14th March 2014

Nursery

We have been looking at the police and ambulance services this week. Our home corner became a police station our outside area a road with a zebra crossing and some police cars made out of junk. We done some finger printing and looked at the results through a magnifying glass and in P.E we made up a road and looked at different road signs to see their meaning.

1B

Hi there everybody,

1B have been learning lots of new facts about owls and have been developing their addition and subtraction skills using numbers up to 40. They had to think of ways to make their writing about owls more interesting and learned about using generalisers like all, a few, most and openers like interestingly, amazingly and surprisingly. They have chosen to write their owl reports to the Reception children. They hope that the children will enjoy listening them.

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

week:

I liked playing live on Education City because I had 117 points - Rosie

I have fun learning about money on Pi Day- Charlotte

I liked working with the class and telling them different facts about owls- Nathan

I enjoyed making shadow pictures because I liked using charcoal - Marcus

I liked doing the art with pastel crayons yesterday- Stanley

I have enjoyed learning about owls because I like learning new facts -James

I have enjoyed when Miss Hamilton did a French song with us and we danced 

to it- Sharna

Doing numbers to 40 is fun because you can count back with your fingers - Laura

I liked doing money and learning all the things about money on Pi Day- Letitia

I enjoyed learning new facts about owls, I really enjoyed learning about the pellets that they spit out - Grace

Thanks for all of your contributions children.

Have a great weekend,

Miss Bernard

1K

Hello,

In 1K we have been learning about addition and subtraction using numbers up to 40.  We have used lots of resources to help us including dienes rods, multilink, number lines and bead strings. We have been working very hard and some of our work is quite challenging!

In English we continue to learn about owls. We have been sharing facts and writing factual statements using interesting sentence openers and connectives to make our writing more interesting.

In PE we have been practising our throwing and catching skills. We are very good! To make it more difficult for ourselves we moved further away from one another and used benches to make us taller so we had to throw higher.

In RE we have learned all about Sikhism and Guru Nanak. We watched a short story about his life and then retold it in our own words.

2C

Hello everyone!

I cannot believe it’s that time of the week again!  It is funny how time flies when you are having fun. A busy week again had by all with lots of learning all about money and finding the total value of both pounds and pence.  Perhaps if you are out shopping at the weekend you could help your grownups with the total amount of money they will need.  English has been very informative as we have been learning how to scan a text using key words to find new information about Florence Nightingale.  I wonder if you could tell your grown up how to box up?

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

Macy said ‘ I loved making my Florence Nightingale game.  She was travelling from London to Scutari in Turkey ‘’

Camren said ‘My game was really good fun.  I played it with Toby and Toby lost because he ended up in Russia which is not where he was meant to be!  He was meant to be in Scutari but the game was very close!’

Have a happy and safe weekend  x

 3AB

We have started looking at playscripts this week.  We are now familiar with how plays are set out and Miss White led a drama session that showed us  the importance of stage directions.  We are now starting to write our own plays.

In science we have been looking at different food groups and what makes a healthy diet.  Why not challenge your child to identify the different food groups on their plate at mealtimes!

As today is Pi day, we looked at what Pi is and the first 27 digits, we tried to see how many we could remember!  We also enjoyed taking part in the number challenge at school.  We had a crash course on prime numbers, negative numbers and factors so our maths skills have really increased!

Mrs Johnston

Year Six

We have been amazing this week as we practise for the Spelling and Grammar Test that is now a part of their SATs.The lovely weather has meant that we have been learning outside a lot  and our science work on the properties of materials has been  wonderful. They need to ensure they are practising their times tables and spellings regularly as well as completing all of their homework.

Keep on learning Year Six

7th March 2014

Nursery

Well we had an extremely good turnout for world book day. Most children dressed up, and those who didn’t were able to borrow one of nursery’s outfits.  A fantastic  15 mums stayed in the morning and 17 in the afternoon and we all had lots of fun.  This week’s topic was boats and trains, and we have been spending a lot of time outside seeing if our boats sink or float.  You may also have seen us doing the Locomotion around the school, everyone hung on for dear life and we managed quite a train.

Reception

This week in Reception we have been learning about growing.  We have based our learning around the book, Jasper's beanstalk. 

The children have planted their own beans. 

In maths we have been learning to tell the time and use positional language.  

The children have enjoyed outdoor learning this week.

