BIRCH 2025 - 2026

Hello and welcome to our class page for: 

Birch Class - Summer Term 2025

Claire is the class teacher in Birch, along with Caitlin, Molly, Magda and Peter who are our Teaching Assistants.                                              

Special Breakfast happens each week on a Friday where we give our certificates to our Rights Respecting Superstars and find out which Duty bearers have earned an extra special mention too. During Special Breakfast, we all sit in the hall and celebrate in the achievements of others whilst eating a range of foods including pancakes, waffles, toast, eggs, fruit and yogurts.

We do offer a healthy breakfast each morning when the children arrive to get them settled and ready for the day ahead. During this session the children complete Early Bird activities and undertake reading and computer based tasks.

Each morning we have a phonics session to build upon individual's knowledge of sounds in order to enable them to be fluent readers. We follow the Little Wandle phonics scheme. Children are in different phonics groups, according to the sounds that they are working on.

Please try and read with your child regularly either online using Renaissance or using a reading book if you have requested one to be sent home. If you would like your child's log in details for Renaissance then please do pop me a message and I will send this out to you. I can also share the login details for Numbots if your child would like to play this at home.

HOME & REMOTE LEARNING:

Pupils have been given their login details to access our school learning apps at home. Please contact your class team if you need the log in details to be re-sent.

• My Maths – https://www.mymaths.co.uk
• Purple Mash – https://www.purplemash.com/sch/bridgeleapupilre
• Numbots – https://play.numbots.com/#/account/school-login-type? 
• Renaissance - https://login.renaissance.com/12d2c6fd-4cae-4a7f-a67b-31ae958a9006?state=1380400c-381c-43d6-bbab-16bb1193d0d0 

To view any of the wonderful work that we have done in Class Birch, please refer to your child’s Class Dojo Class Story and Portfolio where you will find news, pictures and information about what they have achieved and how we have celebrated their achievements.
https://www.classdojo.com/

In the second half of the Summer term we will be focussing on:                                                                                                     

• ENGLISH: We will be focusing on the story and characters from Meerkat Mail. We will be using the strategies from Talk for Writing to enhance writing, bring writing to life and to enable all learners to see themselves as writer. We will be focusing on settings and relating the work to our geograpgy topic too.
• We will continue to have daily phonics lessons and we aim to listen to the children read at least three times a week.
• In all our written work, we will be trying to apply the phonics that we learn.
• MATHS: We are focussing on number, number names, knowing quantities, ordering numbers, using the vocabulary related to more/less, one to one correspondence, odd and even numbers, and sharing equally and in identify and representing numbers with Numicon and Rekonreks. We will be looking at 2D and 3D shapes, using language of sides, edges, faces, corners and vertices. We will also be looking at a range of measures to compare size and mass and telling the time to the nearest hour and half hour.
• Playing on Numbots at home will help with this. 
• PSHE : We will focusing on the rights of the children, using Zones of Regulation to express feelings and emotions and developing relationships with everyone on our class. We will be continuing to use the iMatters curriculum units around Healthy Lifestyles this half term which will focus around healthy foods, denal hygiene and the importance of handwashing. We will also be fucusing on transition and preparing children to move to new classes and be with different groups of children.
• Language and Communication: We will be using Talk Boost to enhance our language and communication offer.
• Skills Builder: We are working on teamwork and problem solving strands, in addition to speaking and listening under the communication strand to develop effective communication and build relationships. We are also looking at Problem Solving as part of Manchester's Skills For Life. Within this, we will build upon speaking, team work and problem solving to create food which we can share with parents as part of our Community Cafe project. This links in with our DT project around food. Parents are invited to come in to share our final celebration on Monday 14th July at 12:30pm
• Emma, our art teacher, will be with us again on the 8th July to spend a day undertaking a sculpture project with us.
• In geography, we will be focusing around the topic of 'What is it like to live in Shanghai?'. We will recap our work on the continents and compare life in Manchester to that of Shanghai.
• In Science, we are continuing our topic will be How Does Yout Garden Grow? Within this we will be identifying and naming common plants and trees and observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into flowering plants.
• In RE, we will be discussing the question 'How do we know that some people talk to God?'

We continually strive to promotoe positve behaviour and will continue to give Dojo points, celebratory certificates and our weekly prize draw. Please feel free to message any of the team on Class Dojo.