D'Arcy Primary Academy Class Blogs

 

 In Science class one have been learning all about our bodies and trying to answer the question: Why does my body have different parts? They explored the 5 senses this week and played a guess the sound game. The class enjoyed more specifically learning about their eyes and ears. Year 1 wrote facts and reception made their own instruments that made sounds. The reception children also enjoyed looking at a skeleton and tried making close observational drawings with chalk and the year ones made portraits in the style of Picasso. Rhino readers: Year R: Little Mouse Big House HE8796  year 1 : Fun at the pool  HE4398

 We have been incredibly busy again in class 2 this week! English   We have started a new unit where we are learning to write different types of sentences and we will be writing our own voyage and return story. We have read Gorilla by Anthony Browne as our model text and the children all love it! We can’t wait to see what they write in their stories. Science We continue to learn about materials and their properties and today we experimented with using materials to build a bridge. The children chose their materials and tested them to see which were strongest and how they could make their structure stronger to support more weight. Their imagination and team mindset was fabulous to see. Geography   We have been learning how to record to weather with our own rain gauges and thermometer. Each day the children have checked how much rain has been collected and the temperature. This has sparked lots of interesting conversations and discoveries. Have a wonderful weekend! The class...

Class 4's Lovely Week This week in Class 4 we have been: publishing our writing to create leaflet guides on how to play different sport, experimenting with different materials to see which ones are soluble and insoluble and create our own spanish rap songs! It has been a lovely week in Class 4, keep it up! Spanish In spanish this week, Class 4 have been making their own rap songs about different school subjects in spanish. They thoroughly enjoyed being creative in another language and it promoted the use of the vocabulary they have been learning this term. Writing Over the last 3 weeks, Class 4 have been writing their own 'how to' guides based around a sport and a sportsperson that they chose. This week, we have finished and edited our fantastic writing and we are now onto the next stage where they are publishing their own leaflets. RE In RE this week, Class 4 were learning about Islam. We looked at the main beliefs of the religion and where they go to worship. We studied, ...

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 hyphens: to join a prefix ending in a vowel to a root wood beginning with a vowel. 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 5). Please complete by the end of the week. Thank you. Have a lovely week! Miss Barber :)

Class 1's Fabulous Week! We've had another busy week this week, learning about the weather and seasons in Geography. The children have found learning about their bodies and skeletons in Science very interesting and labelled different body parts. In Year 1, they have been practising counting on and finding 1 more and 1 less. Year R has been counting and subitising (visually seeing a pattern). They have shown fabulous dedication towards all their learning this week. Well done! Rhino Readers The Rhino Reader for year 1's this week is A Gift for Mum, here is the link and code: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/go - HE7296 The Rhino Reader for reception this week is Follow Captain Stomp, here is the link and code:  https://www.twinkl.co.uk/go - HE3710 Have a lovely weekend! Mrs E and Miss Kerwick 

 We have been super busy in Class 2 this week! In maths we have been mastering our understanding of the place value of 10s and 1s, partitioning two-digit numbers into 10s and 1s. We have also progressed to exploring other ways we can partition two-digit numbers and the children have been working very hard on this. In English we are writing a report on Autumn and spent the week drafting each section ready to write up on Monday. The children have been showing their amazing art skills and have been sketching by observation. They have drawn fruit to practise shapes and then moved on to their faces. We have been so impressed with the care they take and the light sketching strokes they use.   In PE we have been dancing and running! We have made dance routines using actions from gardening such as digging, raking and then showing how tired out we are!  We are all very tired after all this learning.  Have a lovely weekend. Class 2 team

 

 Class 4's Brilliant Week This week Class 4 has been brilliant. We have been working on our 'How to' guide leaflets, arithmetic skills and communication skills as a class. We have had some great learning opportunities and embraced different challenges.  PE During PE this week, Class 4 were focusing on their communication skills, teamwork and sportsmanship. It was a challenge for the pupils to move across the bench to put themselves in order of: tallest to smallest, colour, birthdays, alphabetically with different levels of communication. It went from everyone being able to talk and give instruction to only 1 person, then the house captains had to test their leadership skills by organising the whole class. It was great fun and it was fantastic to see the communication skills develop through the session positively.  Science Class 4's science lesson was fun, relaxing and sounded like a blast! We tested the movement of sound and how it travels through different solids and w...