All work and no play...

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

Blimey! Another hectic week - your children must be shattered - I know we are!

As usual, lots to report so without further a do, let's crack on...

Competition Winners

A huge congratulations to Noah and Merry who won the Year Five World Book Day competitions. Noah won the Bookmark competition whilst Merry won the Extreme Reading Challenge.

Well done you two on such a terrific achievement.

Here is Merry's incredible winning entry:

Here are a couple of other Year Five entries that I spied on display...

Definitely 'extreme'!

Maths Group Madness

If your child is in mine and Miss Enever's Maths Group, and they have told you that we have been writing on tables this week then, I'm afraid, it's true!

We have been learning how to divide using the 'Singapore Bar' method to support the 'bus stop' strategy. This has resulted in us getting out the 'Base 10' apparatus and trying to visualize what these numbers actually look like, if that makes sense?

It really helped the children understand this particular method of division because it is so visual.

Paper Investigation

It looks as though 5AD have been have a ripping time in Science this week! They carried out an investigation to work out which type of paper was the strongest.

Was this Chris being a 'human calculator' by any chance?

Worth a Mention Children

Congratulations to this week's Worth a Mention children.

It's lovely to see all the reasons why you have been chosen by your teachers, I am extremely impressed.

Well done one and all!

Golden Time

This week, 8 children missed their Golden Time in Year Five, a definite improvement on last week.

Now, the question is, can we reduce that number for next week?

What do you reckon Year Five?

Ancient Egypt Day

It's nearly here and we can't wait!

On Monday we have a great day planned for the children. 

We will start the day with our classes learning about an aspect of life in Ancient Egyptian times.

After break we will be holding a Fashion Show to look at all the costumes of the day. 

There will be prizes, I warn you now.

In the afternoon we will swap classes so the children can learn about a different aspect of Ancient Egypt.

If you don't want to dress up or wear a costume, please don't worry, it's not compulsory! 

Celebration Assembly

Just to remind you that our next Celebration Assembly will be held on Wednesday 23rd March at 9.30am in the Drama Hall. It will last for roughly an hour.

Put it in your diaries!

Book Group Outing

On Sunday, the School Librarian Mrs Scott and I took 14 members of Book Group to The Mayflower at Southampton to see a performance of the excellent Hetty Feather.

It was such a brilliant play, we all thoroughly enjoyed the performance and came home on our (delayed) train full of enthusiasm!

Thank you Mrs Scott for organising it, we had a great time!

Emma's Poem

Emma in 5ER showed this to me the other day and I just had to include it in the Blog. When you read it, you'll see why.

Be careful of words, for they become scars.

Be careful of those scars, for they become memories.

Be careful of the memories, for they become feelings.

Be careful of their feelings, for they become actions.

Be careful of your actions for they can hurt.

How very true Emma, how very true.

British Museum Trip

It's not long now until our exciting trip up to London to visit the incredible British Museum.

I hope you are practicing getting up early as we MUST leave the school by 6.15am on the morning of the trip!!!

You have been warned!

Pick a word, any word!

I noticed that a lot of the children who were on the Worth a Mention Board this week was due to their fantastic homework.

Here are a few from 5ER...

Our roving camera will catch up with the rest of the classes so we can see what you have produced.

A New Addition

This morning I heard the distinctive sound of  a staple gun being used! When I went out to investigate, I saw Mrs Daniel putting up this rather fabulous display.

5AD, your writing is excellent, well done!

Eliza

This is Eliza. She is a hardworking, conscientious and lovely girl. She is also an excellent netball player and has been successfully playing in a few matches recently.

She is the only Year Five member of the Year Five and Six Netball Team and for that young Eliza, we salute you! 

Well, that's it for another week. Tune into next week's Blog where we I will be reporting back on our Ancient Egypt Day and give you more information about the up and coming British Museum trip.

Have a good week everyone and please do comment on the Blog - you know it makes my day when you leave comments.

Mrs Ray

(who is panicking about her costume for Monday!)

Booktastic!

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

This week, the blog is all about the wonderful English language and what a wonderful language it is! Anyway, enough of my potential waffling, let's crack on with it so you can see for yourselves. 

World Book Day

World Book Day was an utter triumph and we were so impressed with all the incredible costumes that came through the Year Five Corridor on Thursday morning.

In the afternoon, we had to, literally, Drop Everything and Read. Just in case you were wondering, Mrs Daniel was reading 'When We Were Young'. I am will resist to make any comment on that nugget of information...

In 5ER, we played the 'Name that Character' game. It was a lot trickier to guess the characters on the headbands than anticipated. I took the headbands to Book Group after school and although they too found it tricky, they got there in the end!

Thank you to Mrs Scott and Mrs James for such an excellent day and an excellent Book Fair. The Book Fair's last trading day is Monday so please do come along to browse and buy!

