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Friday, September 25

Week 3 Autumn Term 09/10

by Mr Duff on Fri 25 Sep 2009 03:15 PM BST

Quick one as trying to fit in 417 things and I have an hour to do it!!

What's been going on this week at Darlinghurst Primary and Nursery School?

Reception - We have had a really happy week, settling into routines and gainig more confidence with new friends. We enjoyed having a visit from a Dental Hygieneist who showed us how to brush our teeth and talked with us about healthy foods and sugary foods.We also watched a builder using many different tools when he came to mend our classroom door. It was lovely to talk to so many families at parents evening, than you for coming.

The Reception Teachers

1B - Mrs Barrington - A very eventful week in Class 1B. Lots of things have been measured as part of our maths learning. The children loved listening to Owl Babies by Martin Waddell and also got to watch the story on DVD. It was great to meet so many parents at the drop in on Wednesday. Please note l am available by arrangement for those of you that were unable to attend. Please check the window by our class to see if its your child's turn for Show an Tell. Have a lovely weekend.

James - Enjoyed sharing his cd, Accidents will Always Happen

Jacob - Enjoyed sharing his cd, Let it Shine

1C - Mrs Collinson - Hi Everyone!

Another great week in Year 1! The children have really shown how grown up they can be and seem to all be enjoying their time in their new class...hope they are saying the same to you when they are at home!!

Here's what the children have said they have enjoyed learning about this week;

Emma said 'I liked my walk around the school. I saw cars and flowers and a sign that said 2 and a 0, that means slow down.'

MItchell said 'We had fun walking around the school. I saw a zebra crossing and my house and zig zags on the road.'

James said 'I liked golden time because we can play. I do like early work though. We learnt the digraph 'th' and its funny because you have to stick your tongue out.'

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Collison, Mrs Thomson & Miss Slade

2G - Mrs Grant - This week we have been looking at the jobs of people in our local area, and Alfie told us what his Dad does with the Ambulance Service. In Science we have been looking at the Sun and the Moon and how we have different seasons and why our moon seems to change shape. We have been reading a story about a turtle who is afraid of small dark places and writing out own version. In maths we have been doing about right angles, quarter turns as well as clockwise and amti-clockwise. We have had a very busy week.

Edward

2P - Mrs Peacher - This week in class 2P we have all created a monster and are going to build a cave for them next week. In maths we have learnt about quarter and half turns clockwise and anti-clockwise. We also did well with ourv times tables. Billy really enjoyed going into the dark tent this week. George enjoyed doing the experiments with light and we all became magic scientists when we learnt how to bend a path of light.

3B - Miss Bernard - Hi everybody!

In 3B we have taken a break from The Romans this week and focussed on Autumn as part of our preparations for Harvest Festival. We went on a lovely senses walk down the brook on Wednesday and spotted many signs of Autumn despite the day being so beautiful. The children have also collected lots of Autumn objects for their homework, thanks! Here are some of the children's views on some of the activities that we have been busy doing:

"I like the nature walk, the trees were beautiful"- Lilly

"I liked doing my art work about Autumn"- Ai'sha

"I liked my painting because I do loads"- Fayeem

"Maths, adding, taking away and counting because I love Maths"- Kinga

"ICT, Education City because I thought it was fun and creative"- Ollie

ICT, Education City because I like doing all kinds of maths"- Liam

Well done children, I have had another enjoyable week teaching you looking forward to doing more fun activities next week.

Have a great weekend! - Miss Bernard

3/4L - Mr Lloyd - Hi all!

This week in 3/4L we have been doing more work on our world war 2 projects! We look further at Anderson shelters and even began making our own! we also researched some top secret information for Winston Churchill to aid the war effort. On friday we played football in P.E, some people scored some excellent goals.

5J - Mrs Johnston - This week we learned about rainforests and we are making our class into a rainforest. It is going well.

We are learning about seeds. We went around the school and took some seeds and drew them. We learned about which seeds are dispersed by water. Do you know? If not, ask someone in 5J! The ICT suite is looking nice. - Blog written by Dawid

5D - Mr Duff - This week in 5AD we did lots of division and we learnt about rhetorical questions. We also did the bus stop method in maths and had lots of fun!! - by Elliott, Amber and Amie.

