Welcome to Silver Birch Class

Welcome to our class page! 

It's hard to believe we're nearly halfway through the Spring Term already! Silver Birch have been busy settling in to their Spring Term learning, impressing me with their knowledge and engagement in our 'Electricity' science topic and continuing to wow me with their wonderful writing about our 'Rewilding' topic in English. We have been busy, taking a trip to the Sustainability Centre on the 29th January and learning all about renewable sources of energy, creating our own energy to blend some delicious smoothies and debating the pros and cons of a rejected wind turbine site in the South Downs. Year Six have been working hard completing some practice assessments for their SATS and it is clear to see that their hard work this year has been paying off - Mr Jennings and I are so proud of you all and the calm, mature attitudes you showed during this week. 

If your children have been 'wowing' you at home with something, please feel free to send a picture or a summary of what they have been up to to the School Office - we would love to feature them on our WOW wall in the hall! 

Please see our 'What have we been up to?' tab to keep up to date with what we have been doing! 

As we don't have set PE days, your PE kit will need to be in school every day from the start of term, so please make sure you have this ready and named! It would be a good idea to take this home on a Friday to wash and bring back in for the following Monday. 

A reminder please that children should not be bringing rucksacks in to school as we simply don't have space in the cloakroom and this is causing a trip hazard. Please ensure that PE kits are in a drawstring bag and that book bags are used to ensure that children have enough space to safely hang their belongings in our small school! 

We had a very busy first term, travelling to Winchester to take part in an eco-conference, taking part in multiple sports tournaments with local schools, embarking on our residential and even taking a trip to the rainforest! 

Next half-term, we are taking on our geography topic of sustainability and global trade, which ties in nicely with our science topic of electricity and renewable energy. We will support this learning with a trip to the Sustainability Centre at the end of January! 

In English, we will be continuing our sustainability theme by beginning with exploring 'rewilding' - focusing on non-fiction texts exploring the re-introduction of wolves to Yellowstone National park, before creating our own text on a (more local) wildlife reintroduction. 

In maths, we are continuing with Fractions, before deepening our multiplication and division knowledge to help us tackle the final section of Fractions. We will then move on to explore decimals! 

Don't forget to keep your Mental Maths skills sharp on TTRS or Hit The Button (See links at the top of the page) . I would also like you to review the Year 5/6 spelling list at the top of the page and see which spellings you need to practice.

Homework will be set on a Friday and will be due in on the following Wednesday. This consists of weekly spellings to practice daily, times tables practice, daily reading and a 30 minute activity once a week. I will usually set these on PurpleMash and TT rockstars, so please let me know if you need log in reminders for these!  Spellings will be tested on a Friday each week. 

If there are any questions please just ask! 

Miss Bunce