Birch Autumn 2: Week 2, by Mrs Wilson-Briars

Date: 14th Nov 2025 @ 2:00pm

This week has been Anti-bullying week in school. It has been such a lovely week!

We started off our week by thinking about kindness and how we can spread kindness around our school community and at home. We have created a kindness paper chain and a kindness calendar in class, showing the acts of kindness that we have completed this week. On Monday we enjoyed wearing our odd socks and taking part in an 'odd sock dance' (see the whole school video on Facebook). On Thursday we watched a live assembly from 'The School of Kindness' and the created kindness notes for family or friends. Our week ended with a 'Pudsey celebration' for Children in Need (Thank you for all your kind donations).

In maths we have been looking at money and can now state the value of all coins and notes. We have started to look at how to add these together too!

In English we have finished our work on 'Major Glad, Major Dizzy'. Mrs Wilson-Briars and Mrs Barton were very impressed with our diary entries in our Star Write books and several children went to put their name into the book of brilliance!

We had lots of fun in science this week! We carried out and experiment to test which material would make a good protective jacket for Humpty Dumpty. We wrapped an egg int different materials and pushed them from the top of the door.

Next week we will begin our history topic, My Memory Box. This will look at changes in living memory. On Tuesday we will be sharing our baby photos with the rest of the class to look at how we have changed (please send one across on Seesaw if possible).

Birch. Autumn 2: Week 1, by Mrs Wilson-Briars

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 :)

Birch: Week 8 24/10/25, by Mrs Wilson-Briars

Date: 24th Oct 2025 @ 2:20pm

We have had a fantastic final week to our Autumn 1 term. I cannot believe we have completed 8 weeks in our new year 1 and 2 class, it has gone so quickly!

In maths we have completed our work on addition and subtraction, we really enjoy using our manipulatives in maths to support with our learning.

In English we have completed our work on Toy Man, our star write was brilliant and Mrs Wilson-Briars was so impressed with our sentences!

Computing has been fun this week. We have used an app called 'Chatterpics' to create talking Traction Man pictures.

On Thursday we enjoyed our spooky disco, I hope that everyone who attended had the best time.

Next half term we will continue our science work on materials, completing experiments to test their properties and. We will be looking at a story called Major Gald and Major Dizzy which will support our learning in history over the upcoming weeks.

Have a lovely week off. We will see you when you return on Tuesday 4th November.

Birch Autumn 1 Week 7, by Mrs Wilson-Briars

Date: 17th Oct 2025 @ 2:41pm

This week has been so exciting, we absolutely loved welcoming all of our parents and carers into our classroom to watch our assembly and work with us. We hope that you enjoyed it as much as we did.

In maths we have finished our unit of work on measurement and will move onto looking at addition and subtraction again next week.

In English we have been planning sentences about Toy Man and will use all our ideas to write a non-chronological report in our star write books next week.

Art has been very exciting as we have looked at the work of Sonia Delanuley. We have mixed primary colours to create secondary colours and have looked at how to contrast and create abstract artwork. We will complete our final pieces next week.

In PATHS we have been thinking about our control signals (stop, talk about our feelings and make a plan), we started by talking about things that make us feel angry and ten looked at behaviours that we can display when we are angry and how some of these behaviours are okay and some are no okay. We are focusing on the okay behaviours and how we deal with the emotions of anger.

Birch Autumn 1 Week 6, by Mrs Wilson-Briars

Date: 10th Oct 2025 @ 7:43am

This week we have been very busy preparing for our class assembly on 'Hot and Cold Places'. We have worked so hard, learning our lines, practising songs and making things to share with you. We can't wait for you to see all our hard work.

This week we have started a new story called 'Traction Man'. We love this book as it makes us giggle, and our writing has been fantastic too.

In maths we have moved on to a measurement unit. We have been thinking about standard and non-standard units of measure when recording length.

In PATHS we have introduced out control signals, thinking about what makes us angry and techniques we can use to calm down.

