Stretham Community Primary School
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Hedgehog Class 2022
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Summer Term 2023
Week beginning: 10th July 2023
What a FANTASTIC day we had on Tuesday, with Craig from History off the Page, learning all about the history of seaside holidays! In the morning, we all made different seaside souvenirs - from shell boxes and toy boats to pop-up puppets and sandcastle flags! Of course, we all had to count 12d into our purses ready for our trip to the seaside in the afternoon, and create our steam train ticket too! Then after lunch, we took it in turns to either be a worker at the seaside or visit the seaside; there was the seaside cafe to visit, the Punch and Judy show, lots of games and donkey rides, having our photo taken and building sandcastles! We had to choose carefully where we wanted to spend out money! It was all so much fun! Thank you Craig and thank you parents for all the wonderful costumes!
Week beginning: 26th June 2023
We have enjoyed travelling back in time to visit the Victorian seaside, for our class assembly. We practised and performed it to the school and our family and friends on Friday!
What a wonderful afternoon we had on Thursday, being visited by Peter Faulding; he arrived in his helicopter to talk to us all about water safety! We certainly won't forget his visit!
Week beginning: 19th June 2023
This week in Maths, Hedgehog Class have been partitioning numbers all the way up to 100, into tens and ones.
In DT, we have started to make our Victorian bathing machines, making the axles for our wheels and painting our boxes!
Look at the lovely plants we have been growing! We enjoyed planting them out today.
Week beginning: 12th June 2023
We have had a really busy week this week, in Hedgehog Class, travelling back in time! We have travelled back to the Victorian times to find out what seaside holidays would have been like back then. We used photos as a primary historical source - learning to look carefully for clues about life was like. We were fascinated by bathing machines, the clothes and Hokey Pokey ice-creams!
We had a wonderful time at Forest School on Thursday. It was a little too hot for a fire, so we used the heat of the sun to melt our chocolate and dipped a selection of fruit in it! Deeeeelicious! We also enjoyed hunting for minibeasts, finding the biggest worm ever and a bright green caterpillar too!
What a glorious time we've had swimming this week too, keeping us cool in the hot sunshine! We have been learning to kick our legs well, using floats to swim on our fronts and on our backs!
Week beginning: 5th June 2023
What a busy first week we have had, after the half term holiday!
We have had so much fun practising our phonics....
...and learning about half and quarter of objects and numbers.
We had our first swimming lesson of the term on Monday. The pool was very warm and it was LOTS of fun! We learned how to get in and out of the pool safely and respond to the whistles, to keep ourselves safe in the water.
On Wednesday it we had a wonderful time at Sports Day! We tried our best, cheered on our house team and enjoyed being great sports! The warm up with Mr Cox was great fun...and the ice pop afterwards was yummy!
Week beginning: 22nd May 2023
In our art this week, we have been using our knowledge of paint shades to create an underwater scene.
In Maths, we have been making and adding up different amounts of money.
Week beginning: 15th May 2023
In our Art this week, we have been using our knowledge of colour mixing!
We have been continuing our wonderful work in Maths, painting arrays and sharing between.
Thanks to generous donations of some plants (thank you Mrs Cornwell!), we are enjoying looking after some tomato plants and some different flower plants. It inspired us to plant our own seeds at Forest School this week.
Week beginning: 8th May 2023
In Maths this week, Hedgehogs have been making equal groups. We have then learned how arrays make counting equal groups so much easier. We got really good at counting the columns and rows.
In Art, we have been revising how to mix primary colours to make secondary colours.
In English this week, we read the book 'Gregory Cool'. It is set in Tobago. We wrote some super sentences about all the things Gregory got up to on his holiday and then we used the visualiser to read each others writing, commenting on all the wonderful things our friends remembered and also think about next steps! We were all so supportive and encouraging of each other.
Week beginning: 1st May 2023
In Geography this week, Hedgehog Class have been using atlases to locate the four countries of the United Kingdom and the surrounding seas.
In Maths, we have been counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.
We had a lovely time at Forest School on Thursday afternoon...
... and a great day on Friday celebrating the King's Coronation. We made a large piece of artwork of the King's crown using natural materials (just before the rain came!) and then enjoyed an indoor picnic lunch!
Week beginning: 24th April 2023
This week in our Maths, we have been comparing and measuring volume and capacity, as well as weight. We have had so much fun weighing different objects using non-standard units, and comparing capacity using rice and water.
In our Music, we have been learning all about dynamics and timbre. We created our own 'under the sea' music, using dynamics to tell a story.
In Art this week, we have been learning how to use different lines, experimenting with our own creations after studying the work of artist Bridget Riley.
Week beginning: 17th April 2023
Welcome to the Summer Term everyone!
