Camelford Community Primary School

Welcome to Daymer Class

Brilliant Bees

These term we learn about the importnace of bees and minibeasts found on our school site.

Topic web 2025

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Bea's Bees

Together we read the story of Bea's Bees and learnt lots of new vocabulary, made predictions and learnt about what might happen if there were no bees.

We're going on a bee hunt...

Can we hear them?

We listened carefully to see if we could hear them.

How do we avoid being stung?

We stayed calm and quiet as we got closer to a bee.

Where would they be?

We learnt from our story that they like big open spaces with bright colourful flowers so we headed to the field.

What do they look like?

We looked at them carefully through a magnifying lid. We could see 6 legs covered in yellow pollen just like the bees in our story.

Counting to 20 and beyond...

This term we will be learning about numbers to 20 and looking at the number patterns.

Parts of a flower

We know that flowers are important to bees so we wanted to learn more about them. We have been planting lots of plants so we took one out of the pot to see what was happening. We learnt the different parts and then made collage pictures to show them.

Camille and the Sunflowers

We read a book about a famous artist before having a go at painting and making our own sunflowers. Some of were painters like Vincent Van Gogh, others used thier collage skills and some used pastels.

Mini-beast hunt

They were even hiding in the slime.

Then we looked at them closely to work out if it was an insect.

They need 6 legs and wings. Their body's are also in 3 parts.

We looked in our garden to see what mini-beasts we could find.

Insect art

We used things we could find in the garden to make our own butterfly collage.

Some of us worked together to make a beetle in the sand pit.

Building Bridges - Topic Web

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World Book Day

Spring!

We had great fun exploring the signs of spring and creating clay troll faces in the woods.

Walking to the post box

We walked to the post box to post our postcards.

We looked to see when the next collection would be.

We made sure we put our address and stamp on.

We hope they arrive over the holidays.

Topic Web - Spring 1 Keeping Healthy

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Talking Tub

What do we already know about keeping our bodies healthy?

How can the items in the box be used to help us learn about keeping healthy?

A visit from Lyra

Lyra is our school cook. She makes us lots of yummy healthy meals.

Today she brought us lots of fruits and vegetables for us to try.

Some of them we had never tried before.

Some of them we liked more than others.

The Enormous Turnip

Then we got to try it. YUM!!

We learnt how to use peelers and knives safely.

The Old Man sent us a Turnip to try.

Expressive Arts and Design

We used our fingers to blend the colours and to create shadows.

And the different colours.

We looked at the shapes we could see.

A trip to the local Leisure Centre

We visited the local leisure centre to see what was there to help keep our bodies healthy.

We had the oppoortunity to go swimming and complete an exercise class.

We talked about how our bodies felt during and after exercise.

Exercise

We have been learning that exercise is an important part of a healthy lifestyle.

Helping birds to keep warm and survive the winter

We have been helping to look after the birds in the winter.

We provided food for the birds.

We provided shelter for the birds.

The importance of looking after our teeth

Lights up!

This term our curriculum is heavily influenced by the calendar. We look at festivals and celebrations from around the world. This includes Diwali, Fireworks Night, Hanukah, Remembrance Day and Christmas. All of these use light as part of their celebration and we encourage children to consider other uses of light, how to create light as well as how to stay safe around flames and electricity.

Topic Web - Autumn 2 - 2024

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Talking Tub

Children explore a number of artefacts and pictures related to our topic. This allows us to start introducing new vocabulary and make links with what we already know.

Diwali

After reading the story of Rama and Sita, we worked together to prepare our home corner for the celebrations.

Remember, Remember the 5th of November

We learnt about the Gunpowder Plot and why we celebrate with fireworks. The we used our creative skills to create our own firework masterpieces using a range of materials and by working together.

Firework Music

We can use instruments and our bodies to make firework sounds. Together we created a piece of firework music.

