Friday 23 February 2018

Time rolled on by...

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

What an exhausting week! Did we really have half term last week or was it a trick of the imagination? We have had a terrific week but the highlight has to be, without a doubt, our Ancient Egyptian Day on Friday.

Let's see what the children got up to along with other news and information...

Ancient Egypt Day

Seeing Ancient Egyptians in the playground before school was quite a sight to behold especially as it was one of the coldest days that we have experienced for a long time. There were a lot of shivering Ancient Egyptians, I can tell you (including me!).






Once our Egyptians had got into the warmth, we cracked on with a fabulous morning of learning, creating, making and producing!





















In the afternoon we had a Fashion Parade where the children had the opportunity to show off their fabulous costumes as well as the things they had made in their workshops.







There were prizes for the best costumes in each class as well as an overall winner which was this rather awesome Mummy (!).


Here are the rest of the winners:


We had a brilliant day but it would not have been possible without the fabulous Year Five Team who made it all possible.


British Museum here we come!


Worth a Mention Children

Huge congratulations to the children who found themselves on this week's Worth a Mention Board - for a couple of you this is the second week in a row!


Marvellous - well done!


Rubgy

Year 5 Tag Rugby Tournament
Thursday 22nd February 2018
At Weymouth Rugby Club



Words by Mr Roberts:
If there was a combination to test our Year 5 Rugby Team - then this was it.
On paper DMS had precision,purpose and attacking intent but in reality had to show their customary defensive excellence and keen tactical instincts.
Captain Tilly refused to allow her team to surrender so our team decided to demonstrate exactly why they are feared,ruthless side stepping and composed offloading.
Great character Year 5's never yielding,always determined.

Fantastic! Well done Team Year Five!

Do we have a mad scientist in our midst?


I couldn't resist this picture! I 'caught' 5CW coming in off the playground following an experiment that involved coke and a Mentos mint. I'm intrigued! What on earth were you doing?!


Parent Consultation Evenings

As mentioned in last week's Blog, next Monday and Wednesday are the designated days for our parent Consultation Evenings that will be held in the Gym. If you would still like to book, there are a still a few available appointment times but please be aware that they may limited.

The majority of the appointments are for five minutes and it is important that we all stick to this. If you need to discuss things in further detail then please make an additional appointment with the teacher.
We will look forward to seeing you!  



Well, another epic Blog that, hopefully, reflects a rather epic week!
I hope that you all have a fabulous week and I will look forward to seeing some of you next week.

Mrs Ray

(who went out on a school night (!) to see The Greatest Showman. Oh wow! What an AMAZING film! I have bought the sound track, please feel for my poor family!)

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Sunday 18 February 2018

Are you ready?

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

I hope you all had a lovely half term and had the opportunity to recharge those very precious batteries! I don't know about you but I don't feel like I have stopped at all, there was a lot of catching up that needed to be done.

Anyway, enough of the Mrs Ray ramblings, on with the Blog...

British Museum Fundraising

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We did it! Thanks to your generosity and all round loveliness we have managed to reduce the cost of the trip for each child by £4.20 which is incredible. The total we raised was £531.95 which is amazing.

The final cost of the trip is £17.80 per child so we would be very grateful for payments to be made as soon as possible. 

Ancient Egypt Day

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Just to remind you that our annual Ancient Egypt Day will be held this Friday 23rd February
It would fabulous if as many children as possible could dress up for the day. 
The day culminates in a Fashion Parade (there will be prizes!) as well as a Show and Tell session where the children tell each other about what they did in their workshops as well as demonstrating what they have learnt.
It's a fabulous day and an excellent way to start our Ancient Egypt topic.


Parent Consultations

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Our next round of Parent Consultations will be held on:
Monday 26th February 4pm - 6pm
Wednesday 28th February 5pm - 7pm

An email was sent on Friday 9th February but please don't worry if you didn't receive it or if you are unable to print out a copy of the appointment form. The children will be distributed with paper copies on Monday.

As you will appreciate, there needs to be a quick turn around so the sooner the forms come into school school the better.

We are really looking forward to meeting with you.


Celebration Assembly

Another super Celebration Assembly was held on Thursday 8th February - thank to everyone who attended.

I was so impressed with the number of stripes that were awarded during the assembly - you have all been working super hard!

Now, unfortunately, the photographs that were taken throughout the assembly were taken on my new camera and the quality was, quite frankly, pants.

I will endeavour to track down the recipients of the various stripes and take group pictures so that no one feels that they have missed out!

Sorry about that.


Worth a Mention Children


A huge gold star to Mrs Daniel and huge congratulations to this week's Worth a Mention Children.
Fabulous, well done!

The Feline Seal of Approval!


Well, Oscar the opinionated cat has been at it again! This time his 'victim' was young Cora. According to Mrs Daniel, he was 'helping' her mark the book reviews of The Wreck of the Zanzibar' and thought that Cora's was puuurfect (did you see what I did there?!) - look at all of that pink!


All Change!

A new half term sees a new Dorchester University module.
Mrs Schnorr and I had a super time with the children when we went to the Dorset County Museum on the Wednesday before we broke up.



I can't believe I got to hold original Alfred Wallis paintings - it was such a highlight for me!
We did try to get a sneak preview of Dippy but unfortunately everything was boarded up ready for the grand opening.



Well, that's it for this week.
I hope that you all have a super first week back and that it's not too much of a culture shock when you have to get up in the morning.

See you next week!

Mrs Ray

(who had a great half term with many, many highlights...)