Blog Author: Streethay Primary

This week in geography, we have been learning about multi-cultural Cardiff. We have learnt about the yearly Mela Festival they have and how it celebrates different cultures and ethnicities, to bring everyone together. As our task, we designed a poster to advertise next year's…

In computing this week, we have been using our amazing coding skills to create some incredible maze games! Team Starlings have worked hard to use boolean variables, 'if-then' statements and loops to successfully create some excellent maze games. 

This week in Science, Team Starlings have been looking at the properties of materials. In this picture, we are testing the hardness of various materials by seeing how easy it is to scratch them. We then used our magnifying glass to see if there were any visible marks on our objects. 

Orchard have been learning all about Islamic Civilisations in History this half term and they have been thinking about the big question 'How did worlds come together in Muslim Corboda'.

Team Badgers have been using their 4 and 8 timestable knowledge this week for division of 2 digit numbers. We have used objects and base 10 to make equal groups to work out simple divisions.

LO: i can explore different materials and tools.

this wee the Daisies have been exploring Forest school. The children have enjoyed using different gardening tools to look at the flowers and grass and do some digging, they hvae also explored the mud kitchen using different tools to bring their…

This week in Music, Team Badgers have continued their ukulele practice and playing different strings seperately and simultaneously. They practiced this today to the song "Stay with Me". Well done Badgers!

In Geography, Rabbits have learnt what it is like to live in a city. We have explored our local environment and have distinguished between physical and human features of Lichfield and Birmingham.

Rabbits have been exploring numbers between 11-20. They have learnt skills such as 'making ten' and counting on to find the total amount. They have also used counters and tens frames to represent their '-teen' number.

Rabbits have enjoyed learning a new adventure story, Lost and Found. They loved creating their own versions of the story by changing the characters. They have also learnt to take ownership of their stories and have 'edited and polished' (using a red pen) the writing that they had produced. Well…

No only are Team Starlings amazing scientists who can tell you all about space, they can now tell you in French! We have enjoyed learning lots of new vocabulary this week and look forward to learning even more French words about our Solar System. 

This week in Geography, we have been looking at the climate in the Gobi Desert, including how much rainfall there is across the year, as well as how much the temperature varies. We were very surprised by our research and enjoyed plotting our data onto this graph!