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The Whales had a busy week last week. This is them putting their programming and coding skills to the test, creating their own version of a game called pong. The children were imaginative, creative and reflected on what worked well/what didn’t work well. Well done Whales #dcpswhale #dcpscomputing #dcpscore
Y5 Dolphins had another fantastic steel pan drum lesson with Holly last week. They focused on rhythm and melody when learning traditional Caribbean calypso music, and worked well in their groups to help each other remember the right notes - excellent networking skills and determination from everyone! Here’s a sneak peek of them playing ’Sunshine Soca’ #dcpscore #dcpsdolphins #dcpsmusic
Today, Y5 had a practical maths lesson to help them better understand place value when adding and subtracting decimals. Various sums were put on the board and the class had to put themselves and their digits in the right place value column to help them find the answers. Everyone did really well and we can already see their confidence growing with this - smashed it! #dcpscore #dcpsmaths #dcpsdolphins #dcpswhales #dcpslotc
Year 3 Lizards became actors and actresses on Friday! We used our WAGOLL of an adventure story and worked with a partner to act out a paragraph. This helped us to realise you don’t always have to tell how someone is feeling in writing, you can show it! #dcpscore #dcpsenglish #dcpslizard
Elephants had another brilliant session with NUFC this week. They tried out a brand new game and really needed to use their teamwork and communication skills to win. #dcpselephant #dcpspe #dcpscore #yourschoolgames
In Year 4 we are developing our Oracy skills. This week we completed an Oracy unit, starting by discussing why Oracy is important and playing some games to get us talking, listening and thinking. We then used our skills to help us answer our key question in our R.E topic, ‘How and why do people show care for others’. We worked brilliantly, researching different religions, listening to others and creating our presentations, which we then delivered to the class. #dcpselephant #dcpsre #dcpsoracy #dcpscore
Elephants have had a busy week this week. We enjoyed another ukulele session with Holly. We have learned more songs and have been practicing changing chords. We discussed musical notation, including beats and rests in music. #dcpselephant #dcpsmusic #dcpscore
Y2 did a spot of meditation this afternoon as part of our RE lesson learning about Buddhism #dcpsdragon #dcpsre #dcpscore
Y2 are continuing with the tricky world of time and today looked at 5 minute intervals. It was tricky at first but we soon cracked it #dcpsdinosaur #dcpsdragon #dcpscore #dcpsmaths
We are so proud of the bravery shown by this little girl. You are AMAZING! 🥰💜🌈 #dcpspshe
Excellent Sienna x well done kiddo ❤️❤️❤️
Brilliant Sienna well done 👏 ❤️
Star of the Week well done Sienna 💕
Well done little so cute lady.. One very proud nana Donna. Sansom.. I bet.. Love xxxx
Our KS1 Superstars! You are just marvellous! 🥰💜🌈 #dcpscore
Simon Hall Kelly Stout
Well done Millie ❤️
Children in Years 1, 2 and 3 had an assembly led by Rachel from Phunky Foods and our Y5 ambassadors where they explained a mini competition. Children need to design a poster to advertise ‘Healthy Snacks’. A winner will be chosen from each year group (Y1-Y3) who will be given a Phunky Food water bottle and their winning design will be displayed around the school for all to see. Entries are to be given to the class teacher no later than Friday 20th May. Good luck! #dcpspshe
Laura Richardson
Lots to celebrate in Y5 maths today. One member has completed 10 club and another has completed all of 55 club! We are so proud of you both - keep up the great work! #dcpscore #dcpswhales #dcpsmaths
Well done Logan son!! So proud of you ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Yay way to go Logan 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 xx
Well Done Summer very proud of you xx
Go Logan proud of you👏👏xxx
Super Proud, well done. 💙💙
Good lad Logan .
