Welcome to the Buzzy Bee class! The class is made up of 3 and 4 year olds. Our classroom is the first you come across from the entrance into the nursery garden.  One side of the classroom is full of windows with a perfect view of the nursery garden for the children to look out upon as they play in the classroom. In the Buzzy Bee room we have a cookery area, equipped with child sized resources and outfits.

Although we are furthest away from the woodland garden, we are the closest to the library, this makes it easy for spontaneous quiet story times.

As with all the classrooms we have divided up the areas using shelving, so children have direct and easy access to the resources available to support their independent play.   We tend to have many resources that stay the same, so that children can return to their activities over a period of time and revisit their favourite activities. However, we also add resources that may be of interest to the children, such as wedding outfits, or hairdressing equipment in the home corner.

All children have their own designated coat peg. Upon arrival we encourage children to find their peg and put all their belongings away. 

Information for parents can be found in a variety of places including the parents notice board inside the classroom and on the whiteboard outside of the classroom door.

Who is in the Buzzybee Team?

• Emily - Class Teacher
• Louise - Classroom Deputy / Classroom Senco
• Katie - Early Years Assistant     
• Becki - early Years Assistant
• Ali - Early Years Assistant

Autumn Term 1 2026

🐝 The children have been listening to, looking at the pictures and joining in with retelling the story of ‘Walking Through the Jungle’, this is our Core Story this half term. We have been naming and learning about the animals. Also, the children have been hearing lots of animal stories and singing songs.

We have been starting to learn about the season of Autumn and enjoying playing with apples and conkers. The children have been helping to make apple juice with Ali - by carefully chopping up the apples and mashing them with rolling pins. Ali then put the mashed up apple into the juicer to make some yummy juice that we tried at snack time. We have also rolled apples down some large cardboard tubes and guttering, talked about the colours and sizes of different apples and have also been printing with them.

The children have had several sessions in the Woodland garden where they have explored, played in the mud kitchen, been digging for potatoes, collecting leaves, sticks and spotting spiders in their webs. 

Next half term, our Core Story is ‘It was a Cold, Dark Night’.

Thank you for your continued support and enjoy the half term break in a few weeks.🐝

Summer Term 1 2026

The children have been listening to and retelling the story of ‘Little Rabbit Foo Foo’. We have been busy creating a display with all the characters on it and the children have painted, drawn and collaged them. They regularly look at the display and talk about the characters. Ali brought in her motorcycle and took the children to look at it in small groups. They had an opportunity to sit on it if they wanted to. Louise brought in her rabbits for the children to stroke and we learnt about how to care for them. 

We have talked a lot about Caverstede turning 80 years old and looking on the hundred square to find 80. Many of the children know that they are 4 years old so we had some good discussions about numbers. The children have helped to make decorations for the classrooms and they had a street party in the garden with jam sandwiches. 

Ali has been taking the children in the Woodland garden to use the mud kitchen, learning how to use tools like a peeler, watering plants, bug hunts using a magnifying glass, making bees using natural materials, planting sweet peas and potatoes.

We have been singing lots of songs including ‘Chick, Chick, Chicken’ and ‘There’s a Tiny Caterpillar on a Leaf’. 

We have enjoyed the chicks hatching, watching the caterpillar change into their cocoons and looking at some tadpoles as we have been learning about lifecycles of different creatures. 

Next half term, our core story is ‘The Pirates are Coming’ by John Condon.

Thank you for your continued support and enjoy the break.

Spring Term 2 2026

We have been very busy in Buzzy Bee class as we have been looking at and reading our core story ‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’ by Nick Butterworth and Mick Inkpen. The children are confidently retelling the story using the pictures from the book and using the story props including a black and white cat puppet to help them. The children have engaged well with this story and we have been looking at other stories with cats in them like ‘Cats in Boxes’. We have read ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ as Jasper is looking at this book at the end of his story. We have been counting beans, making beanstalks using different things green bottle tops and green pasta. Also we have been using play dough to create things from the story like a beanstalk or a cat. We have planted bean seeds in plastic bags and we are waiting for them to start growing so we will be learning about the lifecycle of a bean. 

