Welcome to Silver Birch class.

Ms Sumner is our class teacher and Ms Andrews is our teaching assistant. Mrs Grace looks after us at lunchtime. 

During our Spring term we will be learning..... 

English: Our favourite topic - PIRATES!!!

We will be learning and writing lots of explanations about pirates and their lives, including their weapons and what they ate. We will also be writing some poems and stories about pirates. We will complete our topic with a pirate day where the children (and staff) dress up as pirates and spend the whole day 'arrring'!!

Phonics: During our phonics lessons, the children will now be following the Little Wandle Fluency for Spelling and will start to concentrate on spelling patterns. They will have a short spelling test on Friday morning.
 
Maths:  We will continue to follow our Red Rose Maths Scheme and will be practising place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, measuring, time and shape. We will start to introduce counting in 3s.
 
Science: Our topic for the  term is 'Materials'. We investigate the properties of various materials and have fun deciding which would be the best material to make a shelter for a marooned pirate.

Geography: We will be comparing our locality to that of a water village called Kampong Ayer in Asia.

History: After half term, we will be learning about Leroy Constantine, a Lancashire cricketer.

  
Art: This term we will be looking at textile art and will design and make our own pirate flag.
 
Design and Technology: We will be investigating and designing windmills.

Music: We will be following the Charanga Music scheme to continue learning about pitch and rhythm.

 
PSHE:   We will discuss  'Health and Wellbeing' (including how to keep ourselves physically and emotionally healthy) and 'Safety' (including knowing what to do when lost and safety on the internet)
 
RE: The first half term we will be learning about Islam. After half term, we  will be learning about the Church and how it unites the Christian community.
 
Computing: During the first half term we will look at programming and robot algorithms. After half term, we will be learning about data collection and pictograms.

  PE: Our PE days are Tuesdays and Thursdays. Remember to wear your PE kits to school on these days. 

Please bring a pair of pumps, in a school PE bag, for use during Dance and Gymnastics sessions. These can be left in school. 
 
Homework: This will be issued the first week and you can do it over the course of the half term.

Spellings: These will now be set each Friday.

Things you need to bring to school everyday: 

• Reading book in a A4 wallet. 

• School bag (no rucksacks please as we are limited for space) 

• Water bottle. 

• Snack