This week has been "anti-bullying week" and the children have been discussing what to do if they see bullying, if they are being bullied, the different types of bullying and how bullies make us feel.

We, and other local schools, wore blue on Thursday to show our awareness to this sensitive subject.

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Year 4 - Brendon
Year 5 - Tia
Year 6 - Jamie
Staff - Mrs Evans

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It was also International Week this week and lots of classrooms were using books to find out interesting facts, speaking foreign languages and using their ICT and researching skills in order to gain more knowledge about their chosen country.

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

French - Mrs Johnston

Reception have been learning a song about parts of their body.

Year 1/2 shared the story, ‘Aboie Georges’ about a dog who had trouble with his bark. 

Year 3/2 are still working on their classroom objects.

Year 4 have been thinking about which animals they like or don’t like and planning their animal books. 

Year 5 have started writing about their favourite school subjects.

Nursery - It was Italian week in the Nursery so we made Italian flags. We also played with some dried pasta shapes and had cooked pasta shapes for snack, they were green, red and cream coloured. We also made muffin pizzas which we cooked under the Nursery grill. We put tomato sauce on them and then put grated cheese on top before we cooked them. We had them for snack, they were yummy!!!

RW - Mrs Weston - RW have thoroughly enjoyed our International Week focusing on France. We have implemented many activities in the classroom: saying 'bonjour Madame Weston' during register, making French flags and comparing the similarities and differences to the Union Jack, handwriting French colours, singing French songs, sharing French books, sponge printing and ordering numbers whilst saying them in French, exploring French games on the computer in the ICT suite and eating 'French' snacks!  We are looking forward to starting rehearsals next week for our Christmas nativity.

RM - Mrs McIntosh - Christmas is nearly upon us and we have started to prepare for our Christmas nativity. If anyone has any questions about lines/costumes or performances, please come in and see me.

1/2D - Mrs Dutton - This week we have been very busy! In our writing time we have been thinking about three stories from other countries and we really enjoyed them. In our number work we have been finding out about money; what different coins look like, how many pennies they are worth and how to go shopping and get the correct change. On Thursday we talked about what bullying is and how we can stop it happening. I must say that the children had really good ideas which we talked about sensibly. Well done everyone. We are also getting excited about our singing, our words and our dances for the Christmas play. Thank you to all parents who are able to help us with costumes for our Russian story.

1/2B - Mrs Barrington - It's all about the money in Class 1/2B.  We are beginning to recognise different coin values up to £2.00, some of us have been adding three different coin amounts and we have also just started using the £ sign as well.  We have made a very good start with our part in the school Christmas play.  I have been really impressed with how quickly the children are learning the words.  Next week we shall cover the famous Russian story Babushka in literacy.  In numeracy we shall continue with money, money, money.

3/2B - Miss Bernard - Hello everybody!

 

Another week has flown by! Starting preparations for our Christmas performance, the children are getting very excited. I am too, they always do such a good job.

 

This week we have been experimenting with number through multiplication and division. The children have been exploring the relationship between the two operations and using their skills to solve word problems. I am very pleased with the progress they have made, generally they have shown good understanding. They will get the opportunity to develop their skills further as we are doing a whole week on multiplication and division again next week. On Friday there will be a 2 times tables test and some children will also be tested on dividing by 2.

 

This week we have also been doing activities in connection with Anti-bullying and International Week. The children have thought really carefully about what bullying means through discussion and role play. They have also thought about ways to combat bullying, they have expressed these ideas through creating poems and posters. 

 

We have focussed on Spain this week to extend our knowledge gained from our European Day of Languages.We are now learning to count up to 20, we have learned greetings and discussed Spanish traditions, comparing them with our own. The theme for our Christmas play is Christmas around the World and, yes you guessed it, our country is Spain.

 

So, hopefully, by the end of this term the children will be very knowledgeable about this part of Europe.

 

3/2C - Mrs Chatterton - This week we have focussed on anti- bullying week and looked at Ireland as part of International week. what a busy time.

The children have produced an Anti-bullying poem and poster. the children found out about Irish traditions at Christmas , did a drawing of the Irish flag and found out about Leprechauns and shamrock.

