Term 2, week 1

This week in Maple Class:

On Thursday morning, we are going to the Trinity Theatre to watch a film. We will be back in time for lunch, but please send your child in with suitable footwear and a coat. It would also be useful if they had a small bag to carry their water bottles in.

English

This week we will continue our unit based on the book Stone Age Boy, by Satoshi Kitamura. The children will be completing research to prepare their statements and questions for the debate. If time allows, we will be doing the debate later in the week.

Whole Class Reading

We will be reading Leon and the Place Between. The children will work independently, in groups and as a whole class, to look at the vocabulary, retrieve information and make inferences about the text.

Maths

This week, we will continue the second unit, Addition and Subtraction. We will be adding ones across a ten and tens across a hundred.

Time and Place

We will continue the Stone Age to Iron Age topic this week, considering how life changed for people during the Bronze Age.

Science

Mrs Banner will be starting the next unit, looking at light.

Computing

This week we will begin developing stop-frame animation.

RE

This week we are starting the Incarnation Unit, investigating God coming to earth in Jesus, and the concept of Gospel — the good news of God’s rescue plan for humanity.

Art

We will finish our collage portraits.

PE

This week we are continuing the hockey unit. Please make sure to send your child in with a PE kit and water bottle.

Reading Records and Homework

Reading records need to be in school on a Monday and Thursday. If your child wants to change their book on another day, we will do our best to accommodate this. Homework books will be sent out on Tuesdays and need to be returned the following Monday. If you have any questions about this, or any part of the homework, please email the class email address.

If you have any questions, at any point in the year, please email the class email: maple@st-barnabas.kent.sch.uk. For any urgent messages, please email the main office email.

Kind regards

Mrs Smallcombe and the Maple Team