Blog Author: Streethay Primary

We have had a wonderful time experimenting with materials in Team Starlings today! We have been investigating which material is the best thermal insulator. We tested felt, bubble wrap and paper, wrote a very detailed method, making sure to include our control, independent, and dependent variables.…

In English today we have been continuing with our topic of Greek Myths. We have been using our knowledge of The Odyssey and using our inference skills to try to understand what this picture is telling us about the adventures of Odysseus. Firstly, we worked as a table group and then we worked in…

This week in Geography we have been beginning to understand how the oceans can impact a place's climate. In particular, we have discussed how the Gulf Stream impacts our climate in Britain. 

We have been working really hard in English this week. We have been writing setnences about our book 'Katie in London'. 

We have been focusing on using capital letters for names and places and using the word 'she'.

In PSHE we have been discussing the meaning of similar and the same. We now know that because something or someone looks similar they are not always the same. We also talked about the differences within our class, for example some of us are 5 but others are 6.

In Art we have been learning about mark making. We have moved on from abstract art to observational drawing.

We have been learning all about subtraction. We recently came up with our own subtraction stories. We had to draw a picture and make up a story to go with our subtraction calculation. We did an amazing job!

We really enjoyed our phonics workshop with our grown-ups! We played phonics bingo, tricky word bingo and phonics snakes and ladders.

In Science we are learning about materials. We have been 'material detectives' and we went on a material hunt. We found an object and then wrote what it is made out of for example- Bench-Wood. We had so much fun!

This week in Maths, Team Daffodils have been reciting numbers past 5. We have been counting up to 10 and beyond in lots of different ways. Each morning we have been counting how many children are at school today. In provision, we have been making tower houses and counting how many blocks tall. We…

This week in English we have been writing diary entries about our school day at Streethay. The children tried really hard to include adverbs and commas for a list in their writing. We are really impressed with their finished entries. 

In Team Meadow we are amazing at using the concrete resources to support our maths learning. We found the dienes really helpful when learning column addition.