Blog Author: Streethay Primary

Sunflowers enjoyed Little Town. We confidently articulated and sequenced our speech. We loved interacting with our friends and taking it in turns on each role play zone. 

This week, Team Daffodils have been learning about smallest, small, big and biggest. The children compared objects in Forest School and decided who had the biggest. 

In RE, we have been learning about Judaism, and hearing the story of how the Jews were brought out of captivity to the promised land, and how Jewish people celebrate their history today. We have heard about where many traditions, festivals, and holy days originated, and have enjoyed hearing all…

We have moved onto converting decimal numbers to fractions, and fraction numbers to decimals in team Starlings. The class have faced this tricky challenge with a positive attitude and have come on leaps and bounds! We have been so impressed with the budding mathematicians amongst us. Over the next…

We have been having so much fun creating our own street dance routines in Team Starlings! We have been looking at different ways that our bodies can move, moving in time with the music, and keeping time with a dance partner. Over the next few weeks, we will be developing our routines further and…

Sunflowers did amazing writing on our book 'Astro Girl' our writing was on the the character and setting in the story. 

Team Badgers had a visit from the Packington Farm Education team today. The children have learned about the animals and how they are used to help us with our food. They have also learned all about arable farming as this links to our geography topic too. We were super lucky as Hetty the chicken…

This week, we have brought back our junk modelling table. The children have explored the different materials and constructed 3D models. We've had rocket ships, airplanes, musical instruments and so much more! 

In PE this week we have been practising our football skills. We have really improved since the autumn term!

In Geography we are learning about 'Seasonal changes'. We are comparing extreme weathers across the globe to the weather we have here in England. This week we learnt what a 'drought' is. We looked at how a drought in Somalia can be life threatening compared to a drought in the UK, which would…

We have been to visit Lichfield Cathedral today. We loved learning about the building and having a look around. We have learnt lots of facts and we loved looking at the stain glass windows. We even got to sing our Easter song in the Cathedral!

Our new topic in History is 'Stories about the past'. We have recently learnt about Robert the Bruce and the spider. 

We listened the story and discussed it and then we re-enacted it by freeze framing.