Learning in Maple Class
Welcome back to Maple Class for Summer Term 2025
About our class
Maple class is taught by Miss Searle, Monday to Thursday and Mr Lewis on a Friday.
Mrs Bufton works within the class all week. Miss Evans also works mornings in our class. That is the Maple Team!
We also have two volunteers: Judy Balderson with Kerry (our therapy dog) come in on a Monday to support reading and Nikki Thomas (who is completing a Teaching and Learning in Schools Level 2 course) most Wednesdays.
PE is on a Thursday and this term it will be outside, so trainers are needed. Please try and leave PE kits in school as they may be needed at other times. We will begin by doing striking skills and then athletics.
Values Education. (We think about these values alongside our PSHE lessons and our assemblies)
April – Kindness
May - Honesty
June - Determination
July - Modesty
Curriculum Plans
See our Long-Term Plans Year B to find out what we are studying across the curriculum this year.
English
We are following Twinkl Phonics to learn our sounds and develop a range of reading skills and writing.
On a Monday Level 5 and 6 complete a spelling quiz which reflects the sounds they have been learning during the week. We also look at their homework.
Children have their home school phonics book (yellow) in their book bag that should contain their look cover write check sheet to help them practice their sounds.
Children should also usually get a mini-book on Thursdays that helps them consolidate their sounds and tricky words and develop their understanding. Please read this at home.
Rhino Reader books will be changed weekly on a Wednesday. They will be given out in the second week of term. These books link into the phonics sounds that the children have been taught so that they can practice sounding and blending. They are designed to be read more than once so that the phonic sounds are consolidated.
This term in English lessons we will be looking at the work of the author Lauren Child. Nonfiction texts will include interviews with animals. We will be reading and writing quest stories and reading poems about happiness. Each week we cover grammar and comprehension.
Maths
We will study place value, number, fractions and money including:
- Count 2s, 3s, 5s, 10s: multiples of 2,5,10
- Count in fractions; fractions of amounts
- How to find amounts of money
- 2- & 3-digit numbers on line; round to 10
- Place value in 3-digit numbers
We will study addition and subtraction including:
- Add by partitioning or counting on
- Choose strategies to subtract
We will study fractions and time including:
- Fractions of amounts: count in fractions
- Tell digital and analogue time confidently
We will study division and multiplication including:
- Understand multiplication as sets
- Understand doubles/halves to 20
We will also be developing a deeper understanding using mathematical investigations including problem solving.
We will be investigating number, logic and shape puzzles and maths games.
We will be revising addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions, time and measure, data handling and shape to finish the final term in Key Stage 1.
Learning at home.
We encourage all children to read at home at least 3 times a week. We give stamps as a reward for reading and count up how many times they have read from the reading diaries. Please read the Rhino Readers and the Let’s Read mini books (as well as other texts).
Phonics homework for Level 5 and 6 consists of writing out their weekly spellings. For Maths, please continue to count in 2,5 and 10 and then learn these tables. As well as telling the time.
Maple Class Plans
Expectations in Mathematics for Year 1