On your marks...

Hello and welcome back to the Year 5 Blog!

Time marches on and here we are at the end of another super week in Year Five already Where did that week go?

I can never believe how busy we are as a year group - there is always something to report back on isn't there?

So, with out further ado, here are just a few of the things that we have got up to this week...

DASP Citizenship Nominees

This week we were asked to nominate a boy and a girl from each class for the DASP Citizenship Awards. 

This is the criteria for the award:

  

This rewards children for making a positive contribution to their school community. With clearly defined areas, based on children's opinions, they act as guidelines for behaviour and self respect. Each year, those that have been judged by their peers, as having made the greatest contribution receive the DASP Citizen award.

Here are the ten children who were nominated:

What a fabulous choice!

I will let you know who the Year Five winners are next week.

Mrs Daniel's 'drawing'

Yes, she's been at it again but this time Mrs Daniel had an accomplice - Mr Duffy!

Who do you think did what?

You are definitely working towards age related expectations Mrs Daniel!

Sports Day

Just a quick reminder the whole school Sports Day is this Thursday 23rd June.

In Year Five we start the day with the Playground Games where all the children participate (long jump and high jump is usually carried out during this time as well) This is then followed by Tug of War (again, all children participate). Finally, we have an spectacular afternoon of track and field events.

Your child should know what event/s they will be taking part in during the afternoon so I hope that this provides you with a very rough guide to the day. A more detailed programme of the day is available on this link:

http://www.dorchestermid.dorset.sch.uk/sports-day/

Logo Quiz

The Fundraising Committee, which is part of the school's Pupil Voice, are continuing to raise money in order to buy our PD children some equipment for the playground.

For just 50p, you can enter the fabulous Logo Competition and have a chance to win a £20 Amazon voucher.

These two lovely children are selling the quizzes every break time from Room 2 so please do support this excellent initiative and bring in your 50ps as soon as possible!

Worth a Mention Children

Huge congratulations to this week's Worth a Mention children! This week's range of reasons is particularly impressive as they range from pottery skills to sporting skills and then writing skills!

I am a very proud Head of Year - well done!

Golden Time

We seem to have unwittingly entered the 'silly season' as 4 (yes, 4) children missed their Golden Time as they were in Detention. Not something to jump up and down about. 

Eight children in total missed their Golden Time this week which is such a shame as it felt as though we were definitely heading in the right direction.

Let's really try and improve on this next week Year Five!

So, that's it for another week.

If there is anything linked to school that you would like me to include in the Blog then please do let me know as I am always looking for interesting things to write about. I can't be everywhere at once (although sometimes it might not feel like it!) so I would hate to miss out on anything.

Have a good week everyone and I will look forward to seeing you back here next week.

Mrs Ray

(who is deeply regretting signing up for the Staff Relay on Thursday. What have I done?!)

Filling the gaps!

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

I hope you all had a super half term and that you really did have the opportunity to recharge your batteries! That week flew by didn't it?

Yet again, we hit the ground running and we are well and truly into our final half term of the academic year (sob!).

So, without further a do, let's have a look at what our brilliant children got up to this week...

Year Five Sport

Well Year Five, you have a rather delighted Mr Roberts on your hands. There were two major sporting events this week and the children who represented our school really did do us proud!

The following words are by Mr Roberts:

SW DORSET KWIK CRICKET TOURNAMENT

Wednesday 8th June 2016

Year 5 Cricket Team

It is with measured delight that I can announce the outstanding cricket team of SW Dorset.

Pupils played with customary zeal and traditional DMS modesty, pupils were undefeated after 6 fiercely contested matches-they remained imperious to the end.

DMS played 6 and WON 6 taking 45 wickets in the process

SW DORSET ATHLETICS

Friday 10th June

Year 5 (and 6) Athletics Team

It is rewarding to speak in such high praise about our younger pupils but today was one of them.

Our DMS pupils were immense, they competed with ardent intent within all their athletic disciplines-they were superb!

12 schools from across the district jumped,ran and threw with much effort.

All pupils were credible athletes and notable success was achieved by:

2^nd  Tom H Year 5 Boys 75m

2^nd Sam M Year 5 Boys Cricket Ball Throw

2^nd Georgia B Year 5 Girls High Jump

3^rd Freya J Year 5 Girls High Jump

Well done Year Five - what amazing results! Sports Day on the 23rd June is going to be a very exciting event to be part of!

Mind the Gap!

This year has been the year of firsts and this week was no exception!

On Friday, Lesson 3, we mixed things up a bit and held our first ever 'Mind the Gap' lesson which will be a series of six lessons between now and the end of term.

