On your marks...

Hello and welcome back to the Year 5 Blog!

Time marches on and here we are at the end of another super week in Year Five already Where did that week go?

I can never believe how busy we are as a year group - there is always something to report back on isn't there?

So, with out further ado, here are just a few of the things that we have got up to this week...

DASP Citizenship Nominees

This week we were asked to nominate a boy and a girl from each class for the DASP Citizenship Awards. 

This is the criteria for the award:

  

This rewards children for making a positive contribution to their school community. With clearly defined areas, based on children's opinions, they act as guidelines for behaviour and self respect. Each year, those that have been judged by their peers, as having made the greatest contribution receive the DASP Citizen award.

Here are the ten children who were nominated:

What a fabulous choice!

I will let you know who the Year Five winners are next week.

Mrs Daniel's 'drawing'

Yes, she's been at it again but this time Mrs Daniel had an accomplice - Mr Duffy!

Who do you think did what?

You are definitely working towards age related expectations Mrs Daniel!

Sports Day

Just a quick reminder the whole school Sports Day is this Thursday 23rd June.

In Year Five we start the day with the Playground Games where all the children participate (long jump and high jump is usually carried out during this time as well) This is then followed by Tug of War (again, all children participate). Finally, we have an spectacular afternoon of track and field events.

Your child should know what event/s they will be taking part in during the afternoon so I hope that this provides you with a very rough guide to the day. A more detailed programme of the day is available on this link:

http://www.dorchestermid.dorset.sch.uk/sports-day/

Logo Quiz

The Fundraising Committee, which is part of the school's Pupil Voice, are continuing to raise money in order to buy our PD children some equipment for the playground.

For just 50p, you can enter the fabulous Logo Competition and have a chance to win a £20 Amazon voucher.

These two lovely children are selling the quizzes every break time from Room 2 so please do support this excellent initiative and bring in your 50ps as soon as possible!

Worth a Mention Children

Huge congratulations to this week's Worth a Mention children! This week's range of reasons is particularly impressive as they range from pottery skills to sporting skills and then writing skills!

I am a very proud Head of Year - well done!

Golden Time

We seem to have unwittingly entered the 'silly season' as 4 (yes, 4) children missed their Golden Time as they were in Detention. Not something to jump up and down about. 

Eight children in total missed their Golden Time this week which is such a shame as it felt as though we were definitely heading in the right direction.

Let's really try and improve on this next week Year Five!

So, that's it for another week.

If there is anything linked to school that you would like me to include in the Blog then please do let me know as I am always looking for interesting things to write about. I can't be everywhere at once (although sometimes it might not feel like it!) so I would hate to miss out on anything.

Have a good week everyone and I will look forward to seeing you back here next week.

Mrs Ray

(who is deeply regretting signing up for the Staff Relay on Thursday. What have I done?!)