Rosie

This is Rosie. She is lovely. She is also a very hardworking young lady and has made incredible progress in her writing. I was lucky enough to read her most recent piece of writing and quite frankly, I was blown away by the content. 

Well done Rosie, keep up the hard work, it is clearly paying off!

5KD's French Lesson

OK 5KD. Miss Enever gave me these fantastic pictures of you in your French lesson but what on earth are you holding up? What have you been up to?

Please tell us in the comments section. Not only will we know the wonderful things you are doing in French, you'll also get a credit. 

Win, win!

It's all about the apostrophe!

Apostrophes are tricky things aren't they? You use them to show that a letter or two are missing (omission) or you use them to show that something belongs to someone (possession).

A lot of children tend to use apostrophes when something is plural which is a big no, no.

Mr Duffy has been working hard to make sure the children in his class are using apostrophes correctly. To help spread the message, two of his children, Laura and Keeley,  made a visit to 5ER to help them see the error of their ways!

Not only did they teach us how to use the apostrophe for possession correctly, they also created a fabulous power point to help the children understand this particular concept.

Worth a Mention Children

Huge congratulations to this week's Worth a Mention children. It's lovely to see how helpful, kind, considerate, creative and hard-working you all are.

Brilliant!

Golden Time

This week 10 Year Five children missed their Golden Time.

Oh dear.

Not one child received a detention which is extremely positive.

A lot of diaries were not signed and quite a few homeworks were missing this week.

Let's try for a 100% success rate next week...

Ancient Egyptian Day

Our fabulous Ancient Egyptian day will be held a week on Monday. We are busy planning and resourcing the day and we can't wait!

More details about the contents of the day next week.

Well, that's it for another jam-packed week.

Have a good week everyone and I'll see you back here next week for more Year Five news. 

Remember to spoil your lovely Mums something rotten on Sunday, they are super heroes and need looking after at all times!

We will also look forward to seeing some of your parents at next week's Parent Consultations.

Mrs Ray

(who is thrilled with her Book Fair purchases which includes a rather super book on Ancient Egypt. Howard Carter eat your heart out!)

Welcome back!

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

I hope you all had a good half term - it flew by didn't it? It was lovely to see the children back all ready and raring to go on Monday morning (no, really, they were) but then we do have an incredibly busy and exciting half term ahead of us.

 Anyway, enough from me, let's see what the children have been getting up to this week...

Fabulous Footballers

A massive congratulations to the Year Five Football team who performed so brilliantly on Thursday after school.

Words from Mr Roberts:

DMS v Sunninghill -WON 7-1

I had the pleasure of driving the Year 5 Football Team to the newly laid AstroTurf at Sunninghill after school today.

The boys were dominant in defence and imperious in attack against a Year 6 Prep School Team!

Jacob B scored 4

Lewis T scored 2

Captain Toby B scored 1

They were truly magnificent!

Fantastic boys and thank you for being such a credit to our Year Group and School.

5CW's Fact Finding Mission

In the middle of an English lesson the other day, I spotted 5CW outside my classroom. On further investigation, I found out that they were admiring our Wonderful Writing Wall and using it as an inspiration for their own writing which is such a compliment.

I can't wait to read your Neil Gaiman style instructions, please make sure it happens!

Worth a Mention Children

An enormous 'well done' to this week's Worth a Mention children.

Another wonderful range of reasons why you have been selected - brilliant!

Golden Time

Are you ready for this?

This week just 4, yes, 4 children missed their Golden Time this week.

Not one Year Five child was in Detention and ALL of 5CW and 5AD received their Golden Time!

Am I allowed to be quietly confident that this number might go down even further next week? Dare I?

Fingers crossed...

World Book Day

This Thursday sees the welcome arrival of World Book Day. As you know, we have lots of exciting things planned for the day as well as the opportunity to enter a couple of rather fabulous competitions.

Personally, I am planning to take part in the Extreme Reading competition. Are any of you planning to do this? If so, what are going to do or will it be a surprise?

Have you decided which book character you will be coming as yet? I am still undecided although I did come dressed as Burt from Ratburger one year...

Ancient Egypt Day

 

We have been busy planning our Ancient Egypt Day which will be held on Monday 14th March - exactly one month before we go to the British Museum.

Please remember that costumes are optional and that we will not be charging children if they choose to come to school dressed as an Ancient Egyptian. 

I can't wait!

So, that's it for another week.

Final letters about the Museum trip should be heading your way in the next week where we will be asking for final payment (£10) and giving you more details about the day.

Have a good week everyone and I'll see you next week with lots of pictures from World Book Day.

Mrs Ray

(who is wondering if she could get away with coming as Hetty Feather? No, I didn't think so either!)