Welcome to