Year 5 are currently creating a biodiversity calendar with children in Martinique, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland as part of our Year 5 Comenius environmental project. Children have been busy creating beautiful pictures to represent biodiversity in the UK.
Children in Class 17 have been working hard on their calendar entries. Take a look at their wonderful pictures of Sutton Park:
On Friday 1st June, our school will be celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee by holding Family Jubilee Day at school! This event is being organised by parents and children who attend family learning classes, Friends of Birchfield (PTA) and staff.
Programme:
In the morning, classes will take part in Jubilee activities.
Lunch will be different on this day as our fantastic catering team will be preparing Jubilee Lunch Boxes
Between 1.30 and 4.30pm there will be a street party in our playgrounds with finger foods, games, face painting, a bouncy castle, stalls, cake sales, competitions, raffles and much more! This is a community event therefore parents and other family members are welcome to attend. Tickets cost 50p per person.
Read our latest parent letter to find out more about our Family Jubilee Day including the Great Cake Bake competition in aid of Birmingham Children's Hospital.
Well done to all of the children in Mr Brown's class, Class 18, for continually producing spectacular artwork. They have been using different materials and techniques to create art which is linked to other topics in the curriculum including science and history. Here is a selection of their creations this year:
Dr Roy Paget, an international brain specialist and neuroscientist, will be coming back to Birchfield on Thursday 10th and Friday 11th May to work with our year 6 children. Dr Paget has provided wonderful workshops for Birchfield children in the past and we’re delighted that he will once again be visiting us this year.
Dr Paget is a leading authority on Brain Based Learning and the educational and academic achievements of children. All year six children will take part in his exciting Magic Math's Days.
Dr Paget will be holding an assembly on Thursday 10th May and we would like to invite parents to attend. The assembly will start at 9.05 and finish at 9.30am.
If parents are unable to attend the assembly and would still like the opportunity to meet Dr Paget and obtain further details, you are welcome to come into school on Thursday 10th May between 3.30 and 5.30pm.
If you would like more information about Dr Paget and his Magic Math’s Day, you can visit his website: http://www.pagetandpartners.co.uk/
On Thursday 26th April, as part of their Comenius Environmental Project and to commemorate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, Class 16 planted trees with the RSPB at their Middleton Lakes Nature Reserve. The class planted 62 trees including 2 royal oaks, which were given to us by The Woodland Trust as part of their Jubilee Woods Project.
The children enjoyed their morning planting trees and can now visit the reserve in years to come to watch their trees grow. Here are some pictures of the children hard at work:
