Welcome
to class Y5/6ME
Miss Ellis
Meet your teacher
Hi, I’m Miss Ellis and I’m going to be your teacher next year. I am so excited to be able to welcome you to Y5/6ME. Together, we will learn so many interesting facts throughout our journey together. This is my 3rd year at Aston Hall but I have been teaching for over 20 years. I am really looking forward to teaching year 5 and 6 again this year; these final years of primary school are such a special time because we get to take part in so many wonderful opportunities such as being part of the end of year production, visiting the climbing wall and taking part in two residentials – what more could we ask for?
In my spare time, I love nothing more than spending time with family and friends and enjoying a good book whilst sitting in the garden (if the weather is nice enough!) or in a warm, comfortable spot in the house.
Get ready to talk about books – I love to share my favourite stories and am always looking for a new recommendation from you.
Meet your Teaching Assistants
Mrs Wall
I’m Mrs Wall and I have worked at Aston Hall in various roles over the last 4 years and am now a Teaching Assistant, often in Y5 and Y6. I am a qualified primary teacher and taught for 12 years – mostly in year 6. Working with children is really rewarding and seeing them make progress, and grow as people, is why I love my job. It’s really important to develop trusting relationships with our older children as they prepare for the next steps in their education and become confident young people. I enjoy spending some of my time supporting our more vulnerable children too.
Away from work, I had my own cake business for 4 years before my son started school, making birthday cake and supplying a local play town. I enjoy gardening and run the outdoor club at school during the warmer months and a crafty things club in the winter such as macramé or cross stitch. I am very much looking forward to working with you as you move into UKS2!
Areas of Learning
UKS2 have an exciting first term planned with plenty of new learning experiences! In history, we will be learning about The Mayans where we will discover information about key figures and significant events during this time period. We will also be beginning a new geography topic which will be a study of Africa. We will be learning about where it is in the worlds as well as finding out about the human and physical features of different countries in this continent.
Our English lessons are always delivered through high- quality,engaging texts, and this term we are studying ‘Wonder’ by R.J.Palacio. This is a fantastic book with many PSHE links. Whilst studying this novel, we will have many opportunities to write in different styles which will allow us to vary our, viewpoint, audience, language and punctuation. Through this novel, we will be exploring themes such as friendship, kindness and courage.
In Maths, we will begin the year by focusing on place value, ensuring that children are secure in their knowledge
of numbers up to 1,000,000, including negative numbers and rounding skills. Following this, we will be moving on to securing the children’s knowledge of calculation, beginning with methods for the four operations and the application of these to problem solving contexts.
Class Information
Our classroom will be located in the new building (in my current classroom), alongside Y6AC next door. There’ll be more information about our PE days, homework and school visits in September.
Class News
Y5/6 Whitby Art
Wonderful Whitby art linked to our residential. We’ve been using different types of pencil and powder paints to recreate images of Whitby Abbey.
Sports Day 2022
It was great to finally have so many family spectators at this year’s Sports Day. The children had worked so hard in their P.E lessons
Y5/6 Martial Arts
Y6 took part in a fantastic martial arts workshop last week with Craig from Premier Martial Arts in Brinsworth. They learnt a range of skills
Y5/6A Half Term Update
Wow what an adventure this half-term has been in Y5/6AC! I can hardly believe that we’ve managed to fit revision, SATs week, Whitby Residential, Sports
