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Welcome to our new blog for 2023-24!  We hope to share all the wonderful things we are learning about in the Resource Base.

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Our Class teacher is Mrs M. Watts.  Our teaching assistants are Mrs K. Bowyer, Ms N. Derrick, Ms S. Kearl and Mrs S. Lloyd.

Bumblebee Class are Year 1 and Year 2 children.

YR Curriculum Overview 2023-24 Y1/2 Curriculum Overview 2023-24

YR Writing Curriculum 2023-24     Y1/2 Writing Curriculum 2023-24 

School Reading Spine 2023-24 

 

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  • Friday 15 March 2024 Friday 15th March As always, it has been another busy week in Bumblebees!
  • Friday 8 March 2024 Friday 8Th March On Thursday we celebrated World Book Day. The children (and adults) looked fantastic in their costumes and many different words were represented. Throughout the day we talked about our favourite stories and listened to our favourite books being read. We had fun making our favourite story characters out of playdough and we painted pictures of the front covers of our favourite story books. We decided that we all really love stories and we had a great day celebrating them!
  • Saturday 2 March 2024 Friday 1st March What another fantastic week in Bumblebee class!
  • Friday 23 February 2024 Friday 23rd February Welcome back! We hope you all had a good half term.
  • Friday 9 February 2024 Friday 9th February It has been another busy week in Bumblebees!
  • Friday 2 February 2024 Friday 2nd February We have had a busy and exciting week in Bumblebee Class. On Tuesday, we were lucky enough to visit the space dome. We found out about the different planets in the solar system, looked at a close-up of the moon and sun and found out why we have night and day. The children listened really well to the speaker and asked some great questions - well done Bumblebees.
  • Saturday 27 January 2024 Friday 26th January We turned into Historians this week and were learning about Florence Nightingale. We found out that Florence was a Victorian nurse who went to help the soldiers who were injured in the Crimean war. We discovered that hospitals were once dirty, smelly places where people often died of infections rather than from their wounds. Florence Nightingale changed this and helped make hospitals into the clean, hygienic places that we know today. We had great fun using drama to find out more about the Scutari hospital and enjoyed trying out our bandaging skills.
  • Saturday 20 January 2024 Friday 19th January Our Bumblebees have worked really hard this week and have made us all very proud!
  • Saturday 13 January 2024 Friday 12.1.24 Welcome back! We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and we all wish you a very happy New Year!
  • Saturday 13 January 2024 Friday 12.1.24 Welcome back! We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and we all wish you a very happy New Year!
  • Friday 15 December 2023 Friday 15th December 2023 Well what can we say! Our children put on an absolutely amazing performance this week, not once but twice! They were fantastic, all of their hard work paid off, they sang and acted beautifully. Pictures of the children in their costumes looking incredibly proud can be found below.
  • Friday 8 December 2023 Friday 8th December
  • Sunday 3 December 2023 Friday 1st December A festive feeling has began in Bumblebees class this week as Holly the elf made an appearance encouraging acts of kindness; the children were very excited.
  • Sunday 3 December 2023 Friday 1st December A festive feeling has began in Bumblebees class this week as Holly the elf made an appearance encouraging acts of kindness; the children were very excited.
  • Sunday 3 December 2023 Friday 1st December A festive feeling has began in Bumblebees class this week as Holly the elf made an appearance encouraging acts of kindness; the children were very excited.
  • Friday 24 November 2023 Friday 24th November
  • Saturday 18 November 2023 Friday 17th November The week seems to have flown by in Bumblebee Class with lots of fun had by all!
  • Friday 10 November 2023 Friday 10th November What a brilliant week we have had in Bumblebees!
  • Wednesday 8 November 2023 Friday 3rd November We have had a fantastic start to a new term in Bumblebees class, the children have come back to school well rested and ready to learn.
  • Wednesday 1 November 2023 Wednesday 18th October
  • Sunday 15 October 2023 Friday 13th October
  • Sunday 8 October 2023 Friday 6th October We have had a busy, fun filled week in Bumblebee class!
  • Sunday 1 October 2023 Friday 29th September
  • Friday 22 September 2023 Friday 22nd September 2023 What a fantastic week we have had in Bumblebees this week. The children are becoming really familiar with our new routines of the day and this has been wonderful to watch this week. All our older children are becoming really AMAZING at tidying up our classroom. Our shortest record being 1 minute and 40 seconds, this involved all the children working together as a team, well done!
  • Friday 15 September 2023 Friday 15th September 2023 Firstly, welcome to our new blog for 2023-24. We hope to share all the fantastic things we are learning in Bumblebees! Also welcome to our new families, we hope you enjoy looking at our news each week and pictures we share.
  • Thursday 20 July 2023 Thursday 20th July Bumblebees have been really busy in the last week or so. The Year 1 and Year 2 children looked really closely at emotions and what our faces may look like and our bodies may feel like when we feel different emotions. We had some FANTASTIC actors in the room as we showed our friends and took pictures of each other. In addition to this we have worked hard to problem solve using a range of skills in maths and completed some wonderful art work based around a book called, 'The Dot.'
  • Tuesday 4 July 2023 Friday 30th June Wow! What a busy week we have had in Bumblebee's this week. Our youngest children have been having lots of fun learning all about the book, 'Sharing a Shell,' by Julia Donaldson. They enjoyed making large sea creatures and retelling parts of the story. In addition to this the children have enjoyed taking part in fantastic Attention Bucket sessions all based around the sea and seaside. In Year 1 the children have continued to look at The Great Fire of London, how it started and ordered the story. They have also focused on telling the time to o'clock and half past, learning songs to help them remember where the hands must go on an analogue clock, they did very well at this, we were very proud of how much they remembered. In Year 2 this week, the children have been been busy continuing their learning about cars and have learnt all about the different parts of a car and began their very own car designs. In math's the children have been learning to read thermometers and record their answers
  • Sunday 25 June 2023 Friday 23rd June Wow! What a productive, fun week we have had in Bees class!
  • Monday 19 June 2023 Friday 16th June What a fantastic, hot week we have had in Bumblebees! The year 2 children have been really busy in Maths learning how to weigh objects. They started off by comparing the weights of objects using the correct vocabulary before moving on to weighing using cubes. It has been really practical and the children's vocabulary has been fantastic. In addition to this in their topic sessions this week Year 2 have moved on to looking at Henry Ford and how he began manufacturing cars using a production line. The children set up an assembly line, one person made the chassis before passing it on to the next person who inserted the axles. Then the wheels were added along with the wheel nuts then the steering wheel. They did a fantastic job. Obviously we didn't make real cars but used Playdough, and Mobilo! Well done Year 2s.
  • Friday 9 June 2023 Friday 9th June
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