Bumblebee Class Blog (RB)
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
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Friday 19 July 2024 Friday 19th July It seems hard to believe that we are coming to the end of another school year, however, what a privilege it has been watching the children in Bumblebee class grow and develop during that time!
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Friday 12 July 2024 Friday 12th July What a lovely week we've had - the highlight being the amazing New Orleans Band who put on an incredible performance for us all. The children were captivated by the music and were all singing and dancing along. The band introduced us to their different instruments and let us hear what they all sounded like. It was lovely to see the children enjoying themselves and to listen to them talking so animatedly about the performance afterwards.
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Friday 5 July 2024 Friday 5th July This week we have been busy designing and making our own moving cars. First we had to draw and label our designs and then we had to assemble our cars. It was tricky attaching the axle to the chassis but with a little resilience we all succeeded! Once we had built our cars, we then set about painting them. We had to look back at our designs to ensure that they were the same. Next week we will add the finishing touches such as doors, windows, number plates and windscreen wipers. We can't wait to share our finished products with you!
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Friday 28 June 2024 Friday 28th June The children in Bumblebees and Honeybees looked fabulous this morning in all their brightly coloured clothes and they had a great time completing their colour run. Thank you to everyone that supported this event. All the money raised goes into funding the amazing school trips we offer.
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Friday 21 June 2024 Friday 21st June This week we have been busy writing stories, developing our knowledge and understanding of money and completing our history unit about cars.
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Friday 14 June 2024 Friday 14th June Wow, what a busy and exciting week we have had in Bumblebee Class! We had our second swimming lesson and our last two trips of the year and the children have behaved impeccably and had a fantastic time.
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Friday 24 May 2024 Friday 24th May As we come to the end of another term, we just want to take the opportunity to say how proud we are of all the children. They have all worked so hard again this term - well done Bumblebees!
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Friday 17 May 2024 Friday 17th May We started our week looking at how germs can be spread and why it is so important to wash your hands after going to the toilet and before eating or preparing food. We used glitter to see how easily germs can be spread and then practised washing our hands thoroughly in order to get rid of the germs.
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Saturday 11 May 2024 Friday 10 May This week in Bumblebee class has marked the beginning of our latest topic about puppets. We started the week looking at how different puppets work. The children spent some time playing with the different puppets and putting on their own puppet shows before having a go at making their own finger and stick puppets. As the week progressed, we looked at different joining techniques such as gluing, stapling, sewing, using sellotape and Blu-tac. We discovered that Blu-tac and sellotape were not very secure at holding two bits of felt together and we all agreed that sewing would be the best method for securing the puppets that we will make. Once we had made this decision, we spent time learning how to sew using a running stitch. We all found the sewing really tricky but we were resilient and kept on trying.
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Saturday 4 May 2024 Friday 3rd May This week in Bumblebee Class we have been busy making music, using drama to act out scenes from the story book that we have been reading and developing our ball skills in PE. We have also been talking a lot about the choices we make and how these can be good or bad.
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Friday 19 April 2024 Friday 19th April What a week! We have been so proud of how well the Bumblebees have settled back into school following the Easter holidays. They have played really well together and demonstrated great turn-taking and sharing which has been wonderful to see.
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Thursday 28 March 2024 Thursday 28th March What a busy week! Thank you to all the parents who came along to the parent celebration event on Monday - it was lovely to see the children so enthusiastic about making their flowers with you all.
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Friday 22 March 2024 Friday 22nd March This week in Bumblebee class, we have been learning the story 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' and have planned our own sequels to the story. We were introduced to Rosie Red at the beginning of the week and she has now become the main character in our sequels. We wrote character descriptions about her and thought about how she might help the Three Bears following their visit from Goldilocks. We look forward to writing our own stories next week and hope to share them with you next week.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Saturday 20 January 2024 Friday 19th January Our Bumblebees have worked really hard this week and have made us all very proud!
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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!
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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!
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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.
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Friday 8 December 2023 Friday 8th December
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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.
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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.
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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.
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