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 Autumn Newsletter

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Medium term plans

Birch 2025 August MTP – Website

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Weekly timetable

Weekly timetable 2025-26

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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

Autumn 2 spellings

Week 1

Common exception words list 1

again
busy
Christmas
cold
eye
fast
father
old
parents
poor
pretty
wild

Week 2

Key spelling rule: The last consonant letter of the root word is doubled to keep the vowel sound short. eg. big –> bigger
Exception: The letter x is never doubled.

big
dim
fat
fit
fun
hot
red
run
sad
slim
sun
trim

Week 3

Key spelling rule: The letter e at the end of the root word is dropped before adding -ing, -ed, -er, -est, -y and any other suffix beginning with a vowel. eg. close –> closest

close
hike
late
nice
ride
ripe
rude
safe
shine
slime
wise

Week 4

Key spelling rule: The y changes to an i before adding -ed, -er and -est but not before -ing as this would create ii.  eg. angry –> angrier

angry
bumpy
chilly
crazy
empty
funny
furry
hairy
happy
lucky
runny
sunny
ugly

Week 5

Say a word out loud, then break it down into the individual
phonemes you can hear before choosing the grapheme to represent each sound.

Make connections between words which have similar spellings.

brother
chimney
donkey
key
Monday
monkey
mother
nothing
other
valley
wonder