Butterflies - Early Years

Welcome to Butterfly class! Our teacher is Mrs Eddison, who has been teaching at Bedwell for 7 years and is great at helping us to develop our own ideas, games and play. We are also supported by our fantastic teaching assistants, Mrs Prosho, Miss Davis and Mrs Hill. 

Home learning ideas:

  • We will continue to use Tapestry to share work that we have done in school and share ideas for learning beyond school. Speak to your child's teacher if you're not sure about how to log in.
  • Constant practice of reading and phonics is just about the most valuable thing you can do at home. Try to read with your child as often as possible and talk to them about what they’ve read.
  • We have daily phonics sessions which follow the ReadWriteInc scheme. They have lots of guidance on how you can support your child with phonics at home here. 
  • There are lots of resources to support learning around traditional stories available on the Oak Academy site - try starting with the The King and the Moon set of lessons, which you can find here.   
  • Keep practicing counting, whenever and wherever possible - you could count houses on the way to School, footsteps on the way to bed, shoes in the house, players on the team, objects in the shopping trolley, claps, nods... Anything and everything you can think of!
  • Support your child in building their imagination and storytelling, building things using big cardboard boxes and pieces of fabric, or dressing up and pretending to be nurse, doctors or parents.  

Our latest news:

  • We've been learning about the changing seasons throughout the year, and to celebrate the summer and round off our year, we ended the term with a fantastic beach party! There were paddling pools, lots of games to play (and ice lollies to eat) and even a bouncy castle!     
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  • We have absolutely loved sharing our Tapestry journals this half term! It has helped develop our speaking, listening and communication skills. In class, many of us have been really excited to share what our parents have been putting online, and this has also helped our development. We also enjoy talking to our friends about what has been put online via the app and this has helped develop and strengthen friendships and connect us through common interests and experiences. 
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  • At the start of term we got involved in the Big Garden Bird Watch and made lots of bird feeders. We even made our own binoculars to see which birds visited our garden! 
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"Relationships are warm and caring, and this helps children to feel confident, happy and safe."

Ofsted report, 2018
We have been learning about... 

The Gingerbread Man - We’ve enjoyed reading and exploring our focus book, The Gingerbread Man. We started off by making our own gingerbread people – luckily they didn’t run away! We have enjoyed acting out and retelling the story, and have begun innovating the story to make it our own.

Child Initiated Learning - we have had the chance to try out a huge range of activities linked to learning, our own individual interests and our focus story . As a result we have developed and widened our friendship circles, enabling us to engage with our environment and improve our speaking and listening skills. Many of us have made fantastic progress because of this. We always look forward to finding out what new activities and challenges have appeared in our classrooms each day and are also keen to find new ways to explore, use and play with the equipment and resources around us.

This term's topics

Communication & Language - We will be reading and acting out the fantastic story Whatever Next this half-term, joining Baby Bear on his rocket trip to the moon and talking about the different places that our imaginations could take us. We will be developing our use of helicopter stories - creating our own adventures and acting them out for our friends. In circle time we will be meeting and talking to our next Learning Superhero, Eddy Empathy, whose powers are concern, understanding, honesty and forgiveness. We will ask questions and develop our use of language to explain how we feel. 

Personal, Social & Emotional Learning - We will start the half-term by talking about firework safety, making sure we are all ready to enjoy Bonfire Night in a fun, safe way. We will be celebrating Diwali and trying out lots of different Indian food, which will help to expand our descriptive language. We will also be thinking about healthy eating and why this is important.

Physical Development - We will be continuing with our ‘Funky Finger’ challenges and ‘Marvellous Mark Making’ this half-term, both inside and outside. These will help us to develop both our fine and gross motor skills. In our weekly PE sessions with Mr Butler, we will be continue to develop our spatial awareness, finding space, moving towards and away from each other, and travelling and stopping with control.

Take a look at our curriculum map for more information on our topics.