D'Arcy Primary Academy Class Blogs

Willow Class had another lovely week in Forest School, continuing to explore the area with growing confidence and enthusiasm. We continued to enjoy our favourite mud kitchen and digging areas, where there was lots of imaginative play as the children created their own food and drinks. There was plenty of busy teamwork too, as the children worked together to move logs and collect leaves, helping each other and making good use of the natural materials around them. Our tree climbing is also becoming more adventurous! It has been wonderful to see the children developing their skills and confidence as they carefully climb, balance and find their own ways to move through the trees. One of our biggest highlights this week was the amazing rope walk put up by our wonderful volunteer, Liz. The children were incredibly brave as they had a go, carefully balancing and working out how to move along the rope. They also showed fantastic patience as they waited for their turn and had fun together. We a...

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  📚 Let’s Enjoy Reading! We want to help every child develop a love of reading ! Reading together at home is a lovely way to spend quality time with your children, while also supporting children’s learning and confidence. Children should be reading to an adult at home  at least 4 times a week  using books chosen at school that are at the right level for your child. Remember to record their school reading book in the Home School Log . In addition to this, children can also enjoy other books from home, comics, magazines or anything else that gets them excited about reading! 🌟 Why Read? Regular reading helps children: Build vocabulary and understanding. Develop confidence and imagination. Become stronger readers and writers. Relax and enjoy stories. Develop a lifelong love of reading . ❤️ Making Reading Fun There are lots of simple ways to encourage reading: Enjoy a bedtime story together. Let your child choose books they are interested in. Talk about the story, character...

We have been busy in Birch Class again this week! In maths, we have been developing our understanding of numbers up to 20 . The children have been using our maths equipment to make and represent different numbers, helping them to see what each number looks like in different ways. They have also been practising writing their numbers carefully. We have then moved on to exploring one more and one less . The children have been finding the number that comes before and after a given number and are becoming increasingly confident with their number knowledge. In science, we have been learning about the seasons , with a special focus on autumn . We talked about the changes we can see in the weather as we move into autumn and thought about how these changes affect the world around us. The children also learned about how animals behave during autumn , including the different ways they prepare for the colder months. It has been lovely to hear the children's ideas and observations about the sig...

We have had another busy and enjoyable week in Maple Class, with lots of opportunities to explore, create, investigate and think carefully about our learning. In Science, we have been exploring which materials and objects are reflective . The children enjoyed investigating a range of different objects and thinking carefully about what made some surfaces reflect light more effectively than others. We talked about how light behaves when it reaches different materials and recorded our observations from our investigation. We have also been getting creative in our dance sessions. The children choreographed their own dance phrases, thinking about how they could use movement to show the personality of Matilda . We used a cheerful piece of music from Amélie as our inspiration and thought carefully about how different movements, gestures and expressions could communicate a character. It was lovely to see the children using their imaginations and working together to develop their ideas. In Math...