Busy Zone - Pre-School and Reception
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Ms Emma Sumpter
Class Teacher (currently on maternity leave)
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Mrs Rosanna Nisbet
Class Teacher (Mon - Weds)
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Miss Suzanne Bray
Class teacher (Thurs and Fridays)
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Mrs Natasha Butcher
Teaching Assistant
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Mrs Lucy Probert
Teaching Assistant
Busy Zone
Welcome to the Busy Zone, where the youngest children begin their learning in school.
The children are encouraged to be strong independent learners. Following their interests and guided by positive adult support.
The classroom and outside area are full of rich learning opportunities for play and playful teaching.
The teaching staff ensure active and challenging experiences are explored fully.
We encourage the children to talk about their learning and to be reflective about the next steps along their learning journey.
Family Learning
A fun and interactive game to help children recognise and use phonics
Oxford Owl Reading - An excellent source of Phonics information and support, with the added advantage of free ebooks to download and share as a family.
Busy Zone – Spring Term 1 2023
In our topic, ‘The World Around Us’, we will be exploring the changes in seasonal weather through stories, poetry, music and outdoor observations. We will learn about how animals adapt to the change in weather and learn about their habitats. During this topic, we will be learning about farm animals, exploring information books and learning about their life cycles. At the end of January we will be taking part in the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch for 2023.
We will explore questions about God and His creation and learn how we can be responsible for looking after and caring for our beautiful world.
In our PE we will explore gymnastics. The focus of learning is to introduce 'champion gymnastics' by making high and low shapes using apparatus.
Busy Zone – Autumn Term 2 2022
In our topic ‘My Home’, we will be having a strong Geography and History focus. We will be learning about our local area and the places that are important to us. We will be understanding the similarities and differences between places, as well as naming some of the local human and physical features. Leading on from this will be a study of homes from the past, focusing on the changes.
We will enjoy listening to a range of stories based around the home, such as The Three Little Pigs, A Squash and a Squeeze, Home and Peepo. Our role-play areas will develop according to the children’s interests, but will focus on developing the children’s oracy and conversational skills between each other. We will be providing plenty of opportunities for mark-making and writing.
The children will enjoy investigating light, dark and sound as part of our Science learning. In the lead up to Christmas, we will learn about why Christmas is special for Christians during our RE learning. There will be lots of opportunities for children to practise their joining skills learnt during Outdoor Learning when creating Christmas decorations.
Busy Zone - Autumn Term 1 2022
Busy Zone - Summer B 2022
We will be finding out about the microhabitat of a rock pool along with learning about other creatures, rocks and shells that can be found at the beach. This will lead us into learning about what we like to do at the beach and how to keep ourselves safe around water with activities from the RNLI. We will look at how to be responsible beach citizens and there will be an after school beach clean to come along to and take part in together. We will then look at how the seaside was in the past compared to what it is like now. There will be lots of opportunities for creative art and music throughout the term that will be inspired from what the children discover.
Please continue to use Tapestry, so that you can see your child's learning in school and we can see their topic-linked experiences at home.
Spring 2021
Tell us a tale.....
This terms topic is going to focus on stories, tales and fables, exploring a range of traditional and modern tales. We will begin the term recapping the story of ‘Stick Man’ thinking about the world around us and how winter affects the local wildlife, helping them to prepare for the season ahead. We will then move on to thinking about the weather. Using the story ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ as a focus for exploration, we will make our own rain gauges and collect data on rainfall, as well as using water for some creative activities. We will then use our understanding of weather to compare and contrast with the story ‘Handa’s Surprise’, exploring weather around the world and using the food within the story as a focus for D&T. In art we will be looking at colour mixing and collage (keep hold of those chocolate wrappers!). Using the story of the Mixed up Chameleon as an introduction, we will think about the different animals and their offspring as well as creating representations using colour mixing. Finally, we end the term with the story of ‘Dogger’ thinking about our own favourite toys. We will think about how toys have changed over time, looking a toys of the past and making our own timelines using family toys.
During the second half of the Spring Term, we will focus on more traditional tales. Starting with The Three Billy Goats Gruff, we will think about story language and music, making our own accompaniments to the story. In science, we will be learning about Materials and linking this with the story of The Three Little pigs, building our own houses and testing materials. Finally, we will end the term with the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’.