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 parents/carers too. 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 ‘The Tree and the River’, a wordless book by Aaron Becker. 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.

Whole Class reading this week will begin with us sharing some poems and agreeing a text to accompany ‘The Tree and the River’, this will build familiarity, and then we will use questions to discuss the narrative and language features. The children will then complete independent work to confirm their understanding of the text/poems.

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 Banner will be teaching our RE this year, on Fridays, and will be starting with People of God and what it is like to follow God. In future weeks, Mrs Banner will also do a spelling test, computing and elements of the maths curriculum.

Maple class have PE on Mondays and swimming on Wednesday mornings, starting this week! They will need swimming costume/trunks, a towel, swimming cap - this is required by the swimming pool, and goggles (although these are optional). There will also be occasions when we do additional PE sessions, so please can the children have their kit in school all week.

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