Hello and welcome to Maple Class

We are both really looking forward to teaching you all and can’t wait for a successful year together. We are very lucky to have Miss Camp as our teaching assistant.

Mrs Cameron will be teaching the class at the beginning of each week on a Monday and Tuesday, with Mrs Titchener teaching every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

We are delighted to be moving up with many of the children into Maple Class and we are really looking forward to welcoming some new faces as well. Our classroom is a happy place to be and we always work with a ‘have a go’ attitude, knowing that it’s ok to make mistakes.

We are going to have an amazing year and there is so much to be excited about with our learning. Our year will begin with our fantastic DT topic, where we will be looking at bridges and will have the chance to make our very own bridges. In history this year we will be learning all about Space Explorers, as well as The Great Fire of London. We can't wait for our Australia and Antarctic topic in science too!

Key things to remember:

• PE days are on a Monday and Thursday. PE kits must be in school every day and need to be labelled with your child's name.
• We also advise all school uniform to be labelled as this makes finding your child’s items that much easier if they go missing. Please check the school's uniform policy if you are unsure of the colours of items of clothing that your child should have.
• Children are expected to read daily and record this in their reading records - it is fine for them to record this themselves. It would be really helpful if your child could bring their bookbag to school with them day as reads will be counted multiple times a week - we love to see children getting their reading certificates and want this to happen as often as possible!
• Spelling and Maths homework will be sent home every Friday in the orange homework book. All homework must be completed and handed in by the following Friday.
• The children’s homework book can also be used for any additional home learning should your child wish to do this. We love to see this home learning in school, and there will be time for the most amazing pieces of home learning to be shown to the rest of the class during the week.

  Term 1

  Maple Class have had a fantastic and busy first term, full of exciting learning, creativity and practical activities! Our DT project was to design and build a bridge. We explored what makes structures strong and stable, investigated different types of bridges and had lots of fun building bridges using junk modelling equipment. We are really proud of how well the children painted and constructed their bridges. What a great DT topic! In science, we have been learning all about materials and their properties We practised sorting materials, designed a school shoe that was fit for purpose and investigated how different surfaces affected the movement of a marble down a ramp. These hands-on investigations encouraged us to ask questions, make predictions and think like scientists.

  Our English learning was inspired by ‘Miki’ by Stephen Mackey. We immersed ourselves in the story and worked towards writing our own versions, imagining that we were the penguin in the story. The children produced some amazing writing, full of wonderful ideas and imagination. In maths, we began by exploring place value, developing our understanding of numbers and what each digit represents. We have since started our addition and subtraction unit, enjoying lots of practical lessons to help us build confidence and deepen our understanding of number. We have also worked so hard in our class assemblies, where we made Rangoli-inspired suncatchers and created amazing Florence Cathedral art. What a brilliant first term in Maple Class! We are incredibly proud of the children’s enthusiasm, creativity and hard work across all areas of the curriculum and we cannot wait to see what the next term brings!

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