Streethay School Blog

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. 

We have been doing a lot of descriptive writing in Team Starlings this week, using everything from similes, to metaphors, to personification. The children have thoroughly enjoyed writing about the gruesome witch in the creepy forest, coming up with fantastic descriptions that have created a very…

Daisies have enjoyed participating in Rhyme time. The nursery rhyme of the week is "5 Fat Sausages". 
 

In PE this week children have been investigating movement, altitude and increasing the speed to create a 'rocket' dance routine. We used our bodies to create a variety of different movements, thinking about how we can create shapes with our body. Well done Team Meadow, you are all becoming super…

In PSHE this week we have been talking about our perception of 'self' and how the media can affect the way we view our bodies. We discussed what it means to be unique, and spoke about the huge variety of things that make up our individual identities. We also looked at some photoshopped images of…

This week in Geography we have started our topic on 'Climates and Biomes,' looking in particular at the many countries within Europe, deciding if they are land-locked, islands, or have a coastline, and which sea or ocean they might be near. Team Starlings have enjoyed making up clues to find the…

In Design and Technology this week, we made seasonal fruit crumble. This was linked to our previous lesson on seasonal fruit and vegetables. During the lesson, we worked in small groups to weigh the different ingredients to make the crumble topping. We had to make sure we weighed the ingredients…

As part of their Ancient Egyptian topic, children in Year 3 have taken part in an Egyptian workshop. During the day the children learnt lost of really interesting facts and information about the different rulers of Egypt, what Egyptians like to eat and how they worshipped different Gods. The…

This week in maths, we have been learning to use formal written methods for addition.  We have been practising column addition, where we have to rename 10 ones to 1 ten, which can be quite tricky. We made sure we were secure with the concept of renaming by using concrete materials so that we could…

This week, during their Design and Technology lessons, children in Badgers class have been learning about how climate affects fruit and vegetable growth. We have learnt that in the UK, the climate is often too cold for some fruit and vegetables to grow.  As part of this, the children made Japanese…