Guess what next week is?

No? Still struggling, it's Walk To School Week !!!

So, see how many days you can walk to school next week. The challenge has been set !

Well done to Year 6 for completing your SATS this week. Also, well done to Mr Martin, Mr Hautler and Mrs Chatterton as well !! It's a busy week and you have all coped very well.

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

 RM - Mrs McIntosh - We have had another busy week in RM continuing our theme of patterns.  We now have a jungle role play area in our classroom complete with a den, lots of animals, insects and dressing up outfits.  The jungle area is decorated with all the pictures the children have created of different animal patterns including tigers, zebras, snakes and giraffes. 

 RW - Mrs Weston - RW have continued with our patterns theme this week. We made a giraffe pattern in our art lessons, made repeated musical patterns with our bodies and musical instruments and looked at number patterns to 10.  We read a range of fiction books in guided reading and have handwritten tricky words in our handwriting sessions this week.

 1B - Mrs Barrington - Class 1B have become a class of poets.  We have been looking at and writing poems based on the theme of animals.  We have even compared poems.  In numeracy we have been recognising odd and even numbers and even know a little rhyme to help us remember.  We have made the most of the good weather by playing outside, the other day we were moving like different animals around the playground which was funny.  To finish our work on animals, l hope to arrange for the end of the week, a soft toy animal picnic.  Please watch the classroom window for more information.  Any animal pictures greatly received.

 2/1B - Miss Bernard - Hi everybody!

 

It's been an unusual week for me, I've only taught one full day as we had our fantastic visit to Ashlyns Farm on Tuesday and I had to take the day off to have a tooth pulled out yesterday, ouch!!

 

May I congratulate you all on your behaviour on our visit to the farm.Even though we were delayed for a long time on the way there, nobody complained and you were very patient. You also behaved well when we got there, so well done!!

 

Next week you will be writing about your visit to the farm I am looking forward to reading all of your recounts. In numeracy we will be doing some basic number work involving addition and subtraction and looking at how to organise data onto graphs and charts.

 

Have a fabulous weekend! - Miss Bernard

 2/1D - Mrs Dutton - How much fun can one class have in a week and be learning and experiencing new things too! On Tuesday we had a fantastic trip to Ashlyn's Farm and had the oportunity to touch and feed goats, sheep, chickens and pigs. We also had a tractor ride to see the electric fence which keeps the chickens safe from foxes and the compost area. We have started to write about the things that we enjoyed the most. Thanks to the parents who came with us to help us stay safe.

On Thursday, we had great fun thinking about how some materials are changed by heat while we made bread rolls. Mrs Clarke showed us all how to weigh,mix, kneed and shape the rolls. We could not believe how much the yeast made the dough rise when it was put in our warm cupboard! 

 

 

 

 

 

 3S - Miss Slann - What a hectic week we've had! We have been even more scary this week and have almost finished our stories. We've written some great endings that will both shock and surprise the reader! Well done 3S you have worked really hard on your stories, hope you don't have any nightmares though!!! We will be having a whole week of Viking fun next week to finish our topic off, don't forget to look up as much as you can about Viking life in Britain. Have a good weekend.

 

 3P - Mrs Peacher - What a hectic week. We have all managed to write the ending to our spooky stories and I am pleased to say that many ended happily, even though Jacob decided to call his story 'World of Death'! Our Viking project is also drawing to a close so this week we have finished off lots of beautiful work for our topic folders. Next week is Viking week..... so watch out and hide your gold.

 

 4B - Miss Bolton - What a week of contrasts. First we were all bathing in some early summer sunshine, with the class becoming rather lathargic in the temperature rise. Then having to deal with rain and wet playtimes, but a more awake class!

Another challenging week with in Numeracy and Literacy with trying to get to grips with measure angles with protractors and poetry by Judith Nicholls.

 

We have been collecting in your unwanted bits and bobs for the Bring and Buy Sale slowly and we've decided to organise it for next Thursday after school in the hall. We would like your continued support in having one last clear out over the weekend. We would also like to have a cake stall with some home made cakes. Refreshments will also be on sale.

Information will be on this weeks newsletter but please help by spreading the word amongst other parents in the playground.

Remember, the more money we make fundraising, the more we can subsidise our trip to Kentwell Hall.

 

 4AB - Mr Bird + Mrs Amran - The children have produced some interesting work relating to the geographical differences between life in Chembakolli and Southend. Some illuminating discussion arose from this and the diversity of parents, guardians and relatives employment led to a clear 'real life' understanding of why these differences occur.

We are now preparing to start our build up for the Kentwell Hall visit. Useful patterns and ideas for Tudor clothing will follow shortly. 

 

 5J - Mrs Johnston - Rehearsals for next week are in full swing and we are really impressed with your word learning skills.

What is the probability that the all of you will remember your costumes for our assembly next week?  Something white please, loose and as long as possible - a sheet is ideal but a large t-shirt or short sleeved mans shirt will be OK.  Adults don't forget our assembly is in the hall at 9.15am Friday 23rd May.

Thanks also for all your hard work on Kidnapped this week you have produced some fantastic action scenes.

 

 5D - Mr Duff - We're all going on a Summer holiday, no more working for a week or two. Well actually that's not true but keep practising this Cliff Richard classic for our play and don't forget "Grease" as well. You were fantastic today, I was really impressed with you all. Keep it up. Having covered probability this week in maths, what are the chances you will all know your lines and remember your costumes on Monday? Good chance I think. Your pieces of writing based on the book "kidnapped" were enjoyable to read and we will be continuing with this book next week. Next week is "walk to school week", so let's see how many of you can do it. Have a good weekend and see you all Monday !!

 

 6HC - Mr Hautler + Mrs Chatterton - On Monday we had our first set of sats tests in the morning we were really nervous. It was a science test! In the afternoon we did P.E.

On Tuesday we did more tests in the morning which were long writing, short writing and spelling. In the afternoon we sat at our desks and desighned our movie posters.

On Wednesday we did even more tests which was just a reading test which had some questions that were quite challenging. In the afternoon(after lunch) we did P.E. which was fun. We trained for the Borough Sports and did javelin throwing as well as long jump. On Thursday we had two more tests which were the maths A and Mental Maths. We are currently having a tanks competition.

On the last day of the week, Friday, we did our last sats test which was maths B. In the afternoon we had a year 6 party while other peolple had golden time. It was great!

Written by Ecko and Jack

 

 6M - Mr Martin - We've made it!  The children have worked extremely hard and deserve a good rest.

In preparation for a our new topic of monsters, we are appealing for old newspapers.  Please can you bring these in from next week.  Don't forget we would also like to see your stuffed toys for our DT project.

 

 

A huge thank you from the year 6 team to all the children for their efforts this week.

 

So that brings a busy week to a close. One more week before half term

 

Enjoy your FA Cup weekend

 

Come on Pompey