Welcome to Birch Class
This term (Summer 2025), our enquiry project is:
'What happens where the land meets the sea?'
This project is all about exploring the seaside and this term we’ll move our focus away from Grace Darling and begin to look at seaside locations and their features in our Geography lessons. We'll investigate Weymouth and Shanghai and compare them with each other before comparing them to Forest Row. In our history lessons, we'll investigate how different life was 100 years ago and make comparisons between then and now, not just at the beach but getting there from home too, as motor cars steadily took over from trains for many people. As this was a time when photographs were taken for the first time, there is lots of evidence for us to explore so the children will be working a lot out for themselves! Many objects from that time also survive to give us a flavour of what people's everyday life was like. Our overriding question will be 'How have seaside holidays changed over the last 100 years?'
Finally, the children will learn about the important work of the RNLI and beach safety. We're planning an exciting fundraising event to support them, more details to follow soon.
Here is our project planner for term 6
birch class term 6 project planner for parents.pdf
Here is our project planner for term 5
birch class term 5 project planner for parents.pdf
Term 6 Spellings
birch spring term 6 spellings pupil view.pdf
Lighthouse Seascapes
Birch class worked really hard to create these fantastic seascapes, they used watercolour paint, chalk pastels and pencil. The outcomes are fantastic! Well done Birch Class!
Birch Class Seascapes
Term 5 Spellings
birch spring term 5 spellings pupil view.pdf
Mrs Taylor is now on maternity leave. Here is the beautiful card the children made her:
Previous project planners (Term 3 and 4)
birch class term 4 project planner .pdf
birch class term 3 project planner for parents.pdf
Previous project planners (Term 1 and 2)
birch class term 2 project planner docx.pdf
birch class term 1 project planner.pdf
Paper Chain STEM Challenge
To help them settle into Year 2 Birch Class were set a paper chain challenge. They had to work in teams of three to create the longest paper chain they could using only selotape, scissors and three pieces of A3 sugar paper. There was a time limit of 30 minutes. The teams all worked brilliantly together and we all had lots of fun. Here are some photos of us busy at work.
Birch Class Paper Chain STEM Challenge
Flying Superheroes
We are very proud to show you our finished flying superheroes. The children worked hard following the instructions to make them and used their best cutting, sticking and colouring skills to create these fabulous outcomes. Well done Birch Class!
Birch Class Flying Superheroes
Heroscape Collage
We are very pleased to share with you our finished heroscape collages. The children used their cutting, placement and sticking skills to create these fantastic collages! They made a watercolour wash for the background and used their very best colouring skills on the superhero. Great work Birch Class!!!
Birch Class Heroscapes
Important information
- Our PE lessons this term are on a Tuesday (dance) and on a Thursday (net/wall games) with Mr McCarthy.
- Please bring a filled water bottle to school everyday and a warm waterproof coat and hat and gloves as we will endeavor to go outside at break times whatever the weather.
- School uniform and PE kit needs to be named please so we can quickly reunite stray items with their owner.
Home Learning
Please read with your child everyday from their Read Write Inc or book band book and record the reading in their reading record. The children on Read Write Inc have a bookmark for their book band with tricky words to also practise reading nightly. Inside the reading record you will see that there are tasks to be completed to help develop your child's reading skills. Those children who have finished the Read Write Inc programme have a gold band reading book to start with and then progress up through the book bands.
There will be a maths task set on a Friday which will link to our work in class. The task will be sent home in a home learning book and should be completed in the book and returned to school by the following Friday ready for the next task.
We will now begin learning weekly spellings, please the grid below.
Our spellings this term:
birch spring term 4 spellings.pdf
birch spring term 3 spellings for website.pdf
Additional Information
Common Exception Words lists:
Teaching Team
Mrs Upton (M-W) & Mrs Taylor (Th-F) - Teachers Mrs Usman - Teaching Assistant
