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
Accelerated Reader
Children in Year 6 have access to our Accelerated Reader programme. Books on Accelerated Reader will have an orange sticker on their spine. Each child has an individual login and the children can access a quiz about each text by following this link:
https://ukhosted13.renlearn.co.uk/6013217/
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.
Westwood are also subscribed to Sumdog, where the app will test children on gaps in their knowledge, so please encourage them to use while at home.
Topic
For all our topics, children are provided with a rubric with lots of ideas for projects they can complete at home.
In Autumn 1, children learn all about the Tudors. An engaging and fascinating topic which will take the children on a journey from 1485 and 1603. They can complete all kinds of homework, including: art work, fact files, biographies.
In Autumn 2, children begin a geograpy topic all about Marvellous Maps. In this topic children get to learn all about how to read and understand maps. They can complete all kinds of homework, including: creating their own maps, finding out interesting facts about maps and designing 3d maps.
In Spring 1, children learn all about Rivers. This fascinating topic lets children understand how and where rivers can be found. They can complete all kinds of homework, including: art work, fact files, biographies, digrams and maps on rivers.
In Spring 2, children learn all about Spain. This unit links well with our MFL work abd lets teh children learn more about teh language they have learnt. They can complete all kinds of homework, including: art work, fact files, biographies.
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;
