Home learning – Snow day! 

Snow day activities/lessons:

Maths
Year 3 – https://www.thenational.academy/teachers/programmes/maths-primary-ks2/units/2-4-and-8-times-tables-using-times-tables-to-solve-problems/lessons/use-knowledge-of-the-4-times-table-to-solve-problems#slide-deck

Year 2 – https://www.thenational.academy/teachers/programmes/maths-primary-ks1/units/shape-discuss-and-compare-2d-and-3d-shapes/lessons/recognise-and-sort-polygons#slide-deck

There is a choice of English

Write a snowy story.

Sentence structure (co-ordinating conjunctions) –https://www.thenational.academy/teachers/programmes/english-primary-ks1/units/compound-sentences/lessons/co-ordination-for-text-flow#slide-deck

Or

Poetry – https://www.thenational.academy/teachers/programmes/english-primary-ks1/units/humorous-poetry/lessons/reading-and-responding-to-please-do-not-feed-the-animals-by-robert-hull#slide-deck

A choice of art

A snowy construction – What can you build out of snow? Can you build snow sculptures? Can you create snowy art?

Can you create a piece of art work of the snowy scene around you?

Drawing bugs – https://www.thenational.academy/teachers/programmes/art-primary-ks2/units/insects-drawing-and-printmaking/lessons/draw-and-observe-insects-in-detail#slide-deck

Drawing leaves and plants –https://www.thenational.academy/teachers/programmes/art-primary-ks2/units/the-rainforest-drawing-and-painting/lessons/draw-the-rainforest-studies-of-plants-and-leaves-20895#slide-deck

Drawing flowers – https://www.thenational.academy/teachers/programmes/art-primary-ks1/units/create-a-flower-garden-introducing-the-7-elements-of-art/lessons/drawing-flowers-shape-and-line#slide-deck

Science

https://www.thenational.academy/teachers/programmes/science-primary-ks1/units/uses-of-everyday-materials/lessons/materials-and-their-uses#slide-deck

Some helpful links:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zk3dcmn#:~:text=Conjunctions%20are%20joining%20words%20that,two%20clauses%20in%20a%20sentence.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/articles/zmsw382

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/ztpwdmn

Most importantly, enjoy the snow and if you build any snowmen or other creations, upload a picture to dojo.

Mr Foreman

Designing and making pouches in DT 

This half term, we have been designing and creating our own pouches.

So far we have had to choose our fabric, cut it to the correct size and shape and use a running stitch to attach them together.

Take a look out our work so far:

More updates to come…

News letters

Birch Spring newsletter

Birch Autumn Newsletter

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Medium term plans

Spring MTP 2026

Birch 2025 August MTP

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Weekly timetable

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Websites to help with learning

Click on the following websites for games, activities and videos to help with that subject.

Maths:

Numberblocks – https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b08bzfnh/numberblocks

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://www.transum.org/iPad/Maths.asp

https://www.mathsisfun.com/games/index-number.html

Timestables:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jack+hartmann+times+tables&sp=mAEB

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z97rdnb

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers

English:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zgkw2hv

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zhbhcxs

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Spelling:

Year 2

Year 2 common excpetion spellings – CommonExceptionWords_Y2

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/words-and-spelling

Year 3

Year 3 common exception spellings – SpellingWordList_Y3-4

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar

Spring spellings

Week 1

Common exception words

any

beautiful

break

every

great

last

many

most

people

sure

Week 2

can’t

didn’t

doesn’t

don’t

hasn’t

haven’t

isn’t

wasn’t

weren’t