Today we were busy building and repairing dens at Forest School. We had to work as a team to move logs and large sticks. We also looked for sweet chestnuts so that we can cook and eat them in a few weeks, but we think the squirrels have had the best ones! Lastly we learnt how to light the campfire safely using flint and steel.
This week is Arts week. Our theme this year is ‘All things British’. In Rabbits we are learning all about different British artists. The first artist we have looked at is Howard Hodgkin. He is an abstract artist. He paints shapes in bright colours. His work is called ‘abstract’ because it shows feelings rather than being a painting of exactly how something looks. We thought about how using different colours can convey different meanings.
Our first task was to choose water colours that we thought were warm:
Then we had to chop our warm paintings up into different shapes:
Finally we had to stick our cut up pieces in our art books to make an abstract ‘cut up’ painting. We spend time looking at each other’s artwork to see what we could see, from rainforests to frazzles crisps!
Hello Rabbits Class, I hope you’ve had a brilliant Easter holidays and that you are ready and raring to come back to school. I loved hearing all the things you got up to in the holidays today.
Our topic this term is ‘Beside the Seaside’. Click on the link below to find out about all the things we will be learning about this term.
Here is our timetable for the Summer term. We will have PE on Wednesdays and Fridays so please come to school in PE kit on those days. On Fridays we will be going swimming, so you need to come to school with your swimming kit in a bag. Year 1s you will be going to Forest School on a Tuesday afternoon so will need to come to school in your Forest School clothes on Tuesdays.
If you have any questions or queries please email me or catch me on the gate.
Miss Horton 🙂
We have had a fantastic day in Rabbits celebrating all things books! We took part in ‘The Great World Book Day Draw-Along with Swapna Haddow and Sheena Dempsee’ and we drew some very impressive pigeons!
Then we had a workshop with the children’s author Teresa Heapy. She read us some of her wonderful stories and we got to create our own characters for stories we are going to be writing soon.
Our costumes were all fantastic, and we had great fun sharing stories and talking about our favourite books!
In Computing this term we will be looking at robots and how we make them move. Today we learnt about commands and what outcome a command has on a device. We had lots of fun trying to make our robots move in the direction we wanted them to!
We have had a lovely first week back in Rabbit class. I think we were all ready for the weekend though!
I hope you all received your paper copy of our topic overview for this term earlier this week. You can also find an electronic copy of our overview in the Rabbits class page on the website. As per the letter attached to the overview, I have attached the knowledge organisers for our subjects for the Spring term. 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 – Amazing Africa
Science -Spring – Y1 Materials
Science – Spring – Materials Y2
History – Spring – Charles Darwin
RE – Spring – Who is Jewish and how do they live D
Computing – Spring – Programming
Computing – Spring – Privacy & Security
Hello Rabbits Class, I hope you’ve had a brilliant Christmas and that you are ready and raring to come back to school. I can’t wait to hear about all the things you got up to in the Christmas holidays.
Our topic this term is ‘Amazing Africa’. Click on the link below to find out about all the things we will be learning about this term.
Rabbits Class Topic Overview Spring 2023
Here is our timetable for the Spring term. We will have PE on Tuesdays and Thursdays so please come to school in PE kit on those days. Year 1s you will be going to Forest School on a Tuesday afternoon so will need to come to school in your Forest School clothes.
We had a wonderful day at Park Hall Farm. We spent some time with the rabbits, we looked after a shetland pony and we fed the sheep, goats and alpacas! Our highlight of the day was the pig racing!!
Today in Rabbits Class we have spent some time talking about Remembrance day and the reasons why we have a two minutes silence. The children took a lot of time, care and effort creating their collage poppies as a sign of respect and support for the Armed Forces.
Homework and spellings will be given out on a Thursday and will be expected back in on the following Wednesday. We will have an informal spelling test on a Wednesday too to see how the children are getting on. Homework will be a mixture of online and on paper tasks!
The children have new log in details for Teams, which will be inside their homework books. If your child was new to the school this year then they may not have a log in yet but it will arrive very soon (hopefully!). When all children are able to access Teams I will post the homework on there as well as in books. Homework can also be submitted via Teams or brought into school on a Wednesday.
Homework this week is…
Year 1: Science – label the parts of the body & Spellings (a good chance to practise your handwriting too!) – try and write the spelling at least three times on the line.
Year 2: Science – Tick the statements that are true for each type of animal. Spellings (a good chance to practise your handwriting too!) – try and write the spelling at least three times on the line.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Thanks,
Miss Horton
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Ruyton XI Towns
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
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