Maple Class

Welcome to Maple Class!

Mr N Kent (class teacher)

Mrs A Breeze (TA)

Mrs F Dawson (TA)

Welcome to Maple Class, home to Years 3 and 4 at Wickhambreaux.

Just as maple trees change beautifully with the seasons, we encourage the children to embrace change, lead by example, and learn from their mistakes. Our class saying, "Making mistakes is how we learn!", reflects our belief in growing stronger and more vibrant with each new challenge.

Mr Kent, Mrs Dawson and Mrs Breeze aim to make learning fun, accessible and memorable. We hope your child enjoys the new challenges and approaches to learning that Key Stage 2 has to offer.

On this page you will find links to useful documents and resources that will give you an insight into the Lower Key Stage 2 curriculum. The unit overviews give a summary of the units of work that we cover over the year. You can also read our latest class news and see photos of what we've been getting up to.

Latest Class News (updated 12/9/25)

It’s been a busy and creative week in Maple Class.

In English, we thought carefully about how to describe the protagonist of our book, Marcy. We started with a mind map, used a thesaurus to find synonyms for adjectives, and then wrote detailed character descriptions.

In maths, we’ve been multiplying and dividing by 100. We discovered some helpful generalisations: to multiply a whole number by 100, place two zeros after the final digit; to divide a multiple of 100 by 100, remove the final two zeros from the tens and ones places.

In art, we looked at the work of modern Egyptian artist Hossam Dirar, focusing on patterns, and began designing our own Egyptian headdresses. Next week, we’ll turn them into collages.

In history, we learnt about the uses and dangers of the River Nile for the Ancient Egyptians. In computing, Year 3 designed their own digital devices, considering input, process and output, while Year 4 explored how the internet is a network of networks.

In RE, we explored God’s covenant in the story of Noah’s Ark. In RSHE, we played a “guess the emotion” game of charades to explore feelings and practised identifying and understanding emotions, learning what empathy really means.

It’s also been a rewarding week in class! The children earned several class leaves for the reward tree, as well as a number of individual golden leaves for fantastic work, effort and attitude.

Homework

This week's homework is on maths.co.uk. This covers multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100. All login details can be found on the inside cover of your child's reading record.

Our spelling lessons will begin next week; in the meantime, practising high frequency words (list at bottom of this page) is really helpful.

All the children have now had a chance to play on TTRS, and we handed out the first certificates of the year this week. Regular practice at home is really beneficial: just 3–5 minutes, 4 or 5 times a week, makes a real difference!