Cinderella is in the building !! What else has been happening at Darlinghurst Primary and Nursery School this week ?

Reception - RW+ RM - RM and RW have continued rehearsing for their Christmas production this week. We are all looking forward to our dress rehearsal in front of the whole school on Monday, and then showing our play to our parents and families on Tuesday afternoon (2.30-3pm) and Wednesday morning (10-10.30am.) We have also produced some beautiful work this week for our Winter theme and have been learning the phonemes “ou” and “oi”.

Mrs Barrington - 1B - Where is the time going?  Class 1B are almost ready for the Cinderella performances next week.  Most of the woodland animal masks have been made and the children look super.  Please read our Christmas lists displayed on the front window.  Santa's grotto is now open and it amazing to see the children having such fun wrapping up an old Weetabix box.  In numeracy we made a shape Santa using 2D shapes.  Father Christmas is still ringing Mrs Barrington each evening at different times which the children have been great at telling me where the minute and hour hand should be.

Miss Bernard - 2/1B - Hello everybody! In class 2/1B we have been getting very excited about Christmas and all the fun things that are happening. The children and I really enjoyed watching the whole school performance, we thought it was fantastic! We have also been enjoying dressing up in our costumes. We have had fun making masks to go with them. Some of the children have also written some detailed recounts of The Christmas story this week, they were a great pleasure to read. As well as Christmas things we have also been doing multiplication and linking it with repeated add. We have done lots of counting in different steps and the children also worked in pairs to find answers to word problems.
Next week we are having a topic week based on our pantomime theme of "Cinderella". We are writing thinking about the characters and writing speech bubbles. We will also be writing invitations for our party. In Numeracy we will be designing games based on Cinderella.We are also making some shaped gingerbread Christmas biscuits. That's if we can fit it all in!!

Mrs Dutton - 2/1D - We  have  had a  very  busy  week  making  sure  that  we  are  ready  to  perform  our  scene  of  Cinderella.  Our  masks  are  finished,  most  of  the  costumes  are  ready  and  we  know  nearly  all  the  words  to  our  song!   We  have  also  been  concentrating  well  and  thinking more  about  multiplication  and  we  have  started  to  write  our  own  special  books  about  the  very  first  Christmas.  Well  done  everyone.

P.S.  We  did  have  a  special  Christmas  visitor  last  weekend!

Mrs Peacher - 3P - Class 3P have been practicing hard this week for the christmas performance and it is looking good! So good luck to all of the children for next week.

Mr Bird + Mrs Amran - 4AH - We would like to thank all the parents and guardians of the children in our class for responding so well to the request for costumes. The children have really enjoyed dressing up for two of the rehearsals this week and their behaviour throughout the preparation has been excellent.

With the countdown to the first public performance getting ever shorter, it has been possible to detect just a slight rise in the level of excitement at school! The children are really looking forward to showing you all the results of their hard work, even though we know that you are probably as familiar with their lines and songs as they are by now. 
Finally we would like to thank you for allowing your children to bring in all sorts of wartime artefacts, they have been the source of discussion in various lessons. Unfortunately, owing to the fact that we are unable to display the items at present because of the need for a dedicated space, the presentation will now take place in January.
 
Miss Bolton - 4B - With Miss Bolton off most this week, the children were lucky enough to have Mrs McLauchlan ! 4B have thrown themselves into Theatre Land this week. Not only have they been acting their socks off for their scene in Cinderella, but they have also written their very own plays ! In small groups they wrote the play, then turned into a book including a set design. Well done 4B !
 
Mrs Johnston - 5J - A great week, 5J!  Rehearsals are going well, you know your lines and you have your costumes. We had a fantastic time being Victorians, sweeping chimneys, digging coal, working in factories and being beaten at school!  It was another good chance to dress up - what shall we do next?
 
Mr Duff - 5D - Would you have liked being at school during the Victorian times? I doubt it very much, the teachers were far too scary !! What a fantastic time you had on Thursday morning when the theatre company visited us and showed us what it was like during the Victorian era. You looked great, your behaviour was a superb example and you looked like you thoroughly enjoyed yourselves. The play rehearsals are going well and we are looking forward to performing it next week. Don't forget to turn up for both evenings, Tuesday and Thursday ! Last thing, please remember your oranges so we can make our Christingles. Have a super weekend !!
 
Mr Martin - 6M - We spread some Christmas cheer this week by inviting our grandparents to a special Christmas Bonanza event.   Guests were treated to a myriad of pursuits including a performance from the school dance troop and a Christmas Quiz.  The raffle tickets were selling like hot cakes!

 

Class members took full responsibility for organising the Bonanza, from writing the invitation letters right through to making table decorations.  This annual event gives the children an opportunity to give something back to the community while using their skills learnt throughout the year.

 

Mr Hautler + Mrs Chatterton - 6HC - This week we made potato latka in class. This was part of our RE for this week which was focused on Hanukkah. Foods cooked in oil are to remind the Jewish people of the oil that burned in the Temple for eight days.  Potato pancakes and doughnuts are both cooked in oil and enjoyed especially during Hanukkah.

 

Yet another fun packed week and another one to come next week !!!!

 

See you all at the opening night of Cinderella !


Have a relaxing weekend !!