Blog Author: Streethay Primary

The children have worked extremely hard when it comes to learning every day materials and their properties. We loved becoming Material Detectives and exploring our outdoor area! We found so many different objects and materials! We have also started learning about different properties of materials…

Rabbits have been following a story called Snail and the Mouse in Music this half term, with a focus on exploring tempo. Throughout the weeks, Rabbits have used body percussion, singing and untuned instruments to help them understand the difference in tempo when listening to a piece of music. We…

This half term, the children have looked carefully at different lines that can be used to make marks. Looking at artists such as Zaria Forman and Bridget Riley, the children had a go at creating an individual piece of abstract art and a group piece. Finally, the children learnt the skill of…

Orchard have been learning about street dance in their PE lessons this half term and have been incorporating parkour moves into their dance routines to travel from one location to another. They have used a lot of imagination and improvisation to create some super work - well done!

In writing this term, we have been looking at the story of Odysseus. This week, we learnt about his adventures again the Sirens. We wrote instructions using conjunctions, about how Odysseus's sailors were able to avoid falling into the Sirens' trap. Then, we looked at Margaret Atwood's poem Siren…

In maths this week, we have been applying our multiplication knowledge. We have been challenging our learning of commutativity, thinking about multiplication and division fact families. We have secured our understanding of multiplying and dividing a number by 1 and itself, as well as having a go…

In French this week, we have been practicing the colours in French and understanding their assimilation of spelling to English for some of the colours. This lesson, we have started to look at different shapes including c'est un cercle, c'est un triangle, c'est un carre and c'est un rectangle. We…

In geography, our topic is all about mountains. This week, we have learned all about the Andes mountain range in South America. We have identified that the Andes is the longest mountain range in the world, whilst the Himalayas is the highest mountain range in the world. Team Badgers have learned…

In music this term, we have been looking at a piece of music that is inspired by rivers. This week, we started to unpick the different elements of the music, thinking about what we could hear. Next week, we will finish this lesson by learning more of the vocabulary, before composing our own piece…

This term in French, we have been learning about clothes and adjectives to describe them. We've had to think carefully about the order of our sentences/words, as well as recalling our knowledge of colour. Luckily, we've got Mrs Gill to help us out, as she's excellent at speaking…

The children have been expressing their creativity with our autumn leaves. They have been using the paint sticks to leaf print onto the paper. 
 

This week we have read The Gruffalo! We have enjoyed reading the story and have selected key nouns and verbs from the story to add actions too. We explored these key words to ensure our understanding of the story. We loved joining in with retelling the story using our new actions!