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Marvellous Maples and Jolly Junipers 2020
Marvellous Maples Teacher: Miss G Steven
Marvellous Maples TA: Mrs K Allison
Jolly Junipers Teacher: Miss C Hodges
Jolly Junipers TA: Mrs S McCallum
Classroom
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.
Classroom
School Council
Every class has at least one school councillor to help share their classes’ views and make changes across the school.
School Councillor for Marvellous Maples
Zhewa
School Councillor for Jolly Junipers
Davids
Class Dojo Masters
Every class has at least 1 dojo master. The dojo masters help show visitors around school and explain what they are/have been doing in class.
Dojo Masters – Marvellous Maples
Dojo Masters – Jolly Junipers
Adriana
Patryk
Dominika
Robert
Our Curriculum
Click on the tabs below to find out more information about each topic. Throughout the year we will also add pictures of memorable experiences and hooks!
During this topic, the children will learn about the local history of Derby, focussing on the Silk Mill and the Cathedral. We will also be looking at the history of Graffiti produced by Banksy and Jean-Michael Basquiat.
Quality Text
The key text for this term is ‘The Lost Thing’.
It is a humorous story about a boy who discovers a bizarre-looking creature whilst out collecting bottle-tops at the beach. Having guessed that it is lost, he tries to find out who owns it or where it belongs, but the problem is met with indifference by everyone else, who barely notice it’s presence.
Throughout English, we will be focussing on character descriptions of the Lost Thing.
Experiences
We found a tiger!
We were out on the playground when we found something! We found a tiger with a sign around it’s neck saying ‘I am lost, please help me’ we immediately started looking around the playground for more clues and started asking questions…
”Where did it come from?” ”Where are it’s parents?” ”Is it hungry?”
Our topic this term focuses on the changes that happened in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. We will also be looking at Aboriginal art, how light behaves and handling data throughout the term.
Quality Text
The key text for this term is ‘The Caravan’ by Pie Corbett.
Pie Corbett’s atmospheric warning story is about a boy called Mitch who is warned not to play by the pylon. To his mum’s dismay Mitch and his friend goes to the pylon and finds a caravan. One afternoon a storm raged and they all jumped into the caravan. But then disaster struck as there was an enormous crash and the caravan roof crumpled in.
Hook
Our hooks of this term.
The Caravan – Hook 1
At the start of this term we focussed on our new topic or Tribal Tales. So for our hook we turned the lights off in the classroom and listened to a crackling fire on the interactive whiteboard. We sat on underneath our tables and we had a think about what it might have been like to be in a cave. We focussed on our five senses.
The Caravan – Hook 2
During this term we are going to be focussing on newspaper reports. For the hook in English, we watched a breaking news report on Newsround to deepen our understanding of how news is reported.
Experiences
Our Archaeology Experience!
On Wednesday 25th November we had an Archaeologist in to teach us all about the Stone Age. We took part in many activities such as:
- How long ago did the Stone Age happen?
- Weaving
- Grinding flour
- Making our own pots out of clay
- Finding and researching artefacts
- Putting together broken pots
We had such a great day. Have a look and see!
Jolly Junipers
Marvellous Maples
For the topic this term, we are going to be focussing on the Ancient Greek times. We will be looking at Electricity in science, Pandora’s box in art and design, E-safety in computing and ‘How can we reduce our use of electricity?’.
Quality Text
The key text for this term is ‘The Caravan’ by Pie Corbett.
Pie Corbett’s atmospheric warning story is about a boy called Mitch who is warned not to play by the pylon. To his mum’s dismay Mitch and his friend goes to the pylon and finds a caravan. One afternoon a storm raged and they all jumped into the caravan. But then disaster struck as there was an enormous crash and the caravan roof crumpled in.
Hook
The Caravan – Hook 3
For this term, we used our knowledge from the previous term of newspaper reports to have a go at our own newspaper report. For the hook of this lesson, we came in from playtime one day, and we had noticed that Miss Hodges’ classroom had been trashed. So we went in to inspect what had happened…
During our playlist topic this term, we are going to have a big focus on design and technology, where we will be making our own instruments for Drake. We are also going to be having a look at multimedia in computing, sound in science, and develop our map skills in geography.
Quality Text
Adventures at Sandy Cove
Imagine stumbling across hidden treasure the next time you are out on the beach or in the woods with your friends. What would you do? Open the treasure chest? Keep it all to yourself? Hand it in to the police? Show it to your family? I think we have probably all thought about this!
