Do Something Different Week!!

The last week of half term has got us "doing something different" in our classes. Numerous activities going on around the school including pumpkin carving, sewing rainforst animals and for some reason Mrs Johnston was building a river in her class. I'm not quite sure why Mrs J was doing this but you know what she's like!! Needless to say a lot of fun was had and I think the children enjoyed it as well

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The final week of a half term  -where has the time gone! All of the classes have been “doing something different” this week and from what I can see from around school they have been having great fun and learning lots. From film-making in Mr Lloyd’s room (my cameo part being the highlight) to X Factor in Miss Bernard’s room – a fantastic range of “different” learning activities. The children are all smiling and the staff are noticeably more relaxed which shows how much fun has been enjoyed. I love these special weeks – they are highlights of the year and an essential part of our creative approach to school. Well done everyone for working so hard all week and throughout the term!

So let's find out what has been happening this week at Darlinghurst Primary and Nursery School?

Reception - In the Reception Classes we have really enjoyed this week using the story of  We're Going on a Bear Hunt to think of activities. We have ourselves hunted for the bear,  made a comfortable home for the bear, we have iced biscuits thinking of the themes of the story, made dark caves to experience what it felt like for the bear and we have shared a picnic with our bears to make them feel happy. We have thought carefully about the repeated sentences in the story and enjoyed wearing bear masks.  Harrison said  "I liked the torches in the cave" and Beau liked going on the bear hunt outside.

1C - Mrs Collinson - Hi Again!

1B - Mrs Barrington - A change is as good as a rest.  Or so they say.  Well there has been very little rest in class 1B it's all been GO, GO, GO!  Our trip to Waitrose was successful and the staff there really treated us well by laying out a selection of fruit for us to try plus free goody bags.  Then the following day we took a stroll to Westcliff library.  The children now know that there are lots of other facilities available at a library.  On both trips the children were  very well behaved and a credit to our school.  Well Done!  Then on Thursday we would have made Jaime Oliver proud by making our own pumpkin soup with lots of healthy vegetables put to good use.  This linked in well with our story Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper.  To end the week on a high the children did their own dressing up catwalk show.  Now it's time for a rest and a super safe half term break.  Toys will be our topic for next term.

2P - Miss Peacher - Class 2P has been transformed into Darlinghurst Space Exploration Station this week and we have been exploring our solar system. We launched our space station on Monday following instruction from NASA. Then on Tuesday we made a moon landing and went on a space walk. On Wednesday we came under attack from aliens (thanks 5J!) which we spotted on our moon monitor (thanks Mr Bird!). We had to catalogue all of the aliens that we saw so we made them from clay. To finish off our project we visited the Southend Planetarium. After a week like that we all need a holiday!

2G - Mrs Grant - This week we have been learning about "Under the Sea." We have all given a speech to the class and they can be listened to as Podcasts. I talked about crabs. We have written poems about sea creatures, done some descriptions of sea creatures, painted silhouettes and even sewed some. We have also played with water. Some of us got to use a paddling pool outside but I had to do it inside because it was raining, again. We have also made our own creatures to put up as decorarions for the classroom. We have had a great time. Cameron O

3B - Miss Bernard - Hello everybody!

 

It's blog time again!

 

We have had a fantastic week in our Music Academy, the children have been really excited and very high all week. We have enjoyed it so much that we are going to continue for another week after half term. So far we have experimented with the percussion instruments, made pictograms, tally and bar charts for our favourite songs and types of music. We have explored some music programmes in the ICT suite and have continued to experiment with them in class. We have designed and made our own instruments which we hope to use in our class band. We are still writing and looking forward to producing our class rap. we will make a podcast for the school website when we are finished.

We still need to do our compositions and we are looking forward to doing our own Class 3B "X Factor" and practise learning our song with a message.

 

Here are some of the things that the children have enjoyed in particular:

 

 "Creating our musical instruments because I like being creative"- Martine

"I liked listening to different types of music for our tally charts because it was really good."-Fayeem

"The instruments because I liked making my shaker and watching everyone play"- Aliyah

"I liked doing our class rap, because it makes us learn how to sing music"- Jameel

"I liked it when we did our music book covers"- Jesi

"I liked making the instruments because it is good for me and I like the shaker"-Yaa

"I liked watching Fantasia because it was funny. The King was stupid"- Olivia S

"I liked making musical instruments because I like making things"- Nathan

"The ICT suite, doing Musical Mysteries because it makes me learn better"- Liam

"Fantasia, the King was funny"- Kinga

 

As you can tell, we have had a great week. Have a fantastic half term children! - Miss Bernard

 

3/4L - Mr LLoyd - WOW what a week in 3/4L!!......This week has been 'World War 2 movie week'.....We have looked  at all the stages of movie-making, pre-production, production and post production. We wrote our own stories, scripts and storyboards, then we casted for the film and Mr Knight made a cameo appearance for the filming! We can't wait to see what the film looks like! Have a great half term everyone!

 

3/4B - Miss Bolton - 'Do Something Different Week'. We love weeks like this, it inspires teachers and pupils alike. For some reason I had the film E.T on my desk and that gave me the idea to base all our work this week on this classic family film. The class watched enthralled and we had great fun designing our own aliens, movie posters and discussing what we would do if we'd found an alien in our back gardens!

Sadly we're finishing our WW2 topic and moving on to an environment topic after half term.

Teachers are already discussin Christmas plays and parties, so the term will fly past as always.

Have a good half term, see you all on Tuesday 3rd November (Monday is a non-pupil day).

 

5J - Mrs Johnston - This week was a really fun week because it was do something different week, we made a river and made our stuffed animals, some people made gorillas, monkeys, snakes and tarsiers.

 

5AD - Mr Duff + Mrs Amran - At the start of the week we did our writing assessment and everyone was glad when it was over. Once we finished our assessment we did a lot of halloween games, which were fun. I got wrapped up as a mummy and all the mummies had to rip out of the tissue paper as quick as they could. Everyone enjoyed this week. By Zakib

 

6H - Mr Hautler - On Thursday 20th October, Darlinghurst took part part in a football match. There were 11 players in our side and we we won 5-3. This week was also 'do what you want week' and we have been building castles out of junk. On friday it was non school uniform and it was lovley to see everybodys cool outfits. On Monday,  we blew up 250 balloons of all different shapes and sizes, just because we could. Oscar and George

 

6M - Mr Martin - Wow! How the weeks have flown. In eight weeks we've covered so much. This week we have completed our 3-D models of castles and learnt about their defence systems and general maintenance. We've come to the end of our fascinating study of microbes and now we have a far greater idea of which microbes are useful to us and which ones are harmful. In PE we had all the rumble and tumble and full-on excitement of dodge ball which we love very much and the Chicken Monsters team won the inter-class competition. We are all absolutely exhausted and looking forward to our half term rest! By Ethan and Adele