Maple
Welcome to the Maple Class!
Dream Big, Dare to Fail!
Welcome to the Orchard Primary Academy Maple Class Page. We hope that you find the information on this page useful. If you have any further questions please speak to a member of Reception Staff.
Our Class name is:
'Maple'
The Maple Classroom can be found in the Early Years Building.
At Orchard Primary Academy, play is at the heart of everything we do within the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Play comes instinctively to children. Play is fun, immersive and crucial to child development. Children challenge themselves through play, explore how the world works, work through emotions and learn that other people have thoughts and feelings too.
Through play, children develop the characteristics to be able to thrive and become life long learners.
Important Information
Maple Class PE Day: Monday and Tuesday
On this day, children can come to school in their PE kits for the whole day.
Please ensure your children has the following PE kit -
- Plain white T- shirt or polo shirt
- Plain black shorts (on warm days)
- Plain black track-suit bottoms (on colder days)
- Trainers or pumps.
On PE day, children need to pack a spare jumper/ hoody for colder days or in case the weather becomes colder throughout the day.
White PE T-shirts with the Orchard Logo are available to order from: https://www.sptuniforms.co.uk/product-category/orchard-primary-academy/
Maple Library day is: Tuesday
The children will be able to select a book to bring home and share. Please ensure that this book comes back into school on the following Wednesday, to swap for another.
Each Friday, the children in Maple class will also receive a new home reading book. We suggest reading a few pages each night. Parents need to record home reading on our digital reading record - Boom Reader.
Click on the Boom Reader logo below to take you to the parents log in page.
Key Dates
Monday 6th January - School open for all children.
Friday 7th February - NSPCC number day
Thursday 6th March - World Book Day
Staff
Mrs Birkett - Maple Class Teacher
Parental Partnerships
At Orchard Primary Academy we value parental partnership. We understand that an effective partnership between school and home will have a positive impact on children’s learning.
We communicate with parents in various ways which include Parent Mail, Twitter, Facebook and Tapestry.
Parent Mail
Parent Mail is an app which allows us to send text messages, and letters to share information. You can also use this to pay for milk, trips and dinners. We will use your email address to activate your account.
Our Academy twitter account is also used to share information. The Academy twitter handle is: @OrchardPrimaryA
The Maple Class twitter handle is:
@orchard_maple
You can also access the Reception twitter feed by clicking the image below:
The Academy Facebook page can be accessed by following the link below:
Tapestry
At Orchard Primary Academy, we use an online journal provider called ‘Tapestry’ to collect and store your child’s electronic ‘Learning Journey’.
Tapestry allows you to login with a secure username and password so that you can view photographs, videos and observations of your child’s learning.
You can like and comment on observations that we add for your child. You can also add your own observations. Please click the image below to access Tapestry:
This half term we will be learning...
Our Topic this half term is called:
'Heroes and Villains'
- To be able to name and describe past super heroes such as Florence Nightingale
- To be able to recognise heroes within their local community
- To be able to describe settings using their 5 senses
- Identify and label basic parts of the body
- To know different factors that support health and wellbeing such as brushing your teeth
Author Focus
At Orchard Primary Academy we follow the 'Write Stuff' approach developed by Jane Considine during our Communication Language and Literacy lessons.
During this half term we use the FANTASTIC's Lenses to describe and order Plot Points by reading the following books.
This Term we will cover the stories: Life savers, Cops and robbers and Supertato. In Yr1 we will be writing a Non-chronological report, character descriptions, continuation of the story and a fact file. We will be focusing on the following key writing skills: Using capital letters, full stops, question marks, finger spaces, writing red words, handwriting and using Phonics in our writing. .
Reception: During this half term we will use the FANTASTIC's Lenses to describe and order Plot Points by reading the following books below, we will also start to chot words and begin to write dictated sentences using their phonics knowledge.
Nursery Rhyme Focus
At Orchard Primary Academy, we learn a range of Nursery Rhymes throughout our time in the Early Years. Nursery Rhymes are important as they help us to develop key skills. This includes:
- Learning new words and extending our vocabulary
- Learning early Maths skills such as counting aloud using finger movements and actions
- Developing social skills such as turn taking
- Learning different beats and rhythms
- Develop positive relationships between children and adults.
This half term we will be focusing upon learning these Nursery Rhymes
Click on the videos to listen to the rhymes and songs.
Read Write Inc Phonics
We use a teaching programme called Read Write Inc. (RWI) to teach our children to read and spell. In RWI lessons, the children are taught new sounds and these progress from set 1 - 3.
Children learn to read words by sound-blending using a frog called Fred. Fred says the sounds and children help him blend the sounds to read each word. We call this 'Fred Talk'. Children also learn to read red words on sight. Red words are words that cannot be segmented or blended.
Each Thursday, the Reception children will receive Phonics Home Learning in orange home learning books and QR codes to scan with a phone or tablet which will help your child practise their phonic learning at home.
This will focus on a particular letter/ grapheme that has been taught.
Mathematics
At Orchard Primary Academy we follow the NCETM Mastery Mathematics Approach. During the Spring 1half term we will focusing on the following Maths skills:
- Counting to 10 and beyond.
- Reading numerals and creating a set to match.
- Looking at the composition of 5 and the pairs of numbers that add up to 5.
- Beginning to look at number bonds to 10.
- Counting sets and recording a numeral to match.
Links to try at home
Please click the images below to follow the link to the websites
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