Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog
Well, Autumn has certainly arrived hasn't it? We have had a few of the dreaded 'Wet Plays' and coats have been making an appearance on the usually weather-hardy Year Five children.
Lots to report so I'll crack on...
Football girls
On Monday, the Year Five Girl's Footballers played an impromptu match against St Mary's, Puddletown at DMS.
The girls won 4 - 0 and, according to Miss Bacon, played brilliantly.
The girls who were involved were: Teagan, Amelia, Isobel, Cerys, Jameila, Jasmine, Phoebe , Isla, Jessica and Phoebe. (Yes, there were two Phoebes in the team!)
Well done girls and thank you for being such a credit to our school.
Harvest Festival contributions
Mr Chadwick has been on a personal crusade to get as many Harvest Contributions into school as possible. Judging by this photograph, he has led a very successful campaign!
A huge thank to all of you who have contributed, your generosity is overwhelming!
Damers and Prince of Wales trips
In our recent English lessons, the children have been writing their own stories based on Jill Murphy's classic children's book, 'On the Way Home'.
Instead of making up reasons why the character Claire had hurt her knee (some of them are spectacular!), the children wrote excuses as to why Claire had forgotten her homework.
As the stories were written with the younger reader in mind, we asked Damers and Prince of Wales First Schools if we could read them to their young children. They were very excited about welcoming our Year Fives into school so, on Thursday (in between torrential rain showers) we set off to the two schools.
Three classes (5AD, 5KD and 5CW) visited the Year One children at Damers and two classes (5GR and 5PC) headed off to read to the children in Reception and Year One.
It was an incredibly successful morning and the first school children loved the stories. One child at Prince of Wales asked if we could come back when we had written another story!
I would like to thank all the adults from DMS who helped make this happen, the parents who accompanied us and the first schools for being so accommodating and welcoming.
Photographic evidence to be provided in next week's Blog!
Year Five's Poetree
At the beginning of the Year Five corridor sits a tree. It is no ordinary tree, it is a Poetree!
Every week it has a new poet and poem of the week - please do have a look!
Year Five Parent Consultation Evenings
Hopefully, you would have received a letter inviting you to attend your child's first Dorchester Middle School Parent's Evening.
These will be held on:
Monday 20th October 4 - 6pm
Wednesday 22nd October 5 - 7pm
Please complete the reply slip as soon as possible and return to your child's Homebase Tutor.
We do hope that you will be able to attend.
Before School
Please could we remind the Year Five children to stay in the lower playground in the mornings. This will enable children to be able to line up quickly when the bell goes and to be supervised by the adults on duty.
So, that's it for another week. I hope you all have a good week and I look forward to seeing you back here next week.
Please don't forget to comment on the Blog - I had NO comments last week which made me spiral back into sadness!!!
Mrs Ray
(who has reluctantly turned on the heating in her house!)
