March; Tested on Monday 1st April.
Group 1 Week 11 Focus: ‘ei’ words
- Deceive
- Ceiling
- Deceitful
- Foreign
- Surveillance
- Heirloom
- Caffeine
- Especially
- Shoulder
- Recognise
Group 2 Week 11 Focus: ‘ei’ words
- Beige
- Eight
- Deceit
- Either
- Forfeit
- Weigh
- Foreign
- Especially
- Shoulder
- Recognise
Group 3 Week 11 Focus: ‘ment’ suffix
- Enjoyment
- Payment
- Movement
- Treatment
- Appointment
- Cement
- Agreement
- Boy
- Soon
- Cat
Handed out on Monday 18th March; Tested on Monday 25th March.
Group 1 – Focus ‘ent’ words
- Innocent
- Frequent
- Independent
- Adjacent
- Amusement
- Fluorescent
- Tournament
- Neighbour
- Aggressive
- Communicate
Group 2 – ‘ent’ words
- Absent
- Accent
- Apartment
- Complacent
- Current
- Urgent
- Infrequent
- Neighbour
- Aggressive
- Communicate
Group 3 – ‘zh says s’
- Treasure
- Measure
- Vision
- Usual
- Pleasure
- Leisure
- Television
- Can’t
- Good
- I’ll
Handed out on Monday 11th March; Tested on Monday 18th March. ‘
Group 1 – Focus: ’ly’ words
- Frequently
- Possibly
- Effectively
- Absolutely
- Ordinarily
- Virtually
- Monopoly
- Lightning
- Disastrous
Group 2 – Focus: ’ly’ words
- Heavenly
- Patiently
- Currently
- Narrowly
- Exactly
- Lively
- Kindly
- Lightning
- Disastrous
- Vegetable
Group 3 – Focus: ’ment’ words
- Enjoyment
- Apartment
- Department
- Payment
- Movement
- Treatment
- Pavement
- Live
- Say
- More
Monkey Puzzle Class had a great time reading to Maple Class this morning. They enjoyed sharing their favourite stories and getting into character.
Handed out Monday 4th March; Tested on Monday 11th March
Group 1 – Focus: ‘ate’ words
Desperate
Considerate
Hesitate
Accurate
Fortunate
Duplicate
Deliberate
Environment
Sincere
Vehicle
Group 2 – Focus: ‘ate’ words
Debate
Private
Graduate
Approximate
Certificate
Estimate
Ultimate
Environment
Sincere
Vehicle
Group 3 – Focus: ‘or says er, ar says or’
Word
Work
Warm
Worth
Worth
Worst
Warning
Swarm
Away
Bear
These
Year 5 Spelling Group 1 Week 7 Focus: ‘tion/sion’ words.
Handed out on Monday 25th February;
Tested on Monday 4th March
GROUP 1
Competition
Dictionary
Acquisition
Precision
Concussion
Exhaustion
Assimilation
Prejudice
Recommend
Leisure
GROUP 2
Accommodation
Exhibition
Ignition
Television
Passion
Question
Intention
Prejudice
Recommend
Leisure
GROUP 3
Want
Watch
Squash
Wallet
Wander
Wash
Quantity
First
Three
Been
Year 5 had a great afternoon composing rhythms to the poem ‘The Night Mail’. They had to listen to some pieces of music, thinking of the beat, the tempo and the instruments used. Taking a section of the poem each group composed and experimented with instruments to compose a ‘train like’ sound.
Handed out on Monday 11th February; Tested on Monday 25th February
GROUP 1
- Preferred
- Referred
- Reference
- Circumference
- Ferocious
- Fertilisation
- Differentiate
- Cemetery
- Rhythm
- Sacrifice
GROUP 2
- Conference
- Defer
- Different
- Infer
- Prefer
- Offer
- Reference
- Cemetery
- Rhythm
- Sacrifice
GROUP 3
- Donkey
- Monkey
- Chimney
- Valley
- Honey
- Eye
- Turkey
- Man
- Night
- Baby
Handed out on Monday 4th February; Tested on Monday 11th February.
Focussing on the ‘ture’ sound.
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8-10 are from either the Year 3 & 4 or
Year 5 & 6 word lists.
