Maple class

Welcome to Maple Class. 

A warm welcome to Maple Class. We are a mixed aged class of year 2, year 3 and year 4 children. Our classroom is located next to the playground gate entrance. We follow the school rules: ready, respectful and safe.

The class is taught by Mr Bennett and our teaching assistants Mrs Glyn-Jones and Mrs Fulbrook-Smith.

Mr Bennett

Teacher: Mr Bennett

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Glyn-Jones and Mrs Fulbrook-Smith

Please speak to any of us if there is anything we can do to help your child with their learning.

General information

Our PE days this term are Mondays and Thursdays.

Home Learning

Each week the children will be asked to learn some spellings and times tables at home. In Maple class, we have a big focus on learning our times tables, ready for the year 4 Multiplication Tables Check (MTC). Therefore, each week the children will be asked to play some games in ttrockstars at home in order to practise their times tables. You can log into ttrockstars here. 

Maple class love to read! Please hear your child read 3 times at home to help them develop their fluency, accuracy and comprehension skills.

Curriculum topics

We love to be fun and creative in Maple class. For more information about our class curriculum, please see our long term plan below.

Term 4

This term we have been learning about light in our science lessons. We enjoyed putting up the dark tent and testing whether objects were transparent, translucent, or opaque.

In our English we have written descriptive settings. Some of us wrote our descriptions based on our book, ‘The Last bear’ by Hannah Gold, and others of us decided to change the setting from the arctic to somewhere else. On world book day we enjoyed creating our own potato characters and wrote stories based either on our potato character or on the character we came dressed as! We created a potato town for our characters!

In DT we enjoyed sewing our own hand puppets!

Term 3

This term we have been learning about the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. We loved our visit to Stonehenge and have created our own visitor guides to the site.

In Art we have created our own Stone Age paintings, trying to put across a Stone Age message. We enjoyed painting with sticks, leaves and feathers!

In DT we enjoyed stewing some different fruits to create our own fruit mixes. We enjoyed tasting these and using them to paint with!

Term 2

Term 2 has been lots of fun! We have enjoyed our topic on dragons, which has led to us doing lots of creative things in art and DT. In our DT we designed our own dragon traps. They had to appeal to dragons in order to lure them in.

In our English we focused on using expanded noun phrases to create some amazing dragon descriptions.

In art we learnt to create the secondary colours using the primary colours and then we drew our own colourful dragon eyes. We then transformed our amazing dragon eyes into 3D using clay.

Term 1

This term we have been learning about the Ancient Greeks. We have enjoyed learning about the Gods and what they believed in. We created our own social media page for our favourites, explaining what they liked and what they spent their time doing.

In our science lessons we have been learning about Skeletons and have learnt lots of names of the bones in our bodies. Did you know there are 27 bones in the hand? We enjoyed making our own working models of our hands. In art we have enjoyed learning about Pablo Picasso and have created our own cubism portraits.