Curriculum

Busy Bees 2021 - 2022

Mrs Cusick

Teacher in Busy Bees Class. This is a mixed age class containing year 1 and year 2 children.

Welcome to Busy Bees.

My name is Mrs. Cusick and I am the teacher of Year 1 and Year 2. Our class teaching assistants are Mrs. Taylor and Miss Jones. Mrs Walmsley works in our class as a volunteer. In Busy Bees we make learning fun and exciting, always striving for excellence and ensuring every child reaches their full potential.

We manage this through the following:

Focused group teaching
Valuing every child
Small school setting
Learning outside the classroom
A broad and balanced themed curriculum which is relevant to the lives of our children
Assess to Continous Provision areas to consolidate learning

Class News

Each half term we choose a new theme that interests the children. This year we will be covering the following topics:

Autumn 1 - Animals
Autumn 2 - Fire Fire
Spring 1 - Growth and Green Fingers
Spring 2 - Family Album
Summer 1 - The Great Outdoors
Summer 2 - Robots

Timetable for PE, Forestry School and Swimming

Aut 1 - PE is Thursday. Forestry school is on Tuesday afternoon.

Aut 2 - PE is on Tuesday and Swimming on Friday.

Spring 1- PE is on Tuesday and Swimming on Friday.

Spring 2 - PE is on Tuesday, and Thursday and Forestry school is on Tuesday afternoon.

Summer 1 - PE is on Tuesday and Thursday.

Summer 2 - PE is on Tuesday and Thursday and Forestry school is on Tuesday afternoon.

In Year 1 and Year 2 we follow the Letters and Sounds Phonics Scheme.

In Year 1 the age related phase is phase 4 and phase 5

In Year 2 the age related phase is phase 6.

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Homework

Homework is put on Teams each Friday and should be submitted via Teams the following Friday. The focus of the homework is to consolidate learning done in school. We recommend that reading is carried out daily for approximately 10 min per session.

Class Timetable

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