Ash

Year 5

Mrs Whitehouse

Mrs Cereda, Mrs Freeman, Mrs Fell

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'm Mrs Whitehouse and this is my fifth year at The Pines. I live in Crowthorne with my husband, my two daughters and my dog Amber. I love reading, cooking, sewing and going to live music events. My favourite colour is blue and I am happiest when I am with my family on a beach, listening to the waves lapping the shore.

I am really looking forward to teaching Ash class this year.

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 on Tuesday and Thursdays. 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, our curriculum learning is Our World and Beyond. We will be learning about the Earth's movements in relation to the sun, as well as the moon's movement in relation to the Earth, before moving on to learn about the other planets in our solar system. We will then move on to focus on the environment and how we can look after it.

Our class novel is The Explorer by Katherine Rundell.

At the moment, we are particularly focusing on the following:

English: We are currently 'Writing to Entertain'. The final written outcome of our work will be a descriptive recount with a focus on suspense. We will be focusing on sentence structure, ensuring we understand that all sentences have a subject and a verb and including all the grammar features taught this year so they are ready for moving into year 6.

Maths: We will continue working with decimal numbers before moving onto measure and statistics. We will continue to revise our number work. With Mrs Clark, we will be looking at shape.

Science: As well as learning about Earth and Space, we will be building on our learning from about grouping living things by looking at classification system in more detail. We will also be learning about the main parts of the human circulatory system

Art: We will be looking at the artwork of Peter Thorpe.

DT: Using our knowledge of electricity, we will be making 'Doodlers'.

PE: Cricket with Coach Ben and Tennis with Mrs Whitehouse