Look, Listen and Cross

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

Well, another week has flown by and it's been another good one. We have had a busy week haven't week?

So, without further ado, let's see what's been happening... 

A Triumphant Day!

A huge well done to all the children who took part in the Athletics meeting in Weymouth on Thursday.

Mr Roberts was extremely proud of the way you competed and conducted yourselves throughout the day and was delighted with the results.

Thank you and well done to: Bailey Lovell, Bailey Park, Jack Carperter, Toby Zimmer, Jamie Richards, Ben Cheeseman, Josh Jackson, Leah Pomeroy, Jasmine Simpson, Alex Alford, Amelia O'Connell, Isla Worthington, Florence Clever, Grace Gossage and Summer Kilby.

National School Grounds Week

This week has been National School Grounds Week and lots of things have been going on across the school.

Year Five were asked to take part in a survey of the school grounds by Mrs Whiting which we thoroughly enjoyed doing. 

We look forward to seeing the results.

Road Safety Week

This week was Dorset Road Safety Week so Jon Sweet, the Education Officer for the Dorset Fire and Rescue service, came and talked to the children about how to be safe on the roads.

It was an incredibly interesting and though-provoking session. You may be nagged by your children when it comes to the way you drive - you have been warned!

Assessments

Over the next week, the children will be assessed on their Reading and Maths. We do this every term so that we can continue to measure the children's progress. This will help the teachers see how much progress the children have made and where there are gaps in their learning. These tests will also help us finalise the levels that we will share with you in your child's end of year report.

Maths Group Visitors

Whilst 5AD were learning how to be safe on the roads, my Maths set gained three very willing and able helpers in the form of Lukas, Marley and Josh! 

They were incredibly helpful and really assisted the children with their learning. They also developed a little bit of empathy for teachers! Who would have thought!

Year Group Charity

As mentioned in our last Celebration Assembly by Mrs White, this term our Year Group Charity is the Rowan Cottage Day Centre in Prince of Wales Road.

We will be holding a Non Uniform Day on Friday 19th June. We will be charging the usual £1 in exchange for the children to wear their home clothes.

How exciting!

So, that's it for another week. Tune in next week for photographs of Friday's School Disco! Oh yes!

Have a good week everyone!

Mrs Ray

(who will be at the School Disco, ready to strutt her stuff and bust some moves!)

Nice to see you!

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

Well, we have had a very busy week - just for a change! I'm not totally convinced that we have actually had a half term break, are you?

Anyway, lots of lovely things to share with you so on with the show...

Activities Week

Thank you to those children who have written and returned their feedback forms from our recent Activities Week. It would be great to have as many parent responses as possible as well so please don't forget to return those completed forms to the office.

As promised last week, I have a few photos from mine and Mrs Lister's cameras to share with you. Mrs Lister took loads of photographs but unfortunately they didn't all download so you may be treated to a few more next week!

Mrs Ray's Photographs

Mrs Lister's Photographs

It was a great week wasn't it?

Worth a Mention Children

Well done to those who are on this week's 'Worth a Mention Children' board.  

Dan, Marcus, Dylan, Natasha, Orren, Maddie, Taylor, Zoe, George and Josh - we salute you!

Fiver Challenge

This week, the ten groups who are taking part in the Fiver Challenge, met with Katherine Sawyer from Youth Enterprise to start putting their plans into action.

We were so impressed with the children's enthusiasm and are very excited to see how these projects progress over the next few weeks.

Did you know?

In our English lessons we have been reading the excellent 'Wreck of the Zanzibar' by Michael Morpurgo.

5AD have been researching and presenting information on Leatherback Turtles. They are fascinating creatures and the work that the children produced was very impressive indeed.

Well done 5AD, what a treat!

Open Morning

This Saturday, we threw open the doors of the school and welcomed the children and parents of the current Year Four who will be joining our school in September.

It was a super morning and such a joy to meet such a lovely group of people.

I would like to say a huge thank you to the Year Five children who were excellent guides and ambassadors for our school. The parents were really impressed with how helpful and articulate (look that word up!) you all were.

I would also like to thank the members of staff who kindly gave up a precious Saturday morning to meet our new recruits. 

Andy Murray eat your heart out!

Forget Roland Garros or Wimbledon! 

We had the top Yr 5 and Yr 6 players from the area all competing to secure the title of "Best in Dorchester"

There was some impressive plays with smashes/cross court/backhand winners and many more shots that clinched points for pupils!

After all the games had been played in singles and doubles the results showed that St Osmunds just took the title but with DMS closely on their heels!

The team played extremely well in hot conditions and deserve every pat on the back for coming runners up

Tennis team - Tommy Gale, Kiara Gannaway, Hayden Pounds and Beth Ellis

Mr Dailey

Well done Team DMS, what an incredible achievement!

Advance Notice

The last Celebration Assembly of the school year will be held on Monday 13th July, 9.30am - 10.30am in the Drama Hall. Each class will be reviewing their highlights of the year, as well as being presented with their well deserved certificates.

Road Safety Week

Next week is Road Safety Week and on Friday 11th June, Jon Sweet from Dorset Fire and Rescue will be visiting our children. He will work with every class throughout the day. I will look forward to reporting back to you about this in my next post.

So, that's it for another week. Please be brave and share your thoughts, opinions and experiences of the week in the comments section!

'See' you next week!

Mrs Ray

(who is gearing up for another mega week this week!)