Yipee!!!

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

I am proud to report that we have had another super week in Year Five! As Head of Year, I am delighted with how positive the children are when it comes to their learning and how they are taking on board the ideas and concepts that we are teaching them.

Let's have a closer look at what the children have been getting up to this week...

Wildlife in the Cloakroom

On Tuesday, I spotted all sorts of wild creatures entering the school. I was rather alarmed as I hadn't risk-assessed this so imagine my relief when I discovered, on further inspection, that they weren't actually real! Phew!

Could someone please explain what on earth was going on? When I did make enquiries, the words 'ICT' were muttered at me but that's as far as I got. Anyone going to enlighten me?

Worth a Mention Children

I was thrilled to see this week's batch of Worth a Mention Children on the board. 

What an impressive and inspirational gang you are!

Well done everyone, we are so proud of you!

Golden Time

This week, just four (yes, four) children missed their Golden Time. Two children missed it because they had received a detention.

All of 5AD, 5ER and 5PC received their Golden Time!

I must make a special mention to the mighty 5PC who all received their Golden Time for the second week in a row!

Fantastic! Well done 5PC!

Activities Week

It's not long now until Activities Week and we are putting the finishing touches to what will hopefully be a fun week where the children will learn and do lots of interesting things!

If you kindly volunteered to help during the week at all then your child's Homebase Tutor should have been in touch with you to let you know what we would like you to do and when.

A letter detailing everything your child will need for Activities Week will be winging its way to you at the beginning of next week.

Please note that on the Brownsea Island trip (Tuesday) the children will not be back in school until 4.30pm. 

5AD see the light!

I warn you now, Mrs Daniel has been trying to draw - look away if you are of a nervous disposition!

Right, now that I've got that warning out of the way, let's have a look and see what 5AD have been up to in Science...

Would anyone in 5AD please enlighten me again and let me know what you were doing in this lesson? I have a sneaky feeling that it's something to do with light?!

Adverts, adverts, adverts!

Staying with 5AD, who have been extremely busy this week, let's see what they have got up to in their English lessons.

I definitely see the advertising executives of the future right here! I miss the Innovations Catalogue - don't you? Would someone in 5AD like to tell us about what you have been doing in the Comments section? 

Go on, you know you want to!

The RNLI are coming to the rescue!

Don't forget that next week will see the arrival of our first ever 'Welly Wednesday'!

I hope you have found out some interesting facts about the RNLI and that you are thinking of good questions to ask them when they are with us on Wednesday...

Celebration Assembly

Just a final reminder for Monday's assembly in the Hall. If your child is receiving a certificate then there should be a label in your child's Home/School Diary.

We are aiming to start at 1.10pm and should be finished by 1.35pm. A short but sweet one this time.

Scooters

It has been brought to my attention that a lot of children are bringing and riding their scooters on the playground. This is strictly forbidden and, if you are seen to be doing this then it will, sadly, result in an instant detention.

Make sure that it isn't you!

Well, that's it for another week! We are going to have such a busy week so make sure you keep on top of your reading, homework, getting your diary signed and keep  out of the Detention Room!

See you next week!

Mrs Ray

(who survived the Triathlon on Sunday. The best thing about coming in last is that you get the biggest round of applause!!)

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!!)