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Year 3 & 4 Marvellous Maples and Jolly Junipers
Marvellous Maples and Jolly Junipers
Staff
Marvellous Maples Teacher: Miss Delaney
Teaching Assistant: Miss Allison
Jolly Junipers Teacher: Miss O’Connor
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Page & Miss Cooke
Marvellous Maples
Classrooms
Our classrooms are well organised to promote the children’s independence and to ensure the best from all of our children. Both classrooms have working walls for English and Maths to aid the children with their work. We also have Topic boards where we proudly display the children’s work and photographs of their learning.
Jolly Junipers
Classroom
Every class has one school councilor that represent their class at school council meetings. They will share ideas their class have, make decisions and action change driven by the children. They will then feedback these improvements to the rest of their class.
School Councillor for Marvellous Maples
Jastin
School Councillor for Jolly Junipers
Barbora
Every class has two Dojo Masters. The Dojo Masters demonstrate our FIRSY values each day and help support their peers to represent these values too. Also, they will greet visitors in school, welcome them into our classrooms and explain what the learning within class.
Dojo Masters – Marvellous Maples
Joshua and Semra
Dojo Masters – Jolly Junipers
Riyansh and Divine
Eco Councillor – Marvellous Maples
Shenil
Eco Councillor – Jolly Junipers
Jan
Throughout this topic, we will learn …
History – how monarchy has changed in Britain over time
Science and D&T – electricity
RE – Hindus in Britain today
MFL – German
PE- Invasion games
Art – wire sculptures
Quality Text
Our quality text this term:
The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan
Experiences
Our Memorable Experience:
This half term, we will have a visit from Past Productions (Kings and Queens: Queen Victoria and Elizabeth I)
Quality text - Beowulf
Hook
The Hook
Experiences
Our Experience:
Quality Text
Our key text this term:
Hook
The Hook
Experience
Our Experience:
Matale comes to supper
Focus text
Hook
The Hook
Experiences
Our Experience:
Jack and the Beanstalk
Our key text this term:
Hook
The Hook
Experiences
Our Experience:
Things You Need To Know
Key Dates
Home learning will help children to practice skills and consolidate knowledge learnt at school. Children will have a Topic Home Learning Grid where they can choose activities to complete throughout the half term. You can share pictures of these on Class Dojo.
For Marvellous Maples and Jolly Junipers, weekly home learning for English and Maths will be given to the children on Friday and must be returned to school by the following Thursday.
Home learning club is available at lunch time if your child wishes to attend or requires extra support to complete their home learning.
If children are struggling or you are unsure how to support your child, please message Miss O’Connor or Miss Delaney on Class Dojo.
Maples PE lesson- Thursday
Junipers PE lesson- Friday
Please ensure your child comes to school with their PE kit in a bag. Children should have hair tied back if it is long enough. To keep children safe, make sure your child is not wearing any jewellery on PE days.
Here are some useful websites that you might want to visit to support your child’s learning.
Autumn 1
22nd and 23rd October – Past Productions workshop.
European Day of Languages: 26th September
Black History Month: October
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Albanian
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Czech
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Kurdish (Kurmanji)
Latvian
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Slovak
Spanish
Urdu
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