Some Recent Highlights

April 19, 2024

Pangbourne College Cross Country

Six children represented our school in a local Cross Country event
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April 15, 2024

Reading Half Marathon!

Well done to the six members of Birch Copse staff who completed the Reading Half Marathon
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March 25, 2024

Police Dog visits the school

We were lucky to be visited by PC Vardell and PD Woody, a German Shephard, to tell us all about their role in the police.
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March 22, 2024

Lower Junior Spring Production

Our Year 3 and 4 children put on an amazing show of The Wizard of Oz!
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March 8, 2024

Quiz Semi Finalists

Four of our children took part in the Semi-Finals of a National Quiz
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March 8, 2024

Photography Competition

Congratulations to the three winners of our Photography Competition
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March 8, 2024

Birch Copse Bake Off 2024

Amazing cakes baked for the School Council event
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March 8, 2024

World Book Day 2024

Birch Copse Celebrated World Book Day in colourful fashion!
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March 7, 2024

Year 5 bake show stopper bread!

Year 5 bake show stopper bread!
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February 28, 2024

Year 2 Geography Home Project

Year 2 started their Geography topic about London with some fantastic home learning.
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February 21, 2024

Year 3 Egyptian Day

As part of their history topic, Year 3 had an Egyptian Day
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February 20, 2024

Inspire Me Assesmbly

Mr Carey delivered an Inspire Me assembly about his work in the media with the RAF.
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February 19, 2024

Themed Week 2024

Our "In the Dark" theme week was a great success!
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February 5, 2024

Reception celebrate Chinese New Year

Our Reception classes spent the week learning about Chinese New Year
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February 2, 2024

Road Safety Morning.

Louis Taylor Road Safety show visits Birch Copse
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January 23, 2024

Year 4 footballing success

Well done to our two Year 4 boys teams in the West Berkshire 7-a-side tournament
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January 19, 2024

Science Quiz Semi Finals

Four children from the Upper Juniors competed against many other schools in the semi-finals of this National Science Quiz
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January 19, 2024

Art Sketching Assembly

Tuesday's Junior assembly was a opportunity for the children to learn how to illustrate
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January 19, 2024

Denefield Shield Winners!

Birch Copse collected it's first piece of silverware this year
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January 19, 2024

Annual science competition launch!

Science competition
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January 2, 2024

Photography Competition

See some of the results of our Alphabet Photography Competition
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December 20, 2023

The Ballet comes to Birch Copse

The Toscana Ensemble visited us to perform two Christmas ballets for the children and the children all got the chance to take part.
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December 19, 2023

Christmas Carols and Christingle Service

Birch Copse Christmas Carol Concerts and Christingle
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December 14, 2023

Year 6 Kite Making

Year 6 DT Day - Kite Making
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December 7, 2023

Girls football. Indoor Finals.

Finals of the Girls Year 5 and 6 Indoor 5-a-side football
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December 6, 2023

Reception Christmas Production

The Reception Children's fantastic performance of "The Sleepy Shepherd".
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December 6, 2023

Year DT - Moving Monsters

A fantastic Year 3 DT topic where the children made their own moving monsters!
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November 29, 2023

Year 4 DT. Greenhouse project

Have a look at the mini greenhouses Year 4 made in DT this week
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November 22, 2023

AWE Ada Lovelace science day

Young scientists attend exciting event at AWE
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November 20, 2023

Eco Council Visit to Green Park

Our Eco Council were lucky enough to visit Green Park and the wind turbine
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November 17, 2023

Upper Junior Christmas Production

Two great evening performances of "Shakespeare Rocks" by our Upper Junior children.
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November 9, 2023

Glee Club perform at the Hexagon

Glee Club perform at the Hexagon in the Berkshire Music Trust Junior Music Festival.
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October 16, 2023

Year 5 Survival Night at School

Year 5 slept over at school as part of their survival topic.
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October 12, 2023

Indoor 5-a-side Football Finals

The West Berkshire Indoor 5-a-side Finals for Year 5 & 6 Boys
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September 28, 2023

Visit from author and illustrator, Simon Murray.

