Teachers: Miss Scrivener
Teaching Assistant: Miss Wood
Email: hscrivener@wellandps.org.uk
Welcome to the Maple Class page. Here is a little snapshot of life in our classroom. Keep checking in to see new and exciting updates on what we get up to.
PE - On Thursday. Please send your child to school in their PE kit.
Homework - Set every Friday and due the following Thursday. We are currently using the Year 2 CGP books.
Reading - If your child needs a new book, remind them to ask an adult in class and we will help them choose a new one. We ask that children read at last four times a week at home please. Your child's book number will be assessed using the Accelerated Reader diagnostic assessment at least half termly.
We like to keep things routined and structured in Maple class. Each morning will look the same for the children. They come into class and are welcomed by their teachers. At their desk is an activity to start the day., the activity focus is different each day. You can find out more about our curriculum below.
Our English time is broken up into a 60 minute English lesson and a shorter spelling, punctuation and grammar lesson or reading comprehension lesson. In English, we love learning by reading and responding to a variety of books. We enjoy, soak in and respond to texts before building the skills to produce pieces of writing inspired by what we have read. Sometimes we use drama, computing or music to bring our learning to English learning to life. In Maple Class, we write to entertain and inform.
This term we are writing to Entertain. We have focused our learning around the book 'The Library Lion'. The children worked to create a prequel to the story and decided on where they thought the Lion might have been before he visited the Library that day. The children came up with some wonderful ideas and turned them into a little prequel chapter book.
In mathematics, we work through small steps to ensure we build an excellent understanding of all areas of the curriculum. We use a variety of resources and apparatus to help us learn. We work really hard to make our reasoning clearer and we enjoy problem solving to really stretch ourselves. We also love using mathematics skills in the afternoons, especially in science, art and design technology. Fluency sessions help us improve our approach to calculations, and we enjoy discussing how we solved problems and which methods are most efficient.
In the afternoons, children are immersed in a range of foundation subjects: Geography, History, PSHE, Art, Design and Technology, Computing, P.E, R.E, and Music. We also dip our toes into a little bit of French in preparation for learning it as our modern foreign language in KS2.