Remembrance Day

On Monday 11th November, we learnt about the significance of the day by attending a whole school service and making poppies. We took a moment to say thank you and to thik about all the things we are thankful for.

Special Places

We took a trip to Camelford Methodist Chapel to learn about how this church is used to celebrate Christmas. We met Rev. Steve and his wife who showed us around the church, told us stories and sang songs.

Important signs and symbols

We learnt about the Cross, bible and the advent candles.

Story

We listened carefully to the story and then had a go at retelling it using the wooden figures.

Nativity Story

We explored the church looking for the different characters from the Nativity.

What to people do in Churches?

We learnt about all the different things that go on in this church. Singing being one of the favourite. We learnt a song about the Nativity.

Nativity Scene

We identified all the characters from the nativity in thsi scene.

This Nativity set is very special to our teacher.

Stories

WE looked at differnt books that told the nativity and spotted all the characters.

Angels

We talked about the angels from the Nativity and then had a go at making them bright and colourful.

Exploring the seasonal changes in our amazing woods.

Read, Write, Inc

At Camelford Primary, we follow the RWI programme. We start this from the very first day by introducing the picture cards. From there children are taught a new sound everyday with regular opportunities to recall what they have learnt. This is supported by extra opportunities to mark make and engage with phonic games.

Maths

Stories and songs play a key part in our EYFS maths Curriculum. Children are provided with short whole class sessions and then opportunities to engage with adult led and child initiated learning. Continous provision is carefully planned and aims to follow the childrens interests as well as developing thier mathematical thinking.

Mixing Colours

After reading 'Mixed up,' children investigated what happened when colours combine.

Matching

I.C.T provided an opportunity to practise thier mathcing skills.

Castles

The children enjoyed building 'castles' using the 3D shapes. We challenged them to see if they could make the castles in the pictures we gave them.

Sorting

These children enjoyed discussing and sorting the shapes with an adult.

Sorting

These children selected their own items to sort and found lots of ways of sorting them.

Homes for the Teddies

The children love reading/telling stories to the teddies in the reading corner so we asked them to build a home big enough for them.

Comparing

In this adult led activity children built the tallest tower they could and then we compared them to find which was the tallest and shortest. Children were introduced and encouraged to use stem sentences. For example: My tower is taller than your tower but shorter than Mrs' tower.

Weight

Opportunties to take our learning outside is also carefully considered. In this activity children were asked to find things they thought we heavier or lighter than a given object, then they used the scales to check.

The Little Red Hen

Talk for writing

Children have learnt the story of Little Red Hen ready to perform at our Harvest Festival. The story shows the importance of helping each other as well as providing opportunities for children to learn story language, develop sentences and become a story teller.

Vocabulary is a big focus in this unit and we aim to develop that by providing new and exciting experiences for the children. This includes interviewing and meeting new people, baking, apple picking and team building activities.

Making Bread

Children experience following a recipe, gathering ingredients, kneading bread, and best of all, tasting it.

Helping each other

This unit also focuses on identifying people around us who can help. This includes people at home, school and the wider community.

Children are introduced to Winston our school dog as well as the adults in our school and what thier roles are. Children are supported and encouraged to ask questions.

Team Work

Children are encouraged to participate in group challenges designed to help them form friendships and team work skills. Very soon children start to think of their own challenges and enlist a team of friends to help them achieve their goals.

Hunting for Autumn

Children read a number of Autumn related books including Leaf Man, Pumkin Soup and Little Acorns.

After discussing what the signs of Autumn are we went for a hunt around our school site to see if we could find any.

Harvesting - apple picking

We went on our first trip on Tuesday: to a nearby orchard and picked apples. We then looked at ordering them in size and weight.

We ay also have enjoyed splashing in the puddles to see who could make the biggest splash.

Today we enjoyed tasting them and comparing the taste to other apples from the supermarket. We then voted for our favourite: the sweeter apples were a clear favourite.