1K

We have been learning all about owls this week and have found out some very interesting facts.  We shared our work with ours Mums and Nans when they came to visit us on Thursday.  It has been a fun week!

In Maths we have continued work on our numbers to 40. We have been ordering using the Abacus, carpet tiles, number cards and chalks. We have also been working on place value and working out how many tens and ones in our numbers.

In science we have learned all about `The Dark` and as we have been learning about owls we read The owl who was afraid of the dark.

2A

We have been practising addition and subtraction in maths.

“I like using empty number lines for subtraction.  For example if you have 27 – 13 you can take away 10 and then add 3 back on” (Eva Nicholls).

“Also we learnt about rounding to the nearest 10.  If we had 19 add 13 then you could round to the nearest 10 and add on the ones” (Julia Watson).

We have been looking at information texts in English and finding the answers to questions using BBC Famous People website.

In science we looked around the school to see how electricity makes some appliances work.  We found out that electricity can make things move, light up, make sound and heat up and some can do more than one these things.

On Bring a Mum to School Day we made icing animals with Daniel’s mummy and we also made settings for an adapted Little Red Riding Hood Story. 

“It’s been an energetic week.” (Julia Watson – 2A)

2C

Hello All,

Hope you all had a fun day with your children yesterday (if you managed to join them).  Unfortunately I missed you all as I was feeling rather poorly….all back to normal now and ready for some more super learning.

Here is what the children have said they enjoyed this week

Jack said ‘I loved PE because we were learning how to dance to 4 beats and 8 beats.  I think I am getting much better now!’

Alfie said ‘I enjoyed Bring a Mum to School Day because she helped me make a 3D model of a story character and a setting. My setting was the cave and my character was a wolf.’

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.  See you all on Monday.

Mrs C X

Year 4

Year 4 have had a very exciting week! On Wednesday we enjoyed a very interesting International event at Westcliff high School for boys. The children travelled to different countries, finding out different facts and even learning some basic phrases in the native language! 

Thursday was a lovely day with children, teacher and even some mum’s dressing up for World Book Day.  Lots of effort was put into costumes and the children enjoyed having a book themed day.  Bring a mum to school day was a huge success in year 4, so thank you to all who came, especially those who brought activities to do with the children.

Year 6

Well, what a week! Year six have been working incredibly hard in  maths and English this week. |They have been learning  about Pie Charts and how to read and record data in them. In English we have begun work on our adventure story and we hope to invite you in to hear them during an assembly.

Bring a mum to school day was incredible; we had seed planting, Italian lessons, tortoises, a veterinary nurse talk and badge making- an amazing day! Thank you mums!

We have also been involved in Outdoor Learning  as most parents will know due to the muddy children we have returned to them at the end of the day.

|Roll on next week.

28th February 2014

Nursery

It’s been a very busy week in nursery, we have had 9 new children start this week, 4 in the morning and 5 in the afternoon and we hope that they enjoy being a part of our nursery.

This week we have been looking at rubbish and recycling like the rest of the school, we have looked at a story of a teddy who got put in the bin, and for PE we done an assault course to get the recycling in the bin.

We also visited Hagrid’s hut and had story’s and show and tell in there, wow what a week!!!

Reception

This week in school, there has been lots of activity and learning taking place around the topic of ‘Rubbish’ and this has continued through Reception. In Reception we have been learning about ‘The Little Green Monster’ who started off as a naughty little monster who didn’t look after the planet but soon learnt that Earth was beautiful and to keep it beautiful he had to make sure he reduced, reused and recycled everyday objects. So Reception we have been green monsters and have been very busy recycling lots of different objects around school. We have had lots of fun with some very big boxes, cardboards tubes and bottle caps! An exciting week was had by all and it has been lovely to see the children take an independent approach to their learning. Well done everybody.

The Reception Team

1K

We have had a 'Rubbish' week! We have learned how to make paper, learned about reduce, reuse, recycle and we have sorted rubbish depending on the materials they are made from.

We have enjoyed work in Hagrid's Hut and have had a class competition to make robots out of our Rubbish. We have had a fantastic week!

2C

Hello everyone!

Well we are all rubbished out!! We have found out so much information about how we can help save our plant by reducing, reusing and recycling.  We have been thinking about making adverts for street cleaners as Polly was very poorly.  We have also been designing our own uniform for street cleaners using rubbish or recycling old clothes.

