Sorry for the last update of this weeks blog !

With the short week and then the long weekend time has been of the essence !

Anyway, I hope you all had a lovely Easter and didn't eat to much chocolate. I know for a fact if I eat another mini egg I am actually start to look like one !

Even though it was a short week, there was plenty going on at Darlinghurst Primary and Nursery School this week ! 

Miss Wakeford - RW - This week RW have been learning the 5 vowels and writing words beginning with those vowels into sentences. We have had a fun week making Easter cards, nests and decorated eggs and enjoyed the easter hunt on Thursday. Some of the children tasted hot cross buns today. Have a great Easter. Miss Wakeford

Mrs McIntosh - RM - What a wonderful,creative  week! The children have been having a ball! We made chick  Easter cards (they were hard work but great!), Easter nests (yummy!) and decorated hard bolied eggs (a lovely smell in the classroom!). Today the children went on an Easter hunt (organised by the PTA) and the children really enjoyed handing in their chick to get a chocolate treat in return! Have a lovely, long weekend everybody! Mrs M

Mrs Barrington - 1B - Class 1B have had lots of excitement with Easter egg hunts and a visit from two little baby rabbits.  This do not put stop to our data handling work in numeracy.  We are now very good at interpreting information from bar charts and pictograms.  In science we predicted which light source gave the best light.  Once again this led to more excitement  in Mrs Barrington's dark, dark tent when carrying out this investigation.

Miss Bernard - 2/1B - Hello everybody!!I would like to say that I am very proud of the way that the children have approached multiplication and division. The concepts involved are not easy for young children to understand. But they have showed real enthusiasm and I think that they have enjoyed their week.

WELL, enough of all that enjoyment!! For homework I have asked some of you to learn your 2 times tables for a test during the first week back after the Spring holidays, good luck!!

 

We have also started to write the Easter Story, which is, again, difficult for even grown ups to understand. But I never have any problems getting them to do their writing and we will be continuing next week. I have been thrown by the Easter Bank holiday weekend so there will be an extension on Easter.

 

The children will be setting up their own shops. Modelling eggs, pricing them up and selling them. So they will be doing lots of activities involving adding,taking away, multiplication,division and the use of money. So it should be a fun week!

 

Enjoy your long weekend!  I know I will! - Miss Bernard

 

Mrs Dutton - 2/1D - Another great week for learning! In Numeracy we have been finding out more about multiplication and division and in our writing time we have been thinking about the Easter Story  and the life cycles of people and frogs. We have also had fun finding out about the French words for Easter symbols and making baskets and cards, ready for our own family celebrations. Have a great weekend everyone.

 

Miss Bolton - 4B - What a fantastic week 4B have had! Everything has been Easter themed. We've read the Easter story, made chick baskets - hopefully, the cream egg was still in there when you got them at home?! But today has been the best, as Mrs McLachlan made super Easter cards with them and myself and Mr Lloyd made 60 hot cross buns with some of the class. Mr Lloyd, or was that Mr G Ramsey, I couldn't tell !!! Again, hopefully one should make its way home to you.

 

Thank you to all the parents that helped support their children with the speaking and listening homework that was given. We heard each presentation and they were not a bad concidering that had had no input from me and most had never done anything like that before. Next week, we will work on improving the structure and presentation of the talks and give the children some help with becoming expert speakers.

I hope everyone enjoys their long Easter weekend. See you all back on Tuesday.

 

Mr Bird + Mrs Amran - 4AB - Coming very soon...

 

 

 

Mrs Johnston - 5J - It was a short week but a busy one for 5J.  They created a stunning set of Stations of the Cross for the class, showing Jesus' trail and crucifixion.  They have done very well in writing myths, finding out exactly how much they can write in 6 minute bursts.  They designed bread for a special occasion - remember to bring in any extra ingredients on Friday when we will be making the bread then.  (The ingredients for the basic dough will be provided.)  Everyone enjoyed the Easter Egg hunt - many thanks to the PTA for organising this.

 

Mr Duff - 5D - Short week for 5D, very short week for Mr D ! Having been out for 1.5 days this week, I will say a huge well done to the children for their behaviour in my absence. The report I got from Mrs Cornish was superb, it was nearly as good as the bread that you made ! The drawing of the stain glass windows were great and I know that you will be getting a chance to use ink to make real stain glass windows next week !! It sounded like you enjoyed the Easter egg hunt and you were lucky enough to get even more egss from Mrs Evans !! Have a super Easter and enjoy your longggggg weekend.

 

Mr Hautler + Mrs Chatterton - 6HC - This week in Literacy we learnt how to write instructions by making games and then writing instructions for them.In maths we were measuring angles. We used protractors to measure angles and figured out the missing angles in triangles.Some children went to a football tournament and did very well.Next week we will be cutting out the shapes for our gingerbread houses. Written by Charlie and James. 

 

Well it was a busy short week last week and it will be the same again this week. Don't forget school finishes at 2:30pm on Friday !