Hello and Welcome to Maple Class page,

Your teachers this year are: Mrs Yeandle and Miss Reed. Mrs Carr will have some Keeping in touch days this half term before returning from her maternity leave at the end of March. We will sadly say Goodbye to Mrs Reed who has been with us for Mrs Carr’s maternity cover at Easter. We will miss her and wish her all the best.  

Mrs Pearce will be supporting Maple as a Higher Level Teaching Assistant and our Teaching assistant Mrs Perryman will be leading a phonics group also. For one afternoon per week Mrs Kelly will teach Music and a Premier Sports coach will teach PE to Maple on Fridays.  Maple will be attend swimming lessons on a Thursday in two groups for three sessions each.   

As mathematicians, Year 1 will start by investigating numbers up to 50, looking at one more and one less and ordering numbers within a hundred square. The second unit will be looking at length and height and then mass and capacity. 

Year 2 will continue practising their multiplication and division before also moving onto length and height followed by mass, capacity and temperature.  

Maths lessons are delivered using the Power Maths WRM scheme. We have recently started a new maths scheme to improve fluency from NCTEM. 

This half-term, Year 2 will focus their English learning around the book "My Name is Not Refugee”  where they will aim to write a diary entry from the viewpoint of a refugee.  The mastery keys are punctuating sentences correctly with capital letters, full stops, exclamation marks and question marks, writing in present and past tense and using “so” “when” and ”because” to join clauses within sentences.  

They will use our new spelling programme 'Pathways to Spell'. They also have weekly Guided Reading sessions.

The Year 1s will continue to learn phonics with Fred Frog and practise writing skills through different story books as part of Read, Write Inc.   

For more information about Read Write Inc please follow this link where it explains all the language and how it works - https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/read-write-inc-phonics-guide/

This half-term we are being Historians and are learning about Homes Through Time.  We will learn about how houses have changed and developed throughout the ages.     

As scientists we will be looking at animals.  We will notice that animals, including humans, have offspring that grow into adults, find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (water, food and air), describe the importance for humans of exercising, eating the right amounts of different types of foods and practising good hygiene. For the final point, we will focus on the fact that our diets should provide us with all the nutrients we need.

In RE Year 1 will be looking at Lent and the events that happened to Jesus leading up to Easter Sunday. We will be looking at how Lent is a time of preparation before Easter. We will plan and prepare to lead our class liturgy of The Last Supper for our Holy week in a Day on Maundy Thursday.     

In ICT Year 1 will be continuing to practise using Numbots and TTRS as well as practising keyboard skills. Year 2 will be practising logging on to become competent at completing their online reading quizzes on AR as well as Quest Quizzes..

In Design and Technology Maple will start a new unit of clay.  Linking in with our science topic on animals Maple will be designing and creating their own clay fish.  They will manipulate the clay through rolling, cutting, moulding and scoring. They will foster creativity and learn about texture, shape and form.    

In PSHE and RHE children will complete the unit  “Healthy Me”. In this Puzzle Piece, of the JIGSAW curriculum we use, Maple will discuss healthy and unhealthy choices and how these choices make them feel. They talk about hygiene, keeping themselves clean and that germs can make you unwell. The children learn about road safety as well as people who can help them to stay safe.    

In Music this term Maple will be linking their learning to our History unit on “Homes” and will be undertaking a BBC Ten Pieces unit entitled “No Place Like”.  Children will listen and analyse pieces of music and then create their own version of ‘No Place Like’ inspired by their home, hometown, school or anywhere that feels like home.   

Below you will find the key vocabulary for RE, Science and History. Please talk to your child about these key words to find out more about what they have been learning! Please come back soon to see what we’ve been up to!