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Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

Another busy and enjoyable week under our belts with a few wet plays (groan) and a very soggy start to the day on Friday! I hope you all have had a good week too?

Let's crack on with this week's news...

Worth a Mention Children

A huge congratulations to this week's Worth a Mention children! Well done for getting your names on the board this week, a fabulous achievement indeed.

Golden Time

Only seven children missed their Golden Time this week which is one of the lowest weeks yet so well done Year Five.

Just one child was in Detention this week.

The main reason for children missing their Golden Time this week was not getting Reading Records signed or not having read this week. This is so easily fixed - don't leave your reading to the last minute Year Five and have a pen in your hand ready for your adult to sign your Reading Record!

Simples!

Year 5 Footballers

Words by Mr Roberts:

DMS v Wyke Regis Junior School

Result: DMS WON 3-0. UNBEATEN SO FAR IN 2015/16 

Our Year 5's were ironically buoyed by the prospect of facing a Year 6 team from Weymouth,like pack animals,each supported their team mates,nothing was going to subdue the county schools resolve.

There was  no grogginess to the start of this tense game,no misgivings,just an unrivalled attitude of winning and with style.

Wyke could not have anticipated the damage would be so severe when striker Jacob weaved his chaos into the heart of their defence and the never say die ethos of Captain Toby dispossessed  time and time again.

This was total football,a masterpiece,a lesson in how to play our beautiful game.

Well done Year 5

Mr Roberts

Well done Year Five boys, what a fabulous result!

Instructions

This week, a couple classes have moved onto looking at Instructional Texts in our English lessons.

One of the first tasks we have to do is to see how good we are at following oral (spoken) instructions.

This is what 5AD got up to...

 Mmm, varying results.

Let's see if 5ER fared any better...

Not really!

I wonder how the rest of you will get on with this task when you get to it?

Visitors in the Corridor

So, there we were, cracking on with our English lesson on Friday when, out of the corner of my eye, I spotted an entire Year Six (6TH) class outside Mrs Daniel's classroom.

You know me, not one to miss a photo opportunity...

 What on earth were you doing?

Let me know in the comments section, you'll get a citizenship credit if you do!

British Museum Trip

Thank to those who have returned the permission slips and who have paid the deposit for this exciting trip.

Please keep them coming so that we get everything in before the 2nd February deadline.

Advance Warning!

Our next Celebration Assembly will be on Monday 8th February starting at 1.10pm.

Well, that's it for another week. Thank you to those of you who have commented on the Blog, I have signed Citizenship Credits so you know it's worth it!

Have a good week everyone and see you back here next week.

Mrs Ray

(who is about to embark on another Mark-a-thon, wish me luck everyone!)

Mind how you go!

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

So, there I was, thinking about what I was going to write this week and then I reflected on all the comings and goings in Year Five over the last few days and realised that a mega blog was ahead of me. 

OK everyone, strap yourselves in and here we go...

Year Five Football Team

Words from Mr Dailey:

On Monday, our Year 5 girl footballers took on both St Osmund's and Puddletown in the area 5 a side tournament.

The girls didn't start off well by loosing their opening game against Puddletown. The girls then faced St Osmund's immediately afterwards and managed to capture a draw. At the half way point in the tournament DMS yr 5's were 3rd, but this was only half way...

Puddletown and St Osmund's were gutted with their opening games against us so they both fought for victory over the mighty DMS

Outstanding performances from all the players but Laura C was DMS's player of the tournament. 

The girls snatched games from DMS and Puddletown in the second half of the tournament and secured an epic win! The girls were the champions! From being in last place to dominating everything that moved they are now the AREA 5 a side Champions! Congratulations to them! 

Well done girls - what a fantastic achievement!

Streetwise

5CW, 5AD, 5ER and 5PC went off to Streetwise this week as part of our work in PSHCEE.

Not only did we have an enjoyable time, we also learnt a lot about how to keep ourselves safe in everyday situations.

5AD went on Wednesday and here are a few pictures of their visit courtesy of Mrs Lister:

5ER went on Thursday.

Bottle Top Collection

As reported last week, Year Five's contribution to the Bottle Top collecting has been phenomenal! So far, we have collected two full bin bags worth of bottle tops.

Osin and Max had the job of filling the second big bag. Please believe me when I tell you that it was extremely heavy and we had to drag it all the way to Science Lab 2!