Well done Logan xxxxx
Well done Summer 👏👏👏xxx
The smile says it all. He’s been stuck for ages but finally cracked it. #dcpsdinosaur #dcpsmaths #dcpscore
This week in nursery we have been exploring the traditional tale The three little pigs. We built houses from blocks and Lego, explored different materials and used Makaton to retell the story. This week’s story detective mystery was… where are the missing pigs? After looking at clues and after speaking to The Big Bad Wolf we solved the mystery and helped Mr wolf to make things better ( the children suggested he should go shopping or to the chippe instead) . #dcpscaterpillar #dcpsliteracy #dcpssrem #dcpseyfs
Olivia has come home yesterday with Renee's lantern. She'll bring it back in on Monday. Hopefully Olivia's is around somewhere 😊
Year 4 Giraffes have continued to develop their SPaG skills this week to help with their Talk for Writing unit. We have been thinking about apostrophes and how we use them in our writing to show possession and contractions. We created a rule mat to follow and then used this to rewrite sentences correctly. #dcpsgiraffe #dcpsenglish #dcpscore
Year 4 Giraffes have loved their most recent session with Robbie and Josh from NUFC. They continued to work on their team work and communication skills and were able to come up with tactics to help their team win a new game! #dcpsgiraffe #dcpspe #dcpscore
Reception were exploring the theme ‘Loneliness’ as part of Mental Health Week and listened to a beautiful story called ‘The Visitor’ by Antje Damm. The story was about a lady who lived by herself and was very lonely until a paper plane accidentally flew into her window! The plane was made by a little boy and when he went to collect it, he began talking to the lady and befriending her. We spoke about how we could help others if they were feeling lonely by visiting them, talking to them, giving them cuddles etc. We then made our own paper planes with lovely messages to send to our friends. #dcpsEYFS #dcpsladybird #dcpsbutterfly #dcpspshe #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
Sarah Marie
In Reception we have been learning about ‘still life’ drawing. We have been choosing different objects, looking at them very carefully, thinking about shapes, sizes and colours. We have tried to copy them as carefully as possible using paints, pencils and pastels. #dcpseyfs #dcpsladybird #dcpsbutterfly #dcpsart
Smashed 45 club! #dcpscore #dcpsmaths #dcpslizard
Well Done x
Well done Jack so proud of you ❤❤
Fantastic Jack well done 👏
Well done Jack x
Well done Jack x
Claire I can't believe how grown up he is, where on earth has the time gone x
Well done jack x
Year 3 Lizards did some work about emotions and their mental health this afternoon. They coloured in the heart to show how they were feeling. #dcpscore #dcpspshe #dcpslizard #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
THIEVES!!!
The latest instalment in our mystery book had the boy’s unguarded treasures (specks) being stolen. We were shocked to see this chaos that met us yesterday morning with our own specks missing!!!
We duly completed crime scene reports detailing the incident and listing potential suspects and their motives.
Today, just like the boy in the story, we made guardians to help protect our specks from further danger. We are sure they’ll be safe now 🤞🏻
#dcpsdinosaur #dcpsenglish#dcpscore
William thought this was amazing! He was so serious while telling us about the crime scene and the mess in the classroom 😳 😂
Louise Schofield this is what Bobby would of been talking about xx
Today Y2 made human clocks to show various times. Great fun #dcpsdragon #dcpsdinosaur #dcpsmaths #dcpscore #dcpslotc
Year 2 have started their new unit in maths, which if you haven’t guessed is time! We have been looking at o’clock and half past so far. Today we matched up the clocks with the correct times. Look at our proud faces! #dcpsdragon #dcpscore #dcpsdinosaur #dcpsmaths
Following on from the ‘break in’ in the Dragon class yesterday morning , today we made guardians to protect our precious specks in case this happens again! They must be very important. After we made our own guardian, we wrote instructions on how to make the perfect guardian angel! #dcpsdragon #dcpscore #dcpsenglish
Yesterday the Dragons got a shock first thing in the morning! Our classroom was such a mess. It looks like someone from our mystery book has came along and stolen the specks we were looking after. We will solve the crime and protect the specks 🕵️♀️ 🕵️♂️ we will keep you updated! #dcpsdragon #dcpscore #dcpsenglish
On Friday the Dragons were super brave and tried lots of different picnic foods as part of our DT learning. Some food we had never tried before! Our favourite was probably the nachos, they went down better than the olives or gherkins. #dcpsdragon #dcpscore #dcpsdt
Giraffes had another visit from Holly this morning to help with our Ukulele. We started to look at how to play chords, read music and even had a go at writing some of our own simple rhythm patterns. #dcpsgiraffe #dcpscore #dcpsmusic
Year 4 Giraffes continued their new topic this afternoon, looking at Julius Cesar and how effective the Roman army were. We are loving our new topic of the Romans! #dcpsgiraffe #dcpscore #dcpshistory
Year 4 Giraffes have been working hard on their talk for writing unit this week in English. We have been using our WAGOLL to create a map of the biography, we will use this to write our own biography in a couple of weeks. #dcpsgiraffe #dcpsenglish #dcpscore
This week the full time nursery are spending the week outdoors! Today we have decorated stones to hide around the garden for our friends to find, made some bird feeders and placed them on the trees, demonstrated our balancing skills whilst riding around the track on a range of bikes, practised our self help skills whilst we dressed up and had our music lesson outdoors. The children loved being outside and exploring our opal play equipment. We cannot wait for the rest of the week! #dcpsEYFS #dcpscaterpillar #dcps30hours #dcpslotc #dcpscore
Year 1 have loved using our new play equipment on the field for play time and lunch time. We are adventurous, brave and resilient. #dcpdpanda #dcpspolarbear #dcpscore #dcpsbrave
Looks awesome
Future Fireman
Y5 Dolphins had a great time in music this week. They had their first steel pan drum session with Holly and did so well that they were able to play along with a tune by the end of the lesson! #dcpscore #dcpsdolphins #dcpsmusic
A huge congratulations to our children who achieved a Denbigh character badge today in our Golden Assembly, we are so proud of you! #dcpscore #dcpsturtle #dcpslizard #dcpspolarbear #dcpspanda #dcpsdragon #dcpsdinosaur
Well done xxxxx
Aww man her little face 😍😍 Julie Charlton
Rutherford Zhané Jan ❤️
Shirley Elstob
Well done Henry 🏅🤍
Well done Henry so proud of you 👍❤️❤️❤️
Well done Henry 👏👏👏
Well done to all
We have had a fantastic afternoon exploring our new topic and finding out about the Ancient Egyptians #dcpsturtle #dcpscore #dcpshistory
Someone is pleased they won our kaboot! #dcpsturtle #dcpsmath
Well done Riley xxx
Neil Pattinson
A big well done Riley xx
Well done to Riley👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼⭐️
So proud of our gymnastics team today. They smashed their performances out of the park! They’ve trained hard and displayed excellent confidence and determination. #dcpspe #dcpscore #yourschoolgames 🌈💜💪 Thanks to North Tyneside PE, Sport and Physical Activity for a great event.
