How do you do?

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

Oh my goodness, I have got so much to share with you this week, I hardly know where to begin!

Are you ready?

On your marks, get set, go!

Parent Consultations

It was terrific to meet with so many lovely parents over two evenings this week. We hope that you found it an informative experience and that you were able to discuss how the children have settled in to their new school.

Our next official Parent Consultation Evenings will be held in the new year - as soon as I have the dates I'll let you know on the Blog. These evenings will be based on the children's academic progress and there will be an opportunity to have a look at the books and discuss the learning that has and will take place.

Afternoon of Sport

On Wednesday after school, the school was buzzing! There were so many sports fixtures going on I could barely keep up!

I had a lovely walk around the school grounds in the sunshine, dipping in and out of various matches.

Well done to the Year 5 Football team who were magnificent! No-one has told me the score though - maybe someone could let me know in the 'Comments' section?

Maths Group

In mine and Miss Enever's Maths Group - we have been learning about Place Value. It's such an important piece in the jigsaw as far as Maths is concerned.

 

The characters 'Decimal Dude' and 'Zero Hero' are really helping the children understand the complexities of Place Value!!

5CW's Science Investigation

The lesser-spotted 5CW were, well, spotted (!) in the pond area getting up to what can only be described as a science investigation. 

It looks fascinating, what were you doing?

Answers in the comments section please!

Celebration Assembly

Just a quick reminder that it is our Celebration Assembly next Thursday 20th October. A label will be put into your child's Home/School Diary at the beginning of the week to let you know if they are receiving a certificate this time. 

We look forward to welcoming you along.

Conscience Alley

In English, we are about to embark on an extended narrative unit of work. 

As our starting point, we have been looking at a short animated film called 'One Man Band'.

 

We have been looking at dilemmas, particularly that of the little girl in the film.

We created a Conscience Alley to help her make up her mind.

Poor Miss Enever - she didn't know which side to choose!

Worth a Mention Children

Huge congratulations to this week's terrific ten who have been chosen as Worth a Mention Children.

It is so lovely to see their names up on the board and for the continued variety of reasons for this acknowledgment. Well done - you are super stars!

Golden Time

Sadly, 21 children in Year 5 missed their Golden Time this week and three missed it as they had received a detention.

It is an improvement on last week (hurrah) but it would be so nice to see fewer children missing out, especially if we can help them in school. Along with the daily provision of Study Group and Homework Club, there is Study Extra that runs on a Wednesday after school until 4.30pm. 

Might be worth considering?

STOP PRESS! SCHOOL DISCO PICTURES!
It was party, party, party time in DMS on Friday. Here are a few pictures of the Year Five children having what can only be described as, well, fun!

Thank you Miss Still for putting on such an excellent event!

So, that's it for this week. I hope you all have a good week and I will look forward to seeing you back here next week with lots of super pictures from the first Celebration Assembly of the year.

Please do feel free to post comments to accompany the blog, it so lovely to have a bit of 'audience participation' from time to time.

Mrs Ray

(who is practicing the lovely song we are going to sing for you on Thursday and trying not to be grumpy!)

Business as usual

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

Well, we have been working hard on our learning this week and cracking on with life in Year Five! 

Let's see what this week had to offer...

Life Education Van

All of the Year Five children enjoyed a session in the Life Education Van on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. 

What did you think of it? Did you learn anything new? Were you given good advice that you will remember? If you want to answer any of these questions then please do feel free to do so in the 'Comments' section - it'll be great to have your feedback!

Football

Our Year Five Footballers were out and about again this week - this time it was a match against Chickerell Primary School where the result was 2 - 2.

Words by Mr Roberts: 

It was a traditional match of end to end attack and defence that faced our youngsters.

Freddie B was everywhere and Harvey L a Trojan.

Captain Tyler was immense,effortlessly winning the ball back and ghost through would be tacklers.

Well done boys.

Radipole on Monday

Well done Alfie H, Liam, Tyler L, Jack,. Harvey, Freddie B, Freddie Br, Tyler V, Max, Luke and Harry.

We are so proud of you!

Worth a Mention Children

As always, huge congratulations to the ten lucky children who were selected by their teachers to be this week's Worth a Mention children.

A super selection of reasons for this week's children.

Well done!

Golden Time

This is how we all feel when children in Year Five lose their Golden Time!

Everyone is working hard to make sure this happens but we are still having issues with Homework and getting all five reads completed in a week.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - we are more than happy to help the children in school with their reading and homework, the children just need to let us know (but not on Friday morning!).

Parent Consultations

Although there was quite a short turnaround time, we have made lots of appointments to meet with many of you next Monday and Thursday. We are looking forward to meeting with you and discussing how the children have settled in to their new school.

Some of the teachers still have a few available appointments both evenings so it is still worth sending in the slip, just in case.

Celebration Assembly

Our first Celebration Assembly of the year will be held on Thursday 20th October at 1.10pm. We ask that you are in school around 1pm, making sure that you sign in on your arrival. The assembly usually lasts for about 25 minutes and will focus on what the children have achieved in such a short time.

We look forward to seeing you then.

Reading Journals

We are currently looking at how to use Reading Journals in Year Five so we can independently respond to the books that we have either read or are in the process of reading.

The book we are using to help us with this is called 'Way Home'.

 

It's a great book that has sparked a lot of questioning and debate.

Freddie has particularly enjoyed using 'The Q Matrix' to help him develop and enhance his questioning skills. We are experimenting with this in 5ER and are looking forward to sharing it with everyone soon.

Helping Hands

Mrs White came to talk to the children about Year Five raising money for Save the Children's appeal for Syrian children. Hopefully, you received the 'Helping Hands' letter where we have asked the children to do chores around the house in order to raise money for this charity. 

Being helpful at home will help raise money for this very worthy cause.

Get cleaning!

So, that's it for another week. We are looking forward to meeting with you at next week's Parent Consultation Evenings.

Have a good week everyone!

Mrs Ray

(who can't begin to tell you how much she enjoyed leading the Year Five Assembly this week - visual clue below!)