Busy Bee Group

The Busy Bee Group is for our children who are preparing to move on to school reception. Six children join two teachers for a variety of activities covering all areas of learning.

Our aim is to help build their confidence; show them they are capable of doing things with practice; encourage teamwork, listening, sharing and turn-taking. 

The Busy Bee Group focus on the prime areas of learning.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development - 
Personal, Social and Emotional Development is fundamental to all other aspects of life long development and learning, and is key to children's wellbeing and resilience. For young children to flourish, we need to pay attention to how they understand and feel about themselves, and how secure they feel in close relationships; in doing so they develop their capacities to make sense of how they and other people experience the word. Children's self-image, their emotional understanding and the quality of their relationships affect their self-confidence, their potential to experience joy be curious, to wander and to face problems, and their ability to think and learn.

Physical Development - 
Each child's journey relies on whole-body experiences. while biologically programmed, the unfolding of this complex, interconnected systems requires repeated movement experiences that are self-initiated and wide-ranging. Fine and gross motor control must develop together in an integrated way, so the child can achieve what they set out to do.  We must ensure that children have movement-rich lives indoors and outdoors from birth. This includes the role of the adults body as enabling environment itself, embedding movement into everything, and encouraging each child's own motivations for being active and interactive with others. 

Communication and language - 
language is more than words. As children grow, they begin to be aware of and explore different sounds, symbols and words in their everyday worlds.
Children's skills develop through a series of identifiable stages which can be looked at in three aspects- Listening and Attention, Understanding, and speaking. While not all children will follow the same sequence or progress at the same rate, it is important to identify children at risk of language delay or disorder as these can have an ongoing impact on wellbeing and learning across the curriculum.
 
Tiny Giants use stage 1 of the Jolly Phonics programme to teach the alphabet sounds, which is a starting point for reading and writing. The Busy Bee children quickly learn the letter sounds and corresponding songs, going on to match sounds at the beginning of words and pictures.

We have explored the world through different projects such as growing plants, looking at animals and their habitats, cooking, model-making, science experiments and books. Our experiments have included learning what germs are and how they can be spread, mixing colours, puffy painting, volcanoes, lava lamps, floating and sinking. alien super juice, making slime, witch's potions. the list goes on.