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 15/11/24)

This week has been anti-bullying week. We've spoken in class about what bullying is, and discussed the definition from the Anti-Bullying Alliance: "The repetitive, intentional hurting of one person or group by another person or group, where the relationship involves an imbalance of power. Bullying can be physical, verbal or psychological. It can happen face-to-face or online."

We spoke about how we can take steps to stop bullying - not just this week, but every week. We discussed different scenarios focusing on respectful and disrespectful behaviour. We also thought about the importance of celebrating everyone's differences, which we'll continue this term as part of our RSHE work.

In maths, we've learnt strategies to help us with mental calculations involving 3-digit numbers. Next week we'll build on this knowledge by extending this to 4-digit numbers.

In English, we've been thinking about the purpose of adjectives, and how sometimes they don't add anything for the reader. For example: The rabbit ate the pointy, orange carrot. We know carrots are (usually!) orange and pointy, so those two adjectives aren't purposeful. We then had fun looking at examples where adjectives were purposeful, before writing our own.

A reminder to bring in any coin-filled Smarties tubes from the Smarties Challenge; thank you!

Homework

I've set a new homework on maths.co.uk. This is to consolidate some of our maths learning over the past couple of weeks.

We've been so impressed by the amazing progress children are making on Times Tables Rock Stars. This week's certificates will be presented on Monday - don't worry! Next week in class we'll continue to focus on the 6x table.

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