Maple Class

We are the Maple Reception Class at Orchard Primary Academy. Have a look at our learning where we ‘Dream Big and Dare to Fail!’

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We are practising counting out a set to match a numeral and then challenging our partner to check our count using 1 to 1 correspondance. 🎃 #MathsatOrchard @TeamPastoral @OrchardPrimaryA

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We have been learning all about different homes, today we are drawing our own representations of the bears cave home from our focus English book and describing what it might feel like to live there. #EnglishatOrchard @OrchardPrimaryA

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What a start to Monday! We are busy choosing our learning in our provision based around ‘ Home is where the heart is’. We are creating our own hare and bear characters, counting autumn treasure and investigating musical instruments to create an Autumn storm. @OrchardPrimaryA

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Today in our topic session we have been investigating different materials, hunting for them in our class environment and learning how and why different materials are used to construct the houses we live in. #STEMlearning @OrchardPrimaryA

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Thank you to all the parents and carers who came to our bed time story day, celebrating our love of reading at Orchard. 📚 📕 @TeamPastoral @OrchardPrimaryA #ReadingatOrchard

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We really enjoyed yesterdays local walk around our local area. We spotted lots of the local features and buildings that we have been talking about in our topic sessions and drawing on maps. #TopicatOrchard @OrchardPrimaryA @TeamPastoral

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We are busy in the mark making area this morning, creating our own maps and having a go at practising today’s new phonic sound. #PhonicsatOrchard @OrchardPrimaryA

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We really enjoyed our lunch with the teachers day! It was delicious and great to chat together! @TeamPastoral @OrchardPrimaryA @IOrchardpa

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We are starting a very rainy Monday learning about how our brain works with ‘ Our Happy Mind’. We have learnt that sometimes our brains need a rest and had a try at calm breathing techniques! @TeamPastoral @OrchardPrimaryA

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Enjoying our French 🇫🇷 themed provision for this mornings world languages day! #Worldlanguageday @TeamPastoral @OrchardPrimaryA

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Tower building challenges in provision today linked to our building a home book. We managed a tower of 10 before it toppled. Lots of brilliant discussions around how to make it stronger and lots of opportunities for counting! #STEMlearning @OrchardPrimaryA @TeamPastoral

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We are enjoying looking at maps of our local area in provision and creating our local streets with the familiar buildings of Chickenley. We are enjoying talking about what we pass on our daily journey to school. @OrchardPrimaryA @TeamPastoral #UTW

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We are enjoying this weeks counting song - 5 little men in a 🛸 flying saucer! We are now able to sing it independently and take away one spaceman at a time! #MathsatOrchard @OrchardPrimaryA

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Thank you to parents and carers who came to share lunch with their children today. We really enjoyed sharing a delicious lunch with you! 🤩Thank you to our wonderful catering staff 🙏🤩@OrchardPrimaryA @TeamPastoral

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We are practising our shape names and talking about the properties of the shapes in our provision this morning. The children have enjoyed making real life representations. #MathsatOrchard @OrchardPrimaryA @TeamPastoral

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As part of our topic work about houses and homes we are being architects this morning! We are designing and building our own brick houses! 🏠 #STEMlearning @OrchardPrimaryA @TeamPastoral

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Singing and counting in our maths lesson today and representing an amount on our fingers! 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆We were superstars 🤩@MathsatOrchard @TeamPastoral @TeamPastoral

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Our new topic is ‘Our homes’. Today in our topic session we have been talking about what are houses and homes look like and having a go at painting our own representations of them for our class street display board! #EAD @OrchardPrimaryA @TeamPastoral

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We have been enjoying creating loose parts faces in provision today. @TeamPastoral @OrchardPrimaryA

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What a brilliant first week back in Maple we have had! We have settled in so well and I am feeling so proud of each and everyone of our children! 🤩🤩🤩@OrchardPrimaryA @TeamPastoral