Bumblebees Class
Class Teacher - Miss Dennison
Our class teacher is Miss Dennison and we are supported by our learning support assistants Mrs Keyte and Miss Richardson.
This year Bumblebee class is for children in Year one and two.
We offer a broad and balance curriculum tailored to meet the needs of our children. This also supports our aim to instil our school values and build well rounded individuals.
We have daily phonics and English and Maths lessons. Children develop their reading, writing and maths skills through small group work, practical activities and focused tasks. We encourage children to become independent learners, building of their natural enthusiasm and resilience. We also have weekly PE sessions and PSHEE as we promote the importance of health and wellbeing.
Statutory spellings
In KS1 the children have a list of words they need to know how to spell please see below a list for Year one and Year two.
Our theme this half term is movers and shakers.
This project teaches children about historically significant people who have had a major impact on the world. They will learn to use timelines, stories and historical sources to find out about the people features and use historical models to explore their significance.
Movers and Shakers
Our topic for this term is “Movers and Shakers”. This project teaches the children about historically significant people who have had a major impact on the world. To start the topic, we looked at a local significant person, Stephen Hawking. The children learnt about his life and the impact he had on physics, particularly his work on black holes.
This week we are focusing on the activist Rosa Parks and her fight for equal rights. We will be writing her biography and creating a poster about equal rights/fairness.
Other significant people will include the Neil Armstrong, Emmeline Pankhurst and Paul Cezanne.
We will also touch on the Science companion project ‘Habitats’ which teaches children about habitats and what a habitat needs to provide. They will explore local habitats to identify and name living things and begin to understand how they depend on one another for food and shelter.
For Art we will do the companion project ‘Mix it’. This project teaches children about basic colour theory by studying the colour wheel and colour mixing. It includes an exploration of primary and secondary colours and how artists use colour in their artwork.
There is definitely lots of exciting fun in our themed learning to look forward to.
This half term we will be reading the following books in class:
