Brace yourselves!

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog.

As you know, we are always incredibly busy in Year Five and, yet again, this week has been no exception! We also have a lot coming up so I think our blog is going to be jam packed over the next few weeks.

Enough of my ramblings, let's get on with the interesting stuff!

Conscience Alley

In our English lessons we are in the process of reading The Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo. It's a fabulous book and the children are really engaged with it which is terrific.

This week, the children of 5ER had to think about the character of Billy who had to make a life changing decision. To help him make his decision we used the 'Conscience Alley' technique, giving Billy reasons for against his potential choice. 

We roped in Mrs Lister to be Billy and a mighty fine Billy she was too...

Calligraphy Club

Every week, Mr Duffy runs a Calligraphy Club for children in Year Five. I happened to come across this the other day and I was so impressed with the work the children were doing.

Thank you Mr Duffy for giving up your lunchtime for the children, it is greatly appreciated!

Worth a Mention Children

Another week, another group of super children who have worked hard and, as a result of this, are making excellent progress. Another lovely range of reasons this week, well done to all ten of you - we are extremely proud of you! 

Golden Time

For the third week in a row, 11 children missed their Golden Time. Two children in the Year Group received a detention.

Well done 5PC - all of you received your Golden Time this week - fantastic!

The majority of the children who missed their Golden Time missed it because their homework was not handed in on time. Please don't forget that there are lots of opportunities for you to get your homework completed in school but at the end of the day, you need to remember to take it home and hand it in!

Let's hope that those who miss their Golden Time is greatly reduced next week... 

Celebration Assembly

Just to remind you that our next Celebration Assembly is on Monday 16th May @: 1.10pm in the Hall. 

If you can attend, please be in school as near to 1.00pm as possible so we can seat you as soon as we have cleared the Hall and out the chairs out.

As usual, we will be putting labels in the children's Home/School Diaries to let you know if they will be receiving a certificate.

The RNLI are coming to DMS!

Yes, it is true, we have real life RNLI Lifeguards coming to talk to Year Five on Wednesday 18th May! How exciting!

The children will be participating in their ‘Meet the Lifeguard programme’ and they will be delivering a beach safety assembly from experienced RNLI lifeguards.

Every single day the RNLI save the lives of four children who’ve got into trouble in the water. Most of these emergency situations could have been avoided if the children had been aware of the most basic safety facts. This assembly aims to give our children an understanding of beach safety and enable them to identify problems that may occur on the beach.

As there is no charge for this visit, we would like to show our appreciation by helping to support the important work the RNLI does by holding a 'Wear your Wellies to School' day on the 18th May. We would also like it if the children brought in any loose change you may have so that we can 'fill' a welly full of money that we can present to the RNLI on the day.

Activities Week

As mentioned in last week's Blog, we are still waiting for several outstanding payments for Activities Week.

Final payment request letters have gone home and we would be very grateful if these balances could be settled as soon as possible. It would be such a shame to cancel specific activities because we have not received sufficient funds...

So, that's it for another week. I hope you all have a good week and don't forget to keep commenting on the Blog - you know I love it when you do!

See you next week!

Mrs Ray

(who is wondering why on earth she signed up to do a Triathalon on Sunday - it was clearly a moment of madness!!)