Purleigh Community Primary School
Year 5
Spelling
SPELLING FOCUS NOVEMBER 2025:
Words which have double letters are our focus for now. You will need to know which have double letters in one place, two places, and three!
Can you identify about forty words from your spelling word list which contain a 3 or a 4 letter stem? Do you know which stems relate to which words? (They do not have to have similar meanings.)
There is not a spelling list right now but we are starting to develop the skill of spelling and a knowledge of word classes. To get a head-start, it would be a good idea to start to organise words into nouns, adjectives and adverbs.
Check for words within a word. Often a spelling word has four letters in a row which make another word. It could be linked to the bigger word in meaning but often is not. See if you know which word is a stem for a bigger word. Next try adding prefixes or suffixes to make the word longer. And finally, can you turn some words into antonyms (opposites) but adding two or three letters at the beginning?
Maths homework NOVEMBER 2025
If you need to, practise your times tables. The unit at the moment is multiplying and dividing so you will definitely need to know your tables inside out.
When we perform an inverse operation, we use the same numbers in a different order. Can you write two sentences to explain this? You should use the terms: the biggest number, at the end, the small numbers, at the beginning, adding, subtracting. Try doing the same for multipliation and division.
Practice saying out loud some large numbers. Write a few of them using words and numbers. If it's a four digit number less than 5000, you may be able to write using Roman Numerals.
Write a set of rules for rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 and 100,000. For example, when rounding to the nearest 100, the answer will be in the hundreds and have two zeros.