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We have yet another great blog for you this week and Mr Haulter would like to start of the proceedings with a HUGE well done !!

 The Year 6 X-Country team competed at Eastwood School on Wednesday in the 1st of 2 races.We have been training for a while now and it seems to have paid off. We competed against 11 teams from 9 schools and managed to gain third place. Well done to all of you!

Book week was a storming success and the children throughly enjoyed it!! There were lots of different activities going on in and around the school. Thank you Mrs Weston and Mr Martin for organising it all for us.

 The circus came to town !!! I am afraid that I missed out and couldn't make the circus but by the comments I have heard from the children and the staff, an excellent evening was had. So a massive thank you to the Darlinghurst PTA, without whom none of this would have happened.

So yet again another busy week and that's just the start of it. Look what else has been happening this week at Darlinghurst Primary and Nursery Schoool?

  Mrs Johnston - Bonjour tout le mond.

  

RM - Mrs McIntosh - This week has been book week and the children started off by a really interesting trip to the library. They walked all the way....and didn't moan! (they only asked when lunchtime would be!!) We looked at some books on our own and then Mrs Weston read a rhyming book with us. The children have looked at a rhyming book every snack time and are really doing well with rhyming words. We have also all shared our favourite books. Some children brought in theirs from home and it was great to see.

RW - Mrs Weston - RW have thoroughly enjoyed book week. It all started with our lovely visit to the library on Monday (- a great big thank you to all the mums who came with us). We have also shared and talked about our favourite books in school, made our own mini books, played a book selling numeracy game, looked at and recognised page numbers in books, had Mr Bird's class in to share books with us and some of us even drew our favourite characters from our books using First Artist in the ICT suite! What a busy week!

1/2B - Miss Barrington - Class 1/2B and Mrs Barrington have just about made it through another week.   We have been learning to measure different objects around the classroom and some of us know how to measure using a cm ruler.  As it was a rhythm and rhyme book week we focused on playtime and number rhymes.  Some of the children are now able to recite them independently which is very clever.   Mrs Barrington is really looking forward to a good rest this weekend and is hoping to feel much better for next week.

1/2D - Mrs Dutton - We have had a great week measuring things in the classroom in metres and centimetres. We have also been thinking about rhyming words and have all written a rhyme to put in a class poem book as it is Book Week. In science we have been thinking about how we must be sensible with medicines to keep ourselves healthy. The circus has also given us lots to talk about.

3/2B - Miss Bernard - Hello everybody!!

 

We have had a really great week. We always enjoy Book Week and together with the Roman theme the children have really been excited and involved with their learning.

 

We have been writing comic strips based around Roman Gods and Goddesses.The children studied the layout of comics and watched some of Asterix the Gaul as stimulus and have found it great fun. There is lots of historical content in the cartoon which I was not aware of. So as well as being fun it helped to enhance our knowledge too.

 

We have also researched Roman Recipes on the internet and have discovered that they loved dormice dipped in honey and a bit roasted hedgehog!! Because the Romans loved to use honey and spice in their cooking we have made some delicious honey and spice biscuits which we are eating at our Roman Banquet this afternoon. Using our research we are compiling our recipes into a Roman Class Recipe book. The children have decorated each page beautifully with mosaic paper tiles.

The children have also been making a Roman board game in numeracy using their knowledge of Ancient Rome. We have been so busy that we still need to finish those. We have had a great day today because we have been dressing up in togas and doing some role play.

 

So it has been an absolutely fantastic week. Also thanks again to Mr Fasey for coming in to read Pippy Long Stocking to the whole class.

 

Next week we are doing weighing and measuring length/height in numeracy. So why don't you have a go at doing some at home children? We are also writing stories and Gladiators and their experiences in the arena. So it should be another interesting week. - Enjoy your weekend!

3/2C - Mrs Chatterton - We have had a lovely book week. We have focused on a story about a Roman called Bacillus. From this we have looked at Roman Baths in detail. Luckily Mrs Chatterton was on a course in York at the end of last week and took lots of photos of The Roman Bath Museum. The children have learnt to read Roman Numerals, measured the water in a bath and can read a thermometer. they have produced a story and put speech marks into a conversation. Wow. Today we are wearing Togas and having pizza!

