Welcome to Maple Class for Summer Term 2026
About our class
Welcome back to school. Hope you have all had a good break.
This term, Maple class will continue to be taught by Miss Searle, Monday to Thursday and Mr Lewis on a Friday.
Mrs Bufton works within the class every morning and some afternoons.
That is the Maple Team for the Summer Term. Please come and see us or get in touch if you have any queries at all.
We also continue to have two volunteers: Judy Balderson with Kerry (our therapy dog) and they come to support reading most Mondays. Nicky Thomas (who is completing a Teaching and Learning in Schools, Level 2 course) joins us most Wednesdays.
Curriculum Plans
See our Long-Term Plans, Year A (on the school’s website), to find out what we are studying across the curriculum this year. Below is an over view of this term’s curriculum.
PE is every Thursday afternoon with Mr Cox and this term it will be outside learning striking skills and athletics, (so PE will be outside.) Please try and leave PE kits in school as they may be needed at other times, especially leading up to sports day. PE will either be taught by Mr Cox or Miss Searle.
Forest school will be every Thursday morning. On Forest School days children come to school dressed for Forest School, (long sleeved tops and long trousers with appropriate footwear and rain/sun wear), and if they would like, they can change into other clothing when they get back to school.
Values of the month. (These values are the focus for our assemblies and are reinforced during PSHE lessons).
April – Generosity
May – Truthfulness
June - Commitment
July - Friendliness
PSHE lessons will focus on Health and Wellbeing. After half term our focus will change to Positive Thinking where we will discuss It’s My Body.
Science focus is on identifying, classifying and naming animals. After half term the focus will be on Our Bodies and Our Senses.
Computing
On Line Safety learning this term is:
Privacy and Security
Practically, we will look at creating digital music and programming quizzes.
History focus is on famous people: significant explorers.
Geography focus is called Our Country. It involves the study of the UK including its oceans and seas.
Design and Technology learning is textiles creating fabric faces.
Art focus is on sketching faces and then on the artist study of Andy Goldsworthy (digital art with nature). We will be creating sculptures and weaving using natural resources.
Music focus is learning create music on garage band and then listening, appraising and performing following simple composition.
RE focus is based on Christianity and how the world began. Leading on to how we should care for the world.
English
We follow Twinkl Phonics to learn our sounds and develop a range of reading skills and writing skills. Monday morning children complete a spelling quiz which reflects the sound they have been learning during the week before and is part of their homework. Children have home school phonics books (red) in their book bag that contain the look, cover, write, check sheet to help them practice their sounds.
Children receive a Let’s Read mini book each week which helps them consolidate their sounds and tricky words that they have been learning that week. They also develop comprehension skills.
Rhino Reader books will be changed weekly on a Wednesday. These books link into the phonics sounds that the children have already 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.
In daily lessons we will study texts which will include,
Fiction – a study of contemporary picture books.
Non-fiction – recounts and interviews with incredible animals.
Poetry: poems on the theme of animals.
Grammar is taught in both phonics sessions and daily class lessons. This term we will focus on capital letters and full stops in sentences, identifying nouns, noun phrases, different types of sentences and subordination and coordination conjunctions.
Handwriting focus will be the curly caterpillar (f, q and o) and the zig zag monster family (z, v, w and x) linking in with Twinkl phonics.
Maths
In Maths we will be building on learning from Reception and Year 1. This will include:
We will study place value including:
- Place Value in 2-digit numbers
- Add and subtract 1-digit numbers using patterns
- Number bonds to 10 and complements to 10s numbers
- Adding three numbers
We will study addition and subtraction including:
- Revision of addition and subtraction strategies
- Bridging 10 and counting up subtraction (money)
- Finding totals
- Finding change
We will study measures including:
- Comparing and measuring lengths
- Compare and measure weight
- Measure and represent capacity
We will study shape, time and data including:
- Exploring shape properties of 2D and 3D shapes
- Telling the time
- Units of time (including data handling)
We will also be developing an understanding of fractions and multiplication including:
- Doubling and halving
- Multiplication and division
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 count forward and back working towards 20, 50 then 100.