On Monday afternoon this week, Owls read their banded books to the children from Rabbits and then vice versa. Everyone really enjoyed this exciting end to the day.
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Rabbits Weekly Round-Up – 14.3.25
Last week we completed our poetry unit, based on the poem ‘At The Zoo’ by William Thackery. We created our own list poems and some of us even managed to include some lines that rhymed!
This week we have moved onto our new book ‘The Great Fire of London’ by Emma Adams. We are all very excited this is our book because we loved learning about The Great Fire of London in History at the beginning of the year. This book is non-fiction, so we have been looking at the difference between fiction and non-fiction books. We also identified features of non-fictions books in the text.
In Maths, the Year 1s have been looking at numbers from 0-50. We have been partitioning numbers into 10s and 1s and towards the end the week we have been looking at number lines and identifying one more and one less than a number.
The Year 2s have been continuing their work on multiplication and division. We have looked at multiplying and dividing by 5. Then we looked at the connection between the 5 and 10 times tables (e.g. if we know 5 x 10 = 50, then we know 10 x 5 = 20), the children found this really interesting – they thought it was quite tricky to begin with but once they got the hang of it they loved using what they already knew to answer trickier calculations.
In RE we have been learning about the Jewish celebration ‘Passover’. We have learned what ‘Passover’ is and how it is celebrated. We thought about special things we celebrate and how we do it.
In Geography, we have been continuing to learn about Tocuaro. This week we thought about why people might want to visit Tocuaro and what they could do while they were there. We created posters to tell people what they could do and see if they were to visit.
In PSHE, we are learning all about money. This week we thought about jobs and how we need a job to be able to get money and buy things. We thought about jobs we might like to have and what we’d like to spend our hard earned money on!
Rabbits Weekly Round-Up – 14.2.25
We have come to the end of the first half of Spring term – it has flown by! Rabbit class have been working really hard this half term and have all earned a well deserved rest next week.
English:
We have come to the end of our book ‘The Dragon Machine’. At the beginning and end of every half term we do an independent piece of writing. This half term we had to create our own version of ‘The Dragon Machine’ story with a different character and creature. It’s fantastic to see the progress the children have made with their writing over the past few weeks – excellent work!
Maths:
We have tackled lots of different areas in Maths over the past few weeks, from money to times tables! It’s lovely to see the children enjoying their maths work and showing our school value of perseverance when finding things tricky.
Science:
We have been putting our scientist hats on recently by taking part in scientific enquiries! The Year 2s have been thinking about the suitability of materials and whether the material of an object can affect whether it can change shape. They had to create an enquiry question (e.g. Can all objects that are plastic be bent?), they then had to make a prediction, carry out their investigation and write what they had noticed.
Year 1s have been thinking about sorting objects. They have been sorting them based on their properties, what material they are made from and how they could be recycled. They had some excellent discussions about the importance of recycling and what they can do to be more ‘environmentally friendly’
Geography:
We have enjoyed finding out more about Tocuaro. The children created some wonderful information posters for homework with facts they had learned. We have used those facts to help us in our lessons. We have been able to locate Tocuaro on the map, we know it is in Mexico, which is on the continent North America. We also located Ruyton XI Towns on the map, which we know is in English and is on the continent Europe. The children can name all 7 continents after listening and learning the very catchy ‘Continents song!’
RE:
We have been continuing our work on ‘Who is Jewish and how do they live?’. We found out that Jewish people have ‘Mezuzahs’ which are small, decorative case which attach to the right doorframe of the entrance to their home, and inside is paper with sacred words from the Torah. Jews believe that it blesses their homes and they touch it every time they walk in as a reminder that God is always with them. We created our own Mezuzahs and thought about what special words we would include inside ours that would be important to remind people as they entered our homes.
Bird Feeders:
What a fabulous job Rabbit class did of creating their own bird feeders. It was lovely to see so many different bird feeders and hearing from the children how they were made. We spent some time thinking about where would be the best place for them to go around school to attract the birds. We have enjoyed checking if any birds have been snacking on our feeders!
I hope you all have a fantastic half term holiday and come back rested for the start of the second half of Spring Term. You have worked really hard, and should be very proud of your achievements this half term!
Miss Horton 
Searching for worms!
Today at forest school, we were learning all about worms! We learnt some new vocabulary relating to a worm’s body parts, where they live and how we might be able to find them!
Den Building!
We’ve had a fantastic afternoon learning the important survival skill, den building! The children worked in groups to create a shelter that would help to keep them warm and dry. We think they made a wonderful effort!
Rabbits Weekly Round-Up – 17.1.25
This week in English we have been continuing our work on the book ‘The Dragon Machine’. We started the week by learning about commands. We designed a poster to warn people about what the dragons were getting up to then we wrote a note about the dragons telling people what to do and what not to do if they saw one! Later on in the week we thought about adjectives we would use to describe the dragons personality and what they look like.
