Welcome to Rabbit class! Our teacher is Mrs Wren, who has been teaching at Bedwell for three years. She is really good at music and English, and wants to make her lessons fun, interactive and memorable.  

• Our curriculum map - find out about our current topics
• Our latest school newsletter
• Meet our School Councillors, Ola and Darcie

Home learning ideas:

• We’re working on tables facts this term, so it would be brilliant if you could work on learning these at home. Focus on one table at a time and try: 
  • Making-up rhymes to help remember number facts (“4 x 6 is 24, bears growl and lions roar!”)
  • Looking for numbers in that table in the world around you - on doors, car number plates, in phone numbers or when you’re out shopping.
  • Writing-out tables with finger paints, chalk or water-on-tarmac, or make them from playdoh.
  • Chanting, singing, whispering... Say tables out loud together whenever you have the chance.
• Each week we are set spellings to learn. Click here for guidance on strategies you can use to support your child in learning these at home. 
• We’ll be focussing on Alice in Wonderland over the next few weeks, so it would be great if you could share this story at home - as well as the original book by Lewis Carrol, there are some brilliant (and shorter) picture book versions and several films based (loosely) on the text.
• Go on a rock hunt in the garden or around town. What different types can you find? Can you spot any of the rocks we’ve met in class (like chalk, slate, granite and marble)? Can you tell if they are igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic?
• In geography this term we are learning about the USA. There are loads of resources online to help you find out more about the climate, people, landmarks and landscapes found across this enormous country - a good place to start is the BBC Bitesize website, where there’s a unit focussing on Florida which you can find here.
• There’s some great advice on talking to children about online safety on the NSPCC website at www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/ We also use lots of resources from the UK Safer Internet Centre: saferinternet.org.uk/ 

Our latest news:

• As part of our history topic on Roman Britain, we made our own Roman shields. We cut out cardboard for the base of our shields and then added card shapes and patterns to make them look as authentic as possible. We finished the project by marching out onto the field in a classic Roman ‘tortoise’ formation! 
 

 
• We were delighted to be joined by so many of our parents and carers for our Stay and Read event in October. We talked about the reasons why reading regularly at home is so important, explored some of the things we can do to make it an enjoyable experience and shared lots of our favourite books. A big thank you to everyone who made time to join us in class. 
 

 
• At the beginning of December, we went to our school trip to Hazard Alley. Through hands-on scenarios - like crossing roads, spotting fire risks, and learning about stranger danger - we discovered how to stay safe in everyday situations. The immersive environment gave us the chance to practise real-life skills in a fun and memorable way, boosting awareness and confidence. It was a day filled with teamwork, laughter, and valuable lessons that will stay with us long after the visit. 
 

 

We have been learning about... 

History - Our history topic this term has seen us learning about Roman Britain. We began by discovering who the Romans were, where they came from and what made their army so powerful. We then focussed on the Roman invasion and conquest of Britain in the first century AD.

English - We have covered lots of different types of writing this term, including personal narratives, calligram poems, character descriptions and dialogue. We particularly enjoyed our work on persuasion, exploring posters and persuasive letter writing techniques before drawing together all of our knowledge to write speeches, trying to convince our teachers that we should cut down on the amount of paper that we use.

Do you think that we should be cutting down trees? Did you know that we have spent £6000 on photocopying in a year? You know that paper is made from trees. If we keep cutting down trees there will not be anything left! 

Do you believe that cutting down tree is important? You are destroying the happy trees. You are never too small to make a decision. You should consider using online work. We could do online homework. Do you want to harm the poor animals? In class we could use whiteboards. Please do the right thing and make this change. 

By Sadaqat

This term's topics

English - Our next topic is built around the classic story of Alice in Wonderland. We will be exploring the way speech is used and organised in the story, and then using this as a base for short sections of dialogue which we will write (making sure that it is punctuated correctly). We will identify the techniques which the author uses to describe fantastical characters and settings, helping us to develop our descriptive writing. Finally, we will examine the way that stories are split into paragraphs, and think about where it would be appropriate to start a new paragraph in our own work.

Maths - We will start the half-term by exploring the properties of shapes, revising shape names, learning about the difference between regular and irregular shapes and constructing shapes with given properties. After this, we will move on to focus on multiplication and division. We will revise our 2, 5 and 10x tables and then build on these to find (and start to learn) our 3, 4, 6 and 8x table facts. We will use arrays and regrouping to solve multiplication problems, and develop our understanding of the link between multiplication and division to help us find unknown facts. Across all of these topics, we will be doing lots of problem solving to help us apply our knowledge to a wide range of situations.

Science - Our next topic will see us exploring the rocks and soils beneath our feet. We will begin by comparing and grouping different types of rock, carrying out simple tests and looking in particular at the difference between igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. We will then look at different types of soils, investigate how they are formed and design our own tests to find out how quickly they absorb water.

Humanities - We will be taking a virtual ‘road trip’ across the USA this term. It’s a huge, diverse country, so we will explore the different landscapes and habitats, from the Rocky mountains of the west to the deserts, plains and forests of middle America, to the bustling cities of the coasts. We will use photos, videos, maps and first-hand accounts to investigate weather, food, schools and homes, and begin to compare life in the UK with life in USA. We will then use all this information to make reasoned choices about where we would like to visit and where we would prefer to live. Throughout the topic we will also be developing our map skills, locating the USA (as well as the UK, the 7 continents and 5 oceans) on a variety of maps and globes.

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