Time and Space?

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

At the time of writing, we are now officially on half term so I hope that you are all enjoying the beautiful weather - whilst it lasts! 

We had a great end to another short week so let's have a gander...

Celebration Assembly

A huge 'Thank You' to everyone who attended last Wednesday's Celebration Assembly. Although it was short and sweet, I was so impressed with the number of children who earned stripes.

Here are a few pictures from that very assembly.

Thank you to Mrs Schnorr for taking the pictures!

I know that quite a few of you were on the cusp on gaining certain stripes so stick with it, keep working hard and we'll look forward to celebrating your successes at the next Celebration Assembly.

Dorchester University

After half term, we will all be embarking on our final DU Modules of the year and what a fabulous first year it has been!

Mrs Schnorr and I took our group to the Dorset County Museum to have a look at a selection of their Alfred Wallis paintings.

On our return to school, I spied Mrs Daniel and a shopping trolley!

The Garden and Chickens Module have been busy growing plants from seed. I am now the proud owner of sweet pea plants, sunflowers and rocket that I have dutifully planted in my garden. 

Watch this space!

Ruby Reports

Our intrepid photographer Ruby was handed the sacred Year Five camera and took it into her Technology lesson.

What great pictures Ruby - well done! It looks as though you are cracking on with it in your Resistant Materials rotation.

Well, that's it for this week. I'll be back after half term where I'm sure I'll have a lot to report back on. 5MW are about to embark on a rather exciting writing task and I know that we have been planning some rather super English lessons for you.

I hope you all have a super week and I will look forward to seeing you back in school (which will be before we know it!)

Mrs Ray

(who will be flying out to Nice to see her Mum this half term. Can't wait!)

I know, poor me!

Happy Days!

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog! 

Well, that was a hectic week! As I mentioned last week, I have been involved in the Year Six SATs as I teach English to 6LS. All the Year Six children were incredibly positive and focused and I couldn't help but think that this will be our lovely current Year Five next year. Gulp! 

As a result of the SATs, I haven't seen a huge amount of the Year Fives this week but the super things that they are doing in (and out) of school haven't escaped my notice!

Double Worth a Mention Children 

As promised last week - we have a double-helping of Worth a Mention Children.

Huge congratulations to those who were on the board last week. Fantastic! Another cracking set of reasons - do I spy a NEW school record holder in 5CW? I think I do...

Huge congratulations must also go to this week's recipients! To see you all being such enthusiastic and successful learners is a joy to behold!

Celebration Assembly

Hopefully, you have received the text with regards to Wednesday's Celebration Assembly. It will be held at 9.30am in the Hall and should last for approximately half an hour. Apologies for the relatively short notice but we're trying to cram everything in before we break up for half term. We were hoping to hold it on the Friday but the Training Day has scuppered that plan!

Training Day

Talking of Training Days, please remember not to come to school on Friday!

Out of this World

I spied some rather incredible Science Homework entering and leaving school this week. As I reached for my trusty camera, they had all disappeared (into the ether maybe?). 

However, I was able to photograph this beauty:

Wow, wow and wow!

Our Feathered Friends

As you know, we have five feathered friends in residence. 

As I as out about with that trusty camera of mine, I spied Miss Farn letting them out after school. It was hilarious! They followed her like the Piped Piper. They are incredibly obedient (we wouldn't expect anything less would we?!) and, quite frankly, hilarious!

The Glorious Garden

Our School Garden is looking gorgeous. This is all down to Miss Still (accompanied by the green-fingered Mrs Daniel) and her Dorchester University Group's hard work. I think these pictures will back this up.

As a result of all their planting and nurturing, there will be plants for sale!

I will find out how you purchase these fine plants - watch this space!

Fabulous Work

I may have been in the SATs Zone but that didn't stop me from spying lots of excellent work in and out of the classrooms.

Fantastic Solids, Liquids and Gases Posters in 5CW

Incredible Writing about Dragons in 5PC

Golden Time

I am so pleased (and rather relieved) that the number of children who missed their Golden Time was halved this week! The common themes for missing Golden Time is primarily Homework not being completed and handed in on time. 

A special mention goes to 5PC as no-one missed their Golden Time this week - well done!

Our roving reporter/photographer, Ruby, took a few pictures of  this week's fun and games...

Such fun!

Well, that's it for this week. I will look forward to seeing some of you on Wednesday at our Celebration Assembly. I can't believe that we are at half term already - the days and weeks are certainly zooming by!

I'll see you back here next week for the end of half term report and will then it's time for a week off!

Mrs Ray

(who LOVED Meghan's beautiful wedding dress on Saturday! I'm such a sucker for a wedding!)

Dedication

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

It may have been a four day week but my goodness, we managed to pack it all in. Again.

One of the highlights of the week has definitely got to be our fabulous Open Morning on Saturday. The Year Five Guides were amazing and I was so proud of them. There were lots of lovely compliments from the families that were shown around but more of that later...

Worth a Mention Children

Oh dear.

I have failed.

Amidst all the excitement of Saturday morning, I totally forgot to take a photograph of the Worth a Mention Board. 

I am soooooooooooo sorry Year Five - I will right this wrong and make sure that I take the picture first thing Monday morning and then include it in next week's Blog.

You'll have to wait a few more days for your moment of glory but I promise you, it will be worth the wait!

Dorchester University

Our roving reporter, Ruby, took 'BlogCam' to her Dorchester University session this week and took this gorgeous picture of Dolly (Year 6) and Dexter. Isn't it a lovely picture? 

Thank you Ruby!

Saturday School

What a terrific morning! We had so much fun meeting our 'new recruits' and their families. There was such a fabulous buzz in the school - especially in the Tech Department where our visitors were able to taste biscuits amongst taking part in lots of lovely other activities including printing.

 

As you can see from the pictures, everyone had a good time and quite a few Year Fours, who looked rather nervous at the beginning of their visit, went home with a spring in their step and a relieved look on their faces!

A HUGE Thank You to all the children and staff who came in on their precious day off. Our Year Five Guides were amazing and we were all so impressed with the way you showed off our school. The staff were brilliant - thank you for giving up your Saturday morning to meet, greet, guide and reassure our new Year Five Gang.

What a team!

Golden Time

I am very sad to report that 31, yes, 31 children missed their Golden Time this week. That is a fifth of the Year Group. The expectations have not changed and some of these Golden Times could have been easily gained if the children had been a bit more organised.

Let's hope for a dramatic reduction in numbers for next week... 

Pupil Voice

Our Pupil Voice Representatives are brilliant. They are voted for by their classmates and give up their free time to represent and voice the opinions of their class.

This week, only four of the possible ten attended our Wednesday meeting but what they contributed was fantastic. We are in the process of discussing what we can do to improve our playground so it is important that everyone's views are taken on board.

Keep checking the daily notices to see when the next meeting is. 

Well, that's it for another week. I'm going to be heavily involved in next week's Year 6 SATs as my lovely English Group (6LS) are sitting them. 

We wish all of Year Six the very best of luck for next week, they'll be absolutely brilliant as they are such a terrific group of children.

See you back here next week for a double-dose of Worth a Mention Children as a starting point!

Have a good week everyone!

Mrs Ray

(who marshalled White Star's 'Love Station' with some of her Runblandford Buddies on Friday night - the theme was 'The Day of the Dead'. White Star are the same people who organise the Dorchester Marathon and Half Marathon so if you know anyone who is running, they're in for a treat!)

I would like to assure you that this is not my normal 'Friday Night Look'!