Darlinghurst Primary and Nursery School meets.....
When watching the online version of Dragons Den the other day, I was was very taken by a product that I would have loved when I was a lad.
I used to love playing football over the park and we used to throw our jumpers, t-shirts, coats or whatever we were wearing to make goals. If this wasn't possible, we would try and find some sort of mark on the ground and say things like, "the goal is from that bald patch in the grass to that weed."
This was fine until the ball rolled over whatever clothing we had used or went across the bald patch or touch the weed. If I were in goal at the time I used to say, that wasn't a goal, it hit the post. It was a completely different matter if I was the striker though, and the word goooooooaaaaaaal would have been heard for miles away!!
Needless to say, this lead to quite a few arguements and it wasn't unusual for the whole game to come to a grinding halt.
That is why I am such a huge fan of the product I saw on Dragons Den called Qwikgoal
Basically it's a set of portable fold away goal posts that can be put up and taken down in seconds. They are made of a nigh on indestructible plastic, technical name Exxon 75003, which have a removeable base unit which itself has grass gripping teeth!!
Watch the inventor, Giles Bury, explain more here.
Anyway after seeing this product I emailed Giles to see if he was interested in sending our school 10 sets of goalposts free of charge and to cut a long story short he agreed.
Quikgoal is now the proud sponsor of Darlinghurst's school website!
The children have already been using them whilst playing football at lunchtime and during their P.E. lessons and the feedback has been great. So a huge thank you to Giles and we wish you the best of luck with your product.
Watch Giles ask the Dragons for £49,000 for a 20% of his company, does he get it? Click here to see.
If you would like to purchase a set of Quikgoals, they cost £19.99 plus P+P and you can order them online here
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Nursery - We have been tasting different fruit in the Nursery, this week we tried melon it was lovely. We looked at the outside which was green and the inside which was orange, we also found out that if you plant the seeds they will grow into a new plant. We looked at different foods and sorted them into different groups like fruit, vegetables, bread, meat and fish, milk and yogurt, and foods we have as a treat like cake and crisps. RM - Mrs Collinson - I can't believe that another week has come and gone!! We've had a busy week again.. I think by the end of this year there will be some fantastic mathematicians in our class. We have been thinking about estimating and it has been wonderful to see how accurate the children are at estimating the number of bears in my secret sack!!
1/2B - Mrs Barrington - Another short but busy week in class 1/2B. The children have really enjoyed listening to The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson. They created their own Gruffalo pictures and then wrote some very descriptive sentences. The Gruffalo has sharp teeth. By Max Macdonald year 1. I have included the web site address which has lots of games and activities relating to the story. www.thegruffalo.com In numeracy the children have been learning place value, thousands, hundreds, tens and units. Whilst this can be tricky the children worked hard making three digit numbers. We are still finding out about The Great Fire of London and hope to visit a fire station in the near future.
3/2B - Miss Bernard - Hello everybody!
3/2C - Mrs Chatterton - This week we have been doing about the Vikings and some of us got to pretend that we were a Viking while the others asked us questions. We have also been doing some more work on our Viking longboats. In Literacy we have carried on looking at one of the characters from one of the authors we were looking at last week.In numeracy we have been doing dividing as well as odds and evens. In French we are starting to look at families. In science we did an experiment with celery and food colouring and the test worked really quickly, even before we could write it down - By Niall 4J - Mrs Johnston - This Blog was written by Sam 4J
It has been a great week learning about films. We have learnt how silent film became talkies. We have made our own silent movies and they were really funny. Thank you to Mr Lloyd for helping us. Now we are trying to put sound with them.
We tested out putting bones in vinegar and a few weeks later the one in white vinegar
went all bendy .Last week we wrote a biography about Charlie Chaplin now we are
learning about Laurel and Hardy.
4B - Miss Bolton - This week 4B have been learning about sound effects and how they were used in film.We have been using the 'easy speaks' and we are going to record some sound effects to put into our silent movie.When we watched our silent movie we all thought it was very funny.We have also been learning about 'talkies' and about all of the machinery they used to make sound effects.We all thank Mr Lloyd for putting our film together and making it look really old fashioned!We can't wait to do some more filming! - By Elliott and Joshua 4B
5D - Mr Duff - Only a short week but it was a very important one. With parent consultations on both Wednesday and Thursday, it was great to let all the parents that attended know how well their children had have been doing.
As a class you have really grown up and matured, I am very proud of you all. It was also very nice to hear the feedback from the parents as well, and I would to take this opportunity to thank you again for the collaborative learning you have been doing at home as well this year. Your support has been vital in your child's progress.
But Year 5 is far from over and there is a lot of learning and fun to be had yet, starting with swimming next Friday. A note be coming out on Monday but every child will need a swimming costume/trucks, towel and a swimming hat. A voluntary contribution of £2 per lesson will also asked for to cover the costs. The note will have all the details on there but if you have any questions, please let me know.
What else have we covered this week? Fractions and percentages, subordinate clauses, music workshops, Borough sports trials, football, French and lots more to besides! Not bad for a short week!!
Keep it going as the Summer term is going very quickly, two week left before half term. Frightening 
Have a good weekend and I will see you all on Monday.
5B - Mr Bird - Unfortunately the gremlins have struck this week and the first class blog which had been written by one of the children has disappeared into the cyberspace!
6H - Mr Hautler - Hello readers of the Darlinghurst Blog