Miss Bolton's class joined us for a read through of our part of the xmas play!!! So wait for the children to tell you what they will be doing.

 

4B - Miss Bolton - Somebody decided that we would have both Internation Week and Anti-bullying week at the same time for this week - so its been a week of real variety!

We started the week though by counting all the pennies we got from our Children in Need penny trail. I thought it would only take an hour - but 2 hours later, we were still going! It turned into some good learning though with maths as we counted and weighed all the different coins. Myself and Mr Lloyd took a grand total of £266.86 down to Nat West to pay into the Children in Need account. Thank you all so much for your generous donations. There is a couple of picture of us counting in the Gallery.

The other highlight of the week was beginning to introduce the children to our Christmas play - Christmas Around The World. We have paired up with Mrs Chattertons class and have chosen to do Ireland. The children have been given song words for Slade's 'Merry Christmas Everybody' and further details of cast, scripts and costumes will follow shortly - get practicing the Irish dancing!!

 

4P - Mrs Peacher - Class 4P have had a special week this week with Anti-Bullying week and International week. Each child in  the class chose a country that they would like to research at the start of the week and they have been using the internet to carry out their research. They each found out the countries flag, population, landscape, wildlife, capital city and language including how to say hello. We had countries as close as Wales and as far flung as Senegal and Libya. They have been using skin colour paints to match to the people from their chosen countries. We will put all of their work together on a display. For anti-bullying week we made friendship posters to be displayed in the classroom and out in the playground. We also wrote poems from the point of view of either the bully or the victim. Well done to our new addition Alexia who wrote a particularly good poem.

 

 5B - Mr Bird - Our focus this week has been divided between International Week and Anti-bullying Week. Both of these areas have provided the children with numerous opportunities to explore these important topics from several different perspectives.

 

International Week was encompassed in our work on myths and legends, PE and music, with Thursday giving the children the chance to try out some Greek language and an introduction to traditional Greek dancing. They really entered into the spirit of the day and clearly enjoyed demonstrating their new found knowledge. We hope the children have not been too traumatised by watching their teachers demonstrate Zorba's dance !

 

The ever important task of exploring, recognising and discussing the issue of bullying was tackled in a variety of ways. It was refreshing to see that our children take this matter seriously and show a level of awareness that should certainly reduce their chances of becoming a victim, or indeed them being involved with any act which could be construed as bullying. 

 

This week ended with the first reading of our contribution for the end of term performance. Everyone was keen to participate and with the invaluable help given by Mrs Johnston, copies of the children's lines have already been given to them. I suppose now would be the time to say to all the adults at home who will be listening to their children practising, enjoy every performance. I am sure you will be hearing it several times during the next couple of weeks but it will be worth it, honestly.

 

 5D - Mr Duff - Greece is the word!!! Being International Week, we dedicated a whole day to find out about our chosen country, Greece. This even linked into our P.E. lesson with the dance Zorba the Greek. With Mr Bird, Mrs Evans and myself demonstrating to the children they couldn't wrong (yeah right)!!! 

 

Another topic this week has been around anti-bullying. I must say the children were very sensible when approaching this subject and very grown up discussions were had.

 

The parts for the play have been given out, so please learn you lines as the performances are only just around the corner.

Next week we will be writing our myths. Please remember how you build suspense and tension and the rest we will go over again before you write.

 

6M - Mr Martin - Which surfaces cause the most friction? This is the question we have been pondering this week. As scientists, we have been devising our own investigations to test our predictions. With our results, we were able to draw scientific conclusions which we could apply to everyday circumstances such as safety in the home.

 

As the Festive Season hurtles towards us, we have begun  rehearsing for our contribution to the schools'  Christmas production. It's been fun singing rocking around the Christmas even though it's only mid November!

 

6H - Mr Hautler - Another exciting week has come to an end. The parts for the Christmas play, which is the Christmas Tree Story from Germany, have been cast and the actors are busy learning their lines. Our work on Eastern Europe has continued, we are being Travel Agents advertising a Country. In I.C.T we made a powerpoint presentation on Forces. We will evaluate these next week. The week has been great fun and we are looking forward to coming back on Monday!