The aim of these lessons is to, quite literally, plug any gaps that the children may have in their knowledge of grammar so that they are ready and raring to go when they start Year Six.

The Year Group was buzzing after the session! A huge thank you to the Teachers and Teaching Assistants who were instrumental in making our first lesson such a roaring success.

Can't wait until next Friday...

5ER Damp Proof Course Investigation

Some of us are coming to the end of our Materials Topic (a couple of classes have already zoomed onto the Light topic!) and one of the investigations the children have to carry out is to work out which material would make the best damp proof course.

The children worked together in their Science Groups and I was really impressed with how cooperative they were when trying to work out the answer to the target question.

So, which material was the best damp proof course?

Answers in the Comments section please!

Worth a Mention Children

Well done to this week's Worth a Mention Children. 

Another super range of achievements from our super duper youngsters. 

Fab-u-lous!

Golden Time

This week, just five children missed their Golden Time. 

Sadly, one was for Detention.

Well done to all of those children who received their Golden Time this week, keep up the good work.

So, that's it for another week. We have a week of assessments ahead of us which is a terrific opportunity to show off all the super things that you have been learning about this year. We like a bit of showing off don't we Year Five?

Have a good week everyone and I shall look forward to seeing you back here next week.

Mrs Ray

(who is gearing herself up for the ultimate markathon next week!) 

What a Week!

Hello and welcome back to the Year Five Blog!

Activities Week. What more can I say? Probably one of the most bonkers weeks of our school year (and we have lots of those don't we?!) but we hope that the children had lots of fun going to different places and learning lots of new things.

I warn you now, there are A LOT of photographs ahead of you! Make sure you are sitting comfortably with a decent amount of time to make sure you totally absorb all the fantastic things we got up to this week.

Let's do this in chronological order...

Play in a Day

Ah-ha me hearties!

Day One saw Mark from Splats guide Year Five through the wonderful world of Treasure Island culminating in a fabulous performance at the end of the day.

Whilst the different classes were rehearsing with Mark, the rest of the year group were busy making scenery and props for the final performance at the end of the day.

 Brownsea Island

What a glorious day! I can't believe how lucky we were with the weather!

Our day mainly consisted of sailing across Poole Harbour, lots of walking (with various degrees of enthusiasm!), looking for squirrels, dodging peacocks, persistent chickens, creating works of art in pottery and natural objects, a scavenger hunt and following the Smuggler's Trail to find the treasure. Phew!

This is how we all felt at the end of the day!

Matisse Morning and Rounders Tournament

I was so impressed with how our children discovered their 'inner Matisse' on Wednesday morning.

The work they produced, as you can see by the pictures, was fantastic!

After such a successful morning, we made our way to the field to take part in our Year Five Rounders Tournament.

I thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the game of Boccia that was going on at the same time. It's quite addictive isn't it?

Blimey - you are a competitive lot aren't you?

Congratulations to 5AD who came first and last!

Dorset County Museum

Thursday saw Year Five visit the Dorset County Museum. As part of their bid to secure funding to expand the Museum, we were invited to come and look around the museum and come up with ideas that could be incorporated into the new building.

 The children were put into groups and given different roles that linked with the redevelopment of the museum.

The museum was really impressed with all the children's excellent ideas. We really did have a fabulous time.

When we weren't at the Museum, the children were creating their own 'Shoe Box Gallery'. The ideas they had were very imaginative indeed.

The Final Day

We managed to get to the last day relatively unscathed!

To continue with out theme of 'The Arts', each class had a go at the work of different artists in the morning. Again, the results were fantastic!

In the afternoon, Miss Enever hosted 'The Great Year Five Quiz' which was excellent fun! Well done to the winning teams, your photographs will be on the Blog after half term!

Finally, we ended the week with a Summer Art Exhibition where parents/carers were invited to the Gazebo area where we had set up an exhibition showing all the works of art that the children had created over the week.

A HUGE 'Thank You' to everyone who help and supported our Activities Week this year. None of it would have been possible without so many people.

If you gave up your time to help us in and out of school, it was so appreciated. As with all of these types of activities, it would not have been possible without you.

I hope you all have an excellent half term and that you get the opportunity to recharge those batteries.

Year Five - it would be brilliant if you could write comments to tell us about YOUR experiences of Activities Week. 
What was your favourite activity?
What did you learn this week?
Did you achieve something that you thought you never could do?
There will be Citizenship Credits for those who take up the challenge!

Have a good week Year Five and I will look forward to seeing you back in school on Monday 6th June for more fun, games and (most importantly) learning!

Mrs Ray

(who is, well, shattered!)

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