Birchwood Primary School

Children

Acorn

Welcome to Acorn!

2022 - 2023

Mrs Smith/Miss Lowe - Class Teachers

Mrs Hooper/Mrs Sullivan/Mrs Winsloe-Warder - Teaching Assistants

Autumn 2

Why Do Squirrels Hide Their Nuts?

After learning the story ‘Pumpkin Soup’ by Helen Cooper using Talk for Writing, we had the opportunity to go into the Food Tech Room and make our own. We discussed the recipe used in the story and the steps taken and compared it to the recipe we used at school. We got to taste the soup and most of us loved it.

We love exploring maths in many ways and this week we explored games with numbers up to 5. We worked as teams and threw bean bags into the hoops to see how many landed in the hoop and how many missed. This helped us to organise our sentence structures for combining amounts.

Later in the week we all went on a number hunt inside and outside of the school building. We were amazed at how many numbers can be found. Have a look at all our wonderful learning!

Acorn class really enjoyed their first forest school session. We went on a walk to look for signs of Autumn and talked about the colours of Autumn while on the look out for Autumn treasures. We found different coloured leaves, twigs, acorns and berries. We put all our Autumn objects into a cup to make an Autumn potion.

Autumn has arrived in Acorn and Chestnut class.

Here you can see the reception children exploring the learning provision inside and outside. With many celebrations such as Halloween and Bonfire Night already being seen, you can see our children immersed in their learning. Autumn is Mrs Smith and Mrs Robilliard's favourite season with all the beautiful colours and crafts.

Autumn 1

We All Belong Here!

We had a great time celebrating National Poetry Day on Thursday 6^th October. Everyone looked fantastic dressed up as adjectives. There was a fabulous range including sparkly, intelligent, old, camouflaged, gloomy and angelic. We also enjoyed watching Year 2 perform the poem 'The Owl and the Pussy Cat' to us. We then performed the rhyme 'One, Two Buckle My Shoe' for them.

Tuesday 4^th October was a busy day in Reception. We spent the first part of the morning listening to poems from the visiting poet Ash Dickinson, who then helped us to write a class poem. We then spent some of the morning looking at some exciting educational apps on the iPads with Mr Bailey.

We had some very special visitors into school on Friday 14^th October as our teddy bears joined us for a teddy bears picnic. We retold the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears that we have been learning, sang teddy bear songs, played games and made our own banana sandwiches to eat. Yummy!

On Thursday 22^nd September local Fire Fighters came into school to talk to the reception children about the importance of their role. The children got to practice asking questions about their job and the risks they take, and also got to try on some of their amazing kit.

Starting school is both exciting and nerve wracking for not just the children but for their grown ups at home. Here are some of the photos of their first few days and weeks at school. They have been learning new routines, school rules, making friends and exploring their new learning environments. These precious moments will stay in the children's minds for quite some time and definitely in their teachers. We have been building, painting, sculpting, roleplaying, riding bikes and climbing on the trim trail.