Feedback Needed !!   

As we are at the end of the Summer half term can I please ask readers of the Darlinghurst BLOG for some feedback please.

What do you think of it?

If you like or even dislike the way we do things, could you please let us know via our guestbook, which can be found here. Your opinions are important to us, it would be great to hear them.

Thank you very much    

So, what has been happening during the last week of half term at Darlinghurst Primary and Nursery School?

RW - Mrs Weston - RW have come to the end of our Patterns theme. This week, we made clay animals then painted them with their appropriate patterns. We played the 'Flower game' with our high frequency words and solved addition and subtraction problems involving numbers from 1-20. We sorted healthy and unhealthy foods into a Venn Diagram and talked about the physical exercise we could do to keep healthy. We also turned our role play area into a 'Bat cave' where we sit quietly and read books with torches.

RM - Mrs MacIntosh - RM have done lots of creative activities this week - they have made jungle animals out of clay and painted them and have also taken part in a competition where they drew a picture of themselves playing in our outdoor area. The children are really enjoying being outside so much in this lovely sunny but cooler weather.  RW and RM have also done music patterns this week, with instruments. I hope you have a lovely half term holiday and look forward to seeing you all for the last leg of the year!! Mrs McIntosh

1B - Mrs Barrington - We have really enjoyed our animal topic this term and have learnt so much..  We are really good  at reading animal poems and each of us has our own  favourite.  This week we also looked at bible stories from the old testament that included animals. The children have enjoyed  reading The Owl and the Pussy Cat  a classic poem written by Edward Lear.

To finish the week Mrs Thompson took the children outside for an animal picnic, this was really enjoyable and we have some great photos which will be on display at our class assembly on Fri 13th June. 

I have given each child a slip which explains what clothing will be needed for our class assembly.  If you have any problems getting the items please let me know.

Next term our topic will be The Seaside Past and Present  this is a lovely topic and leads way to some great trips out and about to the beach and Maldon. 

Have an great half term!

 

2/1B - Miss Bernard - Hello everybody!

 

I would like to congratulate you all, again for your sensible and grown up attitudes towards your long writing SATS task. You were all very focussed for quite a length of time and I am very proud of the effort you all made with your recounts of our visit to Ashlyns Farm. As with your postcards I am really looking forward to reading them all. The ones I have looked at so far are great!

Other than our SATS, you have made some brilliant animal masks, based on our trip with Student Teacher Miss Kenway, they are going to make a fantastic display in our class. At this point I would like to thank Miss Kenway, who has been working in our class for the past 4 weeks. The children have enjoyed having her here and I wish her luck with her studies.

Next half term we are going to be finding out all about "The Seaside". So, children, it would be great if you could find out as much as you can about the history of the local area. If you have any books, toys or any thing else about the seaside it would brilliant if you could bring them in to help with our learning.

We are also planning to go to the seaside at the end of the term. We normally have a great time and every year the sun shines for us, so fingers crossed!!

 

I hope that you all enjoy you week off, I know that I will.

 

Have fun and keep yourselves safe! - Miss Bernard

 

2/1D - Mrs Dutton - We have had a great fun week to finish our topic of 'Materials'. We have been thinking about how a very low temperature can change some materials so we put many different materials into the freezer to see what would happen after first making our predictions. To investigate how some foods can change, we also made and ate vanilla ice cream! We have also thought about how the wooden and straw buildings in 1666 burnt in the Great Fire of London by making up and acting out short dramas which were very entertaining! We have also finished writing about our trip to Ashlyn's Farm and we have started to subrract a 1 digit number from a 3 digit number. Have a good half term holiday everyone.

 

3S - Miss Slann - OH MY GOODNESS!!! What a fun week we've had creating and making our Viking museum ready for today and our visitors. We researched all week about the Viking way of life and thought about what activities would be fun to have in a working museum. Today the museum opened and we had lots of visitors come and watch and join in with making WANTED posters, wrestling our champion warrior Jade the Fierce, trying Viking bread, making helmets or rune stones and other fantastic activities. Both classes have worked tremendously hard and I think you have all learnt a lot from actually running the museum, well done!!! Have a great half term and don't forget your dinosaur research!

 

3P - Miss Peacher - Oh my what a week!!!!! Year 3 have been on special instructions this week from Archie Ollogyst, the curator of the Living History Dept. at The British Museum. They were asked to set up a living museum to show what life was like in Viking times. We had to plan what would be at the museum, advertise it and create all of the props etc. so we have been very busy. Well done parents for some creative last minute costumes! Thank you to everyone who visited the museum. It was a real success and we had some wonderful feedback. Thank again for your support.   

 

4B - Miss Bolton - What a busy final week of this half term!

I have to say, I don't think I've ever had such a tidy class of children before. The end of term tray clear outs didn't take long at all with very little 'mess' coming out of them! However, despite doing this job regularly, a piece of Christmas work was still found in one tray!

The highlight of the week has definitely been out Bring and Buy Sale. Myself and Mr Bird did very little, with the children from both classes organising all the stuff that had come in and doing a fantastic job of laying it all out in the hall and pricing it up. From watching those that were selling, I think we might need to call Alan Sugar and tell him we have some budding business men and woman in year 4.

We raised a total of £180.18 from the sale bringing the grand total very close to the £350 that we need to bring the price of Kentwell Hall to £15 each. One more fundraising event after half term should do it.

Thank you all so much for your support with our fundraising and hope you all have a good half term.

 

4AB - Mr Bird + Mrs Amran - 4A/B I would like to start by thanking all those who donated items for the 'bring and buy' sale and those who purchased goods on Thursday.The whole process has enhanced the children's understanding of another aspect of 'real life' skills.

The class had fun experimenting with practical maths outside but do not get them to give you directions in French as it did take quite a time for the translation phase. However, maths in French is a big step forward and they all met the challenge.

The patterns for the children's Tudor outfits will be available on the Monday they return to school. Unfortunately it was not possible to attach the patterns to this document at the moment. Please do not hesitate to see me any afternoon of the week the children return if there is anything else you would like to know about their costumes.

Just to confirm there is no homework set for the holiday but please encourage them to continue reading throughout the break.

 

5J - Mrs Johnston - What super stars you are 5J.  The performance went really well - all the hard work paid off. 

It might not be the summer holidays yet but you certainly deserve a rest over half term.

We wonder what fun and mayhem we will have when you come back!

 

5D - Mr Duff - This week I am only going to mention one thing, the Year 5 play. All of you were fantastic. The songs, your lines, the dancing, the men in tights (I shall say no more) !! Have a great week off and please remember to have your heads screwed on tightly on your return. The second half of the Summer term is just over 7 weeks long and is an important one. Enjoy your break and be safe.

 

6T - Mr Martin - We thoroughly enjoyed our art excursion to Old Leigh on Thursday, 22nd May.  You are probably aware that our school has been selected to provide artwork for the new medical centre at the top of Pavilion Drive.  The theme of the artwork is images to incapsulate Leigh - hence our visit.

 

Don't forget it is the Southend Airshow this bank holiday weekend. More information about this can be found here.

 

Enjoy your half term break.

Be safe