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
Year 6 have been looking at lifestyle choices and how they affect us. We looked at drugs, smoking and alcohol and how they impact our bodies. The children created texts to give readers the information they need to make them aware of the dangers and how they can help Read more
This week we have been learning about how to be healthy and what is good to eat to keep our bodies healthy. We need to be healthy to be super superheroes! We researched being healthy and found out that eating lots of fruit can help our bodies be healthy. All 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
Year 3 have had a fantastic afternoon at their Christmas party. We played lots of games, danced, sang and ate party food. All the Year 3 staff wish the children and their families a fantastic Christmas 😀🎅
We have had a very busy day this day! This morning, we had our Christmas party. It was lots of fun! We did lots of dancing, played different games and even played pass the parcel. We were very tired after all the dancing! We then had a special visit from Read more
This week, Year 3 Birch’s elf on the shelf left a note telling them to meet him in Kayden’s garden at 2pm and to take Year 5 with them. When we arrived, we saw lots of elves with messages for us. They had wrapped and hidden some of their favourite Read more