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What has been happening around the Darlinghurst Primary and Nursery School this week?

 

Nursery - We had our first open day in the Nursery today, three Mums stayed to play with us this morning and one Mum this afternoon. Thank you to those Mums for spending some time with us, we hope you enjoyed yourselves. We have are having another Nursery open day on Friday 27th so hopefully we shall have some more visitors then.

Reception - This week we have been thinking about animals in Autumn. We have talked about them having less food to eat and we made fat balls to feed to the birds in our outside play area and  we have hibernated our tortiose puppet with lots of straw to keep him warm. We also enjoyed going on an Autumn listening walk to listen for other animals, but our teachers think we may have frightened them away!

1B - Mrs Barrington - Class 1B are the best shape sorters.  We know so much about 2D shapes.  We even know the name of a ten sided shape do you?  Let us know!  Alex enjoyed singing Miss Polly had a Dolly.  We hope to record some of our rhyming work onto the podcast so you can all hear.  Watch this space.  Next week is our international week and class 1B and 1C are doing 'Around the world in five days.'  Look forward to seeing you on our open day, Thu 19th November.  Welcome to our new girl Holly.

1C - Mrs Collison - Hello Again!

Another interesting week! The children have shown me how clever they are at learning about the properties of 2D shapes and how we can hear and write the rhymes in words.
 
Here's what the children have said they have enjoyed;
 
Olivia W said 'We did a Cross Country Race.  I came 41st. It was good fun but very hard, muddy and slippery...I fell over!!'
Holly said 'In Science we did some dancing to find out about pushing and pulling.  I also enjoyed the Cross Country.'
Louis said 'I liked Music & Movement Club after school.  We heard a new song and learnt a dance called 'The Twist''
 
We are looking forward to learning about different countries next week and seeing lots of mummies, daddies, aunties, uncles, sisters, brothers, nannies and grandads coming to join in with the fun!
Have a happy and safe weekend.
See you on Monday.
Mrs Collison & Miss Slade

2B - Mrs Barrington - This week we have been learning about Remembrance Day and why we remember the people who have died in the wars. We also found out why we wear poppies - because they were the only flowere that survived in the fields where the battles took place in world war one. We made our own information leaflet or poster. In maths we have been learning about money and in science we are still looking at forces and movement. We did an experiment to frind out which objects fell the quickest. It was so quick that Mrs Grant videoed it but we couldn't all let go at the same time, so it wasn't a fair test; we got there in the end. By Ry

2P - Miss Peacher - This week class 2P have been learning all about Rememberance Day. The children made their own poppies and also wrote very moving poems about the symbolism behind them. In science we were experimenting with bean bags to see if we could make them move faster and slower. We also had a lot of fun learning our greetings in French with Miss Gibson.

3B - Miss Bernard - We have had such a great time in our class this week. I am very proud of the way the Class 3B have worked. We began the week with  maths assessment. Everybody worked so hard and tried their best, nobody gave up, well done to you all. We have also been writing instructions for each other to dress a Roman soldier. Everybody set their instructions out clearly and worked hard to improve on what they had done. As a follow up, we had fun programming the Bee-Bots.
We also had an enjoyable visit to the library, 3B were so well behaved and sensible at the library and on our walk.
 
We have also had a new addition to our class, welcome Shelise you have settled well.
 
Here are some of the children's views on what they have particularly enjoyed this week:
 
"I enjoyed working with the Bee-Bots because it was funny"- Yaa
"The Bee-Bots were fun to play with"- Olivia S
"I enjoyed the walk to the library because there were so many exciting books to read".-Lilly
"Writing our instructions because it was fun"- Aaliyah
"Making our papier mache bowls because it was lots of  fun and there were lots of sticking"- Connor
"I liked the Bee-Bots because it was fun"- Ollie
"Instructions was fun, it's good to do things right and I liked the library"- Fayeem
"The library was fun. It's fun to read books and learn to read for when you are older"- Kinga
"Cross Country was good because I came 5th- Lachlan
"I liked Dr Who & the Bee-Bots, it was fun when they shot at the Dr"- Ahroun
"Dr Who & the Bee-Bots, I liked it when the giant Bee-Bot attacked the Dr"- Alex
"I liked Cross Country because I came first out of the girls"- Jesi
"Cross Country was fun, at the end we had our photo taken"- Paul
 
Thanks for a great week Class 3B.
 
Have a lovely weekend. Miss Bernard

3/4L - Mr Lloyd - This week we have been looking at area in maths and we have found it really easy! It was also Mr Lloyd's birthday, he said he is 21 but we don't believe him!! We also had two new boys start, Lewis and David, they are really nice and are enjoying being in 3/4L, so welcome!! we also looked at the environment and how we are killing our planet, and ways to stop it. In english we continues looking at subordinate clauses and we have written some work using them. have a good weekend everyone!

5AD - Mr Duff and Mrs Amran - This Week we have been learning about area in maths and Mrs Chatterton has been watching us. We are also doing non-chronological reports in English. We have been having Bodycare in P.E. and some of us are going to do cross country. We have been doing scrap book style word documents in I.C.T.

It has been fun this week and can’t wait for next week! - By Josh + Rakib

 

5J - Mrs Johnston - This week in 5J we have been telling our class how we use ICT at home. We have also been learning about deforestation and what we need to do to save the rainforest. In English we have been writing persuasive letters using subordinate clauses. In science we have started a new subject about healthy living, linking to our science we have had a lady called Michelle come in for P.E. and to teach us about the body. She gave us a leaflet and if we had done 20 minutes of exercise that day we would earn a sticker. 5J has had a great week this week and hope next week is even better!  Abbey

 

6H - Mr Hautler - This week we have finished our Maths topic on BODMAS, and Also in literacy we have moved on from  chronological reports to autobiographies. aswell we are making calenders to a school class in France. Thats about it for this week.

Jack and Leon