Today during Enrichment, we took our fishing group onto the school field to learn and practise different ways to cast. We also had a competition to see who could cast the furthest and land their weight into different targets. Excellent afternoon had by all, and the pupils loved every second. Mr Harrison.
One of the cars for motor vehicles has been delivered this morning and the group can’t wait to get stuck in next week. As you can see here they were excited to have a look around it this morning 🚙
During our History lessons this term we are focusing on Anglo Saxons and during this afternoon Rowan, Hazel and Oak worked through a carousel of activities including preparing and making broth with fresh vegetables which the Saxons would eat to sustain their energy to work on the farms ploughing and growing the crops of the…
7O have been learning about the charity event Jeans for Genes, and have started making keyrings from old jeans to raise money for charities supporting people with a genetic condition.
Every morning the children come into school during registration and have a choice of reading or going on to Lexia. Lexia is a reading program to improve the children’s reading skills. The children come in to Birch and will have quiet time to do this.
To introduce our new Science topic, Earth and Space, Beech class have been learning about the shape of the earth, moon and sun and how we know. We looked at Aristotle’s theory, which suggested that the earth is a sphere and then created our own version of planet earth. We have all settled back in…
Birch started Science and part of our knowledge statement is to understand why the Earth and other planets are spherical. We then created a globe using playdough ensuring we had the different layers and using blue for the sea and earth colours for the islands. The children all went outside and tried to identified how…
For our English Knowledge Statement we started to read our story ‘Hansel and Gretel’ by Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti. On Friday we made a prediction by looking at the front cover and what we thought might happen in the story. Today we thought about how the woodcutter would feel at the beginning of the…
For our knowledge statement for Mathematics we have introduced counting 1000’s using 10’s. We had a worksheet to show how we can count 10’s and we had to make the correct amount. We then did a practical where Miss Brannan asked the students to make a certain number using base 10’s and the children had…