Today we have celebrated the European Day of Languages! We have enjoyed many different activities a big thank you to Mrs Pilliteri for organising the day. We have enjoyed a French breakfast, Spanish dancing, learning to greet each other in different languages, searched for flags, coloured in greetings and dressed Read more
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
This week has been arts week and we have learning about Artist David Hockney. We created a fact page about him, drew a picture of his famous Garrowby Hill and then coloured in pictures of his artwork using the computer.
This week has been Art Week, and we’ve taken inspiration from Vincent van Gogh’s famous Sunflowers artwork. We explored different styles of sunflowers through sketching and drawing, and then brought our creations to life using a variety of colouring mediums. These included felt tips, oil pastels, watercolours, and pencil crayons. Read more
For this year’s art week theme – The Natural World, Year 1 have studied the artist Andy Goldsworthy, we have collected and remembered facts, looked at his artwork, collaged a fact file and then created our own pieces inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. During cool time, some of us practised what Read more
Year 4 went to Queen’s Park today to look at the River Roch as a part of our Geography lesson. We looked at both the physical and human features that we could see along the river. We looked at how the river meandered and anny erosion we could see. Sadly, Read more
We had a blast at our indoor sports day! From balancing to racing, keeping balloons in the air, and stacking cones—everyone joined in on the fun! Laughter, teamwork, and friendly competition made it a fun sports day! Well done Maple!
We had the best day at Smithills Farm for our school trip, we met lots of animals, rode a tractor, fed donkeys their breakfast, rode on some donkeys, held and stroked baby animals and watched cows get milked, we even got to play on the playground, we had so much Read more
Today Year 5 and 6 had the opportunity to learn about different careers from industry professionals. The children had a great time learning about jobs such as photography, nursing, being a member of the clergy, a doctor and many more. The children have learnt so much and we have lots Read more
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.