24th January 2014

Reception

Over the last two weeks, the children have thoroughly enjoyed learning about the story of The Queen's Knickers and royalty. As a special request from the Queen, they have been designing and labelling a new pair of knickers for her! There have been some fantastic, original ideas. We have looked at different aspects of royalty, both past and present and this has helped the children to extend their general knowledge and explore new vocabulary. All the children and staff in Reception enjoyed dressing up as kings, queens, princesses, etc, and having a tea party in honour of the Queen.  We especially loved making and eating our homemade jam tarts! Thank you for your support with our dressing up day as well as the children's homework this week, we have had some great pictures and models of castles.

In maths, we have been working on numbers within 15, counting, ordering and finding one more and one less than a given number.

Next week we will be starting a new topic on Chinese New Year.

The Reception Team

1k

1K have been busy writing instructions using bossy verbs and time connectives. We are doing very well! In maths we have been learning how to partition our teen numbers for our addition and subtraction equations.

We have been busy on the IPADs finding out information about different types of houses, which is our History topic.  In PE we have started Gym work. We are learning to move across the beam in a variety of ways, balancing and turning too

Year 6

We have all had a busy week this week meeting parents and continuing to work very hard towards our SATs. The children are enjoying the adventures of Omri in The  Indian In The Cupboard and we are looking forward to seeing the finished projects at eh end of half term.

Just a reminder, My Maths homework has been set for the children and they have ALL been given password reminders. Spellings are given every week for testing on  Friday along with a mental maths test and a times tables test. Please make sure you know your tables year six.  

13th December 2013

Reception

It has been a very busy week in Reception.  The staff would like to say a very big WELL DONE to all the children for the brilliant Nativities.  We hope you enjoyed them.

The children have been participating in a variety of Christmas activities, songs and stories.  We have enjoyed a creative week with lots of glue and glitter!

The Reception Team

Year 4

The children have had a busy week trying to produce their best work during assessments.  4L have had an exciting week showing off their musical talents playing Ukelele in front of the rest of the school during assembly.  They did very well and the others children really enjoyed it!

In English, year 4 wrote their own newspaper reports Based on the story 'Stig of the dump'.  They were very interesting!  In maths, the children planned and budgeted for their own Christmas dinner.  They really enjoyed looking through supermarket magazines to find festive foods for their dinner, yum yum!

We are looking forward to our Christmas party on Monday which is party dress, and Christmas jumper day Tuesday ready for our Christmas dinner!

Year 6

Don’t forget the year six cake sale tomorrow…….hundreds of cakes and sweets for sale as we are raising money for HARP and Little Havens .The children have completed their half termly assessments and have done extremely well this term; a result of  hard  work and their incredible teachers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

6th December 2013

Reception

Well what a busy couple of weeks we have had in Reception! We have all been busy writing our letters to Santa and all the children have had a fantastic try at using their phonic knowledge from the last term to write their ideas about the christmas presents they would like to find under the Christmas tree. Well done Children all the teachers are very proud of you all. We have continued our topic on Winter and have had great fun making bird feeders to keep some of the animals warm as the weather becomes even colder.

As well as the hustle and bustle of our learning in the classroom, we have enjoyed our outside area, where we have been experimenting with the topic of winter and winter colours in our writing, drawing and painting.

We are well under way with our Christmas Nativity of 'It's a Baby', which you should have all received your two tickets per family for. Don't forget RW, RF and am Nursery will be performing in the morning and RB, RN and pm nursery will be performing in the afternoon of next Thursday. So not long left for us to practise!! The children are doing really well, but don't forget to practise those words and get those big singing voices out as I am sure all you mummy's and daddy's will be very impressed with our own little angels of Darlinghurst Primary School. Please don't forget to bring costumes in if you have been asked as we will be starting our dress rehearsals next week!!

Have a fantastic weekend, wrap up warm and don't forget to come to our Christmas bizarre on Saturday where you may be able to pick up some last minute Christmas ideas and even see the one and only Father Christmas!

 Thank you for your continued support this term, we all really appreciate it.

The Reception team

2C

Hello everyone!

Another busy week…we have been super mathematicians and can now use so many methods to find the difference and total of two, two digit numbers.  We have used bar modelling, empty number square, empty number lines and number squares.  We have also heard about Thomas Farriners cat and how he felt when he smelt the Great Fire of London.

Here is what the children said they enjoyed;

Ruby said ‘I loved listening to the story teller John this week.  He read us a story about Pirates which really made me laugh’!

Martha said ‘ In PE this week we performed a gymnastic routine which we made up ourselves. I have been practising balancing and jumping.  I made a rountine with 4 skills.’

Have a lovely weekend, keep warm and stay safe

Mrs C and Mrs B xx

Year 3

Year 3 have had lots of fun this week writing diary entries based upon The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch. They have been very creative and have shown great imagination. In P.E. the children were using Speed Stacks which was a lot of fun if not a little noisy! Thank you to the 4Sports guys for providing our children with fun and exciting P.E. lessons this term.

