Welcome to Rabbits Class
Welcome to Rabbits Class 2022-2023 - Please refer to our welcome letter for general information and enjoy viewing updates on class activities here on our webpage.
News Flash..... Rabbits raised a fabulous £330 to help and support farmers across the world! Thank you for your generous donations and encouragement. Well done Rabbits!
- We bought bees, worms, chickens, plants and even a marvellous moo cow!
- Our gifts will help farming familes to be self-sufficient and provide for their communities.
Welcome to term 5 and a very happy Easter to you all.
Summer is nearly here and we have so much to look forward to! Please take a look at our topic web and start collecting junk. We are excited to be able to invite parents and carers to join us for castle building on Thursday 18th May. Children will learn about Norman castles and William the Conqueror. We will discover how castles have changed throughout history from 1066 up until today as we go on to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III. We will learn about properties of material in science to help us build strong castles and then put them to the test in a Norman-Saxon battle followed by a banquet to celebrate the crowning of our King! In RE we will learn what it means to be a disciple through the story of the resurrection. We will ponder, reflect and pray as we deepen our faith and find out what it means to believe and trust in God and follow Jesus. We look forward to sharing our journey with you and each other.
Holy week was a time for reflection, repentance, forgiveness and prayer.
Rabbits performed a very moving and beautiful re-enactment of the washing of feet and the last supper. This quiet, liturgical reflection helped us to understand the importance of serving one another. As we thought deeply about how Jesus and His disciples were feeling during the events of Holy week, we learnt that we are called to follow Jesus on the way of the cross and love one-another as Jesus loves us.
Fun at the farm!
We had a great time at Farmer Gow's. We bottle fed lambs and kids; collected eggs; held tiny chicks and splashed in muddy puddles on our walk. We loved getting close to nature and playing on the tractors.
- We thought the pigs were really funny and a little naughty!
- We had a great time hunting for treasure in the hay bales.
- We enjoyed a sunny, muddy walk!
This week, Rabbits made their Lenten promises and we are ready to begin our fair trade sponsored treasure hunt!
Click here for Lent Fairtrade treasure hunt and sponsorship forms.
Click here for Lent Fairtrade treasure hunt letter.
Spring is in the air!
Welcome back to Term 4! Spring in Rabbits class will be fun-packed with learning and adventure as we head off to find out about food and farming. We will be planting, meeting animals, dancing, playing music and preparing food for a picnic. We will find out where our food comes from and how important it is that we live sustainably and responsibly and support farming communities across the world. We will spend time in prayer every day so that we can live like Jesus and grow closer to God. We will make our Lenten promises and join in solidarity, as a class, to raise funds to purchase farming gifts from our chosen charity - CAFOD. Our Lenten challenge is a sponsored fair trade treasure hunt - look out for the sponsorship forms coming home soon and please give generously! Thank you.
Spring Term 4 2023 - Term 4 Topic Web 2023. pdf - Food and Farming
In term 3 our topic is journeys. We will be learning about some of the important journeys in the Bible especially reflecting on the difficult journey the Holy Family took from Bethlehem to Egypt. This term in English we will be embedding The Building the Kingdom, we will be developing moving learning into action, faith into action enabling students to develop their advocacy skills for change for those in the greatest need in society. The books that we will be studying in English will encourage the children to think about how to ensure that all people in society are 'visible' and how our words and actions can make a difference to others such as, refugees, the homeless, poor, sick, disabled, old, young as well as many more. This term the children will be able to put into practise their learning from Catholic Social Teaching, following in the footsteps of Christ, we hope to make present in our unjust and broken world, the justice, love and peace of God.
'Hey Ewe!' We wish you all a happy and peaceful Christmas!
Run, run as fast as you can.......We had great fun reading and learning about the Gingerbread Man. We enjoyed writing a new ending to the story as well as writing a new version. Our characters were much better behaved than the original Gingerbread Man! We then made some of our own gingerbread people and decorated them with sweets - what a tasty treat they were.
Advent - "We love one another as Jesus loves us" - a time for giving.
In term 2 we spent time thinking about Pope Francis' second letter about social friendship. He asks us to love all our brothers and sisters - Fratelli Tutti - no matter where or who they are. We focused on Catholic social teaching principles of preferential option for the poor and human dignity. We enjoyed finding out about the many modern-day good Samaritans such as Marcus Rashford and Mother Teresa. We learnt that if we worked together in solidarity we could make changes for the better and care for others. As part of our Advent preparation and reflection we thought about people in need and people who are often forgotten about. Over the 4 weeks of advent we collected food for the food bank and we made simple gifts for elderly people. We prayed for the persecuted, the lonely and the homeless, that they may enjoy the peace and the light of Christ at Christmas through the love and kindness of others.
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At forest school we built a bug hotel - a safe and warm habitat for our wonderful mini-beasts.
"We look after His world and everything in it."
We all received a letter from the Pope asking us to take care of our common home. We have been learning about how we can live wisely, think deeply and love generously through Catholic Social Teaching. We focused on ways in which we can reduce energy, take care of living things and reduce pollution through thoughtful actions. We used less paper, turned off the lights when we didn't need them and planted trees and bulbs. We also learnt more about different habitats and how useful each living creature is. God created the world and everything in it and He asked us to take care of it. We must all work together to protect it.
We discovered some amazing animals and plants at the Living Rainforest. We learnt about carnivores, omnivores and herbivores, as well as finding out about frugivores and gumivores!
Some of us held the tarantula and we all spotted the sloth, up high in the canopy. We also found out in which rainforests banana, cocoa, vanilla and coffee plants grow. I think we were all surprised at how hot and humid it is in a rainforest habitat!
What a fabulous day we had celebrating our harvest festival. Here we are enjoying our freshly pressed apple juice - cheers!
Our amazing clay nature tiles.
Forest School Activities
Rabbits class have been working hard in science, exploring our fabulous forest, identifying signs of autumn and being creative with nature's treasures. We have built dens, created clay tiles and played fun animal games. We have also enjoyed some nature themed stories. What a beautiful time of year!
Laudato Si' - Care of our Common Home
Rabbits have been great stewards of God's Creation and have followed in the footsteps of St. Francis of Assisi by looking after each other, protecting all creatures, great and small and caring for our common home. They are a wonderful example of how we can care for our planet - take a moment to ask them how we can make changes to protect our amazing world and care for all life.
Welcome to Rabbits Class 2022/23! Here is our topic web for this term: Autumn 1. We are going to have lots of fun exploring the world around us and caring for God's creation - our common home.
Rabbits Class 2022/21
Fabulous fundraising in 2022!
We are excited to announce that the children in Rabbits and Owls have raised funds for the charity HCPT. HCPT is a registered charity offering pilgrimage holidays, to Lourdes in the south of France, for disabled and disadvantaged people from around the UK and further afield. It costs £850 to send a child on a pilgrimage holiday to Lourdes and the children managed to raise enough money to send more than one child by completing a 'Move-athon' challenge where the children had to think of how many different ways they could move around the football pitch in a 2 hour relay.
Thank you so much for your support. We are very grateful for all your donations that supported our chosen charity.
2022 Memories
Whilst were we at Collective Worship and we had a visitor in the classroom. He was very nosey and made a lot of mess!
"We work together, we play together, we pray together and we always do our best"