Group 1
- Temperature
- Architecture
- Departure
- Furniture
- Literature
- Moisture
- Puncture
- Embarrass
- Hindrance
- Parliament
Group 2
- Adventure
- Capture
- Feature
- Fracture
- Lecture
- Mature
- Nature
- Embarrass
- Hindrance
- Parliament
Group 3
- Other
- Monday
- Nothing
- Another
- Smother
- Grandmother
- Cover
- Fish
- King
- Think
Year 5 had a fantastic afternoon developing their dance skills. They perfected the choreography from last week ensuring that they were performing to the best of their ability. In small groups they then choreographed the next 4 bars of music thinking about their ‘journey’ and how they can portray their emotions through movement.
Handed out on Monday 28th January; Tested on Monday 4th February
Group 1
- Terrible
- Sensible
- Incredible
- Audible
- Applicable
- Noticeable
- Reasonable
- Pronunciation
- Competition
- Available
Group 2
- Flexible
- Gullible
- Impossible
- Invisible
- Adorable
- Breakable
- Capable
- Pronunciation
- Competition
- Available
Group 3
- Ball
- Wall
- Chalk
- Always
- Small
- Almost
- Walnut
- Everyone
- Play
- Many
Year 5 had a busy afternoon working on Geography during in SOLE. They had to research the railway lines that run through Great Britain and draw them on a map identifying the towns and cities they run through. They also had maps of Hogwarts where they had to find different points of the school grounds using 6 figure grid references and identify what elevation they were positioned at using contour lines. Everyone also had to predict and then research Ordnance Map Symbols which they thoroughly enjoyed.
Year 5 had a fantastic afternoon learning choreography to a classical piece of music that takes them on a journey relating to their Learning Journey ‘Making Tracks’ . They thought about rise and fall, inhaling and exhaling as well as working together as a team to create artistic patterns whilst dancing. Next lesson they will develop this to incorporate their on choreography. Great work Year 5!
Handed out on Monday 21st January; Tested on Monday 28th January
GROUP 1
- Enough
- Cough
- Thoughtfully
- Plough
- Thoughtless
- Borough
- Drought
- Average
- Restaurant
- Equipment
GROUP 2
- Cough
- Enough
- Although
- Ought
- Bought
- Rough
- Nought
- Average
- Restaurant
- Equipment
GROUP 3
- Runner
- Biggest
- Hottest
- Stopped
- Humming
- Shopping
- Clapping
- Because
- Mother
- Inside
Year 5 have been working hard on making connections between fractions, percentages and decimals. They have also been using their Growth Mindset to explain their reasoning about why statements are true. Using lots of different resources to aid their reasoning the children had to show it, explain it, prove it, put it into context and draw it.
Over the Christmas holidays, please take some time to revisit all of the spellings rules which you have learnt over the past term. Make sure that you can still accurately use them all, giving a bit of extra time and practise to those you didn’t learn correctly the first time round! There will be a spelling test based on a random selection of these words on Monday 14th January. All of the words are available on Spellodrome!
Group 1
| Group Specific Words | Year 5/6 Words | ||
| Believe
Soldier Achieve Mischief Retrieve Hygiene Relief Rough Thorough Tough Through Thought Although Enough Apparent Excellent Confident Equipment Frequently Sufficient Efficient Tolerant Assistant Abundant Significant Extravagant Elegant Triumphant Possible Invincible Eligible Indestructible Plausible Divisible Incredible Changeable Adorable Dependable |
Reliable
Considerable Desirable Disposable Vicious Curious Precious Anxious Ambitious Superstitious Religious Special Artificial Confidential Essential Serial Initial Spatial Delicious Malicious Rebellious Notorious Amphibious Devious Oblivious Definite Immediate Polite Despite Accurate Desperate Ultimate Draught Fraught Laughter Onslaught Daughter Distraught |
Taught
Scarf – Scarves Shelf – Shelves Thief – Thieves Twelfth -Twelve Dwarf – Dwarves Penknives Mischief Re-examine Co-ordinate Re-emerge Re-formed Co-operate Re-advertised Pre-order