Year 4

Year 4 have had another busy week! Our favourite part of the week has been ‘Ancient Egyptian Day’ which was on Thursday run by a company called ‘Portals to the Past’. Mark the historian helped us to understand lots of facts and we enjoyed participating in all of the fun activities. Did you know that some Pharaohs would employ a slave to put honey on his head in order to keep the flies away from the Pharaoh! Some great costumes were worn as well on the so thank you for the support at home with this!

We are beginning to learn our Christmas songs this week which has been fun and we are looking forward to performing for all the parents at our carol concert. 

29th November 2013

Reception

This week in Reception we have been thinking about the season winter and with the sudden change in the weather it has really helped us think of some lovely descriptive words about winter whilst on our winter walks around the school. All the children agreed that winter was very cold and one person thought it felt 'like someone was biting our cheeks'.

We have had great fun thinking about how ice is formed and the changes ice goes through to turn back to water. In addition to this we have tried snow writing, exploring our new winter wonderland role-play areas and using the arctic animals in our small world areas to practise our speaking and listening skills. Next week we will be continuing our thinking and learning about winter, so please ensure all children have warm clothing as we will be outside, making bird feeders and generally having more exciting fun!!

Once again thank you for all the lovely home school learning that has come in this week. It's been lovely to see all the children's lovely ideas. Please remember to fill in those wow stars with all the achievements the children do at home so we can share them in the classroom.

Have a lovely weekend, wrap up warm and get ready to open the first door of your advent calendars!!

The Reception team.

1B

Hello Everybody,

The week has really whizzed by seems like only yesterday that we were doing our last blog J

The children have been very busy as usual; sequencing and ordering numbers to 20 and writing some amazing versions of Rapunzel with some great adjectives and interesting words. I was very proud of them. We also had fun investigating pushes and pulls using the Nursery bikes and scooters.

Here are some of the activities that the children have particularly enjoyed:

I really enjoyed learning in Science about pushes and pulls. We the bikes and scooters to help us- Marcus

Writing our Rapunzel story was exciting because we thought of different words to into it and it was fun- Charlotte

I enjoyed learning all about numbers to 20 because it was fun- Sharna

I liked learning all about the ones place and tens place in Maths because I thought it was quite fun and easy to learn- James

I liked doing 4Sports PE lesson because we do loads of jumping and running-  Rosie

Thanks for your contributions children.

Have a great weekend.

Miss Bernard

1K

Hi,

1K have worked really hard this week [as usual] We have been comparing old and new toys in History. Children brought in old toys from home and were able to discuss and answer questions about their toys. Those children who didn’t have a toy asked lots of interesting questions.

The children have been learning about place value in Maths and did very well on their test. They have also written some fantastic Rapunzel stories, using interesting adjectives and Golden Sentences.

2A

On Wednesday we went to St. Paul’s Cathedral in London because it got burnt down in 1666 and there were models showing the Old St. Paul’s and the new St. Paul’s.  The new Cathedral looks different because on the old one it looked like a castle and on the new one there is a dome.  We also went to The Monument and we saw the River Thames and Tower Bridge.  It was hard work to climb to the top because there were 311 steps and it was really tiring.  It was the best school trip ever! The next day we had a “project day” and some of us chose to make  clay models of St. Paul’s and The Monument and tried to add detail and improved them to look like the real thing.  Some of us made a game about the Great Fire of London.  (Lila-Rose Lewington and Chloe Machipisa).

2C

Hello everyone!

Wow!  What an amazing week!! Thank you to all the parents that helped on our exhausting but exhilarating trip…we couldn’t have done it without you!

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

Tina said ‘I loved the trip, especially when we walked up The Monument steps and The Whispering Gallery steps because I am not scared of heights!!’

Pheobe said ‘I think London is great!  I bought a pencil from The Monument and it had gold flames on the top.  If you tip the Monument on its side it will land on the old Thomas Farriner Bakery!’

Next stop….Christmas Preparations….CAN’T WAIT!!

Have a lovely weekend.  Stay Safe!!

Mrs C and Mrs B x

Year 5

Year 5 have had a good week learning about creating characters and describing them. We have used ‘hot seating’ and drama to identify characters feelings and show off our great questioning skills. This is linked to our book we are reading The Peppermint Pig for 5W and Tom’s Midnight Garden 5C. Ask us questions about the book and test our great memory skills!

We have been looking patterns and sequencing in maths, we have had lots of fun challenges and found lots of patterns. We look forward to carrying on with our class books

The Darlinghurst Cross Country Team ran against other local schools on Thursday at Garon’s Park. This was the biggest cross country event yet with over 1200 children attending. A big well done to the whole team who have been training hard and put in lots of effort on the day. Libby Mitchell came 8^th in the year 3 girls race and Taylor Banks came 9^th in the year 6 boys race, these are great achievements when running against 120 children. We would also like to thank the parents who came to support us on the day.  

