Year 5
All children at Westwood Academy have access to Purple Mash. Your child’s teacher will set work on here. Check the alert button on your child’s home page for work that has been set. Otherwise, there are 1000s of fun resources for your child to explore on here, for all curriculum areas.
https://www.purplemash.com/sch/westwood-ol9
Reading
All children now have access to MyOn which is an online library, containing thousands of books, quizzes and book reviews. Children should have their logins for this in their yellow reading records.
Follow the link here- https://www.myon.co.uk/login/index.html
Maths
All children in Y2 have been issued with a TT Rockstars login to practise their times tables:
play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student
Numberblocks is another excellent BBC resource available on iPlayer. Watch here:
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b08bzfnh/numberblocks.
You could also look at nrich which is a great resource and has lots of games and activities to play.
https://nrich.maths.org/primary
Topic
Spring 1- Year 5 will be studying the great explorer, Ernest Shackleton. Follow this link for some great resources -
https://www.coolantarctica.com/schools/shackleton-teaching-ideas.php
Spring 2- Year 5 will be studying The Victorians. Follow this link for some great resources.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/history-victorians/zh2w47h
Music
Oldham Music Development have put together a resource for children in Reception to access from home also. Please see the password underneath to log in to the reception area of The Music Service Website;
