D'Arcy Primary Academy Class Blogs

  As always, we have been busy in Birch Class! In Maths, we have started adding amounts together using counters in a ten frame. The children have done well with this and have also been practising their number bonds to 10 to help them find answers to addition questions more easily. In English, we have been learning to write questions. The children enjoyed using question marks and came up with lots of questions about a funny picture of a giant cat! Some of their questions included, ‘How did the girl get in the jar?’, ‘How did the cat get so big?’ and ‘Will the cat eat the little girl?’ It was great to see them using their imaginations and thinking of so many different questions. In Art, we have enjoyed more time painting and experimenting with mixing different hues of secondary colours. It was lovely to see the children exploring colours and expressing their creativity through their paintings. Well done, Birch Class, for another busy week of learning!

All children who brought their reading records into school today have had their TTRS login details stuck inside. This includes our Year 3 children, who are now receiving their TTRS accounts for the first time. We have been working hard on our 3 times tables this week, so the children might like to spend a little time over the weekend practising and testing themselves on TTRS. Thank you, as always, for your support!

This week, the children have been working hard across all areas of their learning. In English , we have been gathering ideas for our free verse poems, using nature and our senses as inspiration. We have imagined walking through a beautiful bluebell woodland, describing the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and things we might touch along the way. The children have been putting their imaginations to work while developing their writing skills, using interesting adjectives and prepositional phrases to bring their ideas to life. In Maths , we have been rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100. The children have been using a rhyme to help them remember the rules for rounding. See if they can remember it to share with you at home! In History , we have been investigating how historians learn about Homo sapiens who settled in Britain by studying artefacts. The children recorded their learning in clear and informative tables. Take a look at some of their fantastic work in the pictures below! We...

  🌿 Willow Class Weekly Blog  🍂 What a wonderful week we have had in Willow Class! The children continue to settle beautifully into Reception, growing in confidence, developing their independence and showing such enthusiasm for their learning. We are incredibly proud of how hard they are trying and how well they are adapting to their new routines. 🧸 My Special Things This week, we have been thinking about our special toys and pets as part of our All About Me books. The children enjoyed talking about their favourite things and sharing what makes them special. We explored how we can use pictures, marks, letters and words to communicate our ideas. The children had opportunities to draw their special toy or pet, adding details to their pictures and beginning to write names or initial sounds.  We continued our journey towards becoming little authors by thinking about our favourite foods. The children talked about, drew and began to write about foods they enjoy, listening c...

 

  Surreal Dreamscapes ✂️🎨 Our Year 4 and Year 5 children have been getting creative with Surreal Dreamscape Collages, and what a fantastic time they had! The children explored a range of images from magazines and newspapers, carefully selecting pictures, objects and patterns that inspired them. They then cut, arranged and glued their chosen images to create their own unique surreal dreamscapes. Our classroom was certainly a hive of creativity, with plenty of cutting, sticking, rearranging and a little bit of mess! The children enjoyed using their imaginations to combine unexpected images and create dream-like scenes where anything was possible. It was wonderful to see the children making their own creative choices and developing such imaginative ideas. Each collage was completely different and showed the children's individual personalities and creativity.

Willow Class enjoyed our time in Forest School again today, with lots of children keen to get creative with our conkers! We made necklaces and wands, using our tool-handling and crafting skills to carefully make holes in the conkers before threading them with wool or adding sticks. The children showed great concentration and perseverance as they worked on their creations. We also had a go at making willow crowns. These were a little bit fiddly to begin with, but with some practice and a few adaptations, we are sure we will all be able to make our own crowns! Some children particularly enjoyed getting stuck into our mud play today! They used water from our canister to add to the digging area, creating lots of lovely, squelchy mud. There was plenty of jumping, splashing and enthusiastic muddy play as the children explored the mud at the bottom of the digging hole! As always, there was plenty of tree climbing, exploring, building and opportunities to work and play together. It was wonderf...