To everyone at D’Arcy school, I want to give you all a massive thank you. A thank you for letting me get to know you all and being part of your everyday lives – I know some of you parents had the pleasure of seeing me every day! A thank you for all the support… Read more »
Football Tournament
Yesterday, D’Arcy took a trip to Heybridge Swifts FC. It was a great afternoon with fun, goals and lots of running! I am so proud of how all the children represented the school, played their football and worked together as a team. The team captains did a fabulous job and thank you to all the… Read more »
PTFA Father’s Day afternoon
We have had a lovely afternoon celebrating Father’s Day at our PTFA event. Our amazing PTFA team put together lots of activities and refreshments for us all to enjoy – the children and adults definitely appreciated this! Thank you for everyone that joined us today and thank you again to our PTFA team for organising… Read more »
Year 4 Multiplication test.
Hello all, Please note that the year 4s will be completing their times tables test next week. This is a government test and all children will be taking part. It would be very beneficial if all could do some practise at home, using either of the links below. They are very much like the test… Read more »
Colchester Zoo
The whole school started the final term back with a BANG! Our trip to Colchester zoo was very busy, fun as well as educational with the themed talks at the beginning. We loved exploring around the zoo all day, even if Mr Lines was dragging us all around by the end of it! Thank you… Read more »
Jump and spell
Yesterday, we took our spelling outside to enjoy the sunshine and to get a little active with our learning.
The water cycle
Today, in class 3 we finished off our learning on the water cycle. We have made our very own water cycle in a bag to test this theory for ourselves. Hopefully, we should start to see results in the next few days.
Hopscotch spellings
Today, we linked our new spellings and practising those with hopscotch. We worked in groups where someone shouted for us to ‘stop’, we read the word aloud for all to hear and then we sounded out the word. This was a nice and fun activity to do this morning. Class 3 team.
Year 4 Times Table test
https://www.timestables.co.uk/multiplication-tables-check/ Please click on the link above to try and practise the times tables test Year 4s will be expected to complete after Easter. Obviously, year 3s are also more than welcome to practise on this as well. Class 3 team.
English: Identifying features of a newspaper article.
Today, we looked at a newspaper article and labelled its features. Miss Jenkins and Mr Lines set different challenges for the year 3 and 4s, such as highlight direct speech, highlight an adverbial phrase or to write a rhetorical question that could have been included in the text. Here is an example of our labelling.