What a busy first week we have had! In Maths we have been revising our knowledge of the names and properties of 2D and 3D shapes.
We have spent the week celebrating SPRING! We used 2D shapes to print spring flowers, wrote a Spring factsheet and on Thursday we went on our Spring village welly walk; it was a beautiful sunny spring morning and we found lots of signs of spring.
In Art, we worked with a partner to use 2D shapes to create abstract art. Don't our creations look amazing!
Spring Term 2023
Week beg: 27th March 2023
This week has been a fabulous RE week in Hedgehog Class. We started the week learning all about Islam; we learned about what life is like for a Muslim family, looked at a prayer mat, a Qu'ran and some beautiful patterns in the Mosques. We did some wonderful writing about what we had learned, as well as creating some of our own lovely patterns.
We ended the week learning about the Christian festival of Easter. We sequenced and read the story, made Easter gardens at Forest School, toasted hot cross buns on the fire and even learned to play 'hot cross buns' on the glockenspiels! It has been so much fun!
Week beg: 20th March 2023
Look at us counting groups of objects by grouping them into 10s!
In Geography, we have been completing our unit on maps by learning about aerial views. We have been looking at different objects from above - a bird's eye view, and drawing what we see.
Week beg: 13th March 2023
In Maths this week, we have been counting in 10s! We have practised counting in multiples of 10 and then we used the number square to spot the patterns of counting in 10 from other numbers!
In our gymnastics this week we were learning to use body tension to help us balance! We then made simple sequences of balances and travelling.
On Friday, we joined in the Red Nose Day fun, all looking fabulous in red!
Week beg: 6th March 2023
This week, we have been learning DOUBLES in Maths! Ask us to sing our double song - we are getting very quick and working them out! We then learned to use these facts to help us with our addition calculations - even spotting near doubles!
In DT, we have now finished our windmill models. Don't they look great and the turbines even turn!
Following on from our visit to Ely last week, when we learned all about eel catching, we read a book called 'Think of an eel' in English this week. We were amazed about the journey eels make from the sea to the river. We had a wonderful creative afternoon baking eel shaped bread, painting pictures of eels, making eel models and drawing eels pictures on the computer.
Week beg: 27th February 2023
What a wonderful trip we had to Ely on Thursday. First we explored Ely Cathedral; we thought the stained glass windows, amazing ceiling and the Octagon Tower were all "incredible" and "beautiful".
We then had a wonderful time at Ely library, which was perfect as it was World Book Day. We enjoyed a hunt for different book characters, a story time session with Ruth, time to enjoy looking at the books ourselves and then we had our lunch.
After lunch, we walked to Ely Museum to learn all about life in the fens long ago. We learned so much and had a wonderful day!
Week beg: 20th February 2023
What a busy first week after half term! On Monday, we enjoyed a village walk, looking for different features. When we got back to class, we found these features on a map and had a go at drawing our own maps.
In English, we decided to create our own non-fiction books all about Stretham. Our books are fantastic, with pages on each human feature, a contents page and page numbers!
On Thursday, we enjoyed sharing our lunchtime with our families. Parents and Grandparents came and enjoyed lunch with us and then we played together on the playground. It was great sharing this time with them. Thank you to Mrs Marsh and Mrs Tietz in the kitchen, for making our dinner so delicious, and to all the parents and grandparents that were able to join us.
Week beg: 6th February 2023
In our DT we have been learning about which parts of plants we eat, tasting different fruits and vegetables and selecting combinations to make a smoothie. We chopped and prepared the fruit and veg, whizzed them together and tasted them! Some of us thought they were delicious (others less so!!!) but we all tried!
This week has been a lovely end to our learning about animals and plants. We combined all our learning and prepared our class assembly for the school, parents and friends. We did it so well, saying our 'Rumble in the Jungle' poem, sharing our knowledge of different animal groups and ending with our favourite animal song! We all really enjoyed it and Mrs Woodman was very proud of us all!
Happy half term everyone!
Week beg: 30th January 2023
We had a wonderful visit from The Animal Experience this week, to consolidate all our learning about animals, the features of different animal groups and what they eat. We saw a python, a bearded dragon lizard, a skink, tortoise, hissing cockroach (which was enormous!), sugar glider and chinchilla. There were all amazing and most of us were brave enough to touch and hold some of the animals! A big thank you to Kayleigh for teaching us so much.
On Thursday, we had a wonderful visit to Forest School. We cooked potato wedges on the fire, made bird feeders from toilet rolls along with all the usual fun and action we enjoy there!
Week beg: 23rd January 2023
This week, in our Science, we were learning about herbivores, carnivores and omnivores. We had a fabulous lesson dissecting different animal poo (playdough!), looking for bones, leaves, seeds. Depending on what we found we could think about what that animal might have eaten. It was so much fun!
