Settling in very nicely indeed!

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

What a week! It went really quickly didn't it? Our Year Five Gang grew with two new recruits joining us (they are totally lovely) and we continue to go from strength to strength. The children are really getting the hang of their new routines and although we have the occasional lost soul wandering the corridors, everyone seems to know the direction they are heading in!

Well done Year Five, you are all doing a grand job!

Worth a Mention Children

Huge congratulations to all of the children who found themselves on this week's Worth a Mention Board.

 

It's good to see you are working hard in English, being  enthusiastic learners and demonstrating kindness to your fellow humans!

Well done one and all!

Flu Vaccinations

Next week, an important letter will be winging its way to you as the children in Year Five have the opportunity to have a flu vaccination. The related paperwork will be heading your way in the next few days. The date of the vaccination will be 30th October. 

Buddens Trip

Hopefully, the letter with regards to our first trip of the year to Buddens Farm near Wareham made its way to you.

To clarify, 5MW and 5AD will be going on Wednesday 10th October and 5KD, 5CW and 5PC will be going on Thursday 11th October.

Please be aware that we can only take parents who have a current Dorchester Middle School DBS certificate on any of our trips so if you would like to come with us (and it would be terrific to take you) then please get in touch with the school office to complete the relevant paperwork.

I will be attending both trips so I can't wait to see the children out and about, enjoying the beauty and wonder that is Buddens. 

Golden Time 

Year Five did extremely well and most of the year group earned their Golden Time this week. Please don't worry if you didn't get it this time, coming to Middle School is an enormous learning curve so if you didn't quite get everything you needed - it's not the end of the world. 

Now that Homework has been added to the mix, organisation is key! If you struggle to get your Homework completed at home then please do remember that we run a daily Study Group session in ICT3/4 starting at 1.30pm.

Parent Consultations

Our first round of Parent Consultations will be held the week before we break up for half term.

The dates are:

Monday 15th October 4pm - 6pm

Wednesday 17th October 5pm - 7pm

The aim of our first round of Consultations is to give you an opportunity to meet with your child's Homebase Tutor to discuss how their first half at DMS has gone and has very much a pastoral focus. However, please don't wait until this meeting if there are any issues you would like to discuss - please don't hesitate to, in the first instance, contact your child's Homebase Tutor with any concerns or queries.

A letter with an appointment slip will be heading its way towards you in the next few days.

 There will be an opportunity to meet with your child's English and Maths Teachers in the new year. 

Coming to a Blog near you...

The next Blog will be a different as we will be welcoming Year Six  creating, in the process, the school's first ever Key Stage Two Blog! How exciting!

Well, that's it for next week. I hope you all have/had a super weekend and that those batteries have had a chance to recharge even if it's just a little bit.

I'll see you back here for the all new and rather bumper edition of the the new Key Stage Two Blog!

Mrs Ray

(who had a lovely weekend as we (me, my brother and sister) got the four grandchildren together for the very first time! )

My Dad with his growing brood of Grandchildren!