Welcome to Year 5

Spring 2026!

Happy New Year! Welcome back to Spring term, one of our busiest in Year 5!

During this half-term, our English will once more be based on a high quality text. We will be focusing on Biographies alongside our main class text, 'The Darkest Dark' 

In Maths we will be focussing on Shape, Four operations, Fractions and Graphs

In RE we will be exploring a topic around 'Memorial Sacrifice' and 'Sacrifice'

In Science, we will be working on 'Space'

In Art, we will be looking at different aspects of 'Painting and mixed media - Portraits'

In Music, we will be looking at 'Composition around the Festival of Colour' alongside playing the Keyboard.

In Computing, our focus will be on 'Excel Spreadsheets'

P.E. for Class 5 will be each Wednesday (swimming) and Thursday and the children should come into school wearing their P.E. kits on these days.

Homework is set on a Friday and is due in the following Thursday - paper copies are given but it is also available on Google Classroom.

Please check the school Instagram regularly for updates and photographs of what we have been getting up to in class. 

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.

• Abacus
• Bitesize Maths
• MyMaths
• Sumdog
• Hit the Button
• TTRS Pupil Login

Topic Web Links

Here are some external website links that are full of information on the topic we are studying at the moment.

• Ancient Greece
• http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Greece.html
• https://climatekids.nasa.gov/climate-change-meaning/

Music Links

Mini Music Makers

RNSO Music Challenges

Stomp style body percussion

Mental Health links:

• Children's Mental Health resources - for parents
• 5 minutes of fun
• Partnership for Children
• Family Togetherness
• Relax with Hollie
• BBC - Children's Mental Health activities

Please also visit the school's dedicated mental health and well-being page for more information on where to get support.

Welcome to the Class Five Learning Hub!

Click on the icons below which will take you straight to the website. The website will give you ideas and activities for your age related learning journey. We will add to this over time. Don't forget to look on Google Classroom for your latest activities!