6M - Mr Martin - Another great week at 6M! We have been starting our stories about dragons
and have been studying partitioning and using the collum methods in maths.
In P.E we have been looking at mirrored and a-symetrical balances on apparatus.Linked in with our history topic, the castles and fortresses we have made our own Bayeux tapestry showing a recent event of our lives. by Anna & Ed

6H - Mr Hautler - Wow! that was a quick week. Time certainly does fly when you are having fun. We have all worked extremely hard this week and are looking forward to a well earned break over the weekend. Mr Hautler has said he is very pleased to see his class taking responisbility for their own learning by completing homework tasks on time(not leaving it to the last minute) and asking when we are not sure. This is good practice for Year 7!

Molly

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Friday, September 18

Week 2 Autumn Term 09/10

by Mr Duff on Fri 18 Sep 2009 02:18 PM BST

And so it begins!!

It's Autumn term 2009/10 and we are looking forward to an enjoyable, successful and totally entertaining year ahead.

Although we are only at the end of the second week, there is already a fantastic buzz around the school and we have lots of happy children.

Headlines from Mr Knight

We all seem to be back in to the swing of things this week. Life has been very busy with all sorts of things happening which is always a very satisfying way to spend the time.

There are lots of new faces around the school this term and a few people who have changed their role. Starting with the most important ones – Mrs Corfield and Mrs Gourley have joined Miss Churchman in our revamped school office and are doing sterling work in their new roles. Mrs Corfield is largely dealing with Pupil Matters and Mrs Gourley is taking responsibility for General Administration. Miss Churchman continues to be responsible for Financial Matters and is also leading on Premises issues. We hope to appoint a new assistant to complete the team in the next week or so. Mrs Collison, Mr Lloyd and Mrs Grant are now all fully fledged teachers and thoroughly enjoying themselves! Finally we have a new group of Graduate trainees working with us – Mrs Usher, Miss Wise, Miss Walkerley, Mrs Eastham, Miss Crumbie and Mrs Weddell. If you manage to remember all of these names – you are doing very well!

Last week Mr Bird and I held interviews for a new site manager. We saw some very strong candidates and offered the job to one of them. To our delight he accepted and if everything goes well we hope he will start work on 1^st October. We will introduce him to you when he starts!

So what's been causing this buzz around Darlinghurst Primary and Nursery School !!

Nursery

Lewis - we played with the dinosaurs Lilly-Rose - we played with cutting and sticking George - we played with the bugs
Nicholas, Joe, Katey - we had fun in our first week at Nursery

Gracie - liked playing with the dinosaurs

Louis - liked playing in the house

Sophie - did some drawing

Aryan - liked playing on the computer

Maisie - painted a picture

Reception - We have been having a great time in the Reception Classes, getting to know each other and finding out about new routines. We have started doing phonic and number activities and we have been thinking about ourselves being special people and how people help us. Next week we hope we are going to have some special visitors too.

From the Reception Team.

1B - Mrs Barrington - Hello and welcome to Class 1B's first blog of the year.

We are getting on very well and have been very busy and noisy. This week we have listened to the story 'The Tiger who Came to Tea' by Judith Kerr. We invited different animals to tea and wrote our own invitations. In maths we are very good at counting back to zero from a two digit number. Below are some of our favourite parts of the week:

Jacob - Enjoyed talking about the story

Caitlin - Had fun playing with the soft toys

Finlay - Likes reading his reading book

Have a super weekend and see you next week.

1C - Mrs Collison - Welcome back everyone! It was so lovely to see all our happy, friendly faces back in class, but no longer Reception children, Year 1 children!! How time flies and how the children have grown.

Here's what we've been up to this week:

Libby said: 'I have enjoyed sticking labels in my English book. I made labels to stick on Mrs Collison, Laura and Sid the skeleton!'

Ryan B said: 'I had fun playing word bingo. Charlie won but I found the words shed and food.'

Ryan C said: 'I liked loads of things! The role play was good. I pretended to trip over and Doctor Daniel fixed my bone.'

As you can see the children have settled in well and are really acting like they are well and truly ready for Year 1.

