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Week 11 Spring Term

by Mr Duff on Fri 28 Mar 2008 03:01 PM GMT | Permanent Link

That's it for the Spring term ! Gone before you know it. It has been action packed, creative, sporty and lots more besides.

So what's been happening during the last week of term at Darlinghurst Primary and Nursery School?

RW - Mrs McIntosh - RW have had a "different" week this week, with various things going on! We performed our "butterfly" dance on Tuesday to the rest of the school (which they loved) and planted cress into our caterpillars on Wednesday. The children will be bringing them home for the holiday's so don't forget to water them! (Photos and pictures will be welcome when we come back) Miss Wakeford (Mrs Weston) will be back after the holidays and everything will go back to normal! I hope you all have a lovely and restful Easter break! Mrs McIntosh

RM - Mrs Cooper - What a wonderful week we have had in RM ! We were lucky enough to be able to perform our life cycle of a butterfly dance to the whole school in assembly. We have planted cress seeds in the caterpillars we have made and hopefully over the holidays the children will be able to watch them grow ! Mrs Cooper

1B - Mrs Barrington - Class 1B have been continuing with their investigations into light and dark. Mrs Barrington put different objects into a shoe box with a tiny peep hole and we had to try and see what was inside. We discovered that if the peep hole was made bigger we could shine our torches and see inside because the bigger hole allowed more light through. Our numeracy was a little tricky this week as we had to subtract a number to a multiple of ten. We did try very hard. Class 1B are really looking forward to the summer term as we hope to go on some outings.

2/1B - Miss Bernard - Hello everybody! Happy holidays!

This week has been a bit strange. Because of the bank holidays it has been difficult to get into the swing of things. However we have managed to learn some things this week!

In Literacy we have done a little bit of work on non-fiction books and the use of titles, subtitles and captions. We have also investigated suffixes er and est. The children really enjoy suffix work and are very good at adding them on to words to make new words. They are also very good at remembering the rules for certain words. For example they know that if a word ends in a y you have to delete the y and add an i.

We have also been doing some problem solving using money. We had great fun this morning playing "Shop 'till you drop". The children worked in partners. They had £1 to spend. There were five shops situated around the class, selling different items. The children were only allowed to buy one item from each shop. The aim was to spend their £1 or get as close to it as possible. There were many things to think about because as they went around they had to decided which coins to use to buy the items and they also had to add up the items they had bought. The children worked really well together and had lots of fun.

I am looking forward to next term because our topic for the first half is Materials and for the second half it is The Seaside. I think that the children and I are going to think of many exciting things to do in class. I am also looking forward to our trip to Ashlyns Organic Farm.

Have a fun break children! Keep yourselves safe. See you in two weeks time! - Miss Bernard

2/1D - Mrs Dutton - Although we came to school on Tuesday with ears still full of Easter chocolate, we were able to clear them quickley and focus on our activities!. We have enjoyed thinking about division being the inverse of multiplication and we have been practising our sharing to divide cubes, dinosaurs and pencils. We have been thinking about how the characters felt in the Easter story by making our own dramas and we have been thinking again about life cycles with a visit to the pond to look at the plants and animals in this habitat.

Have a great school holiday, have fun with your families and I am looking forward to our next topic of 'Materials'already!

3S - Miss Slann - Oh goodness gracious me I think the chocolate filled children and teacher = lots of hard work e.g it took a lot of effort this week to write anything down!!! Luckily we were having a very cross curricular week looking at the Hindu religion. We have created some beautiful posters of Hindu gods in groups, well done for working so well together! We learnt about Hindu marriages and designed our own henna patterns and made rakhi bracelets for our friends to wish them luck. All of work will be displayed on the board outside our classroom for viewing! Have a great break.

4B - Miss Bolton - I can't believe we are at the end of the Spring term already. Where does the time go?! 4B have seriously worked their socks off this week and have tied up all loose ends and finished every single piece of work from this term. Well done! The year 4 teachers have been working away to plan some good work ready for next term and we're trying something a little different by linking as much work as possible to our geography topic of 'a village in India'. We are just finalising a big trip for the summer too, so watch this space for the exciting details.

Hope you all have a really good Easter break and look forward to seeing you all back in the summer term!

4A/B - Mr Bird + Mrs Amran -4 A/B Trying to maintain a degree of normality for the children has not been that easy with two four day weeks leading up to a fortnight holiday. They appear to be ready for the break but have still managed to apply their analytical skills to what makes a good set of written instructions. You could put this to the test at home with your next set of DIY instructions by getting them to help!

The children have also been exercising their international expertise by adding French notation to the Spring display they are producing for the ICT room. Unfortunately the display is not quite ready yet, otherwise we could have invited the French President to open it during his State visit.

We hope you all have a pleasant break and ask you to keep up your reading to adults during the holiday please.

5J - Mrs Johnston - This week 5J have been working hard to find fractions of a number. This has gone very successfully, they are really learning that their times tables knowledge is crucial to their numeracy work. Please keep supporting your child with learning their tables as well as with their regualr reading.

Our work on Ancient Greece is coming to an end. The children are becoming more skilled as researchers, understanding how we know what we do about the past.

I hope you all have a lovely holiday.

Our theme for next term is the British Isles. Homework is for the children to ask about places they have been to on holiday or lived in and be able to find them on a map as well as knowing any famous landmarks in the area.

5D - Mr Duff - Where do I start ! You researched and then drew absolutely fantastic Ancient Greek warships. You designed and made excellent stain glass windows, which are now displayed around the windows of the classroom. Your skills in maths this week were great ! Fractions, remainders and multiplication didn't stand a case against our peer teachers. I could go on and on !! Not only that we have CBBC coming in to carry out auditions for a new Saturday morning kids show on Tuesday 22nd April. How cool is that !!! Anyway, have a great Easter holiday and for the children going to the Isle of Wight, have fun and be safe !

6HC - Mr Hautler + Mrs Chatterton - For Class 6HC it has been revision as usual, maths, science and literacy. Only 15 school days until the big week!

By Wednesday, we had all the children cut out there Ginger Bread houses, and on Wednesday afternoon we had most of them decorated. We are going to spend most of the morning doing the rest. On Thursday we had decorated our houses started to put them together. Check out our photos below !Written by Gabby and Sean

Yummy ! Those Ginger Bread houses look fantastic ! Well done to 6AH !!

Have a great Easter holiday, be safe and we will see you on Tuesday 15th April - unless you are in Year 5 and are going to the Isle of Wight !

Enjoy

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