Laura Peters Dave Peters Maria Cooper Brooke Peters
Lesley Harker Keith French x
Well done all of yous 😍 xx
Well done everyone xxx
Kirsty New Well done to all of youxxx
Fantastic!! 😍😍
This week Y2 have started reading a mystery book - the mystery is that we don’t know what the title is. In the book a boy finds a strange old box and oddly enough a box which fit the same description appeared in the classroom. The Dinos worked together to put on their De Bono thinking hats and consider what they knew about the box and whether or not it would be a good idea to open it. Great networking by all #dcpsdinosaur #dcpsenglish #dcpscore
This morning the Dinos tried out some picnic foods as part of their DT unit. They were very brave trying out foods they’d never had before. The lentil curls and falafels went down quite well but we were not a fan of olives, feta cheese or gherkins. Well done Y2 for giving it a go #dcpsdinosaur #dcpsdt #dcpscore
Year 2 made a healthy fruit skewer this afternoon and enjoyed a mini picnic on the carpet. We thought carefully about our choice of fruit and used the cutting skills we learned in year 1 to cut our fruit carefully. #dcpsdragon #dcpsdinosaur #dcpsdt #dcpscore #dcpsstem
It was the Butterflies turn to meet our little fluffy friends today. They loved holding and stroking them and brought a lot of happiness to the class! #dcpsbutterfly #dcpsEYFS #dcpsstem #dcpscore
Today in maths Year 3 we’re learning about equivalent fractions. They played a silent game to match the equivalent fractions. They had to pass each other the cards they needed without speaking to get a full set of equivalent fractions. #dcpscore #dcpsmaths #dcpslizard #dcpsturtle
This week in nursery we have been exploring the traditional tale Goldilocks and the three bears. We painted pictures, explored porridge with scales and used items and Makaton to retell the story. Each Thursday we will act in role as story detectives to solve a mystery. This week’s mystery was who broke into the three bears house? After looking at clues and speaking to Goldilocks we solved the mystery and helped Goldilocks to make things better. #dcpscaterpillar #dcpsliteracy #dcpsmaths #dcpseyfs
Y5 Dolphins had some visitors in class on Tuesday! We loved spending time with the school chicks! #dcpscore #dcpsdolphins #dcpsstem
Year 5 took their Maths lesson outdoors today! They have been working on converting units so they had to complete different activities involving length and then convert these between km, m, cm and mm. They loved measuring their own jumps! #dcpswhale #dcpsdolphin #dcpsmaths #dcpscore
Elephants had another brilliant morning with Robbie. Working on team building skills, they had to try and sink each other’s battleships. They needed to use their listening and communication skills to come up with a plan to defeat the other teams. We were really impressed by how well they worked together and are really looking forward to next week! #dcpselephant #dcpspe #dcpspshe #dcpscore
Nursery have loved meeting the baby chicks while they have hatched and stayed at Denbigh. We can’t believe how fast they are growing and loved watching them try to fly as they flapped their wings! #dcpscaterpillar #dcpsscience
Year 4 have had another great morning with Robbie with their team building games. Today we had to work as a team to try and sink the other teams boat in our battleships game, communicating and working together. #dcpsgiraffe #dcpspe #dcpscore #dcpspshe
This week the full time nursery children have been exploring pattern through our jungle theme. We looked closely at the different animal patterns and sorted the animals depending if they had spots, stripes or no pattern. We then had a go at creating animal patterns using strips of card, pens and paint. We even had a go at copying and creating our own patterns using stickers and are beginning to explore patterns outside in nature #dcpsEYFS #dcpscaterpillar #dcps30hours #dcpsmath #dcpscore
This term in RE Year 1 are learning all about Buddhism. After listening to the story of Buddha and the injured swan we discussed the belief that Buddhists show kindness to all living things including animals. We decided to explore this belief as a class and discussed ways in which we can show kindness to animals. The children checked on our rabbits and made sure they had enough food and water, made bird feeders to hang up in our garden and were so gentle when looking after our baby chicks. We even made some posters to tell others how to look after the baby chicks! #dcpspanda #dcpspolarbear #dcpsre #dcpscore
