D'Arcy Primary Academy Class Blogs

  Reception Weekly Learning Blog What an exciting and memorable week we have had in Reception! Our highlight of the week was releasing our beautiful butterflies. The children have loved observing the incredible life cycle from caterpillar, to chrysalis, to butterfly. We linked our learning to the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar and the children completed their own independent writing, sharing what they had learned about our class caterpillars and butterflies. In our topic work, we began thinking about Planet Earth and how we can look after our world. Linked to our Science learning, we explored our senses and discussed what we can see, hear and smell in the environment around us. The children enjoyed sharing their observations and ideas about caring for our planet. In Handwriting , we continued practising letter formation and focused on spelling tricky words. During Phonics , we worked on blending and segmenting words and recapped the digraphs and trigraphs we have learned so fa...

It has been wonderful to welcome the children back this week as we settle back into our routines and get ready for an exciting half term ahead. We have already begun several new units of learning, including decimals in Maths, Celebrating Life Events in RE, and Architecture in DT. Next week, we will introduce the rest of our new topics and begin exploring them in more detail. In English, the children are currently drafting their non-chronological reports about Playtime at D'Arcy. The work produced so far has been detailed, ambitious, and a pleasure to read. We are looking forward to seeing the finished reports. We are also working hard to prepare for our KS2 production of Mary Poppins . The children have been showing great enthusiasm during rehearsals, and we are excited to see the performance come together. Please continue to support your child by encouraging them to practise their lines at home. Thank you for your ongoing support—we cannot wait to share all of the children's h...

We were delighted to welcome our Year 2 and Year 6 to their first Forest School session together. Despite the wet weather, the children showed fantastic resilience and enthusiasm.  The children were excited to explore and investigate the Forest School area and all were keen to get started on various tasks and activities.  One popular activity was shelter building. Working together, the children demonstrated excellent cooperation and communication skills as they designed and constructed shelters using pallets, tarpaulins, sticks, and ropes. They carefully considered how to make their shelters strong and weatherproof, testing ideas and solving problems together along the way. The mud kitchen was also a popular area throughout the session. It was wonderful to see their creativity flourish as they worked together, shared resources, and developed their own ideas through play. Another creative activity involved weaving beautiful crowns from willow. The children carefully decorated t...

 This week in Class 2, we have had a lovely week of learning and fun! We started reading a new book called Here I Am . The children were fascinated by it because it is a book with no words! The story is told entirely through pictures and follows a young boy who moves with his family from Busan in Korea to live in America. We explored how the boy might be feeling as he experiences a new country, makes new friends, and discovers different foods and sounds. The children enjoyed discussing the story and interpreting the illustrations, and they will be using the book as inspiration for their writing next week. In Maths, we have begun learning about time. This week, we focused on the days of the week and the months of the year. To prepare for our learning next week, when we will start telling the time, the children had great fun making their very own clocks. They were very proud of their creations and are excited to use them in future lessons. We finished the week with a fantastic PE les...

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   Welcome back Class 3! Dear Parents and Carers, Please find this half-term’s spelling lists and Creative homework attached below. In addition to these tasks, we ask that children continue reading at home at least four times a week to an adult. Please remember to record these sessions in their reading records—every entry gives them a greater chance to be entered into our exciting weekly reading raffle! Please also continue to support your child with TT Rockstars . This is a key part of their weekly maths homework and really helps build their confidence. Thank you so much for your continued support! Best wishes, Miss Baker

It was wonderful to welcome the children back for our first club night after the break. Sports Club enjoyed some lively and energetic games of Dodgeball. It was impressive to see the children's developing throwing, catching and dodging skills, as well as their determination and resilience throughout the games. Due to the wet weather, Gardening Club spent time learning about seeds, plant growth and the best times of year to plant different varieties. They explored the conditions needed for plants to grow healthily. Art Club explored the exciting world of mixed media, experimenting with a variety of materials to create their own unique pieces of artwork. The children showed great creativity and imagination while developing their artistic techniques, decision-making skills and confidence in expressing themselves through art. In Drama club, some children chose to become princesses, while others talked about characters from their favourite books and stories. Well done to all of the chil...