Is there a doctor in the house?

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

I think last week was the lull before the storm as I have A LOT to share with you this week! 

Shall I crack on?

 Oh, go on then...

Year Five Girl's Football Team

Commentary courtesy of Mr Dailey...

Our yr 5 footballers embarked on a tough challenge on Friday. It was The DASP Area 5 a side indoor football competition.

This was tough as most of the girls had never played indoor football before! Still the girls entered the competition searching for glory

Game after game saw DMS crashing into tackles and letting loose ferocious shots at goal! Goals were scored and saves were made while the carnage of ownership of the ball was being battled out for in the middle of the pitch!

  

In the end the DMS girls came 2nd. A superb result  considering the girls had never played indoors before!

Player of the DMS team must go to Summer Kilby, closely followed by Phoebe Whalley and Amelia O'Connell

The team performed as a unit and had the musketeers theory all evening "All for one and one for all".

Well done girls, what a fantastic achievement!

Good Grub Club

Here is the latest batch (geddit?!) of The Good Grub Club, run by Mrs Cook (!) on a Thursday after school. This week my nose led me to the Food Tech room and I was very impressed with what I discovered...

What yummy looking pizza! Did your pizzas taste as good as they looked (and smelt)? I would like to point out that I left the room empty handed and with an empty stomach. 

Sentence Surgery

As you know, Year Five have been writing looking at and writing instructional texts. In 5GR, Nurse Lister and Doctor Ray came in with their Sentence Surgery and Writer's Clinic.

Nurse Lister ran the Writer's Clinic which was Minor Injuries orientated.

Doctor Ray ran the Sentence Surgery which was geared more towards your Accident and Emergency type of patient.

Hopefully, our medical assistance helped the children with their instructional texts - the proof will be in the marking! 

5AD shocker

We are currently learning about Electricity so 5AD decided to recreate a circuit on the playground. They all turned into electrons and had to 'light' the bulb.

It looks as though you had a lot of fun!

A gentle reminder

Miss Enever has been a busy bee and has produced what you can see in the picture all ready for next week...

Just to remind you that our first fundraising event of the year, the Hot Chocolate Cafe, will be held this Thursday (29th January) by 5KD in Room 5 at break time.  Prices to be confirmed in school at the beginning of the week.

...and finally



Ms Seymour has now gone back into the First Schools to get to know our new recruits for September.

I would just like to take this opportunity to say a HUGE thank you to her for all her hard work - she really is a tremendous asset to Year Five and all the children are very lucky to have had her supporting them during their transition to Dorchester Middle School.

Don't panic though - she will be back for the British Museum trip in March. 

So, after another action-packed week, I hope you have enjoyed seeing what Year Five have got up and tune in next week as I have got lots more up my sleeve!

Thank you for the comments, keep them coming as there are Citizenship Credits in it for you!

Have a good week everyone!

Mrs Ray

(who is currently gearing up to mark 5GR's Instructional Texts and is hoping that the Surgery cured a few of those dodgy sentences and spellings)

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

Well, it's been a funny old week hasn't it? Christmas seems like a distant memory and we are really cracking on with our learning.

Just a short Blog this week so I'll get on with it...

Fundraising Activities

It is with great pleasure that I can now confirm some very important dates for your diary!

As you know, we are holding a variety of fundraising events over the next few weeks to help reduce the price of our London trip on the 5th March.

This is what we have got planned:

Hot Chocolate Cafe

This will be held by 5KD on Thursday 29th January in Room 5 during break time.

Cake Sale

This will be run by 5CW and 5PC. We will be selling cakes during break time on Tuesday 3rd February in the Year Five Corridor.

Non Uniform Day

This will an exclusive Non Uniform Day for just Year Five and will be held on Friday 6th February. If would like to participate we will be charging each child £1.

Milkshake Bar

This will be run by 5GR and 5AD during break time on Thursday 12th February. Location TBC.

The wonderful world of instructions!

In Year Five, we have been continuing to look at instructional texts. One of the 'types' of instructions that we have been looked at can be found in Neil Gaiman's book - Instructions.

It is an incredible book and I'm sure that, when you get to it, you will really enjoy reading it.

One of our 'tasks' was to write a set of instructions in the style of Neil Gaiman. We had a lot of fun doing this in 5GR and were so pleased with the fruits of our labour that we asked HRH Mrs Daniel to come and see what we had written...

I think she was impressed? She was too busy smiling like the Cheshire Cat!! Please let me know what you think of the book when you read it in class.

Celebration Assembly

Whilst I am bombarding you with dates, the date of our next Celebration Assembly will be on Monday 9th February.

Blimey! We are going to busy aren't we?

Thank You

I just want to say a big 'Thank You' to Lukas for all the comments he has left on the Blog. 

