In RE next week we will be thinking about precious items. Can you find a something that is precious to you and your family at home? If you are able to you can bring it in or bring/send me a picture of it. I want you to think about why it is precious to you, and we can share in our next lesson.
Author: Zoe Horton
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.
Weekly Celebrations – 10.1.25
Here are this week’s awards…
Weekly Celebrations
School Value Ambassadors (earning House Points with one pupil chosen each week per year group, awarded by teachers for showing one of our school values):
Year 6 Alejandro for ‘Tolerance’, ‘Friendship’ and ‘Respect’ – Alejandro has settled in so fast to life at Ruyton. He has worked hard in class, showing readiness and respect in all lessons. He has enjoyed making friends at breaktimes while playing football. Well done!
Year 5 Layla for ‘Perseverance’ – Layla puts a lot of effort into class work. She is a creative writer, coming up with good story ideas and is working hard to improve in Maths. Keep this up Layla!
Year 4 Blake for ‘Friendship’, ‘Love’ and ‘Wisdom’ – This week Blake has shown kindness and great friendship in helping others as well as working hard in all aspects of the curriculum. Well done Blake!
Year 3 Seren for ‘Perseverance’ and ‘Wisdom’ – Seren is a hard working member of Dragonfly class, this week Seren has worked especially hard to improve her handwriting. Keep up the hard work Seren!
Year 2 Delilah for ‘Perseverance’ and ‘Hope’ – Delilah has produced some fantastic independent writing this week. She is staying focussed and putting a lot of effort into making sure her writing is neat.
Year 1 Oakley for ‘Respect’, ‘Love’ and ‘Perseverance’ – Oakley has come back to school with a fantastic attitude to learning. He always tries his best and is a pleasure to have in class.
Reception Rupert for ‘Perseverance’ and ‘Wisdom’ – For excellent writing about a fox and keeping going with his excellent fox picture even though it took a long time!
Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)
GOLDEN BOOK AWARDS
Congratulations to the following Golden Book winners (from class work and stars)
Evie and Tommy
Spellings 9.1.25
Year 1: /or/ as in astronaut, /or/ as in strawberry
- astronaut
- hauled
- August
- launch
- automatic
- strawberry
- lawn
- paws
- saw
- yawn
Year 2: /or/ as in fork, /or/ as in astronaut
- fork
- story
- hornet
- sports
- horses
- astronaut
- autumn
- dinosaur
- paused
- author
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
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!
Weekly Celebrations – 13.12.24
Here are this week’s awards…
Weekly Celebrations
School Value Ambassadors (earning House Points with one pupil chosen each week per year group, awarded by teachers for showing one of our school values):
Year 6 Charley for ‘Perseverance’ and ‘Wisdom’ – Charley made a very appealing and functional phone case in DT this week. She persisted with the task after finding it tricky at first but ensuring she stuck to the design. Well done!
Year 5 Lucy for ALL of our school values! – Lucy is a superstar. She is a lovely, kind, hard-working member of Owl Class. She quietly gets on through every school day with 100% effort. She is a brilliant friend to everyone and embodies every school value.
Year 4 Oscar for ‘Friendship’, ‘Respect’ and ‘Wisdom’ – Oscar is a fantastic member of Dragonfly class. He is always on task, listening and eager to help others. Well done!
Year 2 Freddie for ‘Perseverance’ and ‘Wisdom’ – Freddie has matured into a hard-working, conscientious Year 2. He takes great pride in his handwriting now. Keep up the hard work Freddie!
Year 1 Harriet for ‘Respect’ – Harriet is a super sensible member of Rabbit Class. She always follows our class rules and she is a fantastic role model to others. Well done Harriet!
Reception Kirra for ‘Perseverance’ and ‘Wisdom’ – Kirra has been trying incredibly hard in all her learning and has been able to do fabulous independent writing this week.
Bumblebees Benjamin for showing ‘Respect’ and ‘Perseverance’ – Ben works hard to show respect to his peers and perseverance in all new things. Keep up the good work Ben!
Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)
GOLDEN BOOK AWARDS
Congratulations to the following Golden Book winners (from class work and stars)
Oscar, Olly, Laith, Darcy, Rupert, Thalia, Millie, Charley & Tilly
Other achievements…
Hallie has brought in her Rainbows sash with all the badges she has earned – she could remember everything she had to do to achieve them. Great job Hallie!
Freddie has achieved her Level 2 Learn to Swim certificate. Well done Freddie!
