Our ‘Number Hero prizes

You may remember last term that Isaac T, now in Maple class, entered a National Numeracy competition in his own time. He won £1000 worth of maths resources for our school and, now that everything has arrived, we celebrated this in school in last week’s certificate assembly. The children seemed most excited about the Tiny soft toys!

Thank you again Isaac for being our very own Number Hero!

Maple Class Remote Learning 10.03.23

Good morning Maple Class,
Here are some activities which you can do at home today.
Handwriting: Can you make any beautiful writing in the snow? Send me any pictures of your snowy handwriting!
English: Watch and complete the activities on the BBC bitesize lesson-
Maths: Go through Oak academy lesson ‘Fractions: Recognising Equivalent Fractions (part 1)’-

Then for the afternoon, please follow through the PowerPoint / PDF provided below and make your own art piece to bring in for next lesson:

Thank you,
Miss Robinson

Tree Planting Afternoon

Just before half-term, Maple class spent an afternoon planting apple tree saplings with members of our community.

We had the most wonderful afternoon planting some apple trees in an orchard in Bicton village. Children worked hard to dig the holes, plant the trees, and then walked to the nearby stream to collect water for the tree’s first drink!

During the dig, they had a worm search and counted how many worms there were in every hole. The children really enjoyed searching the soil and found some lovely other insects too.
We all look forward to returning to the orchard, to see how all of the trees are getting along, soon!

Panathlon Bowling Success

I would just like to say a huge well done to the group of children who took part in the Panathlon bowling event this morning. They came second out of 11 schools taking part which is a superb effort! We had a great morning and the children came back with individual medals, as well as a trophy and certificate for our PE board in school. 🙂

Microsoft Teams

Good afternoon,

Please could you support your child with logging into Microsoft Teams this afternoon/evening to complete a task. This has been set up to make sure everyone knows how to access the work set in the event of self isolating or the bubble closing. I have been through the steps with the class this afternoon and they should know where to find the task set, there are some simple instructions if they have forgotten.

Please let me know if you have any difficulties.

Many thanks, Mrs Erasmus

Curriculum overview

Good afternoon,

 

Here is the curriculum overview for Rowan class and Maple class:

Autumn half term 2 overview

 

We had a great first half term back in school and it was brilliant to see how the children have all settled back into the school routines. We are really looking forward to diving deeper into our Geography topic of “Earthquakes and Volcanoes.”  Our English book “Escape from Pompeii” fits this topic perfectly and it has been brilliant to have seen the children combining their knowledge from both subject areas.

 

If a child has to self isolate or the bubble closes, remote learning will be provided via Microsoft Teams. There has been a letter which was sent out from Mrs Johnson before half term to explain how this will work.

 

Finally, if you can, please download the Class Dojo app so that we can share any achievements or news regarding your child. A letter has gone out with details on how to sign in.

If there are any questions at all then please don’t hesitate to ask!

 

Best wishes,

Mr Taylor and Mrs Erasmus

Spelling Shed

This year we are using Spelling Shed for spelling practise and assessments. I will set the spellings on a Monday and your child will then be assessed the following Monday. Please allow your child to practise their spellings at home throughout the week. Your child‘s login details are in the front of their reading diary and the link is below.

We have practised using the website in school so your child should know how to login and use the games.

Spelling Shed login

If you have any problems please let me know.

Happy spelling!

Mrs Erasmus

Welcome back!

Good afternoon,

I hope you all had a lovely summer!

We have had a super first few days in Maple class. We have spent lots of time practising hand washing and getting back into our school routine.

 

Time Tables Rockstars

This week we have practised using TTRS to help us with our times tables. Each child has a username and password that they can use to login and practise at home. Follow the link to the website

www.ttrockstars.com

 

PE

As you are aware, on PE days children will come to school in their PE kits. At the moment our PE days are Monday and Friday. Maple class know we are doing PE tomorrow so will hopefully remind you! If the days change we will let you know.

 

Reading books

Maple class have all taken a book out of the school library. This is for them to enjoy reading in school and at home. It is really important for children to read at home whenever possible. It doesn’t have to be the book they have taken from school, just whatever suits you! Please fill in their ready diaries when you have read.

If your child has a library book at home from last term, please bring it back ASAP!

 

It has been a pleasure welcoming back your children! They have been amazing considering the amount of time most of them have been away from school. I look forward to seeing them all tomorrow, in their PE kits!!

Thank you for your support,

Mrs Erasmus