Next week we will start our Art project in the style on Sonia Delany. WE will be focusing on creating pictures using hot and cold colours.

Don’t' forget to join us for our class assembly in Wednesday 15th October at 9am!

Birch Autumn 1 Week 5, by Mrs Wilson-Briars

Date: 9th Oct 2025 @ 2:20pm

Firstly, a big thank you for attending our parent workshop on Wednesday, we really enjoyed having you in our classroom.

This week has been another busy week for Birch. We have continued to work on our addition and subtraction knowledge and through our Mastering Number scheme are getting quicker at recalling number facts. We have also finished our Grammar work and completed a piece of writing about Rapunzel. 

Next week in English we will be moving onto the story 'Traction Man'. We will be writing a report about him over the next few weeks, thinking about his appearance and the missions that he goes on.

We have finished our science topic about materials this week and our RE topic about Hinduism. In an afternoon next week, we will be using our time to practise our class assembly in preparation for the 15th October and will be completing some music lessons.

REMINDER: Class assembly will take place in the hall on Wednesday 15th October at 9am. We look forward to seeing you all there and welcoming you back to our classroom.

Birch Autumn 1 Week 4, by Mrs Wilson-Briars

Date: 26th Sep 2025 @ 7:33am

This week has been another busy, fun filled week for Birch.

In English we have carried on our Grammasaurus work, thinking about how to punctuate sentences. We then completed a piece of writing about 'The Star in the Jar'. We came up with some lovely descriptions!

In Maths we have continued our work on addition and subtraction, looking at number bonds to 10 and 20. Learning these facts will really help with our maths throughout the year.

We have now completed our RE project all about Hinduism. This week we found out about the different Gods and what they represent as well as looking at the Hindu place of worship.

We ended the week with a McMillian coffee morning. We enjoyed cakes on the playground and breaktime. Thank you for any donations, we really do appreciate it!

Next week we will be continuing our work on materials in science and will look at the story of Rapunzel in English.

Don't forget that next week is your chance to come and visit our classroom. We will be completing an art activity, and you will have the time to ask any questions about the upcoming year you may have. Our parent workshop will take place on Wednesday 1st September at 2.30pm.

Birch Autumn 1 Week 2, by Mrs Wilson-Briars

Date: 19th Sep 2025 @ 1:49pm

This week we have had another fun week in Birch class.

We have continued our work on place value, looking at how to partition numbers and find one more and one less.

In English we have secured our understanding on nouns and verbs and have started to look at identifying 'the subject' of a sentence. We have enjoyed lots of games and partner work to help us with this learning. On Friday we also wrote some sentences about Tiddler and Mrs Wilson-Briars was so impressed with our work!

In Geography we have completed our work on hot and cold countries. Ava was awarded VIP for her fantastic contributions to class discussions in geography lessons. Wel done Ava!

We are pleased to let you know that our school council representative has also been chosen by the class... This year Hope will represent Birch class. Well done, Hope!

Next week we will start our science topic all about materials and continue with our RE topic on Hinduism. 

Birch Autumn 1, Week 1, by Mrs Wilson-Briars

Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 2:02pm

We have had a lovely start to our year 1 and 2 journey in Birch! We have tried hard to show our school rules 'Be Ready, Be Respectful and Be Safe'.

In English we have been exploring different types of nouns - common or proper. We have also looked at what a verb is and really enjoyed playing a verb hunt in the classroom!

Maths has been lots of fun especially when we have used our equipment such as base 10 and rekenreks to show a number with concrete materials. We have developed our knowledge of the place value of 2 digit numbers.

We have started our new geography topic - Hot and Cold Place Around the World. We have talked about the equator and placed countries onto a world map thinking about why they would be hot or cold. We have also learnt the continent song and the oceans song too! We will be planning our assembly around this topic over the next few weeks.

We had a very exciting day on Wednesday when we appeared on ITV news!

Next week we are going to be listening to our senior students and house captains audition for their roles in the hall. We will also start an RE topic based around the religion of Hinduism.