On Monday morning our lovely year 6 pupils were invited to an exclusive cinema viewing of The Minions “Return of Gru” to celebrate their end of year achievements. Everyone listened and followed safety instructions when travelling on the mini bus and adhered to personal safety when in the Metro Centre, walking up to the ODEON. …
During Cookery in Enrichment on Friday afternoon the pupils followed a set of visual instructions to support them to collect all the ingredients and utensils they needed to make a cream of vegetable soup and chocolate chip cookies. The pupils adhered to health and hygiene in the kitchen and health and safety in the kitchen.…
During our Personal life skills this week in Birch we have been practicing how to clean and care for our hands. The pupils discussed the importance and benefits of having clean hands and the impact it has if we have dirty hands, such as using them to eat and the germs going into our body…
During PE today primary took advantage of the sunshine and went onto the big playing field where Birch joined up with Beech and a few pupils from Hazel to play Cricket. The pupils and staff were split into two team with one team practicing, turn taking, waiting, hitting the ball, running from bay to bay…
The pupils in Birch today were learning about Consent and different scenarios they may be in to give their consent or not and what would be the best action to enable them to feel safe. Dylan and Brady are demonstrating when someone does not want to play with the other but they insist and continue…
During Math’s today Birch class worked outside in the sunshine and done some active learning using positional vocabulary up on the MUGA. The pupils were in small groups and decided between them who was an instructor and the others had to listen and follow the instructions to navigate around the area avoiding any obstacles using …
Today the pupils in Birch combined their learning from outdoor learning and Topic to tidying up their vegetable bedding planter and then searched for sticks of equal length and width to use as part of the God’s eye for topic. The pupils watched a short video clip of the tutorial of making the Gods eye,…
Today in Birch everyone has thoroughly enjoyed participating in the Queen’s Royal Jubilee. We took part in activities from designing cakes, a quiz, a colouring competition, to making a Union Jack flag from recycled clothes and donating the rest of the clothes to Connect the clothing bank to compete in the competition to win funds…
During PE this half term Primary classes Beech and Birch have been working together in groups in practicing bat and ball skills and learning the skills, rules and techniques of cricket and rounders. The pupils have used this opportunity to share knowledge and experience of their own skills and supported others which were new to…
Primary years 5 & 6 pupils had a very special visitor today from Johnathan who is part of the Mental Health Awareness Team One Goal. Jonathan encouraged the pupils to think about why it is important to have some strategies in place to support them with their mental health and how to identify their super…