Maple class - Spring 2, week 3
Date: 13th Mar 2026 @ 10:02pm
This week we read the story of Tad by Benji Davies and learnt about the lifecycle of a frog. We ordered the lifecycle of a frog, thinking about the words ‘frogspawn’, ‘tadpole’, ‘froglet’ and ‘frog’. Some of the children chose to retell the life cycle of a frog through role play. They were able to clearly explain each stage they were portraying. We have also enjoyed being creative this week making models, stories and paintings during explore and learn.
In phonics this week we learnt two new trigraphs (one sound containing 3 letters) – ‘ear’ (hear, beard, fear) and ‘air’ (pair, fair, chair). We enjoyed playing word games to reinforce our level 3 sounds we have been learning since Christmas.
In maths we have been segmenting 7. We used counters, numicon and objects. We are getting really confident in our maths work! We have also been thinking about creating sequences and used the beebots to create sequences to move the beebots.
In RE this week we thought about why the cross is special to Christians. We read the rest of the Easter story and learnt what happened when Jesus died. We then made our own crosses in Forest School, ensuring we found the correct length sticks to use.
We have been very busy with Mothers Day activities – we won’t spoil the surprises, but the children all loved getting creative for you.
In PSED we read the story Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson and thought about what we look like.
Friday we had such an exciting morning at Abbey Home Farm. Thank you so much to Joey’s mum, who showed us around and also to Will, who let us look at all the exciting things that have been found on the farm, including a woolly mammoth’s tooth, badger skulls, old coins and other artifacts discovered using a metal detector and also how tools are made from flint. Ottilie even managed to cut some rope using a flint. We tasted lots of different things grown on the farm including marigold petals, purslane, kale and rocket. We explored the large greenhouse and polytunnels, saw where the cows are milked – and even got to drink some fresh milk – it was delicious. We also enjoyed seeing the cows and feeding them silage. On the way to visit the cows we all climbed over the gate – even Mrs Cordell and Mrs Duffey!
Upon returning to school we dressed as scientists and enjoyed a scientific workshop with Miss Jackson where we discovered how raisins can dance in water, and explored colour mixing with skittles.
Well done to Rogan, Olivia, Elsie and Arlo who all received certificates in our celebration assembly this week.
Have a lovely weekend.
