Creeting St Mary CEVAP School
Anything is Possible (Mark 9 v 23)
Birch
Welcome to Birch Class 2024/25
Hello and welcome to the Birch Class page. Birch Class are taught by Mr Palmer and the teaching assistants are Mrs Marsh, Miss Crockett, Mrs Lockwood and Mrs Pawsey-Fuller.
Birch Class News. Please read for lots of information about the Summer term.
Topics: Summer 1
Literacy: The Catch, Arguments and Voices in the park.
RE: Buddhism, Enlightenment.
History: Romans.
Science: Habitats.
PE: Cricket and Athletics
PSHE: Be yourself
Birch Class enjoyed their DT sewing lesson. They made some great phone cases.
Birch Class enjoyed their Samba drumming session
Birch Class investigated how shadows change in size
Birch Class made periscopes to investigate how light travels
Birch Class investigated which material reflected light the best
Topics: Spring 2
Literacy: Manor house, Explanations texts and Zorba.
Geography: Natural resources
Science: Light
RE: Walk through the Bible
PE: Swimming and netball
DT: Phone cases
PSHE: Online wellbeing
Computing: Spreadsheets
Year 5: Metric conversions
To help with our fluency, there will be a weekly metric measurement conversion test on Wednesday. Please see the conversions below which you need to learn.
10mm = 1cm
100cm = 1 metre
1000 metres = 1 kilometre
1000 ml = 1 litre
1000 grams = 1 kilogram
Arithmetic website
For those who wish to practice their arithmetic skills, this is a great interactive website wish will even mark your tests!
https://mathsbot.com/primary/year5
https://mathsbot.com/primary/ks2
Birch Class made ModRoc sculptures
Birch Class newsletter
Birch Class topics Spring 1
Literacy: The Piano, Letter writing, The Manor House
RE: Hinduism: Moksha
Science: Earth and Space
Geography: Human Geography: Trade
Computing: Databases
PSHE: Money matters
Art: 3D: Clay
PE: Swimming (y5) and Handball
Birch Class created collage in the style of Picasso
Some of the finished collages
Birch Class created collages in the style of Gustav Klimpt
In RE Birch Class made wisdom owls to share pieces of wisdom they have learnt
Autumn 2 topics
Literacy: Goodnight Mr Tom, Newspaper reports, Flashbacks
Science: Properties of materials
Computing: Game creator
History: World War II
DT: Rationing food
RE: Wisdom
PSHE: One World
PE: Hockey and Dance
Art: Collage
We have been testing soluble materials and the factors that affect the speed of dissolving.
In Science we were investigating the hardness of materials
Birch Class have made fruit turnovers in DT to help them learn about rationing
Oakerwood update Thursday. Today we did capture the flag, den building and puzzles. Everybody had a good day.
More pictures from Thursday
Oakerwood so far everybody is having a great time
Oakerwood part 2
Birch Class enjoyed their trip to Martlesham Heath Aviation Museum.
Birch Class have been drawing in the style of Frank Auerbach and develop positive and negative space
Class information
PE days will be Monday and Thursday
Music clarinet sessions will be on Tuesday mornings.
Times tables tests will be on Thursday afternoons.
Homework will be due in on Fridays.
Mr Palmer will not be in class all day on Fridays.
Birch Class Newsletter
Birch Class made models of the Human heart
