That's it, the half term is over, 8 weeks gone !! Wow, that was quick !!

Another week closer to Christmas, ummm that's a bit frightening !! Anyway moving quickly on !!

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VIPs  French VIPs visit Darlinghurst

French VIP visitors!

We were very pleased to welcome three very important visitors from France to Darlinghurst today.  They were Jean-Jacques Mandirac, an Inspecteur d'Education Nationale, whose role is more or less be a Headteacher to 40 primary schools, Yvon Deverre, a retired Adjoint de l'Inspecteur d'Académie who was in charge of over 300 primary schools in the Nice area and Anne Villeneuve, an MFL (Modern Foreign Language) adviser for Nice primary schools.

They very much enjoyed their tour round the school and commented on how bright and colourful it is.  They were very envious of our interactive whiteboards and large outside playing areas.

Gardening Club

Gardening Club have been busy again, this time planing daffodil bulbs under the trees near the front of the school.  They'll look lovely in Spring.

 

Thank you Mrs Johnston

 

 

Update from the School's Fantasy Football League

 

After the first week Mr Bird and Caleb (year 4) are top of the league but please remember it's a long season!

 

Tia is the Year 5 leader and Jamie is the leading the way in Year 6

 

 

So we now have a week off. I am sure the children and the teachers alike need the rest!! I know I am looking forward to it and hopefully it doesn't pass too quickly.

 

Anyway, we will see you back in school, bright and breezy on Monday 3rd November. Enjoy your break

What else has been happening this week at Darlinghurst Primary and Nursery School this week?

 

Mrs Johnston

What a busy week, I seem to have been here, there and everywhere just for a change!

Year 6 have been continuing their work on adjectives.  They can now describe clothes with colours, size and length matching singular, plural, masculine and feminine!

Year 5 have been learning about school subjects and finding out that French children learn the same subjects as they do.

Year 4 are learning numbers up to 40.

Year 2/3 are learning numbers up to 20.

Reception and 1/2 have been practising their colours and numbers to 10.

 

Numbers seem to be our theme at the moment and the dedicated group of parents that come on Fridays are learning scary numbers up to 100!  We will continue this after half-term.  New members are welcome to join us.

 

If you are going abroard during the holiday, especially France or Spain, I would be grateful if you could bring me any packaging from your foreign food shopping eg biscuit boxes, food packets etc.  They could be folded flat and I will reassemble them.  They will be of great value when we play shopping games.  Merci.

 

Nursery - We were very busy in the Nursery this week making cakes. We measured out the ingredients, mixed them together, put the mixture in cake cases and then cooked them in the oven. The next day we decorated them with yellow and green icing and then counted out 5 jelly beans to put on top.

 

We also played with the cornflour and water mixture, it made a terrible mess but we did have fun.

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RM - Mrs McIntosh - What a long.....but very good half term. The children have settled in so well and have worked extremely hard. We have covered an awful lot and the children have coped with the new routines and pressures very well. I hope they have a good rest and come back with just as much enthusiasm and drive as they have had this half term.

Next half term, our topics are Toys/Christmas.......a very exciting time of the year. I love Christmas and will be encouraging lots of mess and singing in the classroom from 1st December!! (if not earlier!)

It was great to see so many of you at Parents meetings this week and was encouraged by how much you are supporting your children's learning at home. Please continue this over the half term holiday.

The homework I have set for the holiday is to make a number book - to see how many different numbers we can see as we travel around our environment - Writing, photos, pictures, cuttings will all be welcome! I hope you enjoy sharing this experience with your child.

Have a great week and see you on Monday 3rd November! Mrs M

 

RW - Mrs Weston - RW have really put their phonics knowledge into practise this week by starting to read captions such as 'a cat in a hat' and 'socks on a mat' and matching them to pictures. We have read and used the tricky words 'to', 'the' ,'no', 'go' and 'I' (tricky as they cannot be blended using our phonemes) and written them into sentences in our handwriting books.We have made hand prints continuing on our bigger/smaller theme and compared their sizes, and also brought in and shared photographs of us when we were babies. We played a game of 'guess who?' with the photos and spoke about the things we used to do when we were smaller. Mrs Weston is looking forward to seeing everyone's number books after half term and hopes everybody has a safe and happy holiday.

 

1/2D - Mrs Dutton - This week we have enjoyed naming shapes and counting how many sides and corners each one has. We have also looked at some shapes to find their lines of symmetry. We have been listening to, following and writing instructions: some of us wrote instructions to an English speaking alien to tell him how to clean his teeth. We did remember to tell him to clean his mouth afterwards!

On Thursday we had an interesting visitor. Nurse Becky came to tell us about her important job caring for children who are in hospital on Neptune Ward. She showed us her instruments and how to use them carefully. We then practised on each other.

After the holiday we will be doing Show and Tell on Thursday afternoons and PE on Monday afternoons. Have a lovely week everyone.

 

3/2B - Miss Bernard - Hi everybody!

 

Have had a lovely week of looking at poetry. The children have been writing poems based on a Roman chariot race. They also had to try and include adjectives and rhyme, which they made a really brilliant effort with. The children read each other's and made some very positive comments.

 

In Numeracy we have been interpreting data using, tally & bar charts and also pictograms. The children enjoyed recording the data.The have  decided that they need more practise interpreting it. We will also be doing data analysis in Science so that the children can get more practise. 

