Darlinghurst is 40 years old (and that's older than me!)

To celebrate we have numerous activities going on next week ranging from a helicopter visit on Monday to a banquet on Thursday. It should be very enjoyable and I am looking forward to it all. Get a full run down of what's happened in next weeks blog!

Mega Bouncy Castle Event

As part of the celebrations the school's PTA has arranged a  Mega Bouncy Castle Event for Friday 3rd July between 2.30pm and 5.30pm. The cost is £6.00 for a wristband, which is for unlimited use of at least 12 Bouncy Castles. Sounds like fun to me, I wonder if adults are allowed?

 Headlines from Mr Knight

What else has been happening at Darlinghurst Primary and Nursery school this week?

 

RW - Mrs Dutton - This week we have been writing about what we would like to find in a pirate treasure chest and our ideas were very interesting. We have also enjoyed looking at the 5 Painted Lady Butterflies and drawn pictures of them. On Friday we released them to fly to lay eggs that will hatch into more caterpillars. We discussed how we felt when they flew away, Isobella and Finley they were sad because they wanted them to stay, Alex was happy they flew away to make more caterpillars and butterflies. 

RM - Mrs Collison - Hi there everyone,

 

Another fun week had by all.   The children have been very busy helping me with their reports this week and telling me all the things they enjoy about school.  We have also had fun with making edible pirate boats.   The children have shown me how very good they are at spreading butter, cheesespead and jam, so there is no need to make the children's sandwiches for them in the morning....because they can do it themselves!!!

 

Here is what the children have said they have enjoyed this week.

 

James said 'I liked eating my pirate boat, it had cheesespread in the middle.'

Ryan C said 'I enjoyed making a race track with the guttering. My red car went very fast when it was going down the hill and then it came out.'

Alistair said 'I liked drawing with the Thomas book.  Thomas is a little blue train with the number 1.'

Mitchell said 'I've enjoyed learning about numbers.  Mrs Collison put her feet on the bugs when we were estimating!'

 

Next week we are really looking forward to our school birthday party, with lots of learning about the 1960's through dancing, clothes and most importantly lots of lovely food!!  Have a lovely weekend. 

Mrs Collison & Mrs Thomson

1/2D - Mrs Dutton - What a busy week we have had. We have been counting in 5's, gropuing in 5's and beginning to remember our 5 times tables. In our writing we have been reading and writing poems. We have had the excitement of the butterflies emerging - we have discuss their lifecycle throughout and really enjoyed watching them. We released them on Friday morning to start the life cycle again. Some of our class also represented the school in the Borough Sports, Olivia said she really enjoyed this and it was the best part of the week for her.

3/2B - Miss Bernard - Hello everybody!

 

Another week has gone by and we are getting closer to our 40th Year celebrations. The children in 3/2B are beginning to get excited. A few children have been researching the 80's as homework for our 80's topic week. I'm really looking forward to all the things that we have got planned.

 

Here are some of the activities that the children have enjoyed this week:

 

I have enjoyed practising Street Dance because it is fun- Emma

I liked Street Dance because I am doing movements that I have never done before- Mikayla

Street Dance has been good because I know how to do all the dances now- Alisha

 

I've enjoyed Art because I like making my motif- Ai'sha

I like Art because I like being creative-Grace

I am enjoying Art because I've never done this (designing dinosaur motif to sew on bag) before- Evan

 

I enjoyed KS1 Borough Sports because I was competing against children that I didn't know- Ryan

 

I really liked swimming because I like to learn new stuff- Liam

Swimming is great because I like to learn new activities- Alfie

 

Our blog is a little bit short this week because half of the class were out doing shared reading with Mr Martin's class. Most of the class always have something to say, 3/2B have a very positive attitude towards school. That's why I enjoy teaching them so much.

 

Have a lovely weekend and keep on gathering information about the 80's please!! - Miss Bernard

3/2C - Mrs Chatterton - This week we have been having fun learning about Dinosaurs. We didn't know there were so many! We are writing a piece of non fiction. Mrs Grant got us to draw a picture of an imaginary dinosaur and we have made it out of clay. We learnt about the Jurassic period. In maths we have been doing lots of multiplying word problems, some were really hard. Mrs Grant helped us to finish off our Powerpoints on dinosaurs.

In science we have been looking at rocks and their properties and seeing if they are permeable or impermeable. We used lots of water for that! - Chyna and Connor

 

4J - Mrs Johnston - This week's blog has been written by Brendan.

 

Monday:  we learnt about air resistance and practised making the Darlinghurst badge for the 40th anniversary.  Tuesday:   we did Tudor work for a display. 

Wednesday:   we finished it off. 

Thursday:  we watched a DVD on Shabbat then we wrote about the main parts of it.  

Friday:  in the morning we finished the RE off and then we had a practice for Open Day and then we had Golden Time.

 

4B - Miss Bolton - This week year 4 has been studying Henry Vlll and have now almost completed our tudor topic!!!! We have also been practicing our logo for our 40th anniversary helicopter photo!!!!! On monday we created are own super-markets in numeracy and had the chance to be real shopkeepers!! In Art we sketched the school from various angles as part of the celebrations. We are looking forward to next week when we are having banquet and martial arts training!! 4B Reece and Harry

 

5B - Mr Mr Bird  - This week (on Tuesday and on Wednesday) the whole school had a rehearsal for the picture of us making the badge. Also on Wednesday, Owen, Nikita, Danielle, Phoebe, George, Rebecca and Molly all went on a sport leadership course and are doing so for the next 2 weeks. Everybody really enjoyed thenselves and had lots of fun! On Thursday we had a digital assembly telling us about contemporaily art and on the 4th of July there is a taste tester and on the 11th of July the real club starts.  

 

On Friday, an amount of children went to Mrs Chatterton to practice chords for the school song on the 40th anniversary.There were 4 children from Class 5B, Tavis,Aaron,Max and Molly. 

They got on really well and really enjoyed it.

 

5D - Mr Duff - To be written by the children on Monday!! If any of 5D are reading this I need volunteers!!

 

6H - Mr Hautler - We have had a very busy week doing a lot of work.We have finally finished our diarahmas and taken them home.We are also getting ready for more activities as it's our 40th week next week. The whole school had logo practise and we hope we do as good as we did this week. We are also getting ready for our leavers assembly.Although we are excited for our assembly we are nervous because teachers from our secondary schools came in to talk to us about our transition from year 6 to year 7.We have recently started making our buntings. This was a very enjoyable week and we hope everyone had a good week to. Chani and Daniel

 

6M - Mr Martin - 6M has worked really hard on their own topics this week, they have chosen sensible topics and making use of spared time.Year 6 pupils are preparing for the yr 6 production, people who didn't get the part took it well , the people without a speaking part are dancing, so everyone has something to do.They are all participating and we look foward to the production.