Barmy Bethlehem!
The children from Rabbit and Hedgehog class performed our nativity ‘Barmy Bethlehem’ yesterday. They did a fantastic job! They have spent a lot of time in (and out!) of school practising the words and lines to put on an excellent show for you. Well done, we are all very proud of you.
Thank you to everyone who came to watch, has helped learn lines and has had the nativity songs stuck in their heads since November! We really appreciate your support.
Another thankyou to our wonderful Friends who provided refreshments for both performances and to those who donated, we raised a whopping £237.75!
Rabbits Weekly Round-Up – 6.12.24
This week we had a very exciting visitor join us in Rabbit Class. Elfie has returned from The North Pole, and is causing all sorts of mischief in the classroom! We have also gone fully festive in Rabbits class and have got tinsel and Christmas lights all over the place! The children did a fantastic job of decorating the tree – I’m not sure there’s any tinsel left in the whole school!
We have been very busy rehearsing for our Nativity, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t also been working really hard in our lessons too.
In English, we have been learning about expanded noun phrases. Expanded noun phrases add more detail to the noun by adding one or more adjectives. For example
- a huge tree
- some colourful sweets
- the large, royal castle
We have continued reading ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’, and we reached the part in the story when Plop is looking through the telescope at the night sky. The children thought of some fantastic adjectives to describe the night sky and put these into sentences to write a description about the sky at night.
In Maths, we have moved onto looking at shape. The Year 1s have been naming and identifying 3D shapes and Year 2s have been looking at the properties of 2D and 3D shapes.
As part of our work towards becoming a Dementia Friendly School, we have selected Alzheimer’s Society as one of our chosen charities. On Wednesday, we joined people all across the UK in dressing up as elves to raise money and awareness for Alzheimer’s Society. We discussed what memory is and how it works, we also thought about what dementia is and how it is related to memory. We did some activities that helped us to understand how we need our memory for our daily lives, how the brain is used in our day-to-day lives for different tasks and about dementia and how this may affect the memory of those people living with it.
In Science we have continued our work on the seasons. This week we thought about what the weather is like in the different seasons. We thought about what clothes you would need to wear in each season and what things you might need.
We have a busy week ahead of us next week with the performance of our Nativity on Monday at 2pm & 6pm. We have been practising really hard and can’t wait to perform it for you all. We will also be going to watch the pantomime on Wednesday – oh yes we are!
Weekly Celebrations – 6.12.24
Here are this week’s awards…
Weekly Celebrations
School Value Ambassadors (earning House Points with one pupil chosen each week per year group, awarded by teachers for showing one of our school values):
Year 6 Percy for ‘Trust’ and ‘Wisdom’ – Percy has worked hard for the last few weeks! He has shown determination to earn his pen license and has achieved full marks on his most recent arithmetic paper – keep going Percy, congratulations!
Year 5 Emelia for ‘Perseverance’ and ‘Respect’ – Emelia has shown an increase in confidence in her maths work over the last week. She is trying to complete work more independently but is very patient when asking for help too – well done!
Year 4 Ruby for ‘Perseverance’ and ‘Wisdom’ – Ruby this week has made a thoughtful and responsible decision about where she would like to sit in class. This has allowed her to concentrate more and has really helped her improve her work. Well done Ruby, keep up the hard work!
Year 3 Zander for ‘Love’, ‘Hope’, ‘Friendship’ and ‘Wisdom’ – Zander is a hard working member of our class, he always has beautiful manners and always puts others first! Well done Zander!
Year 2 Roly for ‘Respect’ – Roly has shown respect to all adults this week. He has been polite and helpful – a real star!
Year 1 Cordelia for ‘Wisdom’ – Cordelia is a fantastic writer! She is trying hard to develop her joined handwriting and takes great pride in her work.
Reception Arthur for ‘Perseverance’ – Arthur is a super learning role model to the rest of Hedgehogs. He sets himself goals and works hard to achieve them.
Bumblebees Freddie for showing ‘Trust’, ‘Friendship’, Respect and ‘Perseverance’ – Freddie is a reliable, kind and helpful Bumblebee/ He shows our school values everyday while being the loving, cheeky chappy he is!
Raffle ticket winners (awarded by staff for lining-up or behaviour around school)
Other achievements…
Eva, Devon and Millie have attended knitting and sewing club this term. They have all created wonderful crafts over the past few weeks. They said it took a lot of perseverance to carry on and complete them! Well done girls, they look great.
Congratulations to all our winners this week!