'ello, 'ello, 'ello!

I am delighted to introduce (from left to right) PC Numerator, PC Dividing Line and PC Denominator.

They are Mrs Ray and Miss Enever's Maths Group's Fraction Police, making sure that law and order is kept when learning about those tricky fractions.

Worth a Mention Children

Huge congratulations to this week's Worth a Mention children.

Well done everyone, we are so proud of you for achieving the recognition you deserve.

Golden Time

Last week, 10 Year 5 children missed Golden Time (one for Detention) and this week it was 10 again but I am delighted that no one was in Detention this time.

Homework seems to be the main reason for Golden Time being missed this week - please remember that we are more than happy to help you in school, all you have to do is ask!

British Museum April 2016

We were delighted to send home the letters on Friday to confirm our trip to the British Museum on Thursday 14th April. 

How exciting!

We are going as part of our Ancient Egypt Topic which starts in the next couple of weeks.

 

To help reduce the cost of this trip, we will be holding a variety of fund raising events between now and half term. We have already made a head start with the money we raised through selling the Little People Christmas Decorations.

So, this is what we have planned for you:

Tuesday 2nd February

Mr Duffy and Miss Enever will be selling Hot Chocolates and other chocolate-orientated goodies at break time in Room 5.

Thursday 4th February

Mrs White and Mrs Cook will be organising a Cake Sale in the Year Five Corridor at break time.

Tuesday 9th February

Mrs Daniel and Mrs Ray will be selling Hot Chocolate and Cookies in the Drama Hall at break time.

Thursday 11th February

We will we holding a Non Uniform Day on the last day before half term. Always a favourite with the children!

Busy, busy, busy!

So, that's it for another week.

I hope you all have a good week and please don't forget to comment on the Blog - there are Citizenship Credits in it for you if you do!

Mrs Ray

(who is already starting to practise for the very early morning start on the 14th April!)

Back into the swing of things.

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog and Happy New Year to you all!

Well, busy doesn't cover the week we've just had - I think I can safely say that we have definitely hit the ground running (again!).

 Lots to tell you so on with the show!

Mrs Thomas

After Mr Chadwick's departure, the school is now being led by the lovely Mrs Thomas who is our acting Headteacher for the rest of the academic year. She has kindly promised that she will continue with the termly Speed Sharing sessions so I will be booking her in immediately.

Worth a Mention Children

As promised on last week's Blog, these are the Worth a Mention Children from the last week of the Autumn Term.

Well done on such a tremendous achievement.

Now to this week's Worth a Mention Children - here they are:

Brilliant!

Well done on your hard work and perseverance, you are an inspiration to us all.

Non Chronological Reports - the return!

Just when you thought we had finished learning about and writing Non Chronological Reports (NCR), they make a dramatic return!

This week, a lot of the Year Five children were asked to write a NCR about the imaginary animal they created whilst we were looking at Ecology last term. It was great to look back and see the children's fabulous creations.

I sneaked into 5CW to see what they were getting up to and look what I found...

I can't wait to read what you have written!

Streetwise

Four Year Five classes are off to Streetwise next week and we can't wait!

Thank you to all of you who have returned the permission slips and who have made a payment. We are still missing quite a few permission slips though and without permission, we are unable to take the children with us.

If you have paid via Agora (our on line payment system) permission slips still need to be returned. Unfortunately, Agora just accepts payment and does not account for  permission being given.

I shall report back on the Streetwise visits next week.   

Bottle Tops

When Mrs Whiting appealed for Bottle Tops across the school, I don't think she bargained on Year Five making such an incredible contribution!

Thank you so, so much to everyone who has contributed in whatever shape or form.

I have spotted these two young men struggling in with an incredible number of bottle tops for us. Thank you Charlie and Josh!

Thank you to everyone who has brought them in and keep them coming!

The Talented Mrs Daniel

Remember that fabulous picture of a seal that Mrs Daniel drew a few weeks ago?

Well, her son-in-law was so impressed with her incredible talent that he had her design immortalised on a T-shirt!

From this...

... to this!

Genius!

So, that's it for another week. I hope the first week back wasn't too much of a culture shock for you all!

See you back here next week!

Mrs Ray

(who was very tempted to stay in her pyjamas and wear them to school on the first day back!!)