Friday 17th October

What a busy and exciting week it has been!

This week we celebrated our Harvest Festival. A huge thank you to everyone for your generous donations and for joining us to celebrate this special occasion together.

In our Drawing Club, we have been exploring the wonderful book “Incredible You!”. We have drawn pictures and written ‘codes’ that show just how brilliant and unique we all are. We also made collages of ourselves, traced, cut around and decorated our hands, and used shaving foam to explore and express our feelings in a creative and sensory way.

Our Star Words this week were:
⭐ Unique
⭐ Achieve
⭐ Respect
⭐ Creative
⭐ Caring
⭐ Confident

In Maths, some of us have been using part–whole models, pictorial representations, and the concept of difference to help us subtract and find missing numbers. Others have been subitising — this means recognising the number of objects in a small group without having to count them one by one. We have been using our knowledge of numbers to 5 and 10 to represent these in different ways.

We have now reached the end of our Art topic. To finish our unit, we created our own land art to express different feelings, inspired by the work of artist Andy Goldsworthy. Land art is a form of art usually created outdoors using natural materials such as leaves, twigs, stones, flowers or shells.  The children used materials from the environment to express their ideas and emotions in a creative way. Afterwards, we explored each other’s creations and tried to guess which feelings were being represented.

It was wonderful to meet so many of you at Parents’ Evening this week and to celebrate how well the children have settled into class routines and the fantastic progress they have already made.

To round off the term, we had a fantastic visit from two local police officers. They talked to us about how to stay safe, how to be responsible citizens, and how the police help in our local community. After their assembly, we had the chance to look inside the police car, try on some police helmets and, of course, hear the sirens — they were very loud, but everyone loved it!

Wishing you all a wonderful holiday from the Bumblebee team.

Diary dates:

Monday 3rd November - first day of Term 2.