Buzzard Class 2023 - 2024
Mrs Aristotelous
Mr Herbert
Mrs Wilson
Welcome to Buzzard Class
The Buzzard Class team
Class Teachers:
Mr Douglas Herbert
dherbert@randwick.gloucs.sch.uk
Mrs Wilson (Friday)
Class Teaching Assistant: Miss Parsons
SEND Teaching Assistant: Mrs Aristotelous
PPA cover: Mrs Roet (Wednesday afternoon)
In Buzzard Class the children experience a creative curriculum that provides opportunities for connections to be made between different areas of learning. We foster an ethos of finding out and discovery of new ideas which then helps the children to direct their own learning. These include as many outdoor learning experiences as possible. We are keen to link technology with many areas of the curriculum enabling the children to explore and use different equipment both independently and with support.
Spring Term
Our wonderful world: what's the weather like?
Our world is wonderful - last term we learnt to appreciate it in new and exciting ways - through our understqanding of Christian ideas about God, through the exploration of family and its importance when reading Danny the Champion of the World and by recoginsing the ingenuity of the human spirit when learning about amazing inventors and their inventions. Last term, there was a clear focus on the people and animals within our world but what about the world itself?
We will be learning about the changing weather patterns in the UK and how different areas of the globe experience different weather and have different climates. We will explore how the changning seasons affect the plants we see in our local environment and identify and observe different plants and trees. Together, we will enjoy learning about Judaism and the ways Jewish fmailies celebrate their faith - we will link these ideas to our school's Christyian values ansd bettwer understand the diverse fabric of "Our Wonderful World".
Knowledge Organisers
Our texts this term
Around the World in 80 Days
by Jules Verne
An intrepid explorer and his friend set off on a marvelous adventure to circumnavigate the globe. Can it be done? By relying on each other and few friends they meet on the way, the team have a chance. We'll explore the world and its different environments through the eyes of Phileas Fogg and his copanions. We'll write stories about the different places they visit.
If the World Were 100 People
by Jackie McCann
Jackie McCann shrinks the world to the size of a village to explore ideas of fairness, community and justice. This book will link to our termly value as a school and to the wider learning around geography (climate and weather) and to our work in RE on Judaism. We will write poems and reports about what we learn.
Reading Passport
We have created a Reading Passport to inspire children to read the best literature available to them. Over the course of the year, we would like your child to read 7 of the books from the list for their year group.
When they manage to read 7, they will bring their passport back into school to receive a £5 book token.
The children will keep their passports with them all through school, hopefully finishing year 6 having read 42 amazing books.
Important information
Uniform
• A blue sweatshirt/cardigan
• A light blue polo shirt / shirt
• Grey / black trousers, skirts, pinafore dresses or shorts
• Grey/navy/ white socks or tights
• Sensible all black shoes or boots in winter
PE Kit – Every Friday
• Blue/black shorts or joggers
• Randwick PE top
• Black / blue fleece / jumper
• Black daps / trainers
• Long hair tied up / earring removed or taped up
Forest School Kit - Every Wednesday
• Navy blue / black joggers or leggings
• School t-shirt and school jumper
The children can wear their school shoes / PE trainers to school and bring their wellies with them in a named bag.
As the children go out in all weathers it is advised for winter the following:
• Warm, thick socks, an ‘extra layer’, perhaps a fleece or jumper;
• A waterproof jacket;
• Hat and gloves
Please clearly name everything!