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 (updated4/10/24)

This week saw us celebrate National Poetry Day! We wrote concrete (shape) poems in class, and enjoyed poetry in our afternoon 'book club'. Well done to those children who recited poems as part of the sponsored poetry event. We've also written harvest acrostic poems to decorate Ickham Church for their Harvest Festival this Sunday, and Wickhambreaux Church for our own Harvest Festival on 16 October.

Our spelling focus has been words with the /ay/ sound, written using ei, eigh and ey.

In maths we're now exploring the composition of 3-digit numbers in depth.

We looked at how we can partition 3-digit numbers as additive and multiplicative equations. For example: 342 = 300 + 40 + 2, and 342 = 3 x 100 + 4 x 10 + 2 x 1

In computing, Year 3s have been learning about how computers are connected. Today we built a model of a network in class, and learnt about the role of the switch, server and wireless access point.

Homework

Next week we'll be revisiting the 2x tables, working on instant recall of these facts. Well done to all those children who received a rock status this week! To get a rock status, you need to play Studio at least 10 times.

There is also a new homework set on maths.co.uk, related to partitioning 3-digit numbers.

Have a lovely weekend!

Check out the gallery below to see some photos from this week!