Welcome to Year 5

Mrs Buckley, Mrs Veevers, Mrs Ashton, Miss Donato

Autumn Term 2

Welcome back!  We hope that you have had a wonderful, restful half-term break and are ready to get back to it! We have lots of things to look forward to in the build up to Christmas! 

During this half-term, our English will be based on a high quality text. As in previous years, some of the work that we do is prediction so we won't share the name of the book just yet! We do know, however, that you will really like this as it is a beautiful piece of fiction.  

In Maths we will begin by focusing on multiplication and division before we move on to fractions.  

For our History focus we will be considering 'Why did the Ancient Mayans change the way they lived?'  The History Knowledge Organiser contains more details in the link below.

In Science our focus will be a biology-based one.  We will be focusing on living things and their habitats as well as life cycles of various plants and animals. The Science Knowledge Organiser contains more details in the link below. 

In Art, we will focus on painting and mixing. In music, we will explore some of the sounds from the Ancient Egyptians and try to link to our History and the Ancient civilisations where possible. In Computing, our focus will be on spreadsheets. 

RE will focus on Belonging, before we head to Advent and Christmas  -which will be upon is before we know it!

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

A Homework Timetable is attached below..

Please check the class page 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

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!