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.

Autumn 1 Topic

'The Place Where I Live'

We will cover this topic throughout many of our subjects.

We will begin the year exploring our focus text ‘The Way Home for Wolf' by Rachael Bright

English: The children will be focusing on basic sentence structure, grammatical features and the inclusion of adjectives within their writing. Using the key text of ‘The Way Home for Wolf by Rachael Bright, the children will produce fiction and non-fiction pieces of writing.

Maths: The children will build upon their previous learning of place value consolidating their knowledge of numbers to 20 and the number bonds within. They will use their understanding of tens and ones to partition and compare numbers. They will then use resources, pictures, and mental arithmetic to solve a range of addition and subtraction problems.

Geography: The children will look at their local areas and the key landmarks around them. They will use atlases and globes to discover continents and oceans, understand how the equator and poles affect climate and compare the local area with Tromso, Norway.

Art: The children will develop their understanding of pattern. They will create a variety of monochromatic patterns and look at animals, mosaic flooring, wallpaper and mehndi designs. They will learn how to describe patterns considering line, shape and they will develop their mastery of pencil control to draw their own detailed and precise patterns.

Music: The children will be encouraged to sing with good diction to emphasise word play. They will learn to play the melody of a song on tuned percussion and they will explore call-and-response techniques by making up call-and-response patterns with actions.

PSHE: The children will explore their role within the wider world with a focus on themselves and their relationships with others. They will discuss what their ideal classroom would be, explore a range of different emotions and recognise how to be a good friend.

Science: The children will learn about animals and what they need to survive. They will investigate a wide of animals and their needs and compare similarities and differences with humans.

P.E.

Oak Class have P.E. on Monday 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