I know that several of you have had problems with leaving comments on the Blog, maybe Lukas can give you some top tips?

Anyway, have a good weekend everyone and I will look forward to seeing you back here next week.

Mrs Ray

(who is very excited about starting The Egyptians next week!)

Happy New Year Everyone!

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

I would like to start this week's post by wishing you all an extremely Happy New Year! I hope that you all had a lovely Christmas and enjoyed the well deserved two week break. Christmas is such a busy time though isn't it? Personally, I think I've come back to school for the rest!

Anyway, let's crack on with this week's news...

Instructions

So, how good are you at following instructions? Are you one of those people who read a recipe all the way through first or do you follow it as you go? Well, this week we have started to look at the features and layout of instructional texts which has been fun and enlightening, all at the same time!

In 5GR we had a go at making a Pop Up Card following two sets of instructions.

The first set of instructions were quite vague and tricky to follow...

The second set had pictures and a bit more information. Needless to say, more children were able to produce something that resembled a Pop Up Card on the second attempt!

However, there were three members of the class who successfully produced Pop Up Cards on both attempts - well done Harriet, Leo and Katie!

Whilst we were admiring the fruits of our labour and photographing the results, we had an unexpected visitor! Who was that photobomber?!!

British Museum Trip - 5th March 2015

Thank you to everyone who has returned slips and the deposit as requested. If you have not had the chance to do this yet, we would be very grateful if you could do this as soon as possible as the deadline was Friday.There is no need to pay the balance in full yet as we do not know what the final cost will be at this stage. 

If you have been having problems accessing the online payment facility then please contact the office who will do their best to help you.

As mentioned in previous blogs, we will be holding a series of fundraising events to help discount the cost of this trip. We have kick-started the proceedings with the sale of the Little People Christmas Decorations, but that was just the start!

Over the next few weeks we will be raising money by running the following events:

• A Non Uniform Day
• A delicious Cake Stall
• A Milkshake and Cookie Bar
• The Hot Chocolate Cafe

Dates are just being finalised and I will put them on next week's Blog.

Egyptian Day

We are proud to announce that Year Five's first every Egyptian Day will be held on Monday 23rd February! Logistically, it will be very similar to the Science Day that we ran in November where each teacher will be running a workshop. This time however, the workshops will be based on different aspects of Life in Ancient Egypt.

I warn you now, the children will have the opportunity to dress like an Ancient Egyptian for the day!

So, that's it for another week. I hope that the return to school/work wasn't too much of a shock! Well done everyone for such a positive return to school - we have such an exciting term ahead of us.

Have a good week everyone!

Mrs Ray

(who has just about recovered from having 'the lurgy' over Christmas and is now combating 'first-week-back-at-school exhaustion'!) 

Happy Christmas Everyone!

Hello and welcome back to the last Year Five Blog of 2014!

I have lots to share with you from an action packed and very busy week in the life of Year Five so without further ado, here goes...

Celebration Assembly

A huge thank you to those of you were able to attend Monday's assembly - all 80 of you!

It was such a joy to see so many children receiving certificates and to see their hard work and perseverance being acknowledged in front of such an appreciative audience.

The singing was beautiful as well wasn't it? My heart melts when I hear our children sing and I always need to have the tissues on standby! A big thank you to our brave shepherds who came out to the front and sang their hearts out. A gorgeous performance.

Here are a few pictures of the assembly...

Cake Sale

On Tuesday, we held a cake sale to raise further funds to help support Save the Children's Ebola Campaign. This was the last fundraising event to support this specific charity. Thank you so much to all of you who donated cakes, we had so many scrummy cakes that we were able to repeat the experience the next day!

We have managed to raise, so far, the grand total of £358, what a fantastic achievement! Thank you for all your support, together we can really can help make a difference.

5PC ICT Whizz Kids

Miss Enever was out and about with her camera and spied 5PC making incredible Christmas Cards through the medium of ICT! What an impressive creativity - lucky recipients!

Speed Sharing

As promised last week, here are a few more pictures of Year Five's Speed Sharing sessions with Mr Chadwick. It was such a positive experience for everyone and we can't wait to show off our writing at the end of next term to our impressed Head Teacher!

Taekwondo

5KD, along with Mr Duffy, experienced a Taekwondo session during their timetabled PE lesson this week. It was an excellent session and the children learnt a lot, not just a few impressive Taekwondo moves!

Apparently, Mr Duffy's arms and shoulders are really aching - is anyone else in 5KD experiencing the same aches and pains?!

Well, that's it for another week, in fact, that's it for this year! A huge thank you to everyone who has read the Blog over the last few months, and a special Thank You to the brave souls who have battled with Google and who were able comment as a result. 

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and may 2015 be a cracking year for us all!

Mrs Ray

(who is gearing up for the Ray Family annual Eatathon!)