Bears
Welcome to Bears Class!
(Reception and Year 1)
Class Teacher: Miss Butterfield
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Donaldson and Miss Kilford
PPA: Mrs Fairfield
Meet the Teacher Presentation
Term 2
Welcome back! I hope you have all had a lovely half term break and are ready for Term 2. We will be starting our new book Dogger looking at character and setting descriptions to help us with story writing. We will also be learning how to write instructions. In maths we are beginning with subtraction. Our first topic this term is Geography where we will be looking at maps and how they are useful. Homework, spellings and knowledge organisers have been updated and added to the relevant pages above.
Keep checking our class page and Tapestry (for Reception parents) for updates! 
We enjoyed learning all about Hinduism on our RE Day. We learned all about the story of Rama and Sita and how light is celebrated during Diwali. We then made our own Rangoli patterns using rice!
We have been learning about animals in Science. Little Zoo visited us and brought an armadillo, chinchilla, tarantula, hedgehog and barn owl for us to see. We were all so brave - even Miss Butterfield and Mrs Donaldson touched the tarantula!
We have been writing our own book reviews for 'Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain'. Amazing writing Bears!
Our Reception children met a policeman today and learned all about what he does on a daily basis.
We have been investigating our senses in Science!
We have been looking at Handa's Hen - our Reception children have been ordering the story together!
We loved tasting all the fruits from Handa's Surprise!
Meet the Bears Class Prayer Council representatives!
Meet the Bears Class Eco Council representatives!
Meet the Bears Class School Council representatives!
Homework
Homework books, reading books and spellings will go home with children on Monday 16th September.
We have been creating our own circle pictures inspired by Wassily Kandinsky!
Welcome to Bears!
I hope you have all had a lovely summer break and are ready to start learning.
This term we have lots of exciting things to look forward to. In English we will be looking at African stories starting with Handa's Surprise - we will even have a go at tasting all the different fruits from the story!
We will also start our new topic approach. This term we will be covering Art and Science. In Art we will be looking at colour and painting. We will learn all about primary and secondary colours and how artists paint with these. In Science we will be looking at identifying animals (including humans!).
Visit this page regularly for all the latest news in Bears class and see how we are getting on.