Curriculum

Busy Bees 2019 - 2020

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 assistant is Mrs. Taylor. 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.

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 on Tuesday and Thursday. Forestry school is on Tuesday afternoon.

Aut 2 - PE is on Tuesday and Swimming on Wednesday

Spring 1- PE is on Tuesday and Swimming on Wednesday

Spring 2 - - PE is on Tuesday, Swimming on Wednesday 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 given out and collected each Friday. This is one piece of English, one piece of Mathematics and a set of spellings. We recommend that reading is carried out daily for approximately 10 min per session.

Class Timetable

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