We have been singing lots of songs including ‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’ and ‘Five Peas in a Pod’. 

We have made pancakes, had an enjoyable visit from the Peterborough Phantoms Ice Hockey players and celebrated World Book Day.

It has been lovely to welcome many parents and carers into the classroom for our ‘Come and Read a Story’ with your child.

Next half term, our core story is ‘Little Rabbit Foo Foo’ by Michael Rosen.

Thank you for your continued support and enjoy the break.

Spring Term 1 2026

We have been very busy in Buzzy Bee class as we have been looking at and reading our core story ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. The children are confidently retelling the story using the pictures from the book and using the story props to help them.

It has been a really popular story and the children are good at using the different voices for daddy, mummy and baby bear.  We have painted bears and created a display with the characters from story in the classroom.

The children have been looking at information books about wild bears and learning facts about them. We have tried porridge for snack which went down really well with lots of the children. The children have made bears from play dough and loose parts. 

We have been singing lots of songs including ‘When Goldilocks Went to the House of the Bears’ and ‘The Bear Went Over the Mountain’. 

We have had a very enjoyable visit from Bertie, Katy’s dog who the children all love to see and stroke.

We have been busy using and making binoculars to spot different birds in the garden as part of Bird Watching Week.  As well as looking at information books and pictures of birds to help us to identify them. The children have made their own bird feeders using seeds and fat in yogurt pots to hang outside in the garden to attract the birds. 

The children have been making flags for our Athletes Parade and they will have an opportunity to have a go at some of the sports as part of the Winter Olympics.

Next half term, our core story is ‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’ by Nick Butterworth and Mick Inkpen.

Thank you for your continued support and enjoy the break.

Autumn Term 2 - 2025

We have been very busy in Buzzy Bee class as we have been looking at and reading our core story ‘The Gingerbread Man’.  The children enjoy joining in with the part ‘Run, run as fast as you can! You can’t catch me, I’m the gingerbread man’.  They have the characters from the story to support with retelling of it.  We have been learning about how to mix brown paint and using red, yellow and blue to do this.  The children have painted some gingerbread men, made playdough ones using different sized cutters and we hope to make some gingerbread people to eat soon.  We have been adding faces and buttons to paper cut outs of gingerbread men so we are learning about what features you have on a face.  We have been working with clay and making a clay gingerbread person.  Some of the children made extra ones so we could decorate our Christmas tree in Peterborough Cathedral. 

The days are turning colder and we have been exploring ice in the garden.  We have made marks in the frost, felt how cold ice is and watched it melt in the sunshine.

The children had a very enjoyable visit from five alpacas and they had an opportunity to stroke and feed them. 

We are starting to get ready for Christmas and have started practising our songs for our Christmas Sing-a-Long on Tuesday 9th December.  Please join us if you can.

Next half term, our core story is ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’.

Thank you for your continued support and enjoy the Christmas holidays.  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Autumn Term 1 - 2025:

The children have been settling into Buzzy Bee class this half term. They are getting to know the adults and new children that have started. The children are learning our routines and expectations.

They are enjoying looking at and listening to our core story ‘Walking Through the Jungle’. The children are really looking at the pages and talking about the different animals they can see. A story tuff tray has been set up with the animals, the girl and a copy of the story so the children can retell it. We have been naming the main animals and talking about where they live. 

We have been talking about the season of Autumn and doing many things including conker rolling, making apple juice, creating a large leaf picture using real leaves, stick painting, wool winding and playing with pumpkins. We have learnt a song called ‘Autumn Leaves are Falling Down’ which the children are enjoying. 

Next half term, our core story is ‘The Gingerbread Man’.

Thank you for your continued support and enjoy the half term break!