D'Arcy Primary Academy Class Blogs

Class 4 Homework Spellings Each week Class 4 will have a new set of 10 spellings that will be posted on the blog. Please support your child with learning these over the week. Thank you. This week's spelling pattern is adjectives ending in -ant into nouns ending in -ance/ancy Maths Each week there will be Maths homework assigned to the children on Maths.co.uk. The pupils have all received their log in details, but if there are any problems or your child has lost their log in details please speak to Miss Barber. These are short and focused quizzes to support the pupils across all areas in Maths. This week's focus is a Number and Place Value (part 3). Please complete by the end of the week. Thank you. Have a lovely week! Miss Barber :)

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Class 1's Great Week Wow! What a busy week we have had. In maths we have been counting and using Numicon and tens frames to represent numbers. In English Y1 have learnt Kung Fu punctuation actions to help them to remember to include punctuation in their work. They tried hard to include capital letters, full stops and exclamation marks. YR have sung lots of counting rhymes and practised forming numbers and writing their name. They have also been scientists naming, identifying and labelling body parts as well as becoming artists and painting their own self portraits. Rhino Reader The Rhino Reader for year 1's this week is Haircuts, here is the link and code: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/go - HE8097 The Rhino Reader for reception this week is Follow Captain Stomp, here is the link and code:  https://www.twinkl.co.uk/go - HE8406 Have a great weekend! Mrs E :)

Class 4's Amazing Week Another amazing week in Class 4 filled with fantastic learning, lots of opportunities and fun lessons! Keep it up Class 4. Writing In Class 4 this week, the children have been learning about 'how to' guides. They analysed a precise passage about Jessica Ennis-Hill and highlighted the different key features that were used. They are now onto researching their sports and sportsperson they are going to write about. PE This week in PE, Class 4 were focusing on shape, movement and transition. They travelled around the hall as different animals such as; a dolphin, an orangutan and an ant. After this, they used their movement as inspiration to create shapes for each animal. Here are some of the animals shapes that were creative and showed technique. Reading All the pupils completed their STAR reading test this week and received their ZPD scores. They all did brilliantly and now have new levelled books to read in school and at home. Class 4 had an afternoon of

 We have had a wonderful first week back in Class 2 and the children have been settling in so well. We had an energetic PE lesson on Thursday with jogging and sprinting! We have been celebrating our unique and amazing selves with the book ‘Perfectly Norman’ and the children have designed the most beautiful drawings of themselves.  We also went outside to learn more about people in our class and find out what we have in common.