 

After Half Term we will be looking at instructions and the children will be writing instructions for their talk partners to follow to dress a Roman Soldier. They will be seeing how easy the instructions are for them to follow. In Numeracy the children will be building on their addition and subtraction skills.

 

I hope that you all enjoy your Half Term holiday. I know that I will! - Miss Bernard

 

3/2C - Mrs Chatterton - I can't believe it is half term already. Our topic on Romans has gone down so well that we will continue it until we go into Christmas mode. It was so nice to see so many parents turn up on Wednesday. Mrs Grant and I we pleased to tell you all about your Childs successes.

We have been busy writing poems about chariot races this week. Some of the poems are fantastic.

In maths we have looked at tally charts and pictograms.

Sorry if in the holidays the children keep asking about Roman roads. they were told some still exist and they are straight. so if you go along a straight road wait for the voice in the back!!!

Have a lovely half term with the children - Mrs Chatterton

 

4B - Miss Bolton - So here we are at the end of our first half term already! So much work completed already and a lot of successes had by the majority of the class. We've come to the end of our World War 2 topic and its amazing how knowledgable the children are about that era after just 6 weeks.

Some of our topics for after half term will be; geography based - Village Settlers, Science - Habitats, Art - Dreams and in Literacy we will be starting to look at play writing.

The first day back too will be an exciting one as we will be celebrating World Games Day. Each class will have a workshop with some international visitors teaching the children games from around the world - in particular, French skipping. The children will be given the opportunity to buy some colourful French skipping ropes that week too.

 

Its that time of year again when the Children in Need appeal begins. As it is now become traditional, I will be completing a penny trail with my class again this year. Please start collecting and bringing in as many 1p and 2p coins as possible ready for November 14th. Thank you.

Have a good half term break!

 

4P - Mrs Peacher - Well hasn't the last seven and a half weeks just flown by! Class 4P have completed their World War II projects this week. I was particularly pleased with some of their work including Danny and Charlie's spitfire drawings in ICT and Dean's Colin Carrot poster! The children will bring the projects home shortly to show you what they have learnt. We made some great horrifying halloween cards and wrote up the instructions as part of our literacy project. I have provided the children with the materials so that they can teach someone else, over the half term, how to make one too. We also finished reading our class novel today, The Demon Headmaster. Look out for the sequels kids, 'The Prime Ministers Brain', 'The Revenge of the Demon Headmaster' and 'The Demon Headmaster Strikes Again'. Enjoy your half term holiday!

 

5B - Mr Bird - Class 5B

This week has provided the children with the opportunity to put finishing touches to their instruments and to evaluate the design and construction. It was good to hear how frank they were regarding any improvements that they would make, as this demonstrated their ability to gain the optimum benefit from the experience.

 

With the end of this half term also marking the conclusion of our Victorian work, it was fitting that they were able to review some of the facts that they had researched. I was very pleased to hear many of the children say that some of the areas examined, covered information that other members of their families were unfamiliar with. They really do enjoy taking on the role of teacher at times and love to share their new found knowledge.

 

Having researched a number of Victorian personalities, they completed their written work by writing a short biography on Mary Seacole and I look forward to reading these later. This person's life acted as a stimulus for us to examine a number of social areas. The children's sense of fairness led to some very powerful contributions about aknowledging people's worth. 

 

PE with the team from ASSA ended today. I know the children have really enjoyed these sessions and would like me to record their thanks to this very professional group.

 

This is a reminder for parents regarding the children's first day back, they will need their PE kit on Monday as there will be a chance for them to show off their skills at French skipping.

 

Thank you to all those parents who either attended the consultations this week, or have met with me recently to discuss their child's progress. 

 

I would like to finish by saying that I, together with Mrs Amran and Mrs Day, hope that everyone in 5B will have a really good holiday and make the most of not having to complete any homework.

 

5D - Mr Duff - Bon Jovi get your heart out, the 5D rock band is now formed. We did an outside performance to a crowd of over 50,000. OK, so we took a few photos on the outside stage in the rain but it felt just as good!! Your guitars looked great and I am very pleased with the outcome. Well done

 

We have now written our biography about Mary Seacole and I will be assessing these over the half term. I have throughly enjoyed watching you research, share your information and generally absorb yourself in this topic. Superb work.

 

In maths I am confident you have a good understanding of bar charts and how to interept data from these. We are looking at fractions on your return.

 

This half term has been fantastic, not only have you settled in quickly it looks like you are all enjoying what's happening in the classroom. I know me and Mrs Evans are. Enjoy your half term and see you all on the 3rd Nov.

 

p.s. Thank you to all the parents that I saw recently, don't forget my door is always open if you need to pop in and have a chat.

 

6H - Mr Haulter - Another exciting week has gone by us! In maths we learnt how to do the column method to solve multiplication problems. We have finally finished our topic on food and are looking forward to our next topic on...?  We learnt about squabbling and designed a board game about it. We also got a think book each and took them home to design the front cover. These books are private as they contain all our thoughts, so if you see one (most of them are decorated with stickers) NO PEEKING!!!

 

6M - Mr Martin - Half term already? It's a wonder we packed it all in. With the closing of our topic on food- we made bread and cheese and evaluated our results. And weren't they just delicious! Next term, our focus will be on Eastern Europe and we will be looking at this fascinating corner of the globe and investiagating its rich history, culture and people.

 

Note for the diary P.E. is on Friday until further noice.