BIRCH 2024 - 2025

Hello and welcome to our class page for: 

Birch Class - Autumn 2024

Claire is the class teacher in Birch, along with Lindsey, Molly and Alex 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.

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. 

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 Autumn term we will be focussing on:                                                                                                     

• ENGLISH: We will be looking at people who help us and the stories of The Gingerbread Man and Elmer. We will be using Talk for Writing to bring stories and writing to life.
• 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 and in identify and representing numbers with Numicon.
• 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. 
• Language and Communication: We will be using Talk Boost to enhance our language and communication offer.
• Skills Builder: We are working on speaking and listening under the communication strand to develop effective communication and build relationships.
• Starting Friday 11th October we will be visiting Wythenshaw Wheelers on a fortnightly basis to enhance our PE offer and keep the children active and outdoors - please send a coat as we will even be out in the rain!
• Next half term in PSHE we will be talking about and understanding about differences and similarities betwen people, opinions and places, continuing to build respectful relationships, looking at important people in the lives of our children and in keeping our bodies safe and private.

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.