Welcome to the Honey Bees

Hello and welcome!

*Meet the Honey Bee grown-ups*

The grown-ups in the Honey Bees class are Ms Holman (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday), Mrs Spratt (Thursday and Friday), Mrs De'Ath and Mrs Rhodes will join us in the afternoon. We love teaching the Honey Bees and we are so proud of their achievements!

If you ever have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Thank you! 

*Our Christian Value for the term*

Our Christian value for this term is Friendship.

Friendship is such an important value in our society, with children often spending more time with their friends than with family.

Jesus tells stories of the heavenly banquet to which all are invited. The barriers between people are broken down in a loving community around God, and Jesus had stern words to say to those who refused to recognise that all are included in this community of friendship.

True friendship enables each person to grow and ensures that the unique individuality of each person is recognised. All this echoes the value placed by God on the preciousness of each person.

‘A friend loves at all times.’ (Proverbs 17:17)

*Our Learning for this term*

Autumn 1 term

We are delighted to welcome our new Honeybees into our St Faith's family!

Ms Holman, Mrs Spratt, Mrs De'ath and Mrs Rhodes are very excited about getting to know the children as we start the new academic year together.

The children will be learning through their play, both inside the classroom, and outside.  We have different areas within the classroom, which we enhance and change regularly. This enables the children  to learn and develop their skills in different contexts, and in lots of exciting ways.

This term we are planning much of our provision and activities around the book 'The Paper Dolls' by Julia Donaldson. We will be learning about families, growth, harvests and farms.  We will be using other texts to support the children's learning, including Starting School, Monkey Puzzle, The Enormous Turnip, My Skin, Your Skin, Farmer Duck and the Three Little Pigs.

Our Little Wandle phonics scheme begins in Week 2, and children will learn letters and sounds daily, in order to begin to read and write. They will have the opportunity to practise their skills by writing in sand, flour, rice and salt as well as on paper with mark making equipment.

We will start 'Mastering Number' on Week 3; our maths scheme which focuses on practical activities to develop the children's mathematical counting and number recognition skills.

We will be singing, being creative and learning all about the world around us, too!

Please let us know if your child has a particular interest or area of expertise -  we will try our best to make sure our classroom provision reflects their interests, so they can follow their own lines of enquiry, and continue to be inspired!

Autumn Term 1

Medium Term Plan Autumn Term 1

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