Physical Education
Reception PE – obstacles
We loved using the apparatus today. The children were so brave in overcoming these challenges. We used our muscles to move in different ways over, under, up and down the obstacles.
Growth Mind-set
Zog
We had lots of fun this week reading Zog. The children made their own sentences using pictures to prompt them. They made play dough stars for Zog too to reward him for his efforts and never giving up. We linked this story to careers and growth mindset and discussed wha5 Read more…
Careers Related Learning
Finance Awareness Week
Children loved learning about how to make money. We spoke about the different ways we could receive or earn money and then created our own shop to buy items from it. They handled he money and chose an item each to buy. They absolutely loved this and continued to play Read more…
Whole School
Year 3 Birch – Accomplishments in sport outside of school
We have some very talented children in Year 3 Birch who kindly brought in some medals and trophies to showcase their achievements in sport outside of school. We have someone who is on a football team outside of school who won the Autumn and Spring cup, won the league and Read more…
Art & Design
Year 3 Birch Art Week!
We loved learning about Henri Rousseau! Check out our amazing artist research pages. We used oil pastels to re-create one of his famous paintings called Tiger in a Tropical Storm.
Whole School
Year 3 Birch – VE Day
Birch have had a great day today learning all about VE Day! We’ve done some dancing, flag making, cabbage soup tasting… (yuck!) and had a lovely interactive Zoom call with the lovely Mr Dilly! We learnt lots from him and saw some amazing photographs.
Computing
Year 3 Birch – micro:bit
Year 3 had a great time today exploring the micro:bit hardware and software. They loved creating their own code to make the micro:bit show emojis and other patterns!
Religious Education
Year 3 Birch – RE ‘Death and Resurrection’
The children read about The Easter Story. We discussed which parts represented death and resurrection. We then acted out that part of the story, with roles being shared between their friends. We worked on team building skills, listening skills and speaking skills when practising and performing for their friends.
Eco Committee
Gardening Club
In Gardening club this half term, we have been looking at what has grown in our planters along with making a sun catcher using natural materials around our grounds. We even found a discarded nest on the floor and loved examining this to see what it was made from. We Read more…
History
Year 3 Birch – School trip to Manchester Museum
We loved our trip to Manchester Museum and had a fantastic time looking for clues within the Museum. We made our own exhibits within our workshops and compared different animals to one another. We looked at taxidermy animals and it was amazing to see the turtle in real life!