Year 5 Maths and English Booster Sessions
Watling Tutors will be running Year 5 booster sessions this summer. This is for students who are moving into Year 6 in September 2021.
Sessions will include a mix of Maths and English topics, focused on cementing pupils’ understanding of the Year 5 curriculum and boosting their confidence for the new school year.
We are aiming to offer the following sessions:
| Maths | English | ||
| Week 1 | Friday 30th July 9.30am – 11am | Place Value with 1,000,000 Column addition and subtraction; rounding numbers; negative numbers. | Comprehension Focus on prediction and inference; and language for effect |
| Week 2 | Friday 6th August 9.30am – 11am | Multiplication and Division Formal method up to 4 digits by 2 digits; short division; factors and multiples. | Suspenseful writing Varying sentence length and structure; show don’t tell. |
| Week 3 | Friday 13th August 9.30am – 11am | Fractions Improper fractions and mixed numbers; adding and subtracting fractions; multiplying fractions with a whole number. | Persuasive Writing Modal verbs; rhetorical questions; appealing directly to the reader. |
| Week 4 | Friday 20th August 9.30am – 11am | Decimal and Percentages Ordering and comparing decimals; percentages as fractions and decimals; multiplying and dividing decimals by 10, 100 & 1000. | Descriptive Writing Using the five senses and figurative language to describe a scene |
| Week 5 | Friday 27th August 9.30am – 11am | Properties of Shape Area and perimeter; calculating angles in shapes. | Newspaper reports Retelling an event; direct and indirect speech |
At the moment, we are only working on a maximum capacity of 8 students owing to our commitment to being Covid secure. This is subject to change, depending on government guidance, but we recommend booking early to avoid disappointment.
Each 90 minute session costs £45 – or you can book all 5 sessions for £200.
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