Variety is the spice of life, right?

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

Well, another cracking week in the life of Year Five. I hope I didn't upset too many children during my assembly on 'Tolerance' this week - I'll let the children explain that one to you! Have you been extra tolerant ever since? Fingers crossed that you have...

Anyway, as usual I have lots to share with you so here we go.

Light Bulb Moments

We have been thoroughly enjoying our Electricity topic in Year Five and we have learnt a lot in the process. On Friday, I dragged 5ER outside to make my point about Electrons.

Miss Enever was a terrific 'cell', making sure that the electrons were refuelled as they passed through. When the fuel ran out though, our electrons stopped working.

I think/hope the point has been made. 

A very special guest

Friday was a very busy day as we also welcomed a visitor to the school - Mabel!

Mabel was very lucky as she got to listen to some of the children read although I think she may have had a bit of trouble trying to record it in their Home/School Diaries!

The children assure me that she is a good listener.

Thank you Ms Seymour for bringing her in to meet the children, she really did brighten up our day. 

Ancient Egypt Day

I am delighted to announce that we will be holding an Ancient Egypt Day on Friday 24th February.

During this day, we will be coming off timetable for the day and running workshops based on various aspects of life in Ancient Egypt.

It would be fantastic if we could get as many children (and adults) as possible to dress up like Ancient Egyptians for the day. We will be holding a Fashion Show during the day and there will be prizes for the best costumes.

Put the date in your diary, it's going to be a good one!

'Ello, 'Ello, 'Ello!

The children in my Maths Group were very busy learning about fractions this week. In order to help the children, we re-introduced The Fraction Police.

Here we have PC Numerator, PC Dividing Line and PC Denominator.

We had to do a quick recruitment on Friday and gave Belle the job of PC Denominator.

They have really helped the children understand what the parts of the fraction are called and what their functions are. Well done everyone!

Worth a Mention Children

As always, huge congratulations to this week's Worth a Mention Children.

There's a lot of hard work going on in Year Five isn't there? Well done one and all!

Chocolate, chocolate everywhere...

Don't forget that it's the Hot Chocolate Cafe at break time on Monday in Room 5 - bring your 50ps to buy a hot chocolate and biscuit.

Miss Enever will be selling her Hot Chocolate Cones every break time this week and Mrs Lister has made some AMAZING hand crafted things for you to buy -I don't want to give the game away as you see if for yourself from Monday.

Sugar rush here we come - think of us on Monday won't you?

Stripey Alex!

Mr Palmer came to find Alex to present him with his Table Tennis Stripe due to being an incredible player and showing the other year groups how it's done. As a result, he also received a 'Star Performer' stripe. Well done Alex.

It's all French to me!

What is Leo doing here? He looks happy, it looks like French so it looks as though whatever story this picture is telling us it's a win, win situation!

Anyone wish to expand on this?

Pyramid Sporting Fixtures

An immense congratulations to all DMS pupils involved in sport after school on Wednesday.

180 pupils from the Middle Schools braved the elements and showed impressive resilience in the face of competition. This included the Year Five Football team and the Year 5/6/7 Hockey Team.

 Fantastic!

Blimey, that was an epic blog wasn't it? We wouldn't have it any other way though would we? I hope you all have a fabulous week and I will look forward to seeing you back here next week for more fun and games.

Mrs Ray

(who is already planning her outfit for Ancient Egypt Day!)