Welcome to Yellow Class!

Yellow Class is made up of 30 ambitious Year 5 pupils, who are taught by Ms Large (Mondays and Tuesdays) and Mrs Margetts (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)  as well as Mrs Morris and Mrs Jenkins.

We have subject specialist teachers on a Tuesday afternoon for French and PE.

Check out our Seesaw page (accessible to all parents of Yellow Class pupils) to see photos of what we have been up to so far this year. 

Year 5 is packed full of interesting topics, practical lessons and fun challenges.  

We cover a range of interesting topics and projects including,

-learning about Space, including learning about our solar system as well as the Space Race in the 1960s

-bringing Anglo-Saxon and Viking conflict in Britain to life with some fun role play and historical learning

- DT woodwork projects

-learning to play the keyboard and studying the Blues

-studying materials, forces, the circulatory system, plants and space in Science 

-science experiments including evaporation, parachutes, shadows, dissolving, thermal/electrical insulators/conductors and testing hardness.

-making programmable carousels in DT and Computing using Crumble micro-controllers

-creating space-themed art prints inspired by Teis Albers

-exploring mixed-media self portraits

-studying and designing art installations with a message

- more trips and workshops than  we can keep count of!

We will be doing Forest School in the second half of the Autumn Term (November and December) on Friday afternoons.

We will be swimming every afternoon for 2 weeks in the Spring. You will get emails nearer the time with dates and what to bring.

In Maths, we work hard to develop pupils' understanding of numbers. We extend upwards to learn how to work with numbers into the hundreds of thousands up to a million and we also zoom into tiny decimals and learn to work with tenths, hundredths and thousandths. We have to tackle both large and small numbers with decimals, when adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing including multiplying 3 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers and dividing by numbers up to 12. On Mondays and Tuesdays we focus on shapes, angles, measures, statistics and time. On Wednesday, Thursdays and Fridays we focus on mental and written number work.

In Writing, we learn lots of new content and work hard to apply it to our writing including,

- modal verbs

- relative clauses using which, who, where and when

-other parenthesis including using brackets, dashes and commas 

- varied sentence starters including starting with -ed and -ing phrases

- varying the tone of our writing

- developing rich characters using speech with added emotions, actions and reactions

-colons to start lists after complete clauses

-semi-colons to separate complex items in a list

We work hard to apply content from previous year groups with increasing accuracy and carefully consideration of the impact on their readers including

- apostrophes of omission and possession

- commas in lists

-expanded noun phrases

-fronted adverbials

-adverbials of place, time, manner and reason

-co-ordinating conjunctions

-sub-ordinating conjunctions

Feel free to speak to us or contact us if you have any questions:

Mrs Margetts: nmargetts@ashperton.hereford.sch.uk  (available Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays)

Please also feel free to speak to or email Mrs Bullock if you have any questions or concerns. She is available on all school days and works closely with the both class teachers in Yellow. She also is our SENDCo and knows all the children in the class very well: 

 cbullock@ashperton.hereford.sch.uk