Streethay School Blog

To end our unit on electricity, we had a lesson about being safe around electricity and the dangers in and around the home. We created advice posters to remind people what to do and not do.

LO: i can describe my local area.

This week the children have been exploring the outdoor area on the bikes and scooters, they have been look around them to see what they can find. The Daisies have decribed the different buildings around them.

Well done Daisies!

This term, the children have been learning different gestures in Bollywood dancing. They have learnt the hand gestures: fan, peacock, happy sign, flute, bee, lotus and prayer. We've also learnt some footwork: basic, side touch and basic turn.

This term, we have been learning about The Birth of Jesus in our RE lessons. This week, we learnt about the meanings behind some well known Christmas Carols, and how they link to the story of Jesus's birth.

CHRISTMAS WORKSHOP!

LO: i can develop my own ideas and build using a variety of materials.

The Daisies had a lovely time during the Christmas workshop, they showed their singing skills and created some Christmas crafts with their families.

Well done Daisies!

LO:  I can compare size (big and small).

The Daisies have been working on their comparison skills between big and small, they have been using the blocks to build bigger and smaller towers and the figuring out what one is smaller or bigger.

Well done Daisies!

We have been learning about the invention of the railway during the Victorian era. We thought about why people may have seen this as a positive and a negative invention. 

We have been working hard to include adverbs in our writing. We wrote instructions on what to do in the event of a fire, ensuring we were using adverbs to clearly explain how these instructions are to be carried out. 

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 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…