Welcome to Year 5 Dolphins!
We’re the class teachers, Mrs Rathbone and Mrs Joinson-Spencer and our teaching support assistant is Mrs Pagett. I hope you enjoy investigating all the lovely learning and information within our pages!
Mrs Rathbone
Hi, I'm Mrs Rathbone and I have been working at Waterside since 2023. As well as being a teacher in Year 5, I am also the Senior Assistant Headteacher in school. When I am at home, I enjoy spending my weekends with my family visiting theme parks and having lots of fun! I have 2 children who love to sing and dance and I regularly go to watch them perform.
Mrs Joinson-Spencer
Hello! I have been teaching at Waterside since 2019 and I am also the SENCo here too. When I am not at work, I support Manchester United Women's Football team and watch many home matches at Leigh Sports Village - my favourite player is Rachel Williams! I have 3 pets at home (2 cats and 1 dog), their names all begin with 'M' - Max, Minnie and Milo!
Mrs Pagett
Hi! I'm Mrs Pagett and I have been working at Waterside since 2017. I first started working here as a Lunchtime Supervisor! At the weekends, I am Secretary of Hanley Town Football Club first team where we travel up and down the country supporting the team and meeting lots of new people. I have 2 children who also used to come to Waterside and we have a family dog called Francis.
Year 5 Curriculum Overview
Related Blog Posts
The phases of the moon
Year 5 have enjoyed learning about the different phases of the moon in Science this week, and are finding our new topic really interesting!
Swimming!
It has been lovely to see over these past few weeks, how our Year 5 pupils have grown in confidence when in the water swimming! Keep up the hard work!
Fractions!
Our new topic in Maths this week has been fractions! We are really proud of how well Year 5 have been able to recall their prior knowledge of fractions and apply their skills to find fractions that are equivalent.