Our text this term is going to see what Joe and Rahul did in this situation.
Hook
Information on your hooks here. Upload images to the image gallery below.
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Experiences
Information on any memorable experiences here. Upload images to the image gallery below.
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Our topic this term is all about warriors…. Roman warriors!
We will have a focus in History about the Roman’s and how they changed Britain, with roads and city living. D & T we will be looking, designing, making and evaluating something the Roman’s were known well for, their armour! We will make our own shields and see how good they are in a well prepared, strategic battle on the playground.
King of the birds
King of the birds is a wishing tale following the dilemma of a farmer called Yan. We will be using Talk for writing to support our learning process to help build on what we already know to help use produced amazing wishing tale’s of our own.
Hook
For our English hook we watched a clip from Aladin where Aladin rubs the lamp and a genie appears….he gets to make a wish!!
We all had our own lamp and we had to decide if we got a wish, what would our wish be. Below are some of our wishes.
Experiences
We had a Roman Battle using our shields that we made in D & T!
Our topic this term is all about Predators!
We are going to be looking at animals and their habitats in science. We are also going to be starting a study of three places around the world: the Peak District, the Amazon Rainforest and the Amalfi Coast in Italy.
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack and the Beanstalk
Our text this term is Jack and the Beanstalk which is a traditional tale from many years ago. It is all about a little boy called Jack who climbs up an enormous beanstalk, he discovers a giants castle high up in the clouds. However, the giant likes to eat little boys…
Hook
For the hook of our book this term, we designed our own enormous castles and we planted some magic beans that we took home to grow!
Below are some photos of us planting them and our masterpieces.
Experiences
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Our Experiences and Opportunities
We do lots of exciting things throughout the year, this may be part of our topic or additional experiences, click on the tabs below to have a look.
We were out on the playground when we found something! We found a tiger with a sign around it’s neck saying ‘I am lost, please help me’ we immediately started looking around the playground for more clues and started asking questions…
”Where did it come from?” ”Where are it’s parents?” ”Is it hungry?”
Our Archaeology Experience!
On Wednesday 25th November we had an Archaeologist in to teach us all about the Stone Age. We took part in many activities such as:
- How long ago did the Stone Age happen?
- Weaving
- Grinding flour
- Making our own pots out of clay
- Finding and researching artefacts
- Putting together broken pots
We had such a great day. Have a look and see!
Trashed Classroom!
The children who were currently in school, had come in from playtime one day, and had noticed that Miss Hodges’ classroom had been trashed. So they went in to inspect what had happened…
On Friday 18th June we were so lucky, we had an experience to meet the creature! We met all different types of creatures, snakes, snails, spiders and even a bearded dragon!
Thing You Need To Know
Home learning will help children to practice skills and consolidate knowledge learnt at school. For Marvellous Maples and Jolly Junipers, home learning 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.
If children are struggling or you are unsure how to support your child, please message Miss Steven or Miss Hodges on Class Dojo.
Children will also have the option of completing topic related challenges which can be chosen from the grid on the topic page.
Due to the current circumstances, children are expected to come to school in their P.E kit on P.E days. Please make sure this is appropriate for school and the weather.
PE day for both Maples and Junipers is on Fridays.
Autumn 1
Wednesday 2 September to Friday 23 October
Urban Pioneers
Walk to the Silk Mill/Cathedral
Parent afternoon – Maths problem solving/games
Autumn 2
Monday 2 November to Friday 18 December
Tribal Tales
The children will be doing a Stone Age workshop in school.
Thursday 26th November – The children will be doing an archaeology workshop
Parent afternoon – Make a 3-D model of a Bronze Age settlement, making sure it is historically accurate.
Spring 1
Monday 4 January to Friday 12 February
Gods and Mortals
Wednesday 27th January – The children will be involved in a workshop about The Past Presents in school
Parent afternoon – Greek Pottery
Spring 2
Monday 22 February to Thursday 1 April
Playlist
Thursday 11th March – Workshop in school with the baby people https://www.babypeople.co.uk/
Parent afternoon – Story telling/Reading afternoon
Summer 1
Monday 19 April to Friday 28 May
I am warrior
Workshop – Coming soon!
Parent afternoon – Roman craft afternoon
Summer 2
Monday 7 June to Thursday 22 July
Predator
Friday 18th June- A workshop in school with Meetacreature
Parent afternoon – Children will get an afternoon to share their work throughout the year with their parents and everything they have learnt in the topic ‘Predator.’
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