Welcome to Maple Class!

I am Mrs Thomas and I am your class teacher.

We are also very lucky to have Mrs Egan and Mrs Ahmed working with us this year.

Summer 1

'Our Natural World'

Our focus text is 'Grandad's Island' by Benji Davies.

English & Grammar

This half term the children will continue to focus on grammatical features that will enhance their writing and apply these within English lessons. They will consolidate their knowledge of nouns, verbs and adverbs throughout the term. Using our focus text of ‘Grandads Island’, the children will be immersed into the story. They will then use these elements to create a diary entry, a setting description and innovate the story using a story map.

Maths 

The children will consolidate their place value knowledge to support their mental Maths and apply this further when working on problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. They will continue to develop their knowledge of sharing equally by exploring fractions. Children will learn how to tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes and begin to estimate by using different mathematical representations and recall related facts to 100 using addition and subtraction.

Science 

The children will focus on living things and their habitats. Children will begin by learning about habitats in our local area and then focus on polar, desert, woodland and ocean habitats. They will explore habitats and diet as well food chains. They will use their knowledge about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores when creating food chains. They will conclude their learning by comparing things that are living, things that are dead and things that have never been alive.

Art

In this Chromatic painting unit, children will develop their knowledge of colour theory and create landscapes using complementary colours in the style of Ted Harrison. The children will designs prints and become more skilled at talking about their own art process. Our learning will explore digital art and we will use Purple Mash to support this. We will link our art to the English text ‘Grandads Island’.

PE

In PE the children will focus on striking and field games skills. The children will learn how and why to strike a ball, how to throw overarm to a teammate, how to bowl a ball underarm and use simple tactics in different games. Children will grow in confidence by attempting new activities and will understand how being active can make them happier and healthier.

R.E

Using Questful RE, the children will continue their learning about Jesus and Christianity. They will begin to explore why the church is important for Christians and develop their understanding of what happens inside a church and why. Children will be given opportunities to research places of worship across world faiths. The children will gain an understanding of what churches around the world look like and how they are similar/ different to Churches in the UK.

P.S.H.E

The children will explore their role within the wider world and focus on ‘Being my Best’. They will explore topics around basic first aid, being clean and healthy, physical activity, personal achievements and aspirations and hygiene.

P.E.

Maple Class have P.E. on Tuesday and Wednesday. Please ensure your child has a full P.E. kit in school fully labelled with their name. Kits will be kept in school until the end of term. 

Reading

Children will be given new reading books on Tuesdays and Fridays once a book has been read twice.  Please ensure you read with your child every night and leave a comment in their reading records to enable us to see how they have got on :). 

Homework 

Homework will be sent out each Friday, to be returned by the following Thursday. If you require any support with this, please let me know.

Please do not hesitate to contact me with any worries/queries you may have.

Thank you for your support. 

Mrs Thomas