This week Maple Class have started their science topic ‘animals including humans’. They have learnt about the digestive system and how our bodies digest different foods. They enjoyed drawing around a member of the group before drawing the digestive system and labeling it.
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Celebrating uniqueness week
Last week the whole school celebrated uniqueness. We discussed what this meant and that it is a positive to be different. On Tuesday, to celebrate, everyone wore odd socks. In Maple Class we collected data about the different socks that people had on and then made a bar chart. The most popular socks were plain. […]
Egyptian Day
Last Wednesday, Maple Class celebrated their learning about Ancient Egypt with an Egyptian day. The whole class enjoyed dressing up for the day. They made up their own short dance to ‘Walk like an Egyptian’ before performing it to the class. They then participated in various activities from pulling the brains out of Tutankhamun’s nostrils […]
Thank you Ben!
A big thank you to Ben for teaching us tennis skills for the last 8 weeks! Each week Maple class along with Willow, Beech and Oak class have had an hour session of tennis with Ben. They have learnt many skills including ball control, different racket drills and rally’s. Hopefully we will see you […]
Mummifying a tomato!
Picture of tomato in ‘natron’ and our comparison tomato Our mummified tomato compared to the normal tomato Maple class have been mummifying this tomato since 9th October (16 days!) and have looked at the tomato a couple of times to see the changes that have occurred. They have described the mummified tomato as shriveled, crumpled, […]
Mummification!
This week we have been looking at the mummification process and why the Egyptians did this. We are conducting two different experiments to help us understand the process. Mouldy bread We have placed a slice of bread in a bag with sand. One bag has dry sand and the other has damp said. We have […]
Making a map of Egypt
This morning, Maple Class studied a map of Egypt. They had to identify and remember the border, the seas, cities, the River Nile and other monuments as they were making their own map. Step 1: the children had to work as a team, using masking tape, to create the Egyptian border. They then […]
Maple Class – Curriculum Autumn term 19
Please click the link below to open Maple Class curriculum letter Maple Autumn 2019
Roman Day!
Maple Class had an energetic and enjoyable day on Tuesday to start of our topic on the Romans. The children learnt a lot and were very enthusiastic about their experience. First, the children explored the dramatic change in the lifestyle of the Romans following the arrival of the Roman legions, took a tour through a […]
Maple Class – Curriculum Summer Term 2019
Summer term has arrived. Where has the time gone? A big welcome to the Year 3’s from Beech class. It’s great to have you with us in Maple Class and I hope that you are looking forward to an exciting Summer Term. Learning This first half term English will be taught based on the book […]