Welcome to Busy Bees @ Hewish

 Class Teachers: Miss Telford (Monday and Tuesday) and Mrs Poole (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)

Class LSA: Miss Rodwell

SEND Support: Mrs Mathers

Happy New Year!

Term 3 – Monday 6th January 2025 – Friday 14th February 2025
Term 4 – Monday 24th February 2025 – Friday 4th April 2025

Knowledge Organiser: Knowledge organiser Terms 3 and 4 24-25

Terms 3 & 4 Overview of Learning

What helps living things grow and change?
During Terms 3 and 4, we will be seeking to answer the question: ‘What helps living things grow and change?’ by looking at our mini enquiry questions:
How have we changed?
How do plants change?
How do we care for plants?
How do we care for living things and how do they change?
What do living things grow from?

We will be reading the following key texts and many more to help us to understand about growth and change.

 

This term our children will be scientists, biologists and botanists. The children will be playing and learning through their interests and will have opportunities for observing, in real life, the growth of plants and animals. This will include caterpillars and chicks and they will be thinking about their own growth and how they have changed.

Children will have the opportunity to explore where their food comes from and will visit a local farm to investigate and ask questions about food production.

Our enquiry will link closely with our Christian values and will explore new life, friendship and forgiveness.

You can support your child by: growing plants and flowers with them and enjoying nature and the great outdoors.

PE
The Busy Bees will have PE lessons on a Tuesday and a Friday. Please bring a PE kit into school in a named bag for the children to change into for their PE lesson. It is important that the children practise dressing and undressing so they develop this skill to be independent before they leave Busy Bees.
Dates for your diary:
Wednesday 12th March visit to Court Farm. If you are available to help on this school trip, please contact the class teacher. Many thanks.

 

 

Term 1 – Wednesday 4^th September – Thursday 17^th October 2024

Enquiry One Knowledge Organiser: Curriculum Documents\Knowledge organiser Terms 1 and 2 24-25.pptx

Term 1 overview of learning

What makes me unique and how do I belong?

During Terms 1 and 2,  we will be seeking to answer the question: ‘What makes me unique and how do I belong?’ by looking at our mini enquiry questions.

Who am I?  What is unique about me?

This is my class.  How are we the same and different?

This is my family.  Who is in my family?

This is my school.  What is my school like?

This is my community?  Who is in my community?

The Busy Bees will be asked to produce an ‘All About Me’ poster at home which they can bring in and share with their class.  This will encourage their oracy skills and give us all a chance to find out more about our new friends.

We will be reading the following key texts and many more books about being unique and the importance of being you.

 

During the first couple of weeks the children will enjoy building relationships with peers and adults, learn to follow routines and expectations and work and play as part of a group.

From week 2 onwards, the Busy Bees will be introduced to our phonics scheme, Read, Write Inc.  They will learn single sounds initially.  There will be a presentation evening at Hewish on Tuesday 8^th October at 4.30pm which will give parents information on how to support their child with phonics and maths at home.

The Busy Bees will begin to subitise (say the number of objects without counting), count up to 10 objects using one to one correspondence, sing number rhymes, link some numerals to quantity and talk about their maths thinking.

They will be given the opportunity to create in a variety of ways, individually or collaboratively, to explore line, shape and form through drawing.

 

The Busy Bees will have PE lessons on a Tuesday and a Friday.  Please bring a PE kit into school in a named bag for the children to change into for their PE lesson.  It is important that the children practise dressing and undressing so they develop this skill to be independent before they leave Busy Bees.

Dates for your diary:

Tuesday 8^th October 4.30pm – Phonics and early maths information evening for parents.

Our learning review meetings will be held after school on Tuesday 15th October and Thursday 17th October.

 

Friday 18th October is a training day for staff and the school will be closed for pupils.

 

Term 2 starts on Monday 4th November.