Today children and teachers dressed in yellow to support and learn all about mental health awareness. Year 3 have studied the mind today and have been looking at ways to keep your mind happy. Here are some pictures from today.
During our collective worship this afternoon, we thought about what makes us feel peaceful. This linked with World Mental Health day and we discussed how activities like reading, colouring and listening to music can help our wellbeing. We then talked about how Christians use prayer to let go of their Read more
It has been fantastic to have the children back in school. We have had lots of smiling, happy children. Every child has been amazing with perfect behaviour. We have enjoyed getting to know each other and completed lots of creative tasks. We have also enjoyed taking part in team building Read more
This week has been random act of kindness day. Ash have been writing ‘Bee happy’ messages and have been putting them up around school. We have been writing jokes or messages to make everyone smile. Look out for our signs around school. We have also been colouring in some Read more
for our act of kindness, Year 6 started to lead into our new topic: Darwin’s Delights. Much of Darwin’s research centred around bird, most famously the finches of the Galápagos Islands. We created bird feeders from lard and seed mix and set them in cups around string. the Read more
Year 5 decided to collect animal food for Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary this week to celebrate ‘Random act of kindness day’. Thank you to everyone who has donated. Miss Steele will deliver them this weekend. There has been lots of kind things going on in the classroom this week!
In Reception this afternoon bluebells had two special visitors, Dina and Wally from dinosaur school. Wally brought us some super hero pictures and wanted to know how we could be a super kind friend. We came up with ideas together and told Wally how to be a good friend. 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
We looked at The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson. We noticed that the Smartest Giant in town was very kind to all the animals in the story. We decided to be kind like the Giant by giving people around the school some scrummy treats! We thought carefully Read more