Harvest Festival

It's that time of year again and we have received lots of food and toiletries donations, so a huge thank you for these. For me though it was all about our harvest festival assembly! I have got to say how fantastic it was. If you missed it, you really did missed a blinder. Well done to all involved, I am still humming the songs you were singing, very catchy!!

Today the children and staff put on their jeans to support this very worthwhile cause. A charity that is close to my heart. Instead of me telling you all about them, click here to visit their website. They have some very moving short films on their site, and after watching a couple of them with my class I know it left with me with a large lump in my throat. Ellie and Tom's story and Tiana and Star's story really hits home what today has been all about. You can go straight to the films by clicking here. Thank you for all donations.

 Headlines from Mr Knight

What a brilliant harvest festival assembly! Very well done to all of those that took part and a very big thank you to Miss Bernard and Miss Peacher for their hard working putting everything together. We have received several letters complimenting the children on their work – which is always very gratifying. Also thank you for supporting our fund raising effort for the “Jeans for Genes” charity. We have been supporting this worthwhile cause for over 8 years now and all contributions are gratefully received.

This week two new members of staff have joined us for the first time.The first is our new Site Manager, Mr Stuart Clark. The second is Mrs Jan Kimberley who is joining the reception classes as an additional teacher. We are sure that you will join with us in welcoming them to Darlinghurst.

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

Nursery

AM

 

Charlie K - We played with the scooters and bikes outside in the garden

Chloe - We played in the house and in the water

Charlie D - I played on the computer

George - We played with the fishes

Joe - We played in the house

 

PM

 

Alfie - I had milk for snack

Sophie - We have played with the bikes

Charlie S - I did a painting for my mummy

Louis -I played in the house

 

 

Reception - We have had another busy week thinking about 'people who help us' in school and the wider community. We have also been thinking about fruit and vegetables and our Harvest Festival and have still been able to enjoy the lovely Autumn weather outside. We are having fun in our phonic sessions, becoming more confident with letter sounds and are beginning to read first words. We have also been ordering things by size, thinking about things that are bigger, biggest, smaller and smallest. This week we have been very happy to welcome Mrs Kimberley as another teacher in the Reception Classes and we look forward to having fun playing with her. From the Reception Team.

 

 

1C - Mrs Collison - Hi Everyone,

 

I keep saying the same thing every week....but here it goes again!  The children have been superstars during another fantastic week!  They all try their hardest all of the time and amaze us with the things they learn!  The children have particulary enjoyed our English work which focused around the story 'The Cow That Laid an Egg' and thought it was hilarious when the baby chick said 'mooooooo'!  Here's what else the children said they have enjoyed.

 

Daniel said 'I liked practising my joined up writing in my new purple handwritng book.'

Laura said 'I enjoyed Maths because it was funny when I couldn't find any more addition facts for number 5.'

Reece said 'I liked making my face move.  I used glue to make my ears move and a straw to make my tongue stick out.  I ran out of time to make my legs move.'

 

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Collison and Miss Slade

 

 

1B - Mrs Barrington - In Class 1B this week, we have really enjoyed listening to and acting out the story The Cow that Laid an Egg.  Jacob Clare in our class really liked the part when Marjorie shouted, "l' ve laid an egg!"  Finlay Doyle had fun learning about addition and knows some number bonds to seven.  We also have looked at our eye and hair colour and the only person in our class with green eyes is Mrs Dennis.  Next week we shall be focusing on our senses.

 

 

2G - Mrs Grant - This week we have been writing our own stories based on the story "We're going on a bear hunt." Some of us have been to space and seen aliens and some have been to the arctic and found polar bears. We have also drawn scenes from the story and made some props for when we acted the story out.In numeracy we have been looking at co-ordiantes and the four main parts of the compass, and the direction the bear might have taken and the places that he visited. In science we have pretended to be in the bears cave and tried to find some of the things that were in the pitch black, but without any light it was difficult to find them all.

 

 

2P - Mrs Peacher - Class 2P have been bear hunting this week and have had lots of fun! We have been looking at maps and directions in maths in the hunt for the bear. We also wrote descriptions of the bear in English for wanted posters, but still we did not catch the bear. In science we were looking at reflective materials which would help us be seen if we were looking for the bear in the dark forest. Today we have had lots of fun (and made lots of mess) creating caves for the monsters that we designed last week.

