maple class Blog

• Friday 6 March 2026 Maple World Book Day On Thursday we celebrated World Book Day and came to school dressed as a character in a book or in snuggly clothes ready for a bedtime story.
• Wednesday 4 March 2026 Maple Performance Poetry On Wednesday, for our annual performance poetry competition, Maple performed 'Walking with my Iguana' by Brian Moses, in front of the whole school and 3 invited judges.
• Wednesday 11 February 2026 Anglo-Saxon Printing This term, we have been learning all about the Anglo-Saxons. We learnt about different Anglo-Saxon artifacts, such as shields, coins and brooches.
• Friday 30 January 2026 Maple brass lessons Maple are having a brilliant time in Music learning how to play the cornet with Mr Storer. Only 3 weeks in and we have already mastered how to play the notes C and D, as well as learning how to read music notation.
• Wednesday 28 January 2026 Maple exploring sound In Science, we have been learning how sound is made and how sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases. Today we used string telephones to help us learn that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear. When we spoke to our partner in a normal voice across the playground we couldn't hear what they were saying, but when we spoke through the string telephone we could! The sound vibrations travelled though the string (medium) to reach our partner's ears.
• Tuesday 6 January 2026 Micro:bits Today was an exciting day in Maple Class. We were learning to use our new micro:bits - a pocket-sized computer designed to inspire creative thinking. We learned the different parts of the micro:bits and how to connect them to the laptops.
• Friday 19 December 2025 Christmas in Maple What fantastic Christmas activities we have enjoyed - we are well and truly in the festive spirit! A huge thank you to School Association for giving us the opportunity to some secret shopping for our families and to Emma in the kitchen for making our delicious Christmas lunch. Our Worship Committee led our Advent service in the Church brilliantly and the choir sounded amazing in the Church and at the opening of the Christmas fair.
• Tuesday 16 December 2025 Christmas Crafts 2025 We had great fun today making different crafts. Some us made paper angels, while others made wool baubles or paper wreaths.
• Thursday 4 December 2025 Maple Music What a fantastic morning of music we had with Mrs Sewell! We listened to and appraised 'Mamma Mia' and identified the different instruments used. We clapped out the 4 beat rhythm and then using G and A on the glockenspiels we played along.
• Monday 1 December 2025 Beauty and the Beast Last week, our whole school took a trip to Chipping Norton Theatre to watch a pantomime production of Beauty and the Beast. We had an amazing time! Maple Class were excellent ambassadors for our school throughout the trip. Thank you to all the helpers who joined us and to Mrs Bradley for organising us all!
• Monday 1 December 2025 Advent To celebrate the start of advent, the children transformed our classroom into a room full a Christmassy joy and cheer.
• Monday 10 November 2025 Odd Socks Day! Thank you to all the children who came in today wearing odd socks.
• Sunday 2 November 2025 Extreme Earth Bubble Homework Well done to all the children who chose to complete our Autumn 1 bubble homework. I was so impressed by all the work that the children put into their creations.
• Friday 24 October 2025 Maple Harvest Service Thank you Maple, you led our harvest service brilliantly and thank you to everyone for your very generous donations to the food bank.
• Tuesday 14 October 2025 Maple Life Education We had a super ‘It's Great to be Me!' Life Education session with Tom. He taught us all about what's inside our bodies and what we need to stay alive (water, oxygen, sleep, food and exercise). We then thought about the things that we needed to stay happy and healthy and the importance of time to connect with others. We met Harold the giraffe and went with him on a screen free day with his friends to the theme park. At the theme park, we blasted off on a rocket to space where we met a strange race of aliens where all of them were exactly the same. We decided that life is much better when everyone is unique and when we celebrate our differences!
• Thursday 9 October 2025 Maple tag rugby with Dylan We are really enjoying our tag rugby lessons with Dylan this half term. We have started putting our skills into action in games.
• Friday 19 September 2025 School Council Elections Last week we heard some fantastic pitches from our very brave children who wanted to put themselves forward to be on this year's School Council. On Friday, everyone in the class got to vote who they thought would be a great representative. We popped our votes into the ballot box – just like a real election! The results we announced at the end of the day in Celebration Assembly. Well done to everyone who put themselves forward!

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