Welcome to Honeybee Class with Mrs Edwards (Class Teacher), Mrs Elliott and Mrs Cross (Classroom Support Professionals and paediatric first aid trained).
Spring Term 2
This half term our topic is: How is my world changing? We will be thinking about what makes our world wonderful. We will be designing posters to encourage people to look after our planet, labelling, making lists and writing simple sentences to retell a familiar story. We will find out about recycling and why it is important. We will find out about the role of rubbish collectors and what they wear to keep safe. We will talk about why we need to make sure that litter goes in the bin so that it doesn’t harm the environment and wildlife. We have some lovely stories to share including:
We will also be finding out about David Attenborough and how he helps animals around the world.
We have already been busy learning about collage! We have been learning how to cut and tear different materials and combine them to create one picture. We added detail such as trees, flowers, clouds and mountains.
We are looking forward to using some of the recyclable materials that we have been collecting in class to make our own models. We will be inspired by the work of artist and sculptor Robert Bradford:
In maths this half term we will be finding out about measure. Comparing and ordering items by length and height. We will use the vocabulary: long, short, tall, longer, shorter, taller, the same height, length and size as. We have already had fun using the playdough to make worms of different lengths as well as the class construction to show our understanding.
Later, we will be practising to say the days of the week in order, thinking about time and what challenges we can do in 1 minute! We will also be deepening our knowledge of numbers to 10: ordering numbers to 10, finding 1 more and 1 less within 10 and pairs of numbers that total 10. We will end this term finding out about 3D shapes: naming them, spotting them around our school and making patterns with them.
Spring Term 1
The start of 2026 has brought some chilly weather! We have been talking about winter and have had great fun conducting our own ice experiment. We left water in containers (and added toys!) in our garden overnight and were excited to see that the next day they had frozen!
We enjoyed feeling the ice and describing it. We used magnifying glasses and observed how it melted and talked about where we could put to refreeze it or make it melt quicker!
We have talked about and sorted clothes that we might wear in the winter and the summer and why.
We have also worked on our cutting skills and used our phonic knowledge carefully to label clothes.
We have been learning about the geography of our school. We have drawn maps of our school as well as our routes to school. We have looked at photographs of Honeybourne and talked about what we can see in our locality.
We enjoyed using the class construction to build our school. We added labels to show what the different places were.
We have also really enjoyed the story of ‘The Everywhere Bear’ and take it in turns to take Bumble, our bear, home with us for lots of different and fun adventures!
Later in the term we will be comparing where we live to somewhere very different – a village in Africa. We will be reading lots of stories, tasting, drawing, painting and printing with fruit as well as comparing the weather, homes and animals found in this area.
Some of our beautiful printing inspired by African patterns:
Autumn Term 2
Autumn Term 1
The children have settled in beautifully to their new classroom – making friends, learning names and exploring their new school.
Our focus topics for the autumn term are: My Life Milestones, Me and My Family, and House Pets. We will be having lots of circle times, getting to know each other, speaking and listening and turn-taking in groups. Through this topic, we will write for different purposes, trying hard to use the correct initial sound and any other sounds in the word that we can hear. We will write birthday cards, shopping lists, simple captions and labels.
We will be using Drawing Club to enthuse us as writers. We will mark make and use our growing knowledge of sounds to match the pictures that we have drawn.
In other areas we will be learning about primary colours and how to mix these to make new colours. We will be drawing and painting pictures of ourselves, our families and pets. We have forest school every other Tuesday afternoon with Mrs Elliott where we explore the forest school area on our school field; we will share stories, look for signs of autumn and talk about the different seasons and changes in weather. We will make pictures from fallen leaves, create leaf rubbings and help Mrs Elliott plant bulbs and look after the flowers and vegetables in our garden.
In maths, we will be sorting objects into ‘same’ and ‘different’ as well as by size, colour and shape.
We will be comparing amounts – looking at which group has more, less or the same.
We will practise counting, making sure that we count items carefully by touching or moving them and sing lots of counting songs!
We will also explore pattern by copying, extending and creating a range of different patterns.
This half term will focus on a deeper understanding of 1, 2, 3: counting, representing these numbers in different ways, forming the numbers correctly, understanding one more and one less, and noticing that all numbers are made up of smaller numbers – like numberblocks!
In Design and Technology we will soon be designing and making our own fruit jelly pots. Watch this space and check our class seesaw page to see our designs and finished product.
We use the Monster Phonics scheme to help us learn sounds and key words. We practise our phonics every day and use our growing phonic knowledge in our reading and writing. We take home keyrings with sounds on, as well as a Monster Phonics reading book to share at home too.
Zones of Regulation
In class we use the Zones of Regulation to help us identify different feelings. We talk about the colours associated with different feelings, recognise different facial expressions and talk about times when we have felt specific emotions.
We watch ‘Inside Out’ and relate this to our own experiences and feelings.
Seesaw
We use Seesaw to share our learning and class messages. Please check your child’s Seesaw page for regular updates and photographs of your child.
Useful Videos
Watch the videos below to practice the letter sound and names – sing along and learn!