4B - Miss Bolton - Well, what a fun packed book week of activities! 4B have completely immersed themselves into the world of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. We haven't done loads of activities but instead concentrated on just a few and spent time on them - the quality of work your children have produced this week has been superb - I'm really proud of them!

One of the most special things about children is their amazing imaginations. One task this week was to invent a new room from the Chocolate Factory. Well, we've had the ice-cream arctic room where you can ski down mountains of ice-cream and the chocolate swimming pool room where you can slide down into and swim in different pools of flavoured chocolate - the ideas have been brilliant! We've produced a collage of the room and written descriptions of them - both of which I will try and display somewhere around the school next week.

We also used pen and water colour paints to draw characters from the book in the style of Quentin Blake. Again, the quality of these was fantastic. They are very deserving of being displayed somewhere too!

Next week, back to normal. Please make sure you return your parents evening slips to make an appointment for Wednesday 22nd October. Remember, its always good to meet your child's teacher and the meetings are not just there for concerns but also to hear the positive things too.

 

4P - Miss Peacher - This week class 4P have been enjoying looking at the series of novels by Lemony Snickett, A Series of Unfortunate Events. We have incorporated our maths, science, art and english into book week. The children particularly enjoyed the paper clip challenge where they were asked to invent a paper clip picker upper. They also enjoyed making pasta bake. We finished the week with a trip to library and, may I say a big well done to the children who acted as great ambassadors for Darlinghurst on the trip. 

5B - Mr Bird - Class 5B

 

Learning outside the classroom featured strongly in our curriculum this week and started with a visit on Monday to Leigh library. This trip was planned to coincide with Book Week and all of the children, whether library members or not, gained from the shared experience. I, together with Mrs Amran and Mrs Day, was impressed with their behaviour and this feeling was reinforced by the encouraging comments made by the library staff. 

The visit also afforded us the opportunity to thank staff of 'The Book Inn', one of our local shops, who very kindly donated a large quantity of books to the school last weekend. Our new books have already been put into use and the multiple copies are brilliant for whole class and group guided reading. I think the staff of the shop wondered whether an invasion was imminent when the whole class stopped outside and thanked them in unison.

 

Visiting students from our local senior schools have also helped to provide a variety of reading activities with the children this week.They are always greeted with enthusiasm and clearly bring the powerful influence of a youthful dimension to this important area. 

 

Many of you probably attended the circus in our field yesterday but what the class had the opportunity of watching really brought home the work that went on behind the slick show. This event provided us with another chance to apply learning to the real world. We abandoned our room and observed the work that was entailed to construct the 'Big Top'. It was fantastic to watch the children examine every part of the process of raising the canvass. Mathematics, science, P.E. and speaking and listening, suddenly took on a new perspective which enhanced their understanding and was enjoyed by all.

 

I know that they will all miss their weekly session with Sarah from 'Bodycare' but they are now aware of how they can do the activities and monitor eating which will help to give them a long and healthy life. 

Just a word of warning to all families, the home made instruments are in the process of being constructed ! 

 

5D - Mr Duff - Your book week assembly was fantastic!! You only had an hour to come up with your rap and presentation and you did yourself proud. I would like to get them on a podcast next week if we have time. 

 

Your French books you made with Mrs Johnston were great !!! Plus I also know that Mrs Johnston throughly enjoyed teaching you, said she you were lovely !!!!!!

 

Please remember the classification of triangles, tell someone at home, see if they know. Plus don't forget to research about Mary Seacole. She was a very interesting lady !!

 

Next week, we will be nearing the end of our guitars, they are already looking good !!!

 

6H - Mr Hautler - This week has been very busy but really fun as well! 6H have been learning about different breads. Our powerpoint presentations, which were also about bread, were really enjoyable to make! We have also been learning about Louis Pasteur and how his vaccine has basically changed the world of medicine. We have learnt about mean, mode and median in maths as well as briefly covering decimals. This week has gone really fast and we are looking forward to coming back on Monday!

 

6M - Mr Martin - Do you know about vaccines?  We in 6M certainly do as we have been investigating the fascinating life of Louis Pasteur and his contribution to world medicine.  Had it not been for Monsieur Pasteur's courage and determination, many lives would have been lost to hordes of terrible diseases.  Unfortunately this week time has beaten us and we were not able to make bread as we intended but this will be carried over.  However, we did manage to make fantastic designs for speciality breads and look forward to baking them.