The countdown has begun!!! One week to go!!!
Where has the year gone, blick and you would have missed it?
Well next week is the last, so let's make it a good one. We have a Southend trip for Year 5, teddies bears picnic for the young ones, sports day, Year 6 prom and then it will be Friday before we know it. Don't forget the last day of term we finish at 12:30!
Headlines from Mr Knight
A very busy start to a Friday morning. Like lots of schools in the area we have been informed that several of our children have been confirmed as having symptoms of swine flu. That meant a hasty rewrite of the weekly newsletter and phone calls to the local authority and the medical service to check on latest advice. Hopefully the guidance given in "News and Views" will make clear what you should do as parents.
We have received all of our Year 6 SATs results now and I must admit that we are very happy with them. The children have performed very well - particularly in Science and English. Mathematics is still our weakest area but it is improving over time. In Science every child in the year group, with the exception of the one that was absent, gained the national level for their age and half of the year group did even better than that. Very well done children - and very well done Mr Hautler and Mr Martin!
So what else has been happening at Darlinghurst Primary and Nursery School this week?
Nursery - I played with the sand - Lilly-Rose
We played in the water - Tyler
We played with the doll's house - Luke
I played with the drawing - Bryony
We played outside - Beau
We played with puzzles - Holly
W played with the trains - Chloe
We had a bouncy castle because it was the Nursery Sports Day - Henry
RM - Mrs Collison - Hi everyone!
Well I can't start with anything else apart from the fantastic news that I will be taking my lovely reception class into Year 1. I was really excited about the news and I hope you were too. Class RM are a great class with such lovely characters and I look forward to helping them grow and flourish in class 1C.
Another hectic week this week! What with magic plane rides to Fairytale Land, making fabulous castles from a wide variety of different materials and eating delicious Chinese food, another week has just flown by.
Here's what the children have said they enjoyed;
Daniel said 'I enjoyed using the Beebots. I had to make them move forwards and backwards to find a castle.'
Kai said 'I have enjoyed playing with the computer. I put on the headphones and listened to Jack and the Beanstalk. It was funny.'
Samuel said 'I liked going fast on the orange motorbike and sliding down the slide backwards '
Laura said ' I liked pretending to go to Fairyland World, it was a shame I didn't get there because Captain Collison's plane got lost.'
Have a great weekend and look forward to seeing you all on Monday.
Mrs Collison & Mrs Thomson
RW - Mrs Dutton - My, how this week has flown! And this week we have been back in time! We discovered how people lived in the middle ages, especially knights, jesters, princesses and all things medieval! We have made crowns and princess hats which the children then showed off in a parade- very grand! The children also enjoyed the Chinese lunch, " I loved the coconut icecream!" (Cody) " I liked the chicken and the rice!" (Alisha) In I.C.T. we were able to visit the Cbeebies website and play games based on Jack and the Beanstalk. Looking forward to our fun and games next week before the summer hols. Have a great weekend!
Miss Porter.
3/2B - Miss Bernard - Hello everybody!
An other enjoyable week for class 3/2B, we have been doing our Dinosaur topic and we all know how fascinating and exciting they are.I love teaching 3/2B because they are always so enthusiastic about everything. They are helping to keep me going as my energy levels are slumping as we head towards the end of term. The Dinosaur topic is also helping to do the trick. Here are some of the children's views on the activities that we have been doing this week.
"I have enjoyed sewing my dinosaur motif because it is fun"- Molly
"I like the sewing because I have not done it before and I've got really far"- Aaliyah
"The sewing if fun. It is my second time and I've really enjoyed it"- Phoebe
"The sewing is fun and I don't think that it is too hard to do"- Raman
"I liked when my group went out and drew the dinosaur on the playground"- Natasha
"I enjoyed measuring the dinosaurs and finding out how many metres there were"- Josh
"Drawing the big brachiosaurus was fun because I got to draw a big line for it's neck and back"- Brendon
"Measuring the dinosaurs was fun, I liked measuring them"- Peter
"In ICT we drew pictures using First Artist. I enjoyed it because I got to print mine out. We ran out of time when we did our 80's pictures- Scarlett
"I liked ICT because I got to work with Emma and I haven't worked with her before"- Grace
"ICT was fun, I liked doing my dinosaur logo"- Ai'sha
"I liked ICT because I managed to make my pictures look exactly like my dinosaur design"- Mikayla
"ICT was fun, I was glad as I did not get to finish my picture during 80's week"- Hannah
"I enjoyed watching "Walking with Dinosaurs" because I liked it when the big dinosaur jumped up at the little dinosaur"- Thomas
Well done children, you have all worked hard this week, as usual. I am so pleased that you are enjoying the dinosaur topic. Really looking forward to having an enjoyable last week with you.