Year 6

Year 6 have, as usual, been working very hard. The children have produced some very impressive  diary entries  and some children have progressed incredibly quickly with their writing. In science we have been looking at how our eyes work and had some fun when we looked at some optical illusions together.

Next week we are getting ready for more tests so children should be very quiet indoors for their parents/ carers as they will be busy revising.

22nd November 2013

Nursery

It’s all getting very exciting in nursery.  We have written our letters to Father Christmas and have posted them.  So fingers crossed it won’t be long before we get a reply.  Thank you for your continued support with saving us junk modelling items.  The children are really proud of their robots and these can be seen in our porch area along with some photos from our walk to the post box.  Please remember to keep bringing in those WOW moments and any other bits for your child’s learning journey.  Only 33 sleeps as Mrs Manley keeps reminding me!

Reception

This week in Reception our topic has been friendship and we have read the book Dumbo.  We have thought about what makes a good friend and how we can work together as a team. 

In Maths Mastery we have been thinking about using and applying numbers to 7.  The children have enjoyed singing 7 green bottles.

Thank you to all those children that completed their healthy lunchbox homework.  We had some lovely ideas. 

The Reception Team

1K

1K have worked extremely hard this week in Maths. they have been learning about 'teen numbers' and place value. It is a tricky concept and something we will be working on a lot.

In French we have been looking at the names of unhealthy foods ( as it was health week last week we thought we would have a change)!

English has been lots of fun! We have been concentrating on the Rapunzel story which we will be writing about next week. We have been looking at sentence openers, adjectives and time connectives to make our writing more exciting!

Mrs Kimberley and 1K

1B

Hello everybody,

Class 1B have had a very busy week and are trying very hard with their learning.

In Mathematics Mastery lessons the children have been focussing on numbers 11 to 19 and learning about Place Value. They had to work out how many tens and how many ones for numbers up to 10. They were then thinking about numbers greater than or less than using numbers to 20. Some of the tasks were quite challenging; but they all tried their best.

In English they have been trying hard to improve the way that they write their sentences. They decided that a "Golden Sentence" needs to have capital letters and full stops in the correct places, finger spaces and adjectives to describe people, places and things. The sentences that they have written about Rapunzel have been fantastic.

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

I have enjoyed learning numbers up to 20 because I like doing bigger numbers- Alesha I liked Pushing and Pulling because I liked playing the game- Theo Learning about Rapunzel and doing Golden Sentences was interesting- Charlotte I enjoyed learning about Pushing and Pulling , I learned that you can push and pull a door- Laura I have been enjoying doing my Shape and Pattern Assessment because I like my shapes- Nathan

Thanks for you contributions children,

Have a great weekend,

Miss Bernard

2A

In 2A we have been learning about the Plague and the Great Fire of London.  In ICT we created powerpoint presentations and designed different backgrounds to make them look old and used clip art and animation and searched images from the internet safely.  “I loved writing instructions yesterday.  I wrote mine about How to make a cure for the Plague” (Julia Watson).  “Using bar modelling to work out addition and subtraction word problems was interesting and new”  (Fletcher Price).  We used instructions to make bread just like they did in 1666 in Pudding Lane.  We are looking forward to baking it today on an open fire.

2C

Hello Everyone!

How quickly time flies when you’re having fun….can’t believe that next week we will be travelling to London!

This week we have been scientists and thinking about how we can make a potion to cure Mrs Blyth’s Plague!  We have thought about how instructions needed  imperative verbs and time connectives and some children even thought about adverbs!   Maths has seen us solve word problems using bar modelling, number rods and empty number lines….the children should be able to tell you what that means!!  Gymnastics has been fabulous and we have seen real progress with children’s floor work; they have been making routines using point and patch balances, bridges, rolls and jumps….we hope to see some of them at the next Olympics!!

Here is what the children have said they enjoyed…

Aysha said ‘I loved PE because I am really good at stretching my arms and legs when making a bridge….my tummy nearly touches the ceiling!’

Daniel said ‘I enjoyed PE as well because  I like to warm up and cool down so my muscles do not get pulled.’

Looking forward to seeing lots of you on Wednesday for our mammoth trip to London!!

Take Care and Keep Safe

Mrs Collison and Mrs BlythJ

Year 4

Another busy week for 4E and 4L!

This week we have continued our work on Play scripts and have designed a new character to be part of ‘Stig of the Dump’! In Maths we have looked at doubling and halving and have made our own number cruncher machines.

In Science we have looked at conductors and insulators and have had a great time exploring circuits. We have also learnt some of the days of the week and months of the year in French!