Tracey Smith
Laura Richardson
Elephants had a fantastic time at Segedunum today. We are taking part in an art project as part of the celebration of 1900 years of Hadrian’s Wall. As a year group we are developing an piece of art work which will go on display at the museum. First we made our own sketch book to record our ideas as we went around the fort. We saw parts of the original wall and talked about why the wall was built. In the afternoon we used metal foil (being careful with our fingers) to start producing the pieces for our final display. We all worked really hard and are looking forward to finishing our pieces at school. We were treated to an amazing view from the viewing tower before returning to school. #dcpselephant #dcpshistory #dcpsart #dcpslotc #dcpscore
After a brilliant weekend for Women’s football, our Girl’s Football Team visited St James’ Park for a stadium tour- what a day! We are explorers! 💜🌈#dcpspe #dcpscore
This afternoon Year 2 had a lovely time meeting our chicks! We were really quiet which helped keep the chicks calm and had great confidence when handling them. In our STEM week we have been looking at what animals need to survive so after we had a good discussion about what these chicks need to stay alive! Here is a question for you, which colour chick is female and which colour chick is male? #dcpscore #dcpsste. #dcpsdragon #dcpsdinosaur
Year 2 have been learning all about position, direction and movement in maths. Today we took turns to give each other instructions to follow using terminology such as ‘clockwise half turn’ anti-clockwise quarter turn’. #dcpsmaths #dcpscore #dcpsdragon #dcpsdinosaur
Year 1 Panda Class were so determined during our Common Exception Words lesson in English. Common exception words are extremely tricky and we have to learn them through lots of practise. The children took part in a carousel of activities supporting them to read and spell some common exception words. Well done, Pandas! #dcpspanda #dcpsenglish #dcpsreading #dcpscore
Key Stage 2 had a visit from PCSO Rory today. He told us all about anti-social behaviour and the consequences, social media and being respectful. The children listened amazingly and know how important it is to follow rules both inside and outside of school! #dcpspshe #dcpscore
Elephants had a great time this morning in their ukulele lesson with Holly. We revisited our knowledge of chords, discussed rhythm and timing. We also looked at written music and learned about crochets, quavers and semibreves. #dcpselephant #dcpsmusic #dcpscore
Ladybirds had a lush time this afternoon meeting our chicks! They were so gentle and quiet whilst holding and stroking them and thought they were hilarious when they were playing (and pooping!) on the carpet. #dcpsEYFS #dcpsladybird #dcpscore #dcpsstem
Sarah Marie
So cute 🐥
Year 4 Giraffes have had a great morning with Holly, developing what they know about how to play the ukuleles. We even started to look at written notation and began reading music with crotchets and quavers. #dcpsgiraffe #dcpscore #dcpsmusic
As they had full attendance the week before the Easter holidays, Y5 Dolphins enjoyed a pizza party on Friday! We think they enjoyed it as there was no pizza left! #dcpscore #dcpsdolphins #dcpsattendance
Dolphins showed us their excellent networking skills this week during PE. They started an athletics unit which they kicked off with some relay races 🏆 #dcpscore #dcpsdolphins #dcpspe
Y5 Dolphins thoroughly enjoyed doing the Daily Mile this week. They were determined to complete it throughout and encouraged each other to keep going! #dcpscore #dcpsdolphins
Another member of Dolphin class earned their pen licence on Friday - keep up the lovely handwriting! #dcpscore #dcpsdolphins
Theresa Powell
The Whales smashing the Daily Mile 🐳 🏃♀️ 🏃♂️ #dcpswhale #dcpspe #dcpscore #dailymile #yourschoolgames
This little lad went straight to independent badge today for his phenomenal improvement in handwriting. We are so proud of him #dcpsdinosaur #dcpscore
Amazing!
Woohoo well done ❤ xx
Well done Oscar grandad proud of u ❤
Elephants had a lovely end to the week with a visit from the chicks! We loved getting to hold them and watch them play with their friends. #dcpselephant #dcpsstem #dcpscore
Sam Cowlingxx
Elephants continued their STEM unit today, investigating dissolving. We set up an experiment to find out which solids would dissolve in water. We thought carefully about our predictions before conducting the experiment. We found out that not all solids dissolve in water