In our Computing this week, we have been writing short algorithms for the floor robots and predicting program outcomes.
In our Art this week, we have been learning paper shaping techniques to make a 3D sculpture. Look at our wonderful 'tree of life'!
Week beg: 16th January 2023
Our animal theme this week has been 'fish'! We have really enjoyed reading the Rainbow Fish books, seeing how Rainbow Fish learned to be a good friend. In Art, we collaged beautiful rainbow fish and used clay to explore different patterns in our fish shapes.
At the end of the week, we played a great game, reading sentences carefully and sorting them according to which Rainbow Fish book they came from. We had to work well with our friends in our team. It was lots of fun and our reading was great!
In Maths this week, we have been really focussing on 'teen' numbers, learning about tens and ones.
Week beg: 9th January 2023
This week in Science, we have been learning all about mammals. We then read the story Elmer, in English, writing some super sentences to describe the colourful, fun and cheeky elephant! We even tried to add a conjunction to our writing.
We designed our own colourful elephant masks, ready for our Elmer day celebration in the 'jungle' at Forest School on Thursday. Don't they look amazing!
On Thursday we had a great time at Forest School celebrating our Elmer Day! We recognised how special it is that we are all different and that we must celebrate our differences, not try to be the same. We even ate bananas (cooked with chocolate on the fire!) to be like the elephants! Yum! Look at the pictures of us pretending to be different jungle animals! Can you guess what we are?
We ended the week designing and making junk model animals in our DT lesson. It was so much fun!
5th & 6th January 2023
Happy New Year everyone!
We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas break! We enjoyed seeing the children back in school this week and have had a lovely couple of days learning all about the season of winter!
In Art, we enjoyed printing using bubble wrap to make lovely wintery landscape pictures
We also used the computer program 'Paint' to create wintery pictures!
In our dance lesson, we explored different movements to recreate wintery weather!
On Friday afternoon, we enjoyed exploring ice, feeling it, watching it and trying hard to break it before it melted! We came up with some great vocabulary to describe it! We also created collages of a person dressed in warm wintery clothes!
Autumn Term 2022
Week beginning 19th December 2022
We have packed a lot into the last three days of term!
On Monday, we watched a wonderful Pantomime in the hall; lots of laughter and singing and Christmas cheer!
We've been busy making our Christmas crowns...
...ready for our Christmas dinner on Wednesday. It was delicious! Thank you Mrs Marsh and Mrs Tietz.
We all had a lovely sing of carols at our Carol Service in St James' Church on Wednesday morning too! What a busy week! We would like to thank all Hedgehog families and friends for your support this term and wish you a happy Christmas and wonderful New Year!
Week beginning 12th December 2022
What a super festive week we have had, getting ready and performing our Christmas nativity 'Baarmy Bethlehem'! We hope those who came to watch it enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed performing. We were all very proud of the children.
Week beginning 5th December 2022
In our Computing lesson this week, we were using dots of colour to create pictures in the style of Seurat, on the computer as well as with real paint!
We have also been following instructions to make Santa decorations. They are making our classroom look very festive!
We ended the week feeling very festive ourselves, in our wonderful Christmas jumpers!
Week beginning 28th November 2022
On Tuesday Hedgehog Class enjoyed a village walk to St James' church. We went inside and looked for lots of different features that we have been learning about in RE - the stained glass windows, the font, pews, pulpit and lots more. We have been learning about how Christians go to church to worship God. Later in the week we did some wonderful independent writing about our visit.
We have also been learning about advent, a special time of 'getting ready' for Christians. We learned about the advent candle wreath that we had seen in church on Tuesday. We made our own wreath with four candles - one for hope, peace, joy and love.
We have now finished making our puppets in DT. Don't they look amazing!
Hedgehog Classroom is very Christmassy now too! We ended the week taking it in turns to decorate our Christmas tree!
Week beginning 21st November 2022
What a busy week we have had, ending with a super day on Friday! We started the day with our Christmas craft morning and thoroughly enjoyed having some parents join us to make different Christmas decorations!
Friday afternoon was then spent in Forest School! Yummy pizza wraps cooked on the fire and more twig Christmas decorations and lots more fun! What a fabulous day!
Week beginning 14th November 2022
This week has been our anti-bullying / kindness week in school. In Hedgehog Class we spent a lot of time thinking about how different we all are and we wore odd socks to remind ourselves that no-one is the same and it's good to be different!
We enjoyed the story 'But Martin' which is all about an alien who is different and tries to fit in. We created our own aliens and sure enough, each one was different, just like us! We wrote wonderful descriptive sentences to go with our aliens!
We have learned that although we are all different we can all be friends; being different makes life great!
In Maths, we have been learning all about number bonds. We have enjoyed investigating number bonds of 10, using all sorts of different mathematical equipment.
Week beginning 7th November 2022
This week we have been learning about Remembrance Day and the soldiers who died in the wars. We went on a village walk to find the two war memorials, counted the names of the men who died in the wars from Stretham and learned all about why we wear poppies. We painted pictures of poppies growing in the fields and then on Friday we joined in with the whole school to have a minute silence at 11 o'clock.
In Maths, we have have been exploring the equals sign. We have learned that one side of the sign has to be the same as the other. We have investigated all sorts of different addition sentences and created addition families!
In our DT, we have started a unit called 'puppets'. We really enjoyed looking at lots of different puppets, explored different joining techniques and then designed our own puppet. We can't wait to make them!
Week beginning 31st October 2022
This week we have learned all about how London changed after The Great Fire. Soon after, the first fire service was created and we think firefighters today are real superheroes!
In English we watched an episode of Fireman Sam, learned about how stories are structured with a beginning, middle and end (a story mountain) and then wrote the Fireman Sam adventure as our own books. We are very proud of our books and enjoyed reading and sharing them with each other.
In Phonics this week, we have been practising segmenting and blending words with adjacent consonants at the end. We are getting so good at listening carefully and writing these CVCC words.
We ended the week with a lovely afternoon at Forest School. We toasted bread on the fire and enjoyed a cup of hot chocolate too, as well as re-purposing a pumpkin to make a lovely bird feeder!
Week beginning 27th October 2022
We have all been captivated learning about The Great Fire of London this week. We have sequenced and written about the events, learned about Samuel Pepys burying his cheese and even written a diary extract as if we were him! In Art, we have continued our colouring mixing, painting wonderful orange flames for our display!
In PE, we have been learning all about the importance of fitness! We ended this unit sorting different daily activities according to how much energy they take. It was great fun!
Week beginning 10th October 2022
This week we have been travelling back in time over 350 years. We have been learning all about what life was like, including the houses. We enjoyed collaging Tudor houses and making a display of a street!
In Maths, we have been learning about greater than, less than and equal to, learning to use the mathematical symbols.
In our Art this week, we have been revising colour mixing. We made different shades of green - don't they look great!
We ended the week with a lovely afternoon in Forest School, making autumn clay art and enjoying sm'ores!
Week beginning 3rd October 2022
In Maths this week, Hedgehog Class have been consolidating one more and one less, ordering numbers and practising number formation.
We have enjoyed reading 'Farmer Duck' this week, carrying on our learning about harvest. We sequenced words to make super sentences and then wrote our own sentences to retell the story. Our sentences are getting so good, remembering finger spaces, a capital letter at the beginning and full stop at the end.
We enjoyed our first visit to the school library this week; we had a lovely time looking at all the books and choosing one to take home.
Week beginning 26th September 2022
Hedgehog Class have had a wonderful week learning all about Autumn and harvest. On Tuesday we enjoyed a welly walk around Stretham, looking for signs of Autumn. We saw a squirrel, beautiful coloured leaves, berries, lots of conkers and acorns and freshly harvested fields!
We made lovely leafy hedgehogs from the autumn leaves we collected!
On Friday, we had a great time at Forest School. We baked apples on the fire, made a beautiful autumn hanging with different coloured leaves and enjoyed all the usual fun of Forest School!
Week beginning 19th September 2022
Hedgehog Class are getting very used to all the class routines now! Every morning we use the little clocks to make the time of activities we will do that day! We are getting very quick.
We are also getting good at completing our rainbow activities! We had fun this week going on a snail trail - looking for 'ai' words, painting with vegetables, sorting objects according to the material they are made from, matching lower-case and upper-case letters and writing CVC words on the computer! So busy!
In Maths this week, we have been consolidating our knowledge of numbers - ordering, counting and representing numbers in different ways.
Week beginning 12th September 2022
This week have enjoyed reading the book 'Supertato'. We have sequenced the story, caught Evil Pea in our fine motor threading and written a speech bubble as if we were one of the vegetables!
We then had great fun making our own 'Supertato' potato! Don't they look great!
In Science, we had fun being superheroes and rescuing Supertato from a pile of objects! We had to work out what material each object was made from in order to rescue him.
In Music, we started to learn all about 'pitch'. We played high notes and low notes on the glockenspiel and we all had to reach up high or bob down low! It was great fun!
Week beginning 5th September 2022
What a fabulous first week back! All the children have settled so well to the routines and expectations of Hedgehog Class - we are so very proud of them all! We have had a very busy week painting superheroes, learning about our feelings after reading 'The Colour Monster', counting and ordering numbers in Maths, and of course, exploring all the resources on Hedgehog classroom.
