Streethay School Blog

LO: To find ways of managing transitions, for example from their parents to their key person.

this week the Daisies have been coming into the classroom and finding different way to settle in, the children have enjoyed playing with car track and in the kitchen role play area.

Well done…

LO: i enjoy running and jumping (with both feet on the ground).

The Daisies have been enjoying PE this morning, they have been practicing their running and jumping around the beach. The Daisies have been jumping over sandcastles and using the balls to knock down different sized sandcastles.

We have been looking at eSafety in computing. This week we discussed how we shouldn't trust everyone online. The children then drew a picture of someone they trust and explained why. 

We have started looking at column addition in Team Meadow. We are using our knowledge of place value to support our understanding of adding the tens and ones. 

The children enjoyed creating their art work to put on display in our classroom. We took inspiration from our class name and created our own meadows. 

This week in geography, we have continued our journey along the Rhine.

We have ended up in Rotterdam, the mouth of the River Rhine. We have learnt about importing and exporting goods, and were able to identify examples of each. 

We then compared Rotterdam with somewhere we have previously…

This week in French, we have been learning how to describe people. 

We can describe their hair and eyes, thinking about the different order in French compared to English. Our next challenge will be to draw our own people and describe the characteristics we have drawn.

This week in maths, we have been looking at place value of 4-digit numbers. Today, we were comparing 3-digit numbers. We talked about ways to identify the smallest and greatest number, as well as ways to remember the symbols < and >. 

LO: i can sort and match quantities to 3.

The children have been exploring the maths area, they have been able to access the natural materials and start to sort and match them up to 3, they have then moved on to do the same with the coloured bears.

Welcome to Daisies!

The children have enjoyed creating their own Daisies picture for our display. The Daisies have been exploring the provision and started to settle in very well.

In Design & Technology this week, Team Hedgehogs investigated existing stockings. We talked about function and visual appeal, to make sure we understood how these are important in DT. Then, we applied this knowledge to a stocking of our choice. We answered questions based on…

Welcome to Team Hedgehogs!

We enjoyed completing two bits of artwork - that took a while for Miss Haycox to put up! We created self portraits which had two halves. One half was our outer self and the second, was our inner self. This gave us plenty to talk about as we discussed some of our…