Spring Parent’s Evening
Please see letter below about Parents Evening arrangements for this term.
World Book Day in Maple!
We have had so much fun today in Maple class for World Book Day.
We loved everyone’s costumes.
Here are some photos of what we have got up to during the day.
We have spent the day looking at lots of different books, shared stories with our friends friends.
We even had Willy Wonker and an Oompa Lumpa!
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We had a competition in school to decorate our door. We chose the story ‘What the Lady Bird Heard’ as we have been reading this book and enjoying it in class for our topic this term.
Everyone helped creating the animals and it was so fun. It looked great! We can’t wait to see who the winner is,
World Book day in Art.
Pupils in Year 7 learned how the printing and etching process was invented and books became accessible to the masses, thanks to pioneers like Gutenberg and Thomas Bewick. They then used printing blocks to create their own prints.
World Book Day 9R (Article 29 & 31)
During World Book Week the pupils in 9R have worked extremely hard completing a range of fun and relaxing activities. They have designed their own personal book marks based on their favorite characters and even discussed characters to make up a story of their own. Mrs. Devlin brought in her favorite book and friendly Tiger and made a relaxing story area in the classroom and read the Tiger came to tea. Miss Lovely baked some of her delicious cakes to celebrate all of our hard work. Throughout the week Mrs Leonard and Mrs. Martin have been sharing reading books and discussing the message the book was given and how it would impact their social and emotional well being.
Megan loved dressing and playing with the tiger.
World Book Day Hazel Class 2022
Hazel class have had an amazing day for world book day.
We enjoyed creating our world book day door and rewrote our favourite stories so that it starred ourselves.
We even went to Asda to spend our book vouchers, unfortunately they only had one book left so we brought it back to read in class.
All the pupils enjoyed dressing up and looked amazing!
Conscious Alley for Drama
We have been reading ‘The Barnabus Project’ and for our Drama lesson Birch got into a conscious alley and we choose certain children to walk down the middle of the two rows. It got us to think about how certain characters would feel and how different people’s opinions can affect ours. It was really interesting how many different opinions we thought of as ‘Barnabus’ was walking down the middle!
11Ms Science experiment
Today 11M did a Science experiment to see which type of chocolate would melt the quickest (white, milk or dark chocolate). We found out that the white chocolate melted the quickest, the dark chocolate was second and the milk chocolate took over 10 minutes to melt!
Return to school
Dear Parent/Carer,
We look forward to welcoming back our students after the half term break.
Please note current self isolation guidance for school. Students with Covid19 symptoms should self isolate and order a PCR test. Continue to isolate while you wait for the result. If you test positive you should self isolate and not attend school for 10 days, but 5 days from the start of your symptoms (or test if no symptoms) you can take a lateral flow test, followed by another the next day. Once you have 2 consecutive negative tests on separate days and no high temperature, you can return to school before the 10 days.
Recreating a mine!
In History, Birch have been learning all about the North East and its links to coal mining. We had a talk from Mr Walker, who discussed how his family members were miners and the different jobs they did. We also found out that some children had relatives who had also been miners. Birch were miners for the afternoon. The scene was set…we had our Davy lamps and of course a bird to check it was safe down there!
There was lots of coal in the mine which needed to be collected and then the children needed to find a tool to help them break down the coal wall to escape! We had so much fun recreating a mine and crawling through the dark spaces. We had a challenge at the end of the mine where they needed to take photos of themselves.
We also made some cookies which we all really enjoyed when they cooled down! Phew what a busy day!!!