The children really enjoyed their visit from Simon Murray, children's author and illustrator
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September 26, 2023

Year 6 visit the Houses of Parliament

Year 6 visit the Houses of Parliament as part of their Democracy topic in History
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September 14, 2023

Year 5 Survival visit to Beardog

Year 5 test their survival skills!
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July 19, 2023

Tilehurst Olympics - Champions!

Congratulations to our Year 5&6 athletes for winning this event
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July 19, 2023

Year 5&6 Boys Football ESFA Finals

Our Year 5&6 Boys football team competed in the ESFA 7-a-side Finals competition
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July 19, 2023

Bill McIllvride Cup winners!

Year 5&6 boys football West Berkshire Cup Final winners!
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July 19, 2023

Cricket County Champions!

The Year 5&6 boys cricket team are Berkshire champions!
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June 30, 2023

Thames Water science visit

Thames Water science visit
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June 28, 2023

School scientists!

Birch Copse scientists!
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June 12, 2023

Tilehurst Panthers Girls Football Tournament

We took four teams to this local tournament from Years 1 to 6
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May 15, 2023

Visit to Baylab, Green Park

Visit to Baylab, Green Park
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May 9, 2023

Football. Year 5&6 Girls Semi Finals

Year 5&6 Girls football team at the Tony Mossen Cup Semi Finals
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March 16, 2023

AWE visit for British Science Week

AWE visit for British Science Week
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March 15, 2023

Year 3&4 Boys Football Champions!

Newbury indoor 5-a-side winners!
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February 7, 2023

Year 6 visit Houses of Parliament

Year 6 visit the Houses of Parliament
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November 15, 2022

Year 5&6 Boys football Match

The under 11s boys football team played their first match
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November 8, 2022

Year 1 Fruit Tasting

Year 1 Fruit Tasting
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November 7, 2022

Year 3 & 4 Girl's football. County Cup Group Stages

Our Year 3 & 4 Girl's football team played their first matches of the session
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November 3, 2022

Year 2 visit to Cotswolds Wildlife Park

Year 2 visit to Costwolds Wildlife Park
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October 21, 2022

Year 5&6 Girl's football match

The Year 5 & 6 girls football team played their first matches of the year in the County Cup.
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October 7, 2022

Harvest Festival 2022

Harvest donations to food bank
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October 4, 2022

Visit to Henley Literary Festival

Children visit Henley Literary Festival
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July 11, 2022

Knitted comfort dolls for Ukraine

Birch Copse community knits comfort dolls for the Ukraine
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February 28, 2022

NACE Challenge Award

NACE Challenge Award
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February 4, 2020

Birch Copse Bake-Off

Birch Copse Junior Bake-Off!
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July 19, 2019

Our Arabian painted horse!

Children paint an Arabian horse for Newbury Races!
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July 19, 2019

Mr Micklewhite's birthday

The children planned lots of fun on Mr Micklewhite's birthday
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March 29, 2019

Children meet the players at Reading Football Club

Children meet the players at Reading Football Club
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March 15, 2019

Comic Relief fun day

Children have fun raising money for Comic Relief
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March 11, 2019

Parent grounds maintenance morning

Parents rally round to help with repairs
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March 8, 2019

World Book Day

World Book Day dressing up fun!
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March 4, 2019

Holly Webb visit

Children's author Holly Webb visited Birch Copse!
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February 14, 2019

Football success

Year 4 boys at football tournament
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February 13, 2019

Year 5 Greek Day

Year 5 enjoyed a Greek themed day
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February 6, 2019

Chinese New Year

Foundation children celebrate Chinese New Year
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January 31, 2019

Cancer Research cheque presentation

£885 raised for Cancer Research!
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January 24, 2019

Lion King theatre visit

Lower Juniors visit to see lion King
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January 11, 2019

Themed Week 'Up in the Air'

Lots of exciting events planned for our themed week!
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January 9, 2019

Year 3 Egyptian Banquet

Egyptian Banquet Fun!
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December 18, 2018

Christmas at Birch Copse

Birch Copse celebrates Christmas
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December 14, 2018

Year 1 Stay and Make

Parents join in the fun!.
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October 5, 2018

Year 5 Survival Night

Year 5 Survival Night
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October 5, 2018

Harvest Assembly and delivery of gifts

Birch Copse celebrates Harvest
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October 5, 2018

Donations to Reading Food Bank

Harvest food donations to Reading Food Bank
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