Welcome
to class Y5LD

Miss Davenport
Meet your teacher
Hi, I’m Miss Davenport, and I’m going to be your teacher next year. I am so excited to welcome you to Y5LD. Together, we will learn so many interesting facts throughout our journey in Year 5. I can’t wait for all the amazing memories we are going to make. It’s going to be an exciting year!
This is my fourth year teaching at Aston Hall Junior & Infant School, but I have worked in school settings for 10 years, and I can’t imagine doing anything else. I really love teaching, and I believe working with children is a privilege.
I am looking forward to being a part of your learning and school life! These final years of primary school are such a special time because we get to take part in so many wonderful opportunities, such as visiting the climbing wall, going to Ulley, and participating in residentials — what more could we ask for?
When I am not in school, I enjoy spending time with my family and friends. I also enjoy playing football and watching my favourite team, Sheffield Wednesday! I love travelling and exploring different cultures, having previously lived in New Zealand and Australia for two years.
Meet your Teaching Assistants

Mrs Clifton
Hi, I’m Mrs Clifton. I have been working at school for the past 13 years, before that I was a parent volunteer which I started as my youngest child joined Foundation stage. I love my job and I believe I am the luckiest person in school. I will be working with all classes and pupils within KS2 on a weekly basis helping assist with learning and covering teachers. Watching pupils grow in confidence and size during their journey in school is a privilege.

Mrs Wall
I’m Mrs Wall and I have worked at Aston Hall in various roles but 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 working with children who need some extra support with their Social and Emotional Mental Health too. Away from work, I had my own cake business for 4 years before my son started school, making birthday cakes and supplying a local play town. I enjoy gardening and run the outdoor club at school during the warmer months and sometimes 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 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. In our English lessons, we will explore themes such as friendship, loss, kindness and courage through our novel study book, ‘Goodnight Mister Tom’ by Michelle Magorian, where two main characters overcome adversities together during the height of World War II. The book will provide us with the opportunity to have quality discussions and deepen our understanding of the impact of World War II on our country. This will feed into our many writing opportunities, developing our use of style, viewpoint, language and punctuation. Our English topic links to our first term’s history unit on World War II. During this, we will find out more about key figures during the war (such as Winston Churchill), key events that took place and countries involved, as well as the impact on our local area. In Geography, we will begin the year learning about European
cities. As part of this topic, we will be finding out more about capital cities in Europe, emigration, immigration and migration and why people choose to move. The work of Vincent Van Gogh will be the inspiration for our art unit this term and through this, we will be exploring how he uses colour to depict mood. We will develop our drawing skills practising texture, tone and using graded pencils to create our final piece.
Class Information
Our classroom will be located in my current classroom, alongside Y4HS next door. On a morning, you will come in through our cloakroom door and we’ll also dismiss from there at the end of the day. Please ensure your PE kit is in school every day and that you have suitable PE kit for outdoor PE and colder weather later in the term.There’ll be more information about our PE days, homework and school visits in September.
Class News

History in Y5/6
Our Year 5/6 classes have made a brilliant start to their World War II history topic this term. They kicked things off by making their

KS2 School of Pop
Last week, Aston Hall’s KS2 students took to the stage and wowed audiences with their incredible end of year production, ‘School of Pop’ – and

Children’s Capital of Culture Festival of Sport
This week, Y5 and Y4 children who hadn’t yet represented our school in a sporting event had the fantastic opportunity to take part in the

Ulley Trip in Y5
Year 5 have had a fantastic day at Ulley Reservoir, making the most of the great weather and throwing themselves into every activity with enthusiasm.