I would like to say a huge thank you to Belfairs High School for coming in this week and working with a large group of our children to produce some excellent animations.

Mrs Andrews, Chris, Lizzie and Josh turned up at 8:30am and didn't leave until 4:00pm and worked all their breaks including lunch!! It was a thoroughly enjoyable day, which the children loved. I know for a fact that I was very tied after a full, hands on day, so I guessing that the children were as well.

Here are some of the children's comments from the day:

I thought it was clever the way we took the pictures and put them onto the laptop - Chloe

It was fun – Michael

 Tesco vouchers !!

Sainsbury vouchers !!

 Flora vouchers (they are back) !!!

We are collecting all the above vouchers, so if you have some please send them in with your children. The more the merrier

 Orienteering

Westcliff High School for Girls came in this week and did an orienteering activity with a group of Year 3,4, 5 and 6's. They learnt the basics of how to use a compass and read a map, whilst running ! Not an easy task. However I am pleased to report that all the children that took part came back safety and not only that were full of excitement. They are looking forward to the competition that will be held at Darlinghurst next month. More details to come at a later date......

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

Nursery - The Nursery have been busy this week making Mother's Day cards. We made butterflies by painting one side of the paper and then we folded the paper in half to create a mirror print. We then mounted them on to coloured paper. We wrote our names under 'Happy Mother's Day Love from' and stuck them inside our cards. We took them home on Friday with our daffodils.

RW - Mrs Weston - RW have continued with their 'Growing ' theme this week by looking at how animals grow. We have talked about the names of baby animals, drawn and voted on our favourite baby animal (which we plotted onto a class block graph), cut out and stuck and matched baby animals with their mothers, looked at and sequenced the life cycles of frogs and butterflies, sequenced numbers along a caterpillar and shared a range of fiction and non-fiction books. We wish all the mums a lovely Mothers' day! 

RM - Mrs Collison - Hi everyone,

Another hectic and productive week has been happening in Class RM! This week, to continue our topic of growing, we have been thinking about animals and their babies.  I have discovered that there may well be some future scientists in our class, as many of the children have been investigating life cycles of frogs and butterflies. Not only that, but we may also have some fantastic future mathematicians, as all of the children have been exploring symmetry!!

1/2B - Mrs Barrington - Class 1/2B are getting so clever, they can now count in 5's, 10's and 2's.  In addition to this they have been learning about rhyming words and poems.  We had great excitement looking for frogspawn at the pond area and even more when we discovered some.  The children really understand the life cycle of a frog and scored 100% on the interactive leapfrog website.

Our big success though has to be the Mother's Day poems.  The children came up with many interesting words relating to their mummies and worked really hard at finding words to rhyme with them.  Interesting was the amount of children that associated their mummy with wine!  Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the spring weather,its finally here.

 

3/2C - Mrs Chatterton - The children have all finished their recounts from the trip. We are now looking at adventure stories. Oxford Reading tree have a number of these that are very useful.

In Numeracy we have been working hard on the 3 times table and now we are working on fractions at various levels.

In Science Mrs Grant has been busy setting up an experiment on teeth, they have been placed in milk, orange juice and coke to see what happens!

In ICT the children wrote time connective sentences on word and changed the colour of the time connective. We are trying to make the children's keyboard skills faster.

 

3/2B - Miss Bernard - Hello everybody!

 

This week the children have been working really hard, I'm so pleased with the effort they have made in all that they have done. I am so lucky to have such an enthusiastic class.

 

Here are some of the children's comments

 

"I liked working on our Anglo Saxon villages because it helped us to work as a team"- Scarlett

"We did very well on our times tables/division test. All of us had improved on out results from last week"- Brendan

"We made beautiful Mothers Day cards with butterflies on them"- Aaliyah

"I enjoyed writing our "Bring a Dad to School Day" letters"- Natasha.

 

Thank you so much for your contributions children - Miss Bernard

 

4J - Mrs Johnson - We have been looking at explanations in literacy this week and found that they crop up everywhere! Ask your child to spot the explanation words in this blog! I post the homework on the homework zone just in case the children forget to take their homework books home.  I have been very pleased with the class because when the fire alarm went off on Wednesday they left the classroom sensibly and quietly.  We collected frog spawn from the pond so that we can see the tadpoles develop. We received some postcards from Mrs Peacher and looked at the atlases in order to find out where she has been on her travels.  Thank you to the mums who came to help with the papier-mâché.  As a result we got more done than we would have otherwise.  I am looking forward to next week when we will be having even more fun!

