As part of our topic we have discovered that the Olympics began in Olympia, Greece in 776BC to honour Zeus the king of gods. We looked at what events took place and compared it to our modern day olympics. We then split into teams and took part in a mini Read more…
Today we learnt some basic classroom phrases. We completed the actions as we said the phrases to help us remember, then practised in pairs by asking our partners to complete one of our French commands. In class each week we have French Friday. This is the day we do our Read more…
Many thanks to all the parents/guardians who joined us for our shared learning and lunch today. The children and I thoroughly enjoyed having you here and I hope you enjoyed it too. The Greek vases are looking fabulous and will be painted with Greek designs once they are dry. Well Read more…
We have had lots of fun on world book day today including sharing information about our favourite books, book swap, listening to a story during our brunch and writing a description of a mythical beast with support from an author,s video. Well done to everyone who came dressed up you Read more…
Today we had lots of fun watching a company who came in to perform a Greek Myth for us. Their version made us laugh a lot and helped us to really understand the myth. We also worked in groups with the actors at various points throughout to check our understanding Read more…
This week we have been using all the knowledge we have gained throughout our topic ‘Scrumdidlyumptious’. We worked as a group to design our own new healthy snack bar. This included giving it a name, deciding on ingredients, designing the packaging, creating a slogan, pricing including profit, creating and performing Read more…
This half-term the children have been reading ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roahl Dahl and re-writing their own versions using ‘The Write Stuff’. The children have watched clips of both the old and new film versions of the book to support their ideas before writing various sections such as Read more…
This week the children have been learning how to divide 2-digit by 1-digit numbers. They have all worked really hard using partitioning to work out the answers. Today we moved on to learning about division with remainders. We used multi link cubes to help us share our numbers and find Read more…
A fantastic start to the new year in Year 3. We began the week looking into our new topic titled ‘scrumdidlyumptious’. This is a topic based around food. We began the week by talking about the difference between fruits and vegetables and tasted various ones including, Lychee, Pineapple, Grapefruit, mushroom, Read more…
We have had a fantastic week in Birch, completing lots of fun Christmas activities alongside Maths and English. We also had lots of fun in our Christmas party afternoon. Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas. See you in 2019