Hello and welcome to Maple Class!
Your teachers this year are: Mrs Yeandle and Mrs Carr. Your teaching assistants are: Mrs West, Mrs Pearce and Mrs Eva. For one afternoon per week Mrs Hewson will teach music and Mrs Kelly will teach RE to Maple.
As mathematicians, Year 1 have been learning about numbers to 10 and starting to partition these numbers. They have been practising subtraction and addition and finding fact famillies for a part part whole model. After this they will learn about 2 D and 3 D shapes.
Your teachers this year are: Mrs Yeandle and Mrs Carr. Your teaching assistants are: Mrs West, Mrs Pearce and Mrs Eva. For one afternoon per week Mrs Hewson will teach music and Mrs Kelly will teach RE to Maple.
As mathematicians, Year 1 have been learning about numbers to 10 and starting to partition these numbers. They have been practising subtraction and addition and finding fact famillies for a part part whole model. After this they will learn about 2 D and 3 D shapes.
Year 2 are looking at addition and subtraction with numbers within 100 and will also move on to properties of 2D and 3 D shape.
Maths lessons are delivered using the Power Maths WRM scheme. We also practice our arithmetic skills daily through 'Fluent in Five'. You can help your child at home by completing the weekly homework tasks on School Jam (Active Learn Primary) and practising their skills at timestables.co.uk.
This half-term, Year 2 will focus their English learning around the book "The Naughty Bus" where they will practise writing an adventure story, following the story pattern, using expanded noun phrases, past tense verbs and punctuating their sentences correctly. Their second book is called "Snow in the Garden" and they will write a set of instructions to make a Christmas craft. Their writing will focus on punctuation and sentence types including commands.
They will continue to follow the No Nonsense spelling programme and have weekly Guided Reading sessions. The Year 1s will continue to learn phonics with Fred Frog and practice 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 lingo 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 looking at "My Family History". They will learn about people who lived in the past and that living memory is the past that can be remembered people that are alive today. They will look at family trees and that they dhow us the generations of people who belong in our family. They will learn that sources are things that tell us about the past.
As scientists, Year 1 will be exploring sseasons, wether and day and night. We will look at how to measure the different elements of the weather. Year 2 are learning about the needs of anilmals. They will look at a range of diets for different animals including humans. These include herbivore, omnivore and carnivore.
In RE Year 1 will be looking at the story of advent, starting with the Anunciation when the Angel Gabriel came to Mary and leading up to Jesus' birth.
As scientists, Year 1 will be exploring sseasons, wether and day and night. We will look at how to measure the different elements of the weather. Year 2 are learning about the needs of anilmals. They will look at a range of diets for different animals including humans. These include herbivore, omnivore and carnivore.
In RE Year 1 will be looking at the story of advent, starting with the Anunciation when the Angel Gabriel came to Mary and leading up to Jesus' birth.
In Year 2 they will also look at Advent and how the prophet Isaiah told of Jesus' birth in the Old Testament. They will learn about the Anunciation, what prophets are, John the Baptist's prophecy from Zechariah about John's destiny to baptise Jesus. During this time we will also be practising for our school Nativity Play.
In ICT Year 1 and 2 will be practising their mouse skills, learning how to log on and navigate around a computer. They will develop their skills of dragging, dropping, clicking and controlling a cursor.
In Art they will focus on mark making and creating different effects using different lines e.g. cross hatch, straight, squiggles.
In PSHE and RHE we will look at ''Celebrating Difference". Within this unit they will explore how we are similar and different from others and how we can celebrate each other for these. During the week of 11/11/24 we will recognise anti-bullying week by focussing our lessons and assemplies around the theme from the anti-bullying alliance "Choose Respect". After this we will look at how friendships are important and what qualities are required in a good friend.
In Music this term, Maple are focussing on learning our songs and percussion ready for our nativity performance "Simply the Nativity".
Below you will find the key vocabulary which will be used in each unit. 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!
Vocabulary
Below you will find the key vocabulary which will be used in each unit. 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!
Vocabulary