 

4B - Miss Bolton - I worked out that this is the first week in the last 2 months that we've had a 'normal' week in 4B. That is to say, no special days, charity days, themed weeks, visitors etc. Its actually been quite nice.

In Literacy we have been learning how to write explanation text. Its not easy trying to tell the class that writing is not good just because it has full stops and capital letters in. We put a lot of focus on the 5 different types of non-fiction writing and what makes each one good. Each one has different features. Hopefully, it will sink in fully by the end of year 4.

In Numeracy, we have been tackling the scary topic of fractions! They're doing ok and we'll carry on next week. Any help at home with this, putting fraction in a real life context ie; with time, measures, would be appreciated.

 

We are also doing a lot of work at the moment on the environment and recycling. To encourage the children to get into this more, we are recycling lots in class. We have decided to collect and recycle aluminium cans. So if you have any at home, bring them in and we can start to see the real benefits of the amounts we could recycle instead of throw away.

 

5D - Mr Duff - We have been carrying on with our persuasive writing and looking at an introductory paragraphs. We had quite a lot of input on this and I think we are there. Next week we are looking at the next couple of paragraphs about supporting our arguement with evidence. In maths we are all angled out and will be moving on from this topic next week.

 

Animation day!! On Thursday we were lucky enough to have Belfairs come in and spend the whole day with us. The children were fantastic and thoroughly enjoyed seeing how much work goes into making only a few seconds of animation. Thanks to Belfairs, Mr Andrews, Chris, Lizzie and Josh, and we looking forward to seeing you all again!!

 

Here are some more comments from the children about the day:

 

It was very clever how we did it – Ed

It was really fun how we draw the pictures and photographed them – Rhion

It was a fantastic – Jack

I enjoy it – Sarah

It was really fun – Callum

It was exciting – Cian

 

Spanish Club - this seems to be going well and the children were full of beans when they came back today - here is what they said:

 

I really enjoyed the game – Sarah + Chloe

I liked doing the colours and numbers – Zhana

 

Mothers day on Sunday - I won't say what we did as it will spoil the surprise. All I will say it was an idea that Mrs Evans came up with, and I think it was lovely. Enjoy your weekend !!

 

5B - Mr Bird - Environmental issues are still very much in the children's minds, as you will know from the questions they asked for there homework task relating to switching off electrical appliances. They are now preparing themselves for an in depth investigation to check the school's carbon footprint.

 

Tuesday marked the final cricket input from our outside agency with the promise that when they return in the summer the skills can be put into practise with games on the field. All the children thoroughly enjoyed the sessions and are now looking forward to hitting a few sixes!

 

Some of the children have been introduced to the sport of orienteering and the rest will have the opportunity of trying this new activity out over the next few weeks. This has fitted in really well with our current mathematics and geography work.

 

A small group from the class were able to join in for an animation experience on Thursday whilst the remainder carried out some real life angle work outside. Everyone seemed to have a great time. This continued when the class participated in a Science Fair during the afternoon and one team managed to secure a place on the forthcoming event at Westcliff High School.

 

There were also successes for two of the children in a recent art competition for Leigh so there were lots of congratulations being given out this week.

 

I hope that all of the Mums are given a very special day on Sunday and I know that your cards and flowers were very important to the children as I am sure they will be to you.

 

6H - Mr Haulter - This week year 6 have been learning about plants and how nature has designed them to disperse their seeds. There are four different ways; explosion, wind, animal fur and excretion. Also we have been naming different parts of the plant e.g stem, carpel, petal and sepal. We have been to the allotment to sow different seeds and see how they grow.

In topic we have been learning about the weather and how to predict it . We have been given a weather journal so we can predict the weather each day . Also we have been learning what types of weather there is .

In P.E we have been learning dance and movement with the theme of rain forest . We have been doing actions to different  music .

Peter and Emmeline