Year 4 are trying to raise money in order to subsidize a school trip to Kentwell Hall. They have thought of many fundraising ideas, many of which included making and selling food. This is all well and good but seeing that my classroom is opposite to 4B, the smell of freshly made popcorn, biscuits and flapjacks is driving me insane. At the moment I am trying to eat more heathily and this is just not helping ! So please support their next venture, which is a bring and buy sale, and put me out of my misery.

                     

They are looking for old toys, games, soft toys, books, ornaments, nic-naks, cd's, un-used computer/playstation/psp/xbox games etc. Anything and everything welcome as long as it is clean, in good condition and full working order. All items to be handed into 4B. Thanks for all your help !

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

RW - Mrs Weston - RW have been continuing their pattern work this week. We have painted a tiger pattern, looked at repeating patterns in music and have made a repeating shape pattern in the ICT suite. We have all been trying really hard to write our tricky words into sentences during our Literacy lessons and have been focusing on the different vocabulary to do with subtraction in Numeracy. We also played ‘tricky word’ and ‘number subtraction’ bingo which the children really enjoyed. Table tennis continued this week and Mrs Weston was very impressed with some of the children’s coordination in this lesson.

RM - Mrs Cooper - What a wonderful week we have had in RM this week.  We have been painting tiger stripes in readiness for our new jungle role play area.  Our Midday Assistant Wendy came in and showed us her snake, Tango.  Most of the children stroked the snake and some children were brave enough to even hold the snake. We have also been looking at shapes and If you come into our class room you will also see our giant shape robot. 

On Friday we were very lucky enough to have Mr Duff’s class come in and share books with us.  Our children really enjoyed sharing books with the older children and are looking forward to them coming in every week - Mrs Cooper

1B - Mrs Barrington - Yes! Class 1B are continuing their work with animals.  In ICT we logged onto the RSPCA website.  It is a child friendly website and has lots to keep the children entertained.  As a class we watched the video about an RSPCA inspector.  This prompted lots of questions and discussion.  The children are producing some good factual writing relating to animals and l am looking forward to reading their homework sentences over the weekend.

The children became very confident at counting in tens during numeracy, this week we focused on tens and units which proved a little tricky to begin with.

2/1B - Mrs Dutton - We have had great fun this week finding out how to find a half and a quarter of shapes, numbers and amounts of money and we are getting very good at it. We have also been writing our own 'Marvellous Medicines'  with some very odd ingredients! We have been thinking about natural and man- made materials and sorting different materials. It was lovely to meet so many families at parents consultations too.

2/1B - Miss Bernard - Hello everybody!

This week the children have been writing their "Marvellous Medicine" stories and some of them have come up with some great ideas. Aaliyah is making her medicine for her sister because she is a "brute!", great vocabulary Aaliyah. Kaya is making her medicine for me and as she has not finished yet I have to wait to find out what she's got in store for me. The children really enjoyed listening to the story and this has inspired their writing.
 
In numeracy we have been investigating 2 and 3D shapes. The children have been very good at describing them. I have to mention Kaya again. You were excellent at drawing hidden shapes that I described, well done!!
 
Next week, linking with our Materials topic we are making a cake. We are investigating how materials change when they are heated up. I'm sure you'll all enjoy that experiment! In numeracy we will looking at numbers that make 10, 20 and 100. So get practising your number bonds!! In Literacy we are actually starting our SATS writing with a short task and I can not tell you what that is about, but I'm sure that you will all do well.
 
Enjoy your long weekend. I know I will!! - Miss Bernard
 
3P - Mrs Peacher - Class 3P have started their spooky story writing project and have been having a wicked time, ha ha ha ha!!! Don't have nightmares kids!! We also dissected some flowers this week and the children found it very interesting. It was very nice to have Nayeem back with us on Wednesday afternoon and he seemed to really enjoy being back with his friends. We wish him a speedy recovery now so that he can return to school full time as soon as possible.Also Mrs Peachers dog King will be an honourary member of 3P when he visits on Friday.
 
4AB - Mr Bird + Mrs Amran - This has been another week where the children have applied their theory knowledge to real life situatuations and yet again they have demonstrated their business acumen. Now that they have started to show their true potential you should be able get them to cook flapjacks to go with the popcorn and work out profit margins, ratios and pricing strategies. 
We are thinking about sending a team to the Dragon's Den as they should do very well with their sales pitch.
 
Thank you to all those parents who were able to attend the consultations this week.
 
4B - Miss Bolton -This week seems to have flown past! Its been a challenging week with work all round too. In Literacy, we have been studying the life and poetry of Rudyard Kipling and in Numeracy, worded problems. The class have really risen to the challenges and have achieved some good results.
Tuesday we made about a 100 flapjacks and sold them on Wednesday as the fundraising continues. It got our best profit yet at £76. Grand total raised now is £136. We're a third of the way there already! It is good fun and is also generating a lot of real life maths too. Although, I don't think the school cleaners saw it as fun that evening, as there were flapjack crumbs throughout the whole building!
Thank you for all the 'Bring and Buy Sale' stuff that has come in already. Please help spread the word to other families in the school, the more stuff we get, the better.
Have a good long bank holiday weekend. See you all on Tuesday. 
 
5J - Mrs Johnston - Isn't science wonderful!  On Thursday, some of the children were startled by the noisy thunderstorm. We reserached thunder so now the children know all about especially that light travels faster than sound.  We proved this rather dramatically today.  We sent several children to the end of the field to clap their hands.  At the school end of the field, the children were surprised that they could see their friends clapping but the heard the sound afterwards.  Try it for yourselves at the park!
 
5D - Mr Duff - Firstly I would like to say thank you to the parents that I saw on Tuesday and Wednesday. It was really nice to share the great things your children have been doing. Secondly, I would like to say well done to all the children that took the maths test on the new computer system we are trialing at the moment. You were so engrossed in what you were doing I had to call Mrs Chatterton in to show her how well you were working. We could hear you brains working! Your results also confirmed this. Well done !! Enjoy your long weekend and I will see you on Tuesday morning !
 
6HC - Mr Hautler - This week we have been doing science ,maths ,and literacy practice tests galore! These tests are to get us up and ready to go for our year six sats which we have all been dreading. So far we have done five practice tests. We will all have a ckearer idea about what our current levels are.
 
Also, we have been filming and creating our silver screen movies - great fun! There are only two more groups to create their movies .{We can`t wait to see what they look like.}
 
Next week will be even more revision and most probably practise sats tests. In addition to that, the afternoons are being filled with differant activities such as creating posters and having free time.
 
Over all this week has been a nail biting week as we only have one week untill sats! We are looking forward to having sats over and done with. 
 
By Lily and Connor
 
6M - Mr Martin - We're nearly there! SATs are just around the corner, so remember to keep up those early nights and good breakfasts to keep your energy levels up.
 
Chicken Run!  This week we have taken on a new project.  The school is going to hatch its very own chickens!   We have spent the week researching and designing chicken coops.  The brief was to design a pen which keeps the chicken safe from danger and comfortable enough to lay eggs.
 
So we have bring and buy sales, chicken runs, investigations into storms, spooky stories, just to name a few !
 
Busy busy busy at Darlinghurst at the moment.

Enjoy your loooooong weekend !
 
Have fun