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

Matthew said ‘I have enjoyed designing my outfit.  I was totally embarrassed walking down the catwalk but I was chosen by the other children as the best outfit in 2C’

Joseph said ‘I thought maths was exciting but a bit challenging because I had to round up or down when taking away 19 and 11.’

Have a safe and fun weekend

Mrs C

3AJ

We have had an exciting time during Rubbish Week in 3AJ.  We have learned about Reducing, Reusing, Recycling and Up-cycling where we make something new out of an existing item.  Jam jars will be returning home looking completely different after the class learned decoupage and colour skills.  We used our creative skills to  turn our rubbish into bubble blowers with some spectacular bubbles!  In maths, we have learned how to draw circles using a compass in order to make trees out of recycling. We now know how plastic is turned into pencils and fleece material – a long process!  We have learned a lot about the importance of recycling and how it is everyone’s responsibility to care for our planet.

Year 4

Year 4 Blog

Rubbish Week!

This week has been Rubbish Theme week. We have had a great time learning all about how to REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE. In Year 4 we have been up cycling jam jars. Up cycling is when you take an unwanted item and make it into to something attractive or useful to use. We have made our jam jars into candle holders and pencil pots using the art technique of Decoupage.

We have also been designing and making our own ‘Teacher Pleaser’ machines as part of our Explanation Text work in English. They were fantastic, ask your child to tell you about their own idea!

5CW

We have had a ‘rubbish’ week. In maths we analysed data for all the recycling and rubbish that was bought in. We compiled bar graphs to see which rubbish we throw away the most. Ask us to see what we throw the most and least away of. We have looked at persuasive language, ready to save the world and get everyone onto recycling. We took your trash and made treasure, musical treasure. As a class we did our version of Stomp and played our instruments to a rhythm in assembly. Mrs Weddell was extremely proud of our performance and made us play it again! What a great ‘Rubbish’ week it has been, who knew you could have so much fun with rubbish?

7th February 2014

Reception

This week in Reception we have started our learning on Jack and the Beanstalk. We have been getting creative with fairytale walks, making bean stalks and making our own story maps of the story. The children have really thrown their selves into their learning this week and with an unexpected visit from the giant to our classrooms, it prompted lots of questions and investigations around how big the giant was by the giant footprint he left behind. we have been measuring his footprint against different objects and finding which is the biggest and which is the smallest. We will continue this topic next week with the children eager to find out more about the giant and his golden castle in the clouds.

Please don't forget Tuesday's open classroom event where you can come and have a look at the children's work so far!! Please remember you need to inform your child's teacher if you would like to visit as they need time to prepare and get the children's work ready for your visit after school. If you do not inform your child's teacher their work may not be available to view so please get in touch with them and if you are unable to visit this time do not panic as we will be offering this opportunity over several occasions throughout the year.

Thank you for your continued support with homework.

The Reception Team :) 

2A

Medivet visited us and showed us some rabbits called Fuzzy and Flopsy.  They came because we are learning about plants and animals.  They asked us who wanted to be a vet and what pets we had at home.  To survive, animals need food and water and a bed.  If cats purr it normally means they are happy.  The vets wear a mask so they don’t catch germs from the animals; some of us got to dress up in the masks and hats worn by vets.  Habitats are a natural place where animals live.  A frog’s habitat is a pond and a rabbit’s habitat is the countryside.  We are looking forwarding to going to the beach on Monday to look for invertebrates.  I think we will find crabs, mussels, cockles, sea snails and shrimps.  (Ash Collins and Phoebe Tomsett).

2C

Well, well, well….what can I say!!  We were windswept, we were cold but what fun we had at the beach.  We were searching for invertebrates to find out which habitat; water, beach or mud would be a suitable home for them.  I was hoping to find my favourite invertebrate, the Hermit Crab but unfortunately we did not find one…..however, luckily,  and showing great detective eyes Ashleigh spotted a Hermit Crab shell so I was very pleased!

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

Jake said ‘I love learning about invertebrates.  I found shrimps, cockles and periwinkles.  My favourite habitat for the invertebrates was the beach’

Reanna said ‘I have enjoyed writing my adapted story.  It was all about a girl called Reanna who met a mysterious, ugly witch who gave her magic beans.  It was called Reanna and the Beanstalk’

Have a lovely, safe weekend.

Mrs C X

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.