(sorry for the late update this week)

Walk to School 2009 is next week so let's make it a good one !

Even if you usually come to school by car, why not park a little way from the school and walk the rest.

Stickers will be given out and put on your classes chart - see how many you can get!!!

 

Quick announcement - whilst I remember, Mrs Grant has said there will be no dance club on Wednesday as the book fair will be in the hall

 

 On that note please remember the book fair next week. It's in the hall after school every day and it's buy a book and get another one free!! Can't be bad

 

 Headlines from Mr Knight

Well done to all of out Year 6 children for trying their best in the SATs this week. Having a week full of tests can never be much fun but the children have done themselves proud over the last few days. Results do not come out for some time yet but I am sure that the children have done their best!
 
We had some visitors in school this week looking at our bike sheds. Due to the fact that Southend has been named a cycle town the government has given the council a large sum of money to spend on bike sheds at schools. As you all know we have some already but there was a proposal to replace them. When the visitors saw the current shed they said they would prefer to renovate our current ones rather than provide us with new but at the same time want to spend some money on improving our facilities. Hopefully this extra money will be spent on putting a gate in the fence to the Prittlebrook path and a ramp to allow cyclists to enter the school from the path! fingers crossed!
 
 
So what else has been happening at Darlinghurst Primary and Nursery School this week?
 
 
RM - Mrs Collison - The children have had another great and eventful week....the weeks just flies past!!  We have been thinking about sea creatures and the children have found it very funny that I have extreme difficulty saying 'anemones'!!  Choice Tuesday was fabulous and we now have a family of octopi and rainbow fish adorning the classroom!!!
 
 
Charlie said 'I enjoyed playing Guess Who with the picture of a sharks teeth'
Olivia R said 'I liked the story of the Rainbow Fish because she shared all her scales'
Shaun said 'I've enjoyed playing with my best friend Loius on the computer playing number games'
Holly said 'I enjoyed the role play area and cooking dinner for the bears.  Their favourite dinner was pizza.' Have a lovely weekend - Mrs Collison & Mrs Thomson
 
RW - Mrs Weston - RW started their 'Underwater' theme this week. We shared a range of fiction and non-fiction books to learn about the similarities and differences between a range of sea creatures and at the beginning of the week, focused on Marcus Pfister's 'The Rainbow Fish'. We discussed the theme of sharing and talked about and wrote about times when we have been able to share. Roman really enjoyed taking close up photographs of sea creatures ready for our 'Who am I?' sea creature writing. He said, "I love using the digital camera and taking photos". We also continued with our focus on pairs and the children went outside to see who could draw the most pairs of fish, then count them in twos. Kadie said "I liked drawing the fish outside - it was fun." We also made tissue paper sea creatures, wax crayon resist sea pictures and even took home octopuses after our 'Choice Tuesday' activities. Finally, we played a range of fish and sea creature related ICT games on CBeebies and used the 'crickweb' website and the 'Leap into language' literacy games in the ICT suite.
 

2/1D - Mrs Dutton - We have had fun in our writing time this week; some of us have been investigating facts about nocturnal animals and writing a report on our favourite one and we have all written a letter or postcard pretending to be a traditional story character writing to another story character. This was great fun!

Some of our Flat Stanley's have been posted back to us and we have been finding out about their adventures while they have been away.  “My  Flat  Stanley went  to  Cornwall. He sat on Mr Bean’s lap and he got buried in the sand on the beach. It was  fun to see the photo’s of what he did” written by Gram.

 

2/1B - Mrs Barrington - It's all been go in class 1/2B this week.  Year two worked very hard planning and putting together an informative text on nocturnal animals.  The children had a fun musical experience on Wednesday with Graham, when they made all sorts of interesting sounds.  When deciding what to write on our blog space some of the children came up with the following; Every Friday we do spellings. Lilly-Rose   This week we have been learning about Judaism and everyone made a Torah scroll.  Samuel Lewis   Every Tuesday we do P.E.  by Taylor . 

We are also looking forward to the puppet show next week.  We shall let you know all about it! 
 
3/2B - Miss Bernard - Hello everybody!
 
Another busy week in Class 3/2B. The children have been working really hard, even though there are only 9 Yr2's in our class doing their SATs. The whole class took part in the long writing task which involved them writing about Night Time and Nocturnal Animals. I was very proud of the children because they were very grown up and focussed. They sat in virtual silence for nearly an hour which is not easy for children of their age. So far the results have been very encouraging.
 
Here are some of the children's comments about what they have enjoyed this week:
 
"I have enjoyed making oars for our Viking long boats"-Hannah
 
"Making oars for our boats has been funny because I kept making then too big or too small"- Charlotte
 
" I enjoyed putting soil in when we were planting seeds"- Evan
 
"The Science lesson was fun when we put lots of water on the seed and it overflowed"- Ben
 
"I have really enjoyed practising for the Borough Sports and now I can run much faster"- Scarlett
 
" I liked using the compass points when working on direction"- Alfie
 
"I enjoyed learning about North, South, East and West"- Josh
 
" I liked taking part in our Viking role plays about invading monasteries because it was fun"- Jack
 
As you can see we have had an exciting variety of activities going on.
 
Have a great weekend! - Miss Bernard
 
3/2C - Mrs Chatterton - In Literacy this week we have done some non-fiction writing on some animals that come out at night. In Numeracy we have been looking at the points of the compass and making some maps and following directions on them. In Science we have been looking at plants and why some need to grow in greenhouses and why they don't grow under the stones by the pond, because it's too dark. In PE we tried to throw the javelin but it was a bit windy and they didn't go very far - By Jordan
 
4J - Mrs Johnston -This Blog has been written by Iona.

 

This week 4J have been watching a black and white film called ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ and we are really enjoying it.  In Literacy we have written a biography about Walt Disney.

 

5B - Mr Bird - At the beginning of the week we did some miming for the rest of the class about a scary situation. Also on Wednesday we did some acting for an adventure.

 

On Friday the whole of year 5 attended Blenheim swimming pool for a swimming lesson. It was really fun and the water was absolutely boiling. Everybody enjoyed themselves so much that they can’t wait for the rest of the sessions - This entry was written by Molly.

 

5D - Mr Duff - Problem solving in maths has got our brains aching this week. I am very glad to say though you coped with the tasks and activities very well and even had some fun!!! In literacy we are building up to our narrative piece of writing, a story. I am looking forward to going over the fortune line next week and then finally getting to write them.

 

Friday was all about swimming. All of Year 5 went over to Blenheim and had a fantastic time. I will let the children finish this weeks blog with their comments about this:

 

I really enjoyed the swimming and I am looking forward to next week - Ed

 

It was a great experience for people that didn't know how to swim - Tom

 

I thought it was fun and wish we could do it every day - Jasmine

 

It was really warm and I thoroughly enjoyed it - Anna

 

6H - Mr Hautler - This week has been a tough but important week for us. It has all been focused on SATS. We had nine tests in 5 days, but we're really glad they're over. Now SATS are over we have many things to look forward to  including a BBQ which we have next week, the french trip, prom and leavers assembly.HORRAY!!!! SATS ARE OVER!!

 

6M - Mr Martin - This week in 6M, it has been a stressful due to the SATS!! We have had to do 9 tests!! That's loads!! We have had loads of free time due to the SATS, which included 3 films. We were also going to have an end of SATS BBQ but Mr Martin looked at the weather forecast and there wasn't very good responses!! Next week we will be back to lessons and we will be learning about Charles Dharwin. Finally the SATS is over and all that hard work has paid off!! By Jamie and Haleema