Ash

Year 5

Mrs Moorby-Lewis & Miss Hipkin

Mrs Aripin, Miss Taylor and Mr Watkins

Welcome to our Ash Class webpage. We hope this page will help you find any information you need about class routines and what we are learning this year. If you have any questions, please contact me via the school email address: admin@thepinesschool.org.uk

Hello, I am Mrs Moorby-Lewis and I will be teaching Ash class on Monday - Thursday this year. I have taught in Key Stage 2 for fourteen years, and have taught at The Pines since 2015. When I am not working, I love dancing, playing hockey and watching football. I also love listening to music and playing my flute and piano. My favourite thing to do is visit new places with my family. I am really looking forward to teaching Year 5 again this year and I can't wait to see what we'll achieve together in Ash Class.

Meet the Teacher POWERPOINT

Meet the teacher template Sept 2024 - KS2.pdf

Class Routines

Our main classroom door for the start and end of the school day is at the back of the classroom opening onto the driveway.

Classroom doors open at 8:40am and the school day ends at 3:10pm.

Our regular PE lessons are as follows:

Indoor PE - Wednesday

Outdoor PE - Friday

On these days, children should come to school wearing their PE kit. Jewellery will need to be removed for the session, or covered with tape.

Current Learning:

This term, we will be studying the Ancient Maya and will be discussing, and responding, to the question: How do beliefs influence behaviour? We will be studying the daily life of the Ancient Maya, considering how their beliefs influenced their behaviour. As part of this unit, we will be reading ‘The Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell. In our writing lessons, we will be continuing to write a range of genres, including narrative pieces and biographies. We will be focusing on using vocabulary to create mood and using a range of devices to build cohesion within, and across, paragraphs. Our lessons in maths will focus on fractions, decimals and percentages, and we will continue to our apply our knowledge to real-life problems. Our science lessons will focus on forces and we will conduct experiments to investigate gravity, air resistance and upthrust. In music, we will bee developing our understanding of Blues music, before creating our own compositions. In DT, we will be designing and making structures, such as bridges, and then will develop our cooking skills, with a focus on combining ingredients to create a bolognaise. Our PE lessons will be focused on dance and athletics this half-term.

At the moment, we are particularly focusing on this learning:

Narrative Writing - We will be writing sequels to the story 'The Promise', which we will be reading in class. Our aim will be to write stories to entertain the younger children in our school. We will develop our understanding of the following things: