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 to school and are all working hard!

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 we know that the Earth was sphere. The children mentioned that everything they looked at such as the fence in the playground and the playground ground was all straight.

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 story. The children then had one pupil to draw around and we had to decide what feelings the woodcutter would have felt inside and then emotions that he portrayed on the outside. The children came up one by one and discussed how the woodcutter would feel.

We can’t wait to continue with our story !

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 to make sure their amount was correct.

Birch worked super hard in developing their skills in counting! Well done Birch.

Fantastic work with this lovely group of students in their vocational lessons this morning, working as a team! 🌟

Maple Class has the best day on rewards day. There were so many exciting things that were going on.

We had a big slide, an inflatable course, warriors, even a wet slip and slide and MORE!

The children could not get enough of these super fun activities. Take a look at some of the snap shots we got.

You can see how much the children loved this.

We even had children battling it out.

There were constant refreshments out too, as it was a very hot day. There was a nice selection of fruit juices and they had some ice-lollies or slushes.

It is extremely rewarding watching all your children grow throughout the year and being apart of their accomplishments.

It was a fantastic day all round.