Hello families,
Welcome to the 2024/25 P2B Bouncing Bunnies Blog!
Timetables, Dates and Reminders
- PE is on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
- Our next loose parts session is on Friday 30th of August.
- Miss Kelly takes the class on Wednesdays.
- We will have a short class show and tell session each Tuesday. If you have achieved something, done something extraordinary or have something very special to show us then that is the day to bring it.
- Your child needs a spare change of clothes in school in case of spills or getting caught in the rain etc. If your child is wearing these home one day can we have a replacement the next day.
- We have a rotating list of class responsibilities each week. One of these is our librarian. As well as looking after our class reading books the librarian will bring in from home, or choose from the class library, a favourite book for Mr Bennett to read all, or a taster of, at story time.
- Our shared area is always in need of clean and dry cardboard boxes etc for junk modelling. Skip the recycling and bring yours in (no packaging from dairy products or nut products for the safety of those area users with allergies please.)
- Purple folders will be heading home today so that you have them. Books will be going out from the week commencing 2nd September, when we have completed our reading assessments and formed our groups. When reading books go home your child will have practiced during the week. The aim is for them to showcase their learning to you with a read over the weekend. Books need to then be back in on Mondays for us to start the next set of reading groups.
- Flu vaccination letters are coming home today. We need them back ASAP and by Wednesday at the latest.
Rights Respecting Class
This week’s big rights respecting task was the creation of our class charter, which has been signed by everyone in the class with a hand and their name.
We decided the aims of our charter were that our class should be a fair and happy place and a Rights Respecting place.
Our charter also aims to help us be healthy, develop freely, express ourselves freely and access education. These aims are from UNCRC Articles 6, 13 and 28.
The expectations we put in place were to be Ready, Respectful and Safe as per the whole school’s values. We also decided to be Kind, to Do Our Best and to be Helpful. It is important that the adults in our class live up to these aims
Literacy
Our main focus this week has been on reading assessments in order that we can form our reading groups for the term.
We listen to a story each day. On Monday we voted for our favourite story from the first week of term. The children selected Stuck by Oliver Jeffers as their favourite choice.
For some speaking and listening tasks we have made talk teams of three (and a single 2 due to numbers). These will change on a monthly basis so that the children get a good experience and benefit of working with all their classmates over the year.
Miss Kelly and Mrs DeBonrostro are running spelling groups on Wednesdays to improve our vocabularies and writing.
Our sounds focus at present is to revise some of last block of sounds from P1- wh, ch, sh, th, ee and oo. If you have books with a focus on these sounds at home, for example “Horton hears a who” for the wh digraph then reading those together will support our work in class.
Numeracy
As with Literacy it has been a week focused on assessments and group set up for continuing our S.E.A.L. (Stages of Early Arithmetical Learning) practice.
We have also been working on counting backwards from 30 as a class and singing this song. Counting backwards is a vital skill for successful subtraction and division. It can also make some addition and multiplication learning easier (e.g. 9×10 is equal to 10×10 minus 10).
Modern Languages
Our French word of the week has been Bonjour and we have used it to practice saying hello and goodbye in French. We have also been using Salut and Au Revoir in these sessions.
Play
In play the main focus has been learning and playing with all the new toys, areas and objects in the classroom. A popular choice has been building with our block sets and with our Lego.
Health and Wellbeing
In PE this week we have focused on referee roles and their importance.
In health and wellbeing we have been focused on Ready, Respectful, Safe, establishing our class roles and choosing our class identity. The identity the children have selected is P2 Bouncing Bunnies.
The Mr Bennett Bit
It was a pleasure to meet so many of our class’s families last Friday and do feel free to chat with me after school at the door with any small questions, or to make an appointment via the school office if that time isn’t good or the issue is larger.
Have a fabulous week Bouncing Bunnies
Mr Bennett.
Apologies- there was one more button I should have pressed to link this to the class list on the website and it was missed on Friday. Hopefully you can now see this.
Buckstone Primary School 