Well done to my stars of the week - Cameron (English), Sharmayne & Rebecca E (maths), George (science) and Lisa (handwriting). Also a big well done too all of the class for their fantastic performance in the harvest festival assembly. All of the other teachers have commented on how well they did too.

 

 

3B - Mrs Bernard - Hello everybody!

 

We have had a great week investigating 2D shape and symmetry, learning about slavery in Roman times, movements of the sun and shadows and practising for our Harvest Festival Assembly. The children have worked hard and I am really pleased with some of the results. We are STILL creating covers for our topics books in ICT at least the children are getting lots of practise with their IT skills.

 

Here are some of 3B's favourite things that they have enjoyed this week:

 

"I liked drawing the shapes on the playground because I like drawing shapes"- Ai'sha

"Doing the topic book covers in ICT was fun"- Gram

"I liked making the 3D shapes out of nets because I like making stuff"- James

"Going out on the playground to draw shapes was really fun"- Chloe

"I liked doing the topic book covers, I like doing work about Romans"- Liam

"I enjoyed writing about the slaves because I like writing"- Fayeem

"I liked doing the halving (symmetry) ,I liked designing them"- Santi

"French with Mr Bird was good because I like learning French"- Aaliyah

"I liked the Harvest Festival because I like dancing"- Clarice

"I liked doing nets because I like doing Art and being creative"- Lilly

"I liked listening to the story before home time because I like stories"- Aliyah

"The 2D shape, because I like shape"- Kinga

"I liked the Harvest Festival because I enjoyed saying my words"- Connor

"Jeans for Genes day because I can't be bothered to get changed when I get home"- Jameel

"The Harvest Festival because I like singing"- Grace

 

Phew! You had so much to say this week children. I am glad that you have had such a fun week

 

Enjoy your weekend, Miss Bernard

 

 

3/4L - Mr LLoyd - Hi all, another cracking week in 3/4 L!!  This week we looked at rationing in WW2 and began to work on our ration books which will have tea bags used on them to make them look old!! We also finished our Anderson sheletrs and put them on the wall....they look great! In maths we had lots of fun practicing our times tables in 'Stand up, sit down' well done to Riley who was the winner and Kierra who came runner up! Looking forward to next week when we make our ration books and ICT when we make our newspaper front pages! Have a good weekend!

 

 

3/4B - Miss Bolton - In science we were experimenting about woodlice with deep and shallow water to see what woodlice would like best.In Literacy we were doing a newspaper report about a lady called Mrs Cooper in World War two. In Art and DT we are doing an anderson shelter. In History we are doing about World War two and a Ration book that has tea stains all over it. And we have been doing in Numeracy number grids. Oliver + Jayden

 

 

5J - Mrs Johnston - This week in class we have carried on turning our classroom into a rainforest.  We have made our own maths word problems based around the rainforest.  We printed rainforest animal pictures to go with the problems and have hung them up in the classroom.  We have been practising writing introductions to our non-chronological reports.  We have shared our homework about what happiness means to us. We learned the song 'Lunchtime Queue' for the Harvest Festival.  We spoke about Winter when we performed with Miss Bernard's and Miss Peacher's classes.  We all had fun. This blog was written by Tayla.

 

 

5AD - Mr Duff - This week we have been looking at column subtraction but it was a bit hard but it was fun and worth doing. This week we have also looked at supporting paragraphs but Mr Duff did some modelling writing on the board first which gave us some ideas and then we wrote our own supporting paragraph with our partners and some of us wanted to put a rhetorical question at the end. We have also watched the harvest assembly. It was Jeans for Geans day today for charity. By Amber and Amie it was fun all week.

 

 

6H - Mr Hautler This week we have been doing division and have started our narratives. We have also been learning about team work through team building activities. On Friday we had a special assembly about the harvest which was very good. We also particepated in jeans for gense day. The school had a karate demonstration There may be a club that might be on next half term. George and Jessica

 

 

6M - Mr Martin - What an exhausting week!  Now that the term is in full swing, we have been as busy as ever.  We are currently engaged in writing exciting narratives in english about dragons.  We have been learning some key vocabulary for descriptive writing.  We have been studying the Bayeaux Tapestry for our topic on Kings and Queens.