Phew, busy busy!

Year 6

Another hard working week in Year 6!

In English, 6B have been working on some fantastic descriptive writing, creating their own chapters of Goodnight Mr Tom. Meanwhile, 6N have been writing some excellent diary entries of evacuees. We are beginning to use an impressive range of vocabulary and definitely have some amazing authors in the making!

Maths lessons have been as fun as ever this week- we have been using all the multiplication facts we already know to help us solve new and more complex problems. We practised using lots of handy tricks to help us solve problems like 25 x 19 without using column multiplication.

Science was also very interesting on Wednesday. We made paper helicopters and investigated how adding paper clips changed the speed of them falling. They worked brilliantly together in teams and finished the session by performing their dances to the class. Check out the photos below!

Roll on next week!

15th November 2013

Reception

This week in Reception we have been thinking about staying healthy. We have thought about healthy eating and exercise.  The children have talked about the importance of having fruit or vegetables and each day we have looked in our own lunch boxes to check.  We have also had a selection of healthy snacks each day. 

On Monday we ate our homework! The children were asked to bring in a piece of fruit for a tasting session. We loved this! 

On Wednesday we had a visitor from a Bollywood dancer. She taught us some Bollywood moves and we really really enjoyed the dancing. 

It has been a lovely week. Have a good weekend. 

The Reception Team. 

1K

We have been working on 2D shapes in Maths. We have put our shapes into patterns and have even made ourselves into a repeating pattern.

In English we have been learning all about Rapunzel. We have written character descriptions using Golden Sentences.

As it is Health week we have been learning about the Eatwell plate and how to choose healthy foods. We have made our own healthy food plates in Design and Technology.

We have also enjoyed learning how to dance like a Bollywood star and the boys were particularly good at this.

2C

Hello Everyone!

What a fabulous, gruesome week we have all had!! Mrs Blyth has been poorly…she has been vomiting in class, had these atrocious boils and was covered in fleas!!  Mrs Collison and Mr Marsden had to magically turn into The Plague Doctor to ensure she was treated effectively by using imperative verbs such as DON’T spread germs,  COVER your mouth when you cough and  KEEP inside your house!.  Fortunately, she was one of the lucky ones and managed to survive this terrible disease!

The children have told me that they are finding column addition and subtraction really tricky so we have used empty number lines to add and subtract two, two digit numbers….hopefully they can show you how this is done at home.

Here is what the children have said they have enjoyed with their learning this week

Atiya said ‘I enjoyed it when Mrs Blyth had the Black Death and we had to make her feel better.  ’

Karter said ‘I loved learning about the value of different coins.  I know that 1p is the lowest value coin. ’

Have a happy and safe weekend.

Look forward to seeing you all on Monday

Year 4

Thank you to all the parents who sent in some fruit and a food packet. We loved the fruit salad and had an interesting lesson looking at food labels.

This week we have also been exploring ‘Play scripts’ and have been reading them and acting them out.

Next week we hope to write our own play script based on ‘Stig of the Dump’. In Maths we have looked at rounding to the nearest 10 and 100 and have played lots of games to help us to remember what to do. If you have some dice at home you could play a game too!

The weather has turned a lot colder this week and we have been wrapping up warm for playtime and lunchtime. Please make sure you child has cold weather clothes with them every day such as a coat.

Year 6

Well Year 6 are re living World War 2 this week. What with rationing, diary entries of an evacuee and Goodnight Mr Tom, we feel we are living parallel lives! In maths we have been looking at formal and informal methods of multiplication, multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000 as well as practising for mental maths………..keep practising your times tables please!

25th October 2013

Nursery

What a successful half term it has been in nursery.  The new children have settled so well and it has been lovely hearing from grownups all the news that their children are really enjoying nursery.  A particular favourite has been the Katy Perry song ‘Roar’ which all the children liked being roaring tigers to.   For those of you that have come along to our Stay and Play sessions we hope that you have valued sharing your child’s learning journal.  Please remember to keep coming with those WOW moments.  Our topic next term will be ‘TOYS’ and this should give you lots of Christmas ideas!

Reception

Over the last two weeks in Reception, we have been learning all about Autumn and the changes that take place in the environment during this season. Each Reception class has been on an Autumn walk around the school grounds to identify any signs of Autumn and this has encouraged the children to build up a list of descriptive words. We have been doing lots of creative activities, including, leaf printing, making a split pin squirrel, handprint hedgehogs and paper plate toadstools. The children also enjoyed making blackberry and apple crumbles!

In maths, we have been working with numbers up to 5, i.e. counting, recognising, writing and finding one more or one less.  To help us with this, we having been learning two great songs, 'Four Little Ducks' and 'Five Little Speckled Frogs'.

Thank you so much for all the lovely Autumn homework we received.

We hope you all have a great half term holiday.

The Reception Team.