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This term, we have been focussing on the story Nen and the Lonely Fisherman. It's a story about a merman named Nen who was lonely and in search of a friend. He forms an unlikely friendship with a human named Ernest. Team Badgers have been looking at technical skills such as adding adverbs for time…

Team Badgers are progressing well with their French! They have started to learn the French colours. We have also been using them at other times of the day to practise! Our favourite is, of course, the Streethay colour verte!

Sunflowers have been exploring positional language in their books and in provision. They have use a variety of objects around the class room to show different positional language. 

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In music we have been practicing something very special and festive that we are looking forward to sharing with you all next week.

In art we have been exploring the work of William Morris who was an artist and designer in Victorian times. He believed that household items like furniture and textiles should be artworks, so that everyone could enjoy arts and crafts. We have also looked at what inspired William Morris' designs.…

In maths we have been tackling some tricky word problems linking to our times tables and division. Some of us then had a go at writing some questions of our own!

We have had so much fun playing 'The Blues' on our glockenspiels this half term! We've played along to 'The Moanin' Lisa Blues,' learnt the 12-bar-blues, and even improvised our own blues pieces with a backing track! We've learnt all about chords, scales, and rhythm, choosing specific notes to…

We have been creating some truly fabulous 'Pen Portraits' in Art this half term, considering the words that we would use to describe ourselves and working them into a self-portrait. First, we used a 'one-line' technique to draw ourselves, then traced over our drawings using a variety of…

We had the pleasure of visiting Birmingham Botanical Gardens which links to our geography topic of Climate and Biomes. The children had the opportunity to explore the unique Glasshouses and experience an authentic rainforest adventure! The children experienced the humidity and smells of…

This week, we are beginning to learn how to write our names. We are using our name cards to look at the shape of the letters in our names. Then, we are having a go at writing what we think our name looks like in our Christmas cards.

Sunflowers have been learning all about Autumn. We have discussed the changes in the seasons and what happens in Autumn. We then developed our knowledge by researching key facts about Autumn. 

In History we have been learning about the past through our families. Our question this week was; How has fashion changed since our grandparents were young to now. We loved learning and looking at the all the different fashion trends throught the decades from the 20's right up until the present…