25th January 2013

Nursery

Time is flying by in the nursery.  This week we have been all things spiders.  The children have been singing along to the nursery rhyme Incy Wincy Spider.  During PE we pretended to be spiders, moving along the benches.  We also used the crash mats to do head over heels which was super fun.  It was good to see so many parents for nursery consultations.  Also the children loved the Tesco Cheese and Chive dip that we had with breadsticks for snack in case you’re stuck for food ideas this was a firm favourite.  Next week for our phonics we will be moving on to T and sharing the story The Tiger Who Came To Tea.  

Reception

Firstly thank you to all the parents that've managed to pop along to parent meetings and I'm sure you will all agree that the Reception children have been working extremely hard since they started in September and have settled back after Christmas well and are full steam ahead in there learning.

This week in Reception we have continued our learning on Dogger. The children have been busy and having a go at writing our own stories and drawing our own story maps. The children have shown that they are very clever this week by remembering the golden rules when writing sentences. 

Next week we are starting a new topic on Space, with our story book being 'Whatever Next' .Please check your children's homework book for their new homework and don't forget to start filling in those WOW stars!!

Have a lovely weekend 

The Reception team

1B

Hello everybody,

So sorry 1B haven’t blogged for a while, but we are all excited to share our learning with you this week.

We have been so busy; we have really enjoyed starting our new topic in Talk for Writing- The 3 Little Pigs. We have achieved so much in one week. We already know the story really well, we have sequenced and written our own stories, written character descriptions using Word, had a go at building the pig’s houses to make a model map and role played the story adding in our own ideas.

In Maths we have been counting in 10’s , grouping them, thinking about how many lots of , recording repeated add number sentences and using these to begin to learn about multiplication.

We have had a fun and enjoyable week; here are some of the activities that the children have particularly enjoyed.

Jake- I have enjoyed counting in 10’s because I like it.

Ailbhe- It was fun doing the 3 Little Pig role plays.

Camren- Singing the Count by 5s song is great we enjoy singing it.

Toby- I liked making the brick houses and I did some at home yesterday.

Evie- I liked doing dancing in PE because I like the song “Tiger Feet”.

Martha- I really enjoyed writing the 3 Little Pigs because I enjoy writing.

Milly- I quite enjoyed making the 3 Little pigs houses and using the Beebots.

Thanks for all of your contributions children.

Have a great weekend.

Miss Bernard

4CA

This week we have been looking at column addition and subtraction and linking it to money. In English we have been writing character descriptions to add to our own version of the Demon Headmaster. In Science we have tested the temperature around the room and also tested snow as it was melting. For Science we made pie charts and also put our melting snow temperatures on a line graph. We have also painted our own interpretation of The Demon Headmaster.

5J

This week in 5J we have continued to add detail to settings, including similes and metaphors in our writing.  We have learned that we also need to include a range of connectives and punctuation to improve the standard of our writing.

In maths we have learned about time – big units of time, such weeks, months, years, decades etc.  We have looked at the 24 hour clock, timetables and schedules.  Looking out for 24 hour times will be a big help in reinforcing this at home.  During our PE sessions, our successful learners became teachers to share their ball skills with others – this was a valuable and enjoyable experience.  However, the highlight of the week was being able to use the iPad in class to explore the apps relating to space – being able to find out which constellations are where was quite exciting.

5J Even if you have lost your moon diary, keep looking at the shape of the moon each night; it will help your learning next week. 

Year 6

Well, Year Six have had a fantastic week working on their topic of dragons. The art work and writing has been amazing and we have had so much fun with this exciting topic.Well done to you all.

18th January 2013

Nursery

What  a super, sensational, special week we've had in nursery.  Yes,  we have been learning the letter S.  The children brought many things into nursery beginning with S.  There were snakes, Spiderman, strawberries, and stethoscopes.  We have also been having a daily story and this week it has been There’s no such thing as Monsters.  Which can be found on the CBeebies website.   Our new children have settled well which is lovely.  I look forward to seeing many of you next week in the hall for parent consultations.  Then next Fri 25^th our ‘Stay and Play’ sessions start for parent/carers of boys.

Reception

This week in Reception we have started our learning on Dogger by Shirley Hughes. We have had a fun packed week, acting out the story in our role play, sequencing the story by creating a story map and retelling the story using the magic storytelling hat to help us. We have also been thinking about positional language during our maths lessons and we even got to go on a treasure hunt, following the positional language clues!! Can you guess what we found at the end???Ask your children and see if they can remember what we found.

Amy RW-" I liked playing with the bee bots"

Alex RW - " I liked writing and practising my sounds, next time I need to practise my 'n' ."

Bailey RW -" I like the role play and my new class. "

Have a lovely weekend!

