Year 5 2020 - 2021

Mrs Whiteside

Mrs Ashton

Welcome to Year 5

from

Mrs Whiteside & Mrs Ashton

Spring Term 2021

Welcome to home learning!

We are missing you in school and hope that you are all safe, well and happy. As from now, and during the coming weeks, you will be asked to continue to complete the work issued in the weekly plan with a focus on the English and Maths in the mornings. You will then be invited to a Zoom session at 2pm everyday in which I will be covering Science, History and R.E. For these sessions you will need to be in a quiet space with room to work. You will also need your home learning books, a pen, pencil and ruler and...don't forget your brain!

Children should all have their log in details for Mymaths, Active Learn, Read Theory and Purple Mash (as well as RM Maths and IDL if they usually do this in school). All online learning platforms offer great learning activities which the children have enjoyed in school.

Reading books have been allocated on the Active Learn website. Children should log in and choose a book to read. Some books are quite long and may need to be read over a number of days. Comprehension questions should be answered by clicking on the green bug face that appears throughout the book. Comprehension answers will be checked and some feedback given.

Our new Science topic is 'Forces' and our new History topic is a really exciting one focusing on Greek Mythology. We will be asking the question 'The Story of the Trojan Horse: historical fact, legend or classical myth?'

The next RE topic and homelearning pack are available to download below.

If you have any questions or concerns, or would like to share any work completed at home please email the class 5 email address:

classfive@stjeromes.sefton.org.uk

Many thanks for your support. Stay safe and happy!

Let’s work together to make this a fantastic year

for the children of Class 5.

Many thanks

Mrs Whiteside and Mrs Ashton.

Class Five Responsibilities

Class Five will receive spellings on a Friday allowing them to practice for their spelling test on the following Friday.The back of the spelling sheet includes a place for children to look up and write down the meaning of each word. The completed spelling sheet must be returned to school on Friday mornings.

Maths and English Homework will be given on a Friday. Maths Homework should be completed for the following Tuesday and English for the following Thursday.

Children are encouraged to be prepared for each day of school life. P.E. is on a Wednesday and a Thursday. On P.E.days children should come to school wearing their P.E. kit with joggers or shorts, a sweatshirt and trainers.

Purple Mash

St. Jerome's has access to a brilliant online software package called Purple Mash. The children's user names and passwords remain the same and this can still be accessed from home.

To log in simply click on this link: https://www.purplemash.com/sch/stjeromesl37

Enter your details and you should be taken straight to the home page. Here the children can access all the content which covers the entire curriculum. The children are encouraged to use whatever activities they wish and save their work which on approval could be placed on our Class Five Display Board.

The software will be used for homework at different times throughout the year.

Maths web links

Here are a number of links which will be extremely useful for your child concerning Maths. Including websites that we currently use for homework throughout the year.