We have a really exciting start to this week! First thing on Monday morning we will be taking part in a puppetry workshop with ‘The Zoo that comes to you’. This should be great fun and compliments our puppet making too.

This week in English, we will be writing our own stories, based on our key text, ‘Cinderella of the Nile’ by Beverley Naidoo.

In guided reading this week, we will continue reading The BFG together.  Each week, the children will investigate the vocabulary and answer questions about comprehension and composition.

In Maths this week we are continuing to look at money, investigating adding and subtracting pounds and pence, and finding change. Times tables learning will continue throughout the week, with opportunities for the children to practise their tables and complete a times table challenge

In art this week, the children will hopefully be finishing painting their pigeons, these are looking fabulous and I will share photos soon. We will also be continuing our new Ancient Egyptian topic, looking at what life was like for the people of that time.

Mrs Johnson will continue with the Kingdom of God unit in RE, making links between ideas about the Kingdom of God explored in the Bible and what people believe about following God in the world today. Mrs Hawker will be continuing the forces and magnetism unit in science, this week completing a magnet bottle maze.

Maple class have PE on Thursday with myself and Mr Luckhurst, and then swimming on Friday as usual. Please do email if you have any questions about this and remember to send your children in with everything they need for these sessions. If in doubt please do ask.

Reading Records will continue to be changed generally on a Monday and Thursday. We would continue to ask however, that children bring their books and Reading Records in to school each day and that they aim to read daily, ideally with an adult – details of this can then be recorded in the Reading Record. A number of children have said they have lost their reading record, so if this is the case, please do email on the class email, and will arrange for a new record to be issued.

I am always happy to answer any questions you may have, so please do contact me if you have any queries, using the class email address:

maple@st-barnabas.kent.sch.uk

Best wishes

Mrs Smallcombe and the Maple Team