Ash

Year 5

Mrs Whitehouse

Miss Day

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 Thursdays and this term we will be swimming on Fridays. 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 Ancient Maya and Mexico, where they resided. For the full details of this unit, have a look at our Knowledge Organiser below.

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 Inform'. The final written outcome of our work will be a Biography on a significant figure of our choice. We will be focusing on sentence structure, ensuring we understand that all sentences have a subject and a verb.

Maths: We will start by developing our understanding of the formal written methods of multiplication and division before moving onto fractions, decimals and percentages.

Science: Our Science topic is Forces.

Art: We will be looking practicing our sketching an painting skills to create pictures of rainforest animals.

DT: We will be exploring structures and making model bridges.

PE: This term, we will be swimming. All information has gone to parents regarding this.

Recommended Websites:

Maths

Method videos - https://whiteroseeducation.com/parent-pupil-resources/maths/home-learning?year=year-5-new

Times tables - https://ttrockstars.com/

Telling the time - https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling-the-time

Problem solving - https://nrich.maths.org/9086

English

Reading - https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/reading