Have a great weekend.
Miss Bernard
3/2C - Mrs Chatterton - This week we have been very busy writing a dinosaur story. We have done lots of dinosaur numeracy using data. We started our dinosaur bags that Mrs Chatterton bought us for our end of year present. We are sewing dinosaurs on them. We looked at the Cretaceous period for history.
We went swimming for the last time, we have really enjoyed it. Niall
4B - Miss Bolton - This week in year 4 has been brilliant. The children have been working hard to finish all loose ends with work and we're done - with a week to go to. This means next week we can enjoy our last week as year 4 without any pressures.
The highlight though has been our trip to Kentwell Hall. It really is the best trip the children can go on and all loved every minute - apart from Connor who still claims last years Natural History Museum was better! The children looked great all dressed up, which leads me to saying big thank you to all of you for making such a fantastic effort with costumes.
We have collected lots of photo's and video's from this year and would like to give you the opportunity to have a disc with all of them on. If your child brings in 50p, they will get a disc with all from their time in year 4. It will include a full video of our part in the Christmas play and our trip to Kentwell Hall.
Please follow this link to the Gallery pages for a couple of photo's of Kentwell Hall.
4J - Mrs Johnston - This weeks blog is from George Gough On Monday we started by reporting the things we did for the school's 40th birthday. We then saw an article like ours in the Echo. My favourite part of this week was going to Kentwell Hall. I liked going to see the Tudor house and it was really funny feeding the fish. I also got looked at funny when I was walking to school dressed as a Tudor. In assembly we also listened to the year 6's talk about their trip to France, which sounded really good.
5D - Mr Duff - To be written by Ed and Anna on morning morning, please check back.5B - Mr Bird - On Monday, class 5B spent the first lesson talking about decisions that we will make in our life. It all started off with our task which was : Would you rather be, a Lifeboat Crew Member or a Famous Celebrity. Later on in the day we discussed our Southend Projects although it was not in great detail. We also had a session where we talked about Southend.After that Brittany told us how she had around the number of 24 pets. we also wrote up our reports to go home.On Tuesday Mr Bird went to France so Mrs Amran came in to cover. We wrote our thank-you-for-the-helicopter-photos-and-speech letters to Mr Morgan and Captain Juppey. we also touched on our Projects a little more.
On Wedesday some children finished our letters to Mr.Morgan and Captain Juppey. We had our reports sent home.
We also had English but instead of writing we played games in the I.C.T Suite.
On Thursday we had a look at some of the classes free written stories. There were stories about injured horses that were in the army, a girl who broke her arm and her leg on a rollercoaster and a group of boys who went to a warhammer club. After lunch we had a couple Volley Ball matches. Half the nuns played volley ball while the other half played a bomb game where you played catch but the ball was a bomb and whoever had the ball by the count of ten was out.
On Friday we did our spellings and tables tests.We all had a game of heads-down thumbs-up. Everybody joined in and everyone had lots of fun. We also had a first aid session were the casualty had a deep cut and the first aid-er had to check if there alright,then we had to act out how to make them better.
It was our last Friday afternoon in year 5 sob,sob!) and everbody had lots of fun
have a good weekend and see you on Monday.
RM - Mrs Collison - What a fandabedozi week.....but I'm exhausted!!! I bet the children have been sleeping really well at the end of each day this week! Helicopters, parties, dancing and more importantly jelly & icecream...every week should be party week!!!