Thank you to everyone in Birch who came dressed up for World Book Day today. You all looked fabulous. We could tell this class are big Harry Potter fans. Special well done to Molly who won best costume for looking beautiful as Poppy from Trolls.
Thank you to all the family members that joined Birch for their shared learning and lunch this week. The children had so much fun telling and showing you what we have been learning about in topic this half term. They especially loved you getting messy building volcanoes with them. We Read more…
This week has celebrated Random Acts Of Kindness Day. Birch has recognised this by collecting items for Heywood’s Banardos charity shop. Thank you to all the children and parents/ careers who have donated. Miss Lomax will take these to Banardos at the end of the week.
This week Year 3 Birch were lucky enough to visit Dippy the Diplodocus in Rochdale. We travelled by bus into Rochdale centre, thinking about our road safety and stranger safety and all the staff were really impressed with the behaviour of the children. We learnt lots of new facts about Read more…
This week is online safety week. Year 3 Birch recognised this by reading “Tek The Modern Cave Boy” This book is designed to look like an iPad and teaches the children how and why spending too much time on technology computer games, can effect your wellbeing and relationships with family Read more…
This week in PSHE, Year 3 have been learning about how they could help someone in an emergency. As part of this we talked about calling the emergency services, what constitutes as an emergency and the types of questions we may get asked if we did need to ring 999. Read more…
This week Year 3 have been learning about the ring of fire. In groups of four, we each had a different area/ section of a map, on which we used co-ordinates to plot volcanoes that have erupted in the last few hundred years. Once each member had completed their individual Read more…
This week year 3 have been learning about the layers of the Earth. After finding out the names for last weeks homework, today we found out more information about each layer, including temperatures, sizes and what they were made up of. We then used our knowledge to help us to Read more…
This week we have been learning about how a volcano erupts and how it forms a cone shape. We began by learning about tectonic plates and how they move. We then learnt new vocabulary with actions for the parts of a volcano and created a chant to help us learn Read more…
This week has been Art week at St Luke’s. Year 3 have been learning about the Artist Georgia O’Keefe and looking at her style and techniques to create a piece of Art in the same style. At the beginning of the week the classroom was set up with numerous Read more…