Blog Author: Streethay Primary

Sunflowers for PSED talked together how to help myself go to sleep. We created amazing step by step guides. 

This week in Forest School, Team Daffodils have been exploring the effects of the rain. We have found muddy puddles to jump and roll in and searched in the pond for creatures. Team Daffodils were very disappointed to find only old toys in the pond, which they have retrieved and returned to Forest…

Last week, the Daffodils explored a Little Town in the school hall. We enjoyed role playing in the different areas; particularly where there were costumes to try on and vehicles to ride. There was lots of excitement and we all had lots of fun playing with new friends in our Team Daffodils.

The children have been discovering insects in the ground.

In English we are editing our writing by using red 'teacher' pens, to spot our mistakes and make corrections. We are then polishing our work by writing up the finished product in our neatest handwriting. We are so grown up checking and correcting our work all by ourselves.

In Maths we have been learning all about height and length. We used our new vocabulary- tall, taller, tallest, small, smaller, smallest and long, longer, longest. We then used the cubes to measure objects in our classroom. 

In PSHE we have been learning about how to be healthy and why. We discussed how we feel so much better about ourselves when we make healthy choices and look after our bodies.

We had a fantastic day for World Book Day! We loved dressing up as our favourite characters and sharing our books with our friends and teachers. We had such a lovely morning taking part in the World Book Day activities and we already can't wait for next year!

This week we have been learning all about the first emperor of Rome - Augustus. We began by exploring how Octavian (Augustus), Julius Caesar's nephew, defeated Mark Anthony and Cleopatra and how cunning he was as he grew in power.

In Science we have been exploring volume. In particular, this week we have been describing the relationship between vibration strength and volume. We then presented our results using a bar chart. We changed the way we played a musical instrument and measured the volume, in decibels, from the…

This week in Geography, we have been learning about migration; what is is, why people migrate, and how this can affect a population. We have been looking at 'dense' and 'sparse' populations, and the many reasons why people might migrate from dense to sparse, or vice versa. We have been so…

In Team Starlings this week, we have been thinking about our dream jobs and researching what we will need to do to get there! We have been researching skills, qualifications, requirements, and even salaries of our dream jobs. It has been very inspiring to hear about all of the amazing things Team…