It was back to the 60's for us this week, with hippies and flower power it felt like an episode of Austin Powers!!

For me to type everything that went on would take for ages, so you can either ask your children what they did this week, and if they just grunt at you, please feel free to scroll down to their class and see what they really did !! Needless to say it was a fantastic week, that the children and adults all enjoyed. A big thank you to Mrs Chatterton for organising it, your hard work paid off, it was great  

 

So lets go straight into finding out what did happen this week at Darlinghurst Primary and Nursery School.

 

 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!!!

Here's what the children have said they enjoyed:
 
Emma said 'I liked the helicopter man.  He landed really fast and I had to run away.
Ellie said 'I liked hearing Daniel (Mrs Collison's boy) playing the drums.  I liked the catwalk and had to wiggle my hips.  I wore a red and black dress.'
Shaun said 'I really, really, really, really liked watching Mrs Collison Strictly Come Dancing, street dancing and then the helicopter came.'
 
Back to normality next week (well, as normal as we can be!!)
We'll be thinking about life in medieval times and making lots of mess!! Have a good weekend and see you all on Monday.
 
 
 1/2B - Mrs Barrington - We've had it all this week, helicopters, French songs, cha cha slide, guitars, street dancing, banquets and bouncy castles.  Oh and lets not forget the SUN.  Lots of fun and excitement had by all.  Class 1/2B are fully rehearsed in many songs from the 60's their favourite being Yellow Submarine by the Beatles. 
Kinga enjoyed art work by Andy Warhol.
Josh   enjoyed the banquet.
Klaudia loved dressing up and Mrs Barrington's boots. 
Natasha's favourite was the helicopter and Taylor remembered it was called a squirrel. 
Another busy week next week as year 1 and 2 take to the seaside, Yippee!!  
Class 1/2B say "LOVE AND PEACE"
 
 
 3/2B - Miss Bernard -  Hi everybody!

 

What an exciting week we've had celebrating our 40th year. The children have thoroughly enjoyed investigating the 80's. They were absolutely mesmerised by the Live Aid footage. We also enjoyed all the activities that we saw during our open day on Wednesday, especially the guitars and I was so proud of the children from our Street Dance club when they did their "Dance through the Decades".

 

Here are some of the children’s comments about the activities that they have particularly enjoyed this week:

 

“80’s week, because it’s fun and it was interesting because we learned information”- Hannah

“80’s week, because it’s fun and cool. I’ve never learned about the 80’s before”- Evan

“Live Aid was fun, I liked my work that I did about it”- Ai’sha

“I liked learning about Live Aid. I liked doing the 80’s magazine- Max

“I liked doing the 80’s adverts for our magazines because it was fun doing them and seeing what they look like”- Thomas

“Live Aid was great. I liked it because mum said it was a big part of her life when she was a teenager and I got to learn about it. We have a lot, but people in Africa don’t have anything”- Scarlett

 

“I liked Karate because my dad used to do it and it was fun doing what my dad used to do”- Josh

“I liked Karate because I used to go and it reminded me of that”- Ryan

 

“I enjoyed the Banquet because the food was nice and I liked the ice cream”- Aaliyah

”The Banquet was good, the lollies were lovely”- Kaya

“I liked the Banquet, we got ice cream”- Mikayla

“The Banquet was great, we had lots of food”- Ella

 

“I really enjoyed doing the Street Dance performance”- Emma

 

So, again, the children have had a fun, enjoyable week. It’s been so exciting. I almost forgot to mention the helicopter. That was fantastic!

 

Enjoy your weekend! - Miss Bernard

 

 

 4J - Mrs Johnston - This blog has been written by Georgie Kent:

On Monday there was a helicopter that came to the school field and the whole school was in the shape of the school logo.  Next, Mr Morgan made a talk about the helicopter.  It was very interesting.
Tuesday - we made musical sculptures with Graham.
There was a man teaching martial arts.  Only Years 3, 4 and 5 had a go.  We had to should loudly!
On Wednesday it was Open Day and lots of children performed in the hall.
Thursday We had a banquet.  We had to dress as hippies, most people made a big effort and we had lots of food. 
Friday - After school is the Bouncy Castles.  In 4J we have been starting to make a newspaper about the things that have been happening in this exciting week.
 
 
 5B - Mr Bird - On Wednesday it was an open day where mums, dads, aunties, uncles,nuns and granddads could come in. Even ex-pupils came in to have a look a round. We also had a guitar assembly where some children that have been going to the guitar lessons held by Mr Briggs, got a chance to show how good they are at playing. Well done to:
George who was playing Good Riddance by Green Day ,
Aaron who was playing One by Metalicer,
Max who was playing Enter Sandman by Metalicer and Molly who was playing a song that she (and Iona from 4J and Jamie from 6H) had wrote themselves.
Later on in the day Molly went on to play her guitar for the school song.
 
On Thursday, we all dressed up as people from the sixties. There was a variety of costumes including hippies, 60's nerds, Bobby Moore and a police man (Mr Bird)! Everybody took part in the banquet and after eating we all got either Ice Cream, Jelly and Ice Cream or an Ice Lolly - Written by Oscar
 
 
 5D - Mr Duff - What a great week!!!! Starting from the helicopter landing in the field and having our pictures taken in front of it to dressing up in 60’s clothing.
 

At Westcliff high school for boys on Tuesday we were focusing on our map and compass skills using their computers.   

 
On Wednesday there was the open day where our class preformed the cha cha slide and some people preformed with clubs as well.
 
We had our banquet with Mrs Cornish yesterday, who took TONS of photos!! Also we did news paper portraits of our friends wearing their 60’s costumes.
 
We had loads of fun celebrating Darlinghurst’s 40th anniversary!JJ   - Written by Anna + Ed