Welcome Back and Welcome to Maple Class!

 

It is an absolute pleasure to welcome the children into their new classroom this week and welcome to you all. I look forward to meeting you all soon.

This week we will be focusing on settling in to our new class, agreeing rules and expectations, and just getting used to being upstairs in KS2!

During this week, we will focus our learning on the Secret Sky Garden, a book by Linda Sarah and Fiona Lumbers. We will use this as a basis for a number of different activities. In our English sessions, we aim to create our own poems, linked to the book, and we will be creating art around the theme too.

Guided reading this week will begin with The Hodgeheg by Dick King Smith, starting with whole class reading to build familiarity, and then using questions to discuss the narrative and language features. The children will then complete independent work to confirm their understanding of the text.

In Maths this week we will be focusing on place value, revisiting some year 2 concepts, including representing numbers to 100, and tens and ones using addition. Times tables will be an ongoing feature, with the children completing a times table challenge each week.

Mrs Johnson will be teaching our RE this year, on a Wednesday afternoon, and starting with People of God and what it is like to follow God.

Mrs Tompsett will be working with the class on Friday afternoons, completing the weekly spelling test (not this week though!) and following the science and Modern Foreign Languages curriculum. They will be doing French this year, and hopefully will enjoy this as much as last year’s class.

Maple class have PE on Mondays and Thursdays, and both sessions will be with myself and Mr Luckhurst.

Although homework will not commence until next week, Reading Records will come home this week and will generally be changed on a Monday and Thursday. We would 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. The books coming home initially will be based on advice from the Year 2 team. However, we do understand that children progress at different rates during the summer holidays, so pleased do contact me if you feel your child’s book is either too easy or too difficult.

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