Welcome to Busy Bees

Staff Team at West Wick	Staff Team at Hewish
Miss Hoskins Mrs Collins, Miss Pike, Mrs Lewis-Owen, Miss Evans	Mrs Poole and Mrs Telford Miss Rodwell

 

Please click on the link to see our knowledge organiser for Terms 5 and 6 – What makes the world beautiful?

Knowledge organiser Terms 5 and 6

Terms 5 & 6 Overview of Learning – What makes the world beautiful?

Term 5 – Monday 20^th April – Friday 22^nd May 2026

Term 6 – Tuesday 2^nd June – Tuesday 21^st July 2026

Monday 1^st June is an inset day so the school will be closed for children.

These are some of our key texts:

We start term 5, with a virtual tour of Bristol Museum.  The children will use black ink pens to draw their favourite piece at the museum and write a sentence to say why they like it.

We will then answer our first mini question, Why is art beautiful?  The children will bring in an object, picture or photo of something they think is beautiful and place it in our class museum for others to look at.   The children will be looking at work by famous artists and they will be creating their own pieces of beautiful art.

Our next mini question will be – What makes animals beautiful?

We will be using our oracy skills to debate which animal we think is the most beautiful and give reasons for our choice. We will be looking at the colour and patterns of animals and some of their interesting features.

 

What makes our weather beautiful?

We will then become meteorologists and look at our beautiful and diverse weather in this country and undertake some experiments to find the coolest and shadiest place to sit in the Busy Bees garden in hot weather and compare our weather with other countries.

         

In Term 6, we will be answering the questions: What makes the world unique and what is beyond the world? We are excited to investigate space.  We will have the opportunity to go inside a space dome in school on Thursday 18th June to learn more about the planets and space from a space expert.

Finally, we will be asking ‘When is the world not beautiful and how can I change the world?’  We will be tackling the question of pollution and what we can do to help limit pollution in our world.

Our enquiry will link closely with our Christian values of trust and service.

You can support your child by: talking about art and what they find beautiful in the world.  They may like to tell you about their favourite animal and what sort of weather they find beautiful and how it makes them feel.  You could do some cloud watching and try to make out different shapes that the clouds are making.  Please involve your child in your recycling at home and talk about why it is important to look after our world.

PE

The Busy Bees will have weekly PE lessons.  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 2nd June – Sports Day at West Wick.

Thursday 4^th June – Sports Day at Hewish.

 

Knowledge Organiser: Knowledge organiser Terms 3 and 4

 

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 we care for living things and how do they change?

What do living things grow from?

How do we care for plants?

How do plants change?

 

We will be reading the following key texts and many more books about growing.

 

 

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 during the week.  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.