Guess what we have been doing today !! You have guessed it - "Children in Need" !!!

Most children and staff have come dressed in something beginning with the letter "p". I myself was fitted for my pirates hat last night. My wife had a big black sheet of paper, cellotape, a stapler and a scull and cross bone. I sat there patiently, whilst she conjured her magic and voila, Pirate Duff was born !!

My wife was definitely not the only one with her Blue Peter head on. There were some fantastic costumes in and around the school, ranging from painters to plumbers, policemen to paramedics, princes to princesses. My personal favourite was Sonny in 4B who came dressed as a Phoenix, superb.

To top it all Miss Bolton and 4B did a fantastic penny trial in the hall - see their photos here

Morrisons Vouchers

Please keep these coming in. The offer is over so no more vouchers will be given out in the shops. Please check your coats, handbags and pockets for any vouchers and send them into school so Mrs Johnston can make her shopping list.

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

French - Mrs Johnston

Reception have been learning some instruction words to go with an action song.

Years 1/2 have been revising their colours and learning an action song.

Years 3/2 have been learning about items in their pencil case.

Year 4 have started to make books about their pets.

Year 5 have compared French and English school timetables.

Year 6 have been playing a clothes shopping game.

 

Nursery - This week the Nursery children have been sticking squares on to their Elmer pictures. We also made firework pictures at the beginning of the week. We all dressed up in something beginning with 'P' so had lots of pirates and pink princesses.

RW - Mrs Weston - RW have continued with our toy theme using bears as a stimulus this week. We have focused on the traditional tale 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears', re-telling the story to an adult, making moveable bears, writing an apology letter from Goldilocks to the three bears and discussing the similarities and differences between our own versions of the book that we brought in independently and the three bowls, chairs, spoons etc that we used to re-enact the story. We are looking forward to making porridge on Monday and then taking part in International week where we will be studying France.

RM - Mrs McIntosh - This week RM have been continuing the theme of bears, particularly Goldilocks and the 3 bears, and have encorporated lots of maths, literacy and creativity.

1/2B - Mrs Barrington - Class1/2B have had another enjoyable week learning about the Island of Struay.  We made clay islands and have almost finished painting them.  We also made our own sunset pictures with some pleasing results.  Our numeracy involved doubling and halving the children can now double money.  This could come in very handy!  Next week will have an international feel and then on Thursday our learning we be centred around anti bullying.

1/2D - Mrs Dutton - We have been thinking about  what it is like 'Living On An Island'  with our Katie Morag stories and have been looking closely at the important illustrations and writing about our favourite part of the story  In Numeracy we have been working hard to double 2 digit numbers and some of us have been halving numbers as well! We have also been thinking about  how plants and animals are both similar and different.

3/2B - Miss Bernard - Hello everybody!

 

I cannot believe that another week has gone by. We seem to be so busy and it's not even Christmas yet! The children have worked really hard on telling the time, but they know that they need to practise more. So children, remember to practise telling the time at home whenever you can! We have also been writing recounts of our trip to Colchester Castle. The children had to think carefully about what makes a good and interesting recount. I have not read them all, but so far they seem to have made a very good effort.

 

Next week is Antibullying and International Week, we will be doing lots of interesting activities connected within these themes. The country that we will be looking at will be Spain to expand on what we learned on International Day of Languages. So children, could you find out what you can about the city of Barcelona and anything about Spanish Christmas customs. 

 

Thanks! Have a great weekend - Miss Bernard

 

3/2C - Mrs Chatterton - We have been wriitng about our trip to Colchester castle in the form of a recount. They all said they enjoyed the trip and not just their lunch!

We have been working on time this week- please talk to the children about time as much as possible as it is really helpful if they have some input at home.

Many children completed their materials homework- well done. We have been looking at why certain materials are used to make various objects around the school. Quite ahrd for them to grasp.

 

4B - Miss Bolton - Today has been a fab day. I can't remember how many penny trails I've done over the years I've been here...but its been quite a few. I was a little worried yesterday that the credit crunch had hit us and the half box of pennies we had wouldn't have completed any kind of trail But after a day of plugging and shaking buckets outside, we got more pennies than ever! The class really enjoyed themselves going 4 times round the hall in pennies, filling the school badge in the middle and then becoming penny artists by creating picture of Pudsey Bear of their own - all in pennies!

Just got the task of counting them now!!!

Thanks to everyone for their donations and support - Pudsey and the Children say THANKS!

Here's a link to the Gallery to see some pictures of our fab Penny Trail.

 

4P - Mrs Peacher - This week 4P have been writing playscripts based around either Madagascar or Finding Nemo, which links to our science project on habitats. Our ICT this week also linked to habitats and may I say that Mrs Reeve commented on how impressed she was with the children's ICT skills. Well done everybody, keep up the good work! We had lots of interesting costumes for 'p' day today. I particularly enjoyed Libby's panda bear with bamboo stick snack! I am totally worn out from changing my costume everytime someone entered the classroom. I have been a puss cat, pirate, princess and pink lady. It has left me a little confused so I am going home for a cup of tea and to watch Pudsey! Have a nice weekend!

 

5B - Mr Bird - Week two of the Ziggy challenge has been well supported by the class with the majority of children walking or cycling to school. Their actions have been reinforced by the partially created traffic calming measure which is taking shape outside our school. I know the children were very pleased that the artwork for the 20 mph signs in the area came from one of the year 5 children from last year, it certainly gave them an incentive to produce some nice pieces of art this week.

 

Art featured in more than one form, with the children creating some poppies from paper plates for the backdrop to our two minutes silence. There were sufficient poppies to produce a large ' 90 ', in recognition of the importance of this year to the three remaining British ex servicemen who served in WW1. The children coped very well with our school Act of Remembrance and clearly had a better understanding of how this fits in with other community events.

 

Our work on myths has moved on and the children have enjoyed exploring aspects of this area through drama. This approach had the desired outcome of focusing them on the central aspects of an interesting myth, a point which will

be of great assistance to them when they create their own piece of writing.

 

With the week ending on a very positive note of heightening everybody's awareness of  the 'Children in Need' charity, we entered into the spirit of raising money by taking part in a sponsored dressing up day. The fun had will hopefully go some way to providing help to many children in the future.

 

5D - Mr Duff - We have the Ziggy Challenge up and running and our monitors are in place. Well done Daniel, Tom and Callum you are doing a great job.

 

The discussion work on our myths is coming on very well and next week will be starting to plan how this will link into our writing.

 

In maths we were finding the difference by counting on to the next multiple of 10, 100, 1000 and beyond. You were visualising number lines really well. Next week we will be looking at doubling and halving.

 

Our soft area (book corner) will be ready Monday, so we will have a nice chilled out place to read books within the classroom !!

 

6H - Mr Hautler - This week we have been looking at the different types of triangles in maths and we've been writing non-chronological reports in literacy. We have started preparing for the up and coming Christmas Production. We have very little homework this week as we need to prepare ourselves for the 11 plus tests next saturday.

 

6M - Mr Martin - We have been investigating the forces all around us and divising our own experiments to see how friction affects the journey of the vehicle.  In addition to this, our Eastern European topic is ticking along nicely as we have been able to learn about it through many subjects such as art, music and literacy.  We have really enjoyed making biscuits to support the Children in Need and dressing up as something beginning with 'P'.  We wait with baited breath to find out the grand total - we hope its alot!