Have a lovely weekend and we'll see you on Monday!

Mrs Collison & Miss Slade.

2G - Mrs Grant - This week we have written about Mr Wolf and what he does during the day. I think that Mr Wolf would make cakes, and make the kitchen very messy. We have also been learning about time, (o'clock and half past) the days of the week, which we have also been learning in French, and months of the year, but not in French, yet. In science we have been learning about light and dark. Mrs Grant wanted to show us some shadows but the sun didn't come out so she used a lamp to pretend. And we got to go in the new ICT suite.

Alicia

2P - Miss Peacher - The children in class 2P have been learning all about time this week.

'I really enjoyed acting out the story of a week at Darlinghurst'. Rebecca Essex

'I can remember now all of the months of the year!' Aimee Wilson

The children have also been practicing saying the days of the week in French and are pretty good. Well done guys!

3B - Miss Bernard - Hello everybody!

We have had another fun week in our class. I am really enjoying my teaching in Class 3B and I can tell that the children are really excited their learning too. I particularly enjoyed our Science lesson where the children had the torches out and they were investigating how light travels. They had tubes, prisms, cards with holes and mirrors. The atmosphere in class was very busy with children so excited about their learning. Alex also went outside to investigate shadows with his sun dial which he made as part of his home work. He took Paul and Gram with him. They got very excited when it worked.

Here are some comments from the children about the activities that have taken place in class this week:

“I really enjoyed working with Alex’s sun dial”- Paul

“Working on Light and Shadow with the torches because it was fun”- Aaliyah

“Doing Light and Shadow because it was interesting”- Tayyaba

“I liked learning about Light and Shadow” – Ai’sha

“I like Maths, counting in 10’s”- Fayeem

“I liked playing the Number Bonds Bingo making 100”- James

“I liked playing the Place Value game with Miss Bernard”- Ollie

“Maths, I liked it because it was hard. If you learn it you will be very good”- Yaa

“I liked doing our Topic Book covers, it was fun”- Liam

Thanks for a great week 3B. Next week our main topic will be Autumn, remember to collect lots of leaves, conkers and cones for us to do exciting things with.

Have a great weekend!

Miss Bernard

3/4B - Miss Bolton - Welcome to a new school year and the first blog entry. Well, class 3/4B have been back just over 2 weeks now and although are a lively bunch have settled in well! We have launched ourselves fully into our first topic of life during WW2 and I'm amazed at how much information the children are coming in with that they have found out at home. Keep up the encouragement at home, it really makes a difference.

3/4L - Mr Lloyd - This week and last week we have been looking at World War 2.

First we did a timeline and a non chronological report. After that

We created a front cover for our topic books and a poster warning people of the dangers of air raids!! We then identified habitats and found describing words for them. We are really enjoying our new class and cant wait for next week!!

3/4 L - Natasha, Charlotte and Thomas

5J - Mrs Johnston - This week we have been researching our own animals for the rainforest. On Wednesday we went in the computer suite. On Friday we drew our animals and painted them. We also made vines out of newspaper and painted them green and brown. We have enjoyed this week very much.

Written by Mia and Alexia

Note from Mrs Johnston - it wasn't only the newspaper that was painted green and brown!

5D - Mr Duff - This week in 5AD we have been learning about column addition and about the rainforest. We have been looking at how bad deforestation is. We have been looking at subordinate clauses and trying to find them in our reading books. We have enjoyed this week and we can’t wait till next week!! – Joshua and Elliott.

6M - Mr Martin - We have had a really good week in 6M! We have been mirroring each others movements with different apparatus in P.E. Also we have created some collages, using all sorts of materials, to make a dragon. In maths we have been partitioning two digit, or three digit numbers by one. We have discovered how to write a narrative poem in English and we will be writing stories next week. By Anna and Ed J

6H - Mr Hautler - This week in our English class, 6H have been writing poems

In Maths we have been multiplying using the written and mental partition method.

We've done a lot of art. One of the things we did in art this week was making art related to maths.

We have to do a collage including the different elements of maths in it, such as shapes,angles and multiplecation. The second part of art was painting self portraits.

We are going to add a paragraph of writing about ourselves underneath.

Molly and Morgan

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