Christmas Countdown

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

What a hectic week! I don't think any of our feet have touched the ground as we have been so incredibly busy. Lots to report to you this week so here we go...

Seed Dispersal Homework

As mentioned last week, the Seed Dispersal homework that we set a couple of weeks ago was a complete and utter triumph. Here are a few more photographs to show off the children's excellent work. I warn you now, there are rather a lot of them, it was too hard to choose from Miss Enever's excellent selection.

There is a small selection of 5GR's Seed Dispersal models in the Reception area, please do come and have a look!

Life Cycles Homework

Oh my goodness me! Just when I thought the Seed Dispersal homework couldn't be topped, in comes the Life Cycle Homework!

Photographic evidence will be provided in next week's Blog!

Helping Hands

We raised an impressive £240 through our Helping Hands appeal - thank you to the children who took part in this initiative and for doing jobs around the home to 'earn' money for the Save the Children Ebola Appeal.

A lot of the classes have created 'hands' to show what they did to earn their money. This is the process the children went through:

A beautiful display is starting to form on one of the boards in the Year Five corridor, I'll show you what I mean next week.

Christmas Carol Service

As you will know, our school Christmas Carol Service will be held this coming Monday (1st December) at the St Mary the Virgin Church, Edward Road starting at 7pm. I am delighted with the number of Year Five children who will be taking part this year and can't wait to see their performances. 

Please do come along, it'll be a magical evening!

Life Education Van

The Life Education Van will be back at DMS on Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th December. Moira will be working exclusively with Year Five and we are hoping that Harold will make an appearance. His terrible jokes are legendary (or should that dromedary?!) so I am dreading and looking forward to seeing what he comes up with this year!

Glasses case chaos

It can never be said that Mrs Daniel is not observant! I could hear hysterical shrieks of laughter coming from her classroom the other day and I thought to myself  'RE was never that hilarious when I was at school' but then I went to a Convent where humour was in rather short supply at the best of times.

When I investigated, this is what I found...

George Willey's glasses case could have easily been Mrs Daniel's cat Tizzy wearing glasses.

Suits you, George!

Adaptation

I have never doubted Year Five's ability to use their imaginations and they certainly didn't let me down when it came to creating their own fictitious creature that lived in a specific habitat.

The idea is that we will write a Non Chronological Report in the next few days based on our animals in our English lessons. Once the groundwork is done then we will be ready and raring to go.

Here are a few examples of the animals created by members of 5KD:

Grammar Girl

Phoebe Wilson (5KD), we salute you!

Look what she did during her break time on Friday...

Clearly, Mr Duffy is an Grammar Guru...

Wow! That was quite  mega blog wasn't it? So, in return for me doing this, I would LOVE to hear from you. Lukas and Eachan are our top 'Commenters' so why don't you join them? Go on, you know you want to!

Have a good week everyone and I'll see you back here next week!

Mrs Ray

(who is definitely bringing tissues along for the Carol Service on Monday!)

Onwards and upwards

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

We had a fairly 'normal' week this week (if there is such a thing?) so we are really cracking on with our learning which has been tremendous fun. 

However, there is still plenty to report to you.

Children in Need Part Two

Along with the sales from the School Shop - the school raised an incredible £1073.50 for this important charity.

Here are a few more pictures from the day - thank you to Miss Enever for being our roving photographer!

Seed Dispersal Homework 

A few weeks ago, I told you about 5CW's  fabulous Seed Dispersal homework and included a few examples through the medium of photography.

Well, we were so impressed with what 5CW achieved we all decided to give it a go and what a cracking results!

This is Lukas Neill's Money Tree - the best comment ever was made when he was presenting it to the class "My Mum said that money doesn't grow on trees - clearly she was wrong!"

I will put a few more examples on the Blog next week.

Uniform reminder

We have spotted a few pairs of rogue trainers being worn in Year Five! Whilst we appreciate that school shoes have a limited life span and take quite a battering on the feet of children, it is important that, where possible, school shoes are worn at all times.

If trainers need to be worn into school for a limited period of time then a quick explanation in your child's Home/School diary will be required.

The following has been taken from the school website as a reminder:

Boys Uniform

• School sweatshirt
• Light blue school polo shirt
• Black or dark grey trousers
• Grey/Black/Navy/White socks
• Black shoes - all black, no sports logos (not trainers or boots). 

Girls Uniform

• School sweatshirt
• Light blue school polo shirt
• Navy blue skirt or smart navy blue or black school trousers (dark)
• Black shoes - (suitable for school wear - high heels are NOT suitable. No trainers or boots, no sports logos). 
• Grey/black/navy tights (thick) or grey/black/navy/white socks

Please note that it is stated above that no boots should be worn in school. If there is no other option then they can be worn under trousers.

So, that's it for another week. I'll be back next week with lots of pictures (we had problems downloading them this week!) and look forward to sharing what we got up to with you.

Have a good week everyone!

Mrs Ray

(who is settling in for a markathon - anyone want to sponsor me?)