Birch. Autumn 2: Week 1

Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 3:50pm

Welcome back to our Autumn 2 term. We hope that you all had a lovely half term break.

This week we have started a new story in English called 'Major Glad, Major Dizzy'. This story starts of in the 1800's with a little girl who posts 2 toy soldiers under the floorboards. The book then travels through time, showing the journey of the soldiers and changes in the house overtime. It is very interesting!

In maths we have started to look at the time. We are learning the order of the days of the week and months of the year. We completed a fun experiment in Thursday's lesson, thinking about duration of time. We had to estimate how many times we could carry out certain tasks in 1 minutes (writing our name, putting our coat on, etc.) and then we tried it out to see if we were correct. Next week we will be looking at telling the time, thinking about o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to.

We have continued our learning about materials in science this half term. Our first investigation was all about materials that we could use to build a safe house for ‘The Three Little Pigs. Next week we will focus on sorting materials based on their properties and creating a good outfit for ‘Humpty Dumpty’ to protect him from his fall!

In Computing we have looked at a programming app called 'Box Island' and next week will be revisiting our understanding of E-Safety.

Don’t forget that parents evening is next week, we look forward to seeing you all there :)