Year 5 Weekly Overview
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Week Beginning: Sunday 2nd February 2025
Week Beginning: Sunday 2nd February 2025
A Message from Mr Mernagh:
A Message from Mr Mernagh:
Dear Parents
We have had lots of things to celebrate this week. The total collected by the school from Charity Day was a whopping QAR41,850. This was greatly appreciated by Qatar Red Cresent. Well done to everyone for this community effort.
Our Year 3 children raised QAR9132 by doing a sponsored Times Tables challenge in celebration of International Children’s Day. The money will go towards two projects with Qatar Charity.
Well done to our children who competed last weekend at the u11 BSME Games at DC and the DESS cup which we hosted. Our girls managed to bring home a trophy by finishing 3rd in the Plate Cup! This was followed by our boys who finished 1st in the Plate Cup! This weekend was packed with action as our Year 5 and 6 girls’ netball, football, and boys’ football and basketball squads competed in the inaugural DESS Cup, with teams from DESS Doha and DESS Dubai going head-to-head. A sea of red shirts filled the pitches as both teams played with great spirit and determination in this first-ever friendly tournament between the two schools. DESS Dubai came out on top with DESS Doha being very close runners up! Our appreciation goes to the staff for setting this up and parents for preparing the children.
Our year 5 children had a fantastic overnight leadership camp this week. The children showed teamwork, tried new tasks and overcame lots of fears by showing bravery and resilience. These trips require lots of careful planning so again, I thank the staff for giving up their time away from families to facilitate the trip.
This week we had an expected fire drill. The children were able to evacuate safely and quickly to their muster point.
This week I had the pleasure of looking at children’s work in maths books and was very impressed the high standards of presentation on display. Children are being challenged to meet the learning objective in a variety of ways which is why White Rose Maths has been an excellent resource for us.
Next week is sports week so we look forward to seeing the children get active and hopefully you can join us at some point.
Have a lovely weekend.
Kind Regards,
Mr Mernagh
Head of Middle School
Blue Pearl trip
Blue Pearl trip
Well done to all of the Year 5 girls and boys who attended the Blue Pearl trip. Their behaviour was exceptional throughout and they demonstrated great perseverance and teamwork throughout the trip. It was great to see so many children overcoming challenges and most importantly, having fun.
A huge thank you to all of the staff: Mr Mernagh, Mr Bray, Mr Hatchman, Mrs O'Connor, Mrs Cook, Mrs Davision and Mrs Vaid who all gave up their own time to give the children a wonderful experience.
All photos can now be viewed in the below drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18QJ0DnTa1OL6te6cn0yQO8ZnKBgXfnWT?usp=drive_link
Sports week - next week!
Sports week - next week!
Next week, the whole school will be taking part in our exciting sports week. Year 5 will take part in their activities on Monday 3rd February with the opportunity for parents to come and watch between 12:30pm and 2pm.
Please ensure your daughter/son comes to school on their sports day wearing their house colours t-shirt (as plain as possible) and DESS PE shorts. Please also remind them to not wear any jewellery or watches and tie back any hair longer than the chin. Also please ensure they have a water bottle, plenty of food (for an active day) and a jumper or hat and sunscreen depending on the weather.
All of these events will be on the school field, please be aware if you are attending not to encroach onto the field to allow our pupils space to participate and enjoy the activities. Please stay on the concrete paving, pebbled floor by the brown benches or hill of the field. If you have any questions regarding the sports days please contact the PE department via the PE departments dojo.
Please note that swimming will happen as normal.
Biscuit making
Biscuit making
Over the next few weeks, Year 5 will be completing their very exciting design and technology project: biscuit making! This will involve the children bringing their biscuit recipe designs to life in the kitchen. We will be providing the ingredients to make the biscuits along with some additional toppings. With your permission, the children are welcome to bring additional toppings to add to their biscuits but please ensure that they are nut-free. We will be providing all biscuit ingredients, chocolate chips, cooking chocolate and cocoa powder.
Here are the dates of when the children will be baking:
5C and 5D - Tuesday 4th February
5A and 5B - Monday 10th February
Upcoming Year 5 event: Green Day - 19th February
Upcoming Year 5 event: Green Day - 19th February
As part of our 'Are we damaging our Earth?' topic, Year 5 will take part in a 'Green day'. This will be a day dedicated towards understanding how we can act contribute to the sustainability of our planet, as global citizens.
The children are invited to wear either green clothing or clothes made fom recycled materials. (The more creative, the better!)
The following day, Thursday 20th February, parents are invited to come into class between 7:30am and 8:00am to look at some of the children's work from Green Day. We look forward to welcoming you.
Year 5 parent curriculum map
Year 5 parent curriculum map
Year 5 class assemblies
Year 5 class assemblies
Below are the dates of the Year 5 class assemblies:
5A - Thursday 6th February
5C - Thursday 27th February
All assemblies will begin at 12:15pm promptly and will take place in the Small Gym.
Library
Library
Books can be returned in the mornings between 7:15am and 7:30am or during the children's weekly library lesson.
Learning Objectives Covered this Week:
Learning Objectives Covered this Week:
English
English
To use cohesive devices to write a film pitch
To think about audience and purpose when writing an introduction and conclusion
To edit my writing
Reading Unit Objectives
Reading Unit Objectives
- Making comparisons within the text
- Explain how narrative content is related and contributes to meaning as whole
- Retrieve and record key details
Mathematics
Mathematics
-Fraction of an amount
-Find the whole
-Use fractions as operators
-Decimals up to 2 decimal places
Science - Properties of materials
Science - Properties of materials
Evaluating - insulating heat experiment
Topic - Are we damaging our Earth?
Topic - Are we damaging our Earth?
This week, we will be looking at food shortages and plastic pollution.
Reminders
Reminders
Chromebooks
Chromebooks
The Y5 children need to bring a fully charged Chromebook to school every day. If you would like to order a Chromebook, please email it@dess.org
In Year 5, children come into class by themselves in the morning. The class teachers and TA’s will be in the classroom ready to greet the children.
At the end of the day, 5A and 5B teachers will bring the children onto the shaded playground area at 2pm (1pm Thursdays) to meet you. 5C and 5D will assemble at the side of block E, outside the 5C classroom. The Year 5 team will be around to point you in the right direction.
Please remember that parents are not to enter classrooms. The school day begins at 7:30am and pick-up is from the shaded playground at 2:00pm. REMINDER: We finish at 1:00pm on a Thursday
Please bring a full water bottle to school each day.
Please bring a hat everyday.
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