Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!
Oh my goodness, I have got so much to share with you this week, I hardly know where to begin!
Are you ready?
On your marks, get set, go!
Parent Consultations
It was terrific to meet with so many lovely parents over two evenings this week. We hope that you found it an informative experience and that you were able to discuss how the children have settled in to their new school.
Our next official Parent Consultation Evenings will be held in the new year - as soon as I have the dates I'll let you know on the Blog. These evenings will be based on the children's academic progress and there will be an opportunity to have a look at the books and discuss the learning that has and will take place.
Afternoon of Sport
On Wednesday after school, the school was buzzing! There were so many sports fixtures going on I could barely keep up!
I had a lovely walk around the school grounds in the sunshine, dipping in and out of various matches.
Well done to the Year 5 Football team who were magnificent! No-one has told me the score though - maybe someone could let me know in the 'Comments' section?
Maths Group
In mine and Miss Enever's Maths Group - we have been learning about Place Value. It's such an important piece in the jigsaw as far as Maths is concerned.
The characters 'Decimal Dude' and 'Zero Hero' are really helping the children understand the complexities of Place Value!!
5CW's Science Investigation
The lesser-spotted 5CW were, well, spotted (!) in the pond area getting up to what can only be described as a science investigation.
It looks fascinating, what were you doing?
Answers in the comments section please!
Celebration Assembly
Just a quick reminder that it is our Celebration Assembly next Thursday 20th October. A label will be put into your child's Home/School Diary at the beginning of the week to let you know if they are receiving a certificate this time.
We look forward to welcoming you along.
Conscience Alley
In English, we are about to embark on an extended narrative unit of work.
As our starting point, we have been looking at a short animated film called 'One Man Band'.
We have been looking at dilemmas, particularly that of the little girl in the film.
We created a Conscience Alley to help her make up her mind.
Poor Miss Enever - she didn't know which side to choose!
Worth a Mention Children
Huge congratulations to this week's terrific ten who have been chosen as Worth a Mention Children.
It is so lovely to see their names up on the board and for the continued variety of reasons for this acknowledgment. Well done - you are super stars!
Golden Time
Sadly, 21 children in Year 5 missed their Golden Time this week and three missed it as they had received a detention.
It is an improvement on last week (hurrah) but it would be so nice to see fewer children missing out, especially if we can help them in school. Along with the daily provision of Study Group and Homework Club, there is Study Extra that runs on a Wednesday after school until 4.30pm.
Might be worth considering?
STOP PRESS! SCHOOL DISCO PICTURES!
It was party, party, party time in DMS on Friday. Here are a few pictures of the Year Five children having what can only be described as, well, fun!
Thank you Miss Still for putting on such an excellent event!
So, that's it for this week. I hope you all have a good week and I will look forward to seeing you back here next week with lots of super pictures from the first Celebration Assembly of the year.
Please do feel free to post comments to accompany the blog, it so lovely to have a bit of 'audience participation' from time to time.
Mrs Ray
(who is practicing the lovely song we are going to sing for you on Thursday and trying not to be grumpy!)