|
Ancient
Conscience Convenience Language Rhyme Persuade Environment Parliament Government Bargain Twelfth Community Identity Vegetable Available Conscious Familiar Delicious Especially Existence Temperature Conscious Neighbour Develop Accommodate Appreciate Exaggerate Persuade Queue Shoulder Mischievous Marvellous Disastrous Yacht Neighbour Desperate |
Group 2
| Group Specific Words | Year 5/6 Words | ||
| Believe
Soldier Achieve Piece Field Grief Fierce Rough Thorough Tough Thought Dough Cough Plough Apparent Excellent Confident Different Absent Present Decent Tolerant Assistant Brilliant Distant Pleasant Important Constant Possible Responsible Reversible Incredible Divisible Horrible Terrible Changeable Adorable Dependable |
Likeable
Cable Comfortable Disable Vicious Curious Precious Serious Obvious Envious Previous Special Artificial Confidential Essential Trial Social Burial Delicious Malicious Curious Furious Obvious Previous Serious White Write Invite Definite Immediate Chocolate Private Draught Caught Naughty Taught Laugh Naughty |
Daughter
Loaf – Loaves Knife -Knives Wife – Wives Calf – Calves Half – Halves Wolf – Wolves Mischief Re-examine Co-ordinate Re-emerge Re-enter Co-owner Re-cover Co-operate
|
Variety
Ancient Conscience Language Rhyme Persuade Environment Parliament Government Relevant Restaurant Programme Bargain Twelfth Community Identity Vegetable Available Familiar Conscious Bruise Especially Appreciate Temperature Conscious Neighbour Develop Accommodate Appreciate Exaggerate Persuade Queue Shoulder Mischievous Marvellous Disastrous Yacht Neighbour Desperate |
Group 3
| Group Specific Words | High Frequency Words | ||
| Edge
Ledge Hedge Wedge Dodge Nudge Judge Cage Page Village Stage Orange Charge Huge face race prince circus force bounce city Knit Knock Knife Know Knight Gnome Gnat Write Wrote Wrap Wrist Wrong Written Wrap Little Table Apple |
Bottle
Tickle Candle Battle level label travel towel angel gravel cancel medal pedal animal local normal magical signal Pencil April Fossil Civil Council Until Spoil Fry Reply July Deny Dry Sky Cry Weeks Wheels Windows Lunches Crashes Taxes |
Buzzes
Cries Babies Puppies Spies Families Hobbies Fairies Copied Cried Replied Dried Studied Worried Tried
|
Water
Find Began Again Round Animals Things Magic Next Wanted Need Fox Two School Around Mouse Something Didn’t Only Found
|
Have a lovely Christmas!
Monkey Puzzle had a fantastic afternoon showing friends and family the hard work they had put into their Let’s Celebrate Learning Journey. Everyone was very impressed with their work and had great fun trying traditional festive foods that are eaten at Christmas, Diwali and Hanukkah. Thank you!
Handed out on Monday 10th December; Tested on Monday 17th December
Group 1 and 2
- Tough
- Persuade
- Curious
- Familiar
- Thorough
- Precious
- Dependable
- Referred
- Programme
- System
Group 3
- Copied
- Cried
- Replied
- Dried
- Studied
- Worried
- Tried
- Mouse
- Around
- Find
Handed out on Monday 3rd December; Tested on Monday 10th December
Year 5 Spelling Group 1 Week 12 Focus: Hyphenating Prefixes
- Re-examine
- Co-ordinate
- Re-emerge
- Re-formed
- Co-operate
- Re-advertised
- Pre-order
- Yacht
- Neighbour
- Desperate
Year 5 Spelling Group 2 Week 12 Focus: Hyphenating Prefixes
- Re-examine
- Co-ordinate
- Re-emerge
- Re-enter
- Co-owner
- Re-cover
- Co-operate
- Yacht
- Neighbour
- DesperateYear 5 Spelling Group 3 Week 12 Focus: Plurals change ‘y’ add ‘es’
- Cries
- Babies
- Puppies
- Spies
- Families
- Hobbies
- Fairies
- Bear
- Animals
- Magic
Handed out on Monday 26th November; Tested on Monday 3rd December
Group 1 Week 11 Focus: ‘f/ves’ words
- Scarf
- Scarves
- Thief
- Thieves
- Twelfth
- Twelve
- Dwarves
- Mischievous
- Marvellous
- Disastrous
Group 2 Week 11 Focus: ‘f/ves’ words
- Loaf
- Loaves
- Knife
- Knives
- Half
- Halves
- Mischief
- Mischievous
- Marvellous
- Disastrous
Spelling Group 3 Week 11 Focus: Plurals
- Weeks
- Wheels
- Windows
- Lunches
- Crashes
- Taxes
- Buzzes
- Water
- School
- Only