...and we're off!

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog.

Wow! What a fabulous first week that was! We have had a tremendous first week with our new Year Five children - it feels like they have always been here but in a good way!

As it is our first 'proper' Blog of the academic year, I will try to keep it short and sweet but I'm not making any promises...

Uniform

The children looked so smart in their new uniforms, what a credit the children are to us all!
Now, the question is, is everything named?
Time will tell...

Golden Time

This week ALL the children received and experienced Golden Time and it was lovely to see them enjoying the extra playtime that they so richly deserved.

From next week, we will be enforcing the Golden Time expectations and the children have been brilliant at taking them on board.

These are the posters that are in the classrooms and dotted around the Year Five corridor...

I so hope that everyone will get their Golden Time next Friday. Fingers crossed...

Reading Records

Over the next week, we are expecting the children to complete five reads and have them recorded in the Reading Record section of the Home/School Diary. This includes the weekends and if any members of staff listen to your child read we will record it as well.

Once you have heard your child read, you will need to initial one of the stars and write the date above it. There is a space for you to record what they have read, how many pages they have covered and any comments you can squeeze in.

We appreciate that it is a bit 'tight' for space so thank you for bearing with us. This is a new system for us too so any feedback will be gratefully received!

Year Five Drop In

It's very easy to feel that when your child starts Year Five, the shutters tend to come down a bit. Please be assured that we are very keen to stay in touch but communication becomes a bit more 'formal' when it comes to middle school.

In order to help keep the lines of communication open, the following teachers will be available in their classrooms between 3.30pm and 3.45pm on specific afternoons.

 As this is a 'drop in' session it might be that you might need a longer time slot to discuss any issues that have arisen so an appointment might need to be made for another day and time.

Mrs Ray/ Miss Enever - Mondays

Mrs White - Thursdays

Mr Duffy - Mondays

Mrs Daniel - Tuesdays

Mrs Cook - Wednesdays

Buddens

As mentioned in Ms Seymour's letter on Monday, Year Five will be heading to Buddens Farm, near Wareham as part of our Ecology topic in Science.

A letter will be going home on Monday with the full details but the headlines are:

We are going on Wednesday 28th September and Friday 30th September.

5ER, 5AD and 5KD will be going on the Wednesday.

5PC and 5CW will be going on the Friday.

The cost of the trip will be £5.75 per child.

The quality of cross curricular work that is produced as a result of this trip is fabulous, it's well worth the visit. 

So, that's it for the first 'proper' Blog of the academic year. I hope you all have a good weekend and that the children get a well deserved rest before we charge ahead with our learning on Monday. 

Thank you for all your hard work getting the children ready for DMS - they really are a credit to you.

Mrs Ray

(who has had one of the most hectic weeks ever but has a sneaky suspicion she is not on her own there...!)