Education City

At Darlinghurst Primary and Nursery school we subscribe to an excellent resource called EducationCity.com. The children have the opportunity to use their Science, French, Literacy and Maths skills via these interactive online activities.

The children (and adults) love it and now you have the chance to access all this for just £2 for the whole academic year. You don't get much for £2 these days but I can honestly say you get a huge amount here. Lots of people have already signed up (nearly 100 people) but if you have not sent in your reply yet, don't worry we still have places left if you are quick!

We have extended our membership to cater for this large response and we would do this again if need be.

For the people that have already sent back their replies with their £2's, all the information has now been input, the passes printed out and also given to the corresponding children. If for some reason you have paid but have not received a CityPass, please let me know directly.

I apologise if one of your children got their pass before the other but I had nearly 100 to complete and I did this as quick as possible.

I hope you and your children enjoy taking their learning home with them and any feedback you have about this please free free to tell us here.

 

Fantasy Football League

It's nearly that time of year again!!! I have opened it up to Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 and hope to have the biggest uptake so far. Not only do the children get the chance to compete against each other but they will also be trying to beat the adults within our school to become the Fantasy Football League Champion.

Past winners: Mrs Chatteron 2007/2008 - Jamie Cooper 2008/2009

If you would like to read more details about this, please click here.

The deadline is the 17th October - so you only have a week left to join!!


 

 Headlines from Mr Knight

Another week gone in a very busy term. Today I was watching the children while they were taking part in some drumming workshops and I must admit that I was very jealous! They were all having such a good time – despite the amount of noise that was being made by all involved. During lunchtime the drummer was chatting with the staff and he said that he couldn’t believe how happy all of the people in school were! Apparently in a lot of schools that he visits everyone is full of woe!

 

Our name is clearly getting known in the wider community because we are now in the position of having almost full classes in reception (we have four spare places I think) and no room in the nursery at all. If things continue as they are at the moment we will be oversubscribed which will be a great development.

 

I will not be in school next week as I am visiting schools in Vilnius, Lithuania. During the week the group that I am leading (made up of 13 Headteachers from all over the East of England) will be finding out about how Lithuanian schools are developing. We will also be telling them about how English schools work and the improvements we are making. I look forward to sharing my experiences when I return.

 

Have a good week.

 

 

 

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

Reception - We have had such a great week thinking about flat shaes (2D shapes). We have been talking about their sides and corners, thinking about what they are called and finding everyday shapes in our surroundings. We are getting very confident with them and can make good shapes with our bodies.  Unfortunately our visitors 'who help us' were not able to come this week as we had planned so we are looking forward to see them soon.

We have had fun playing with the toys. William said, "I like playing with the puzzles", Louise said, "I like cutting and sticking."
 
1C - Mrs Collison - Hi again everyone!
 
Another busy week...as always!!  This week we having been thinking really hard about how we use our senses in everthing we do.  We have been using our sense of sight and touch to recognise the value of coins and our listening ears to remember which familiar events from story 'Peace at Last' by Jill Murphy involved Mr Bear using his senses. Perhaps the children could tell you the senses that Sir Doodles needed to stay safe!
 
Here's what the children have said they have enjoyed this week;
 
Shaun said 'I've enjoyed counting in 10's.  I can count to 100!!'
Gemma said 'I enjoyed making price tags for my bunny.  He cost's 19p'
Ellie said 'I liked painting.  I painted a picture of my cousin Ruby because I like looking at her.'
 
Next week we are thinking about new beginnings and the signs that show us that Autumn is beginning.  Perhaps if you are out and about at the weekend you can look for some things that you think remind us of Autumn.
 
Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Collison & Miss Slade
 
2G - Mrs Grant - This week in maths we have been adding numbers by counting in 5s, 10s, and 2s, and although it was very hard I was very pleased with myself because I could do it. In English we made our own board games and wrote instructions for them. I wrote all my numbers on my own and Mrs Grant was pleased because the numbers were all the right way round. In Science we had to design an experiment to see what was the best reflective material. We then got to do the experiment and the tin foil was the best reflective material, it heps the cars see us when it is dark because the light is reflected off of it. In Geography we thought about the shops in our local area and how the big shops were opening and the small shops were closing. I think I have had a good week this week - Kaylie
 
2P - Mrs Peacher - This week class 2P have been making our own board games based around our local area. We had to write numbers up to 50 or 100 around our games and choose some squares to move on or back 5 & 10 spaces. We had to follow our instructions carefully to make our games. In ICT we wrote up our own instructions for how to play our games. Then class 1C came into our classroom and played the games with us. We had to explain the instructions to them. We had lots of fun. We also enjoyed listening to the drums.
 
3B - Miss Bernard - Hello everybody!
 
It's blog time again, it comes around so quickly! We have had so much fun again this week. We have been learning all about measuring length and the units that go with it. We measured each other to see who had the biggest head and longest arms in the class.It was funny because one of the twin's Ai'sha's left arm was the longest and the other twin Tayyaba's right arm was the longest. In English we have been learning about the life of a Gladiator and doing role plays to stimulate our writing for next week.Some children still need to finish performing for the rest of the class, they are so keen.
 
Here are some of the activities that some of the children have particularly enjoyed:
 
"The spelling test because spellings help you to learn about words"- Jameel
 
"Education City, it helps you to get things right."- Paul
 
"I liked Science because it was fun working with the materials"- Ai'sha
 
"I liked the measuring, it seems like fun."- Connor
 
"My mosaic work, I like my picture"- Yaa
"I liked when we did mosaics it's fun designing"- Gram
"I like this activity (mosaic) and everything"- Olivia S
"The mosaics was fun, I found out that I really like drawing"- Alex
"Every single activity we do, especially designing."- Kinga
 
"I like the gladiator work it was really fun to do"- Liam
"I like when we were learning about the Roman Gladiators- Jesi
"I liked when we watched the Gladiator film"- Lilly 
"I liked when we watched the Gladiator trailer"- Olivia K 
"Writing about Roman slaves was my favourite because I like writing"
 
Thanks 3B, I love your enthusiasm, looking forward to your Gladiator stories next week! Remind me to introduce to twitter next week and remember to bring in some boxes, tins, bottles, anything that you think can be made into a musical instrument for our Music Academy.
 
Have a great weekend children! - Miss Bernard
 
3/4B - Miss Bolton (Mr Bird) - This week provided the opportunity for the children to use drama as a way of examining some aspects of life during World War 2. They have really become involved and inquisitive about this period and have been eager to share some fantastic pieces of their relatives war history. I did have to stress that I was not alive during the War, although some of them looked doubtful when I told them that!
We have also participated in; an African drumming session, outdoors animal grouping investigation, French conversation - twice a day, practical maths word problems and some very creative writing on National Poetry Day.
With the rain somewhat interfering with playtimes, our PE was even more important and the children thoroughly enjoyed being introduced to a new team game.
Next week they are looking forward to completing their newspaper article in ICT.
 
3/4L - Mr Lloyd - Hi!
 
This week we have finished our newspaper reports and begun turing them into real life front pages in the ICT suite, they are looking real great! We also made our WW2 ration books using teabags to make them seem older, we put our names on them and they really look like the real thing! We also drafted up some morale boosting posters and read a poem called 'telegram boy' about WW2. Next week we are finishing our front pages! We also learned about Twitter and how to use it, its fun! Have a great weekend! - 3/4L
 
(N.B from Mr Lloyd....I would just like to say a special well done to 3/4 L this week on their maths work, their timestables have been excellent and they are really working hard...well done Mr Lloyd's Legends!)
 
5AD - Mr Duff - This week in 5AD we have done lots of column multiplication, Josh taught us he was good at it we have also done P.E. we finished our rainforest silhouettes. It was all fun can’t wait till next week. By Elliott.
 
5J - Mrs Johnston - This week we had to do something that involved how to germinate plants. We tried out our own experiment where we had to plant some seeds in different temperatures, places, amounts of water and light and dark.
We are also learning lots of times tables. By Eloise  
 
6H - Mr Hautler - This week 6H and 6M have been making maths boardgames and in English we have been writing storys about King's ,Queens and Dragons.In art we have been drawing still life pictures. by Jack & Megan