In Maths, the Year 1s have been continuing their work on numbers 0-20, thinking about one more and one less and greater than/less than and equal to. Year 2s are still learning about money. This week we have been comparing amounts of money, completing calculations involving money and thinking about different ways we can make £!.
In Art, we have been learning about colour mixing. We have learnt about the primary and secondary colours and how to mix different shades of colouring. For our final piece of art we have created firework artwork using everything we have been practising to do last term.
In RE this week, the children brought in objects that were precious to them or their family. It was lovely to hear about why these things were special and what they did to keep them safe. Next week we will be thinking about what objects are precious to Jewish people.
Rabbits Weekly Round-Up – 10.1.25
A happy new year to you all! It’s been lovely hearing about all the exciting things everyone got up to in the Christmas holidays. The children have worked really hard this week and it’s been fab to see what a positive attitude they have all come back to school with.
Here is what we’ve been getting up to…
Our book this half term is ‘The Dragon Machine’. We looked at some pictures from the story and then made predictions on what we thought was going to happen. We have also done some independent writing this week, we had to write a story that had a dragon in it! We loved using our imaginations to create our own stories!
In Maths, the Year 1s have been looking at numbers 0-20. This week we have focussed on identifying representations of 10, 11, 12 and 13. The Year 2s have been learning about money, we have counted money in pence, pounds and a combination of both!
In RE this term we are learning about ‘Who is Jewish and how do they live?’. This week we thought about ‘What is Judaism?’. We learnt about different objects that are special to Jewish people and how Judaism is similar/different to Christianity.
In PSHE this term we are thinking about living in the wider world. This week we thought about families, we looked at some families from around the world and how they are similar and different to our own. We all agreed that all families should love and care for each other. We thought about the ways that we show how we love and care for the special people in our lives.
Spring Term in Rabbit Class 
Welcome back Rabbit Class, I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a well deserved rest after such a busy Autumn term. We have lots of exciting things to look forward to in Spring.
Our topic this term is ‘How does Ruyton XI Towns compare to Tocuaro?– have a look at our topic web to see what we’ll be learning about: Rabbits Topic Plan Spring 2025
Have a look at our timetable to see what we’ll be getting up to each day: Rabbit Class Timetable Spring 2025
Year 1s you will continue to go to Forest School on Tuesday afternoon so please come dressed in your forest school kit. Year 2s will do PE on a Tuesday afternoon and everyone will do PE on Fridays.
Homework will be given out on Thursdays and due back in the following Wednesday. It will be stuck in books and posted to the ‘Homework’ and ‘Spelling’ pages on our class page on the website.
If you have any queries, questions or worries please feel free to catch me on the gate or email me to arrange a chat.
Please find the knowledge organisers for subjects this term below. The knowledge organisers will tell you what the children will be learning and some key vocabulary they will encounter this term. I hope you find these helpful, please let me know if there is anything you would like to discuss.
Geography – Spring – Comparing our village to Tocuaro
Science -Spring – Y1 Materials
Science – Spring – Materials Y2
History – Spring – Charles Darwin
RE – Spring – Who is Jewish and how do they live
Computing – Spring – Programming
Computing – Spring – Privacy & Security
Spring Term 1 Newsletter
Welcome back following the Christmas break. We hope you all had a peaceful Christmas and are looking forward to the year ahead.
Please find the newsletter for this half term attached:
Rabbits Weekly Round-Up – 13.12.24
Wow – what a week! I think we are a tired bunch of Rabbits today. We started the week on a high with our performance of Barmy Bethlehem. I was so proud of how well the children remembered their lines, all the words to the songs and how brave they were to perform in front of such a big audience!
In English this week we have finished reading ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’. We have been thinking about everything Plop has learned about the dark from the different characters in the story. We wrote in character as Plop and wrote a letter to his baby cousin Brownie. The children had to think about how we set out a letter and how to use descriptive language to describe what the dark is like.
In Maths we have been continuing our work on shape. Year 1s have been recognising and drawing 2D shapes and Year 2s have been counting vertices on 2D shapes.
In RE this week we have been thinking about ‘What is Advent?’. We talked about how Christians believe that advent is about preparing for the birth of baby Jesus. We discussed how Christians will have an advent wreath with 5 candles. We learnt what these candles represent and we created our own advent wreaths.
In PE this week, we have moved onto looking at attacking and defending. On Friday we practised passing and stopping in hockey. We then put our skills into practice by dribbling the ball and shooting to try and score. We had to concentrate to keep control of the ball!
Our school value of the month for last month was Love. At the end of every month we will be setting a homework based on our value. Rabbit class have produced some lovely work that shows us what love means to them and their families.
We have a very festive week ahead of us. We are going to the church on Monday for the Christingle service. On Tuesday it is Christmas jumper and Christmas dinner day! On Wednesday it is the mince pie concert. On Thursday we are having our Christmas party and on Friday it is the last day of term – woohoo!
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