The reception team

Year 4

4CA

This week in maths and ICT we have been looking at graphs and the children are now experts in drawing and interpreting bar graphs and line graphs.

The children have been rewriting the first chapter of ‘The Demon Headmaster’ using Pye Corbett’s ideas. There were so many of the children who used fantastic description of feelings and actions.

In Science we have measured the temperature of water using a thermometer. Some of the water contained ice cubes or was warm.

For our school topic we looked at a school in China to see what was similar and was was different to Darlinghurst.

Year 5

5J

It might be cold outside this week but we have been working hard in 5J.

In maths we have been learning how to find the area of rectangles and some children have found the surface area of cuboids too!

We have been including more detail in our writing by focusing on a setting based in a cave.

For science, we paid a visit to Westcliff High School for Boys where the sixth formers taught us about the Sun, heat and light.  We all enjoyed this tremendously and the children were a credit to the school.  Fizzing chemicals were popular but so was how to balance two forks and a 50p piece on the edge of a glass beaker! This might be something to try at home – the centre of gravity is not where you might think! 

In class we have tried to apply our learning to other areas – Sam put together a team of thinking experts to help him solve a problem with his invention that wouldn’t sink!  Megan and Loki used their knowledge of measuring angles to use protractors to find out how far off course Mrs Johnston’s racing sprouts were!

5J, remember to keep filling in your moon diaries and bring them to school each day.

11 January 2013

Nursery

Welcome back!  We would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year and a very big thank you for all the lovely gifts received from yourselves.  We were very spoilt.  The children have come back to nursery full of life and excitement which is lovely.  Our ‘Show and Tell’ sessions give everyone the opportunity to share their Christmas and talk about their favourite presents.  This term we also are welcoming a number of new members to both our morning and afternoon nursery.

Reception

The children returned to school happy and settled on Tuesday to learn how children in France celebrate the start of the new year with ‘ the celebration of the three Kings’. We found out how they eat a special cake called a gallette in which is hidden a nativity figure, called a feve. The person who gets the feve in their piece of gallette  is then the ‘king for the day’ and everyone else has to help them. All the classes shared their own gallette, with a sultana hidden inside to represent the feve, and the four kings had fun organising their friends to help them. We have also thought about our own Christmas holidays and favourite presents and talked about New Year resolutions.

All the  Reception staff would like to take this opportunity to thank all the families for the many gifts received and we wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year. 

Year 2

Happy New Year to you all!

Well it’s lovely to see you all back at school, safe and sound, as though you never been away!  The children have told us that you all had a lovely Christmas and it sounds like Father Christmas was very busy!

Here is what the children have said they enjoyed this week. Isla said ‘I have enjoyed Science. We are learning about Plants and Animals and I have started to research about all the things I want to learn.  I now know that I want to learn all about rodents because I have two hamsters at home and would like to learn more about their families.’

Dan said ‘I loved working with Isla on our Jack and the Beanstalk storyboard because I like drawing the pictures of the story in sequence and helping Isla with tricky and exciting words. Tomorrow we are filming ourselves telling the story board on IPADS…I can’t wait!’

Looking forward to seeing you all next week!

Take Care

The Year 2 Team

Year 4

4E

It has been lovely to see the children come back to school with so much enthusiasm. The children in 4E have made a good start to the Spring Term and have begun a new book in English. They are now reading ‘The Demon Headmaster’ and are really enjoying acting out and retelling the story. We have also started a new Science Topic called ‘Keeping Warm’ and have taken part in an experiment using the materials in our outside environment. We are looking forward to learning more about temperatures and taking part in more experiments!

4CA

It has been a busy week in 4CA. In Maths the children have been looking at capacity and estimating the amount of liquid in a container. They also have learnt to read timetables and most of the class are now able to read a C2C train timetable! We have started our new book in English ‘The Demon Headmaster’ and the children have made storyboards for the first chapter. Our topic in Science has started well with the children testing the temperature of objects in the playground and in the class. In Pe the children have started a dance unit.

Year 5

5J

It was lovely to see everyone back after the holidays.  Although we have only been back for a few days, we have been very busy.

We have written letters to our link school in France, telling them about our Christmas presents.  When they write back, we will be able to compare what sort of presents they receive with ours.

Our topic this term is Space.  Today we made an orrey to show how the Earth and Moon move.

Our class text for the term is ‘The BFG’ – we have been using our comprehension skills to draw accurate pictures of the BFG’s journey with Sophie.  

Homework for the next month is to complete a moon diary so we can track the way the moon looks over the next few weeks.

Year 6

Year six have been busy dragon hunting this week as a dragon was sighted at Darlinghurst and left various bits of evidence whilst it was here!. Should you have any details about the sighting please contact Year Six immediately  as we are gathering evidence for our team of dragon hunters.