English
Birch’s visit to the library📚
This morning, year 3 Birch visited Heywood library. We spent time reading books and then each chose a book to bring back to class for our free reading time. We are looking forward to visiting again.
History
Organic remains excavation 💩
This afternoon Year 3 were discovering what early humans used to eat. As we have discussed as a class, there is no written evidence of the Stone Age so we thought about how we could possibly find out what somebody had eaten. Year 3 guessed correctly. We had to look Read more
Design and Technology
Biscuit-henge (Stonehenge)
As part of our Stoneage topic, we have been learning all about the famous monument Stonehenge. We talked about why it would have been so difficult to build all those years ago and what it is believed to have been used for. We then took a 360 degree, virtual tour Read more
Art & Design
Archealogical dig and cave paintings
Wow! What a fantastic, fun week we have had with our Topic this week. We learnt all about archaeologists and how they help us to understand pre-history. We then became archaeologists ourselves and discover Stone Age artefacts. We have also been learning about Stone Age cave paintings and used our Read more
English
Kung Fu Punctuation
What a fantastic first full week we had in Year 3 Birch. Miss Lomax is really pleased with how well the class has settled in and how hard they are working. During this week, as part of our spelling and grammar lesson, we had lots of fun learning Kung Fu Read more
Science
Imagine that -Year 2 class trip
We have all had an amazing day on our class trip today. It’s been sooooooooo much fun. We’ve painted magnets, made bath bombs and made slime. We watched a fantastic science show and played with lots of fun activities. We even got chance to paint a car! #imaginethat
Mathematics
Maths measuring
We had lots of fun estimating and then measuring different things in our classroom. We then had to solve some problems using measures.
Computing
A trip to the seaside
Our new topic is ‘Beachcombers’ so we took a trip to the seaside and completed the FANTASTICS. This will help us with our class story ‘Winnie at the seaside’ and all our topic work.
Christian Values
One little word
Today we watched a fantastic performance of ‘One little word’. The performance had no speaking parts at all apart from one little word -sorry! It was a very powerful production and all the children were engaged throughout. Thank you M6 for such a thoughtful story #onelittleword
Art & Design
Topic fun
We have worked really hard this week so on Thursday afternoon we had lots of fun with flowers. We made some gift tags for some lavender bags, drew pictures of flowers on purple mash, wrote acrostic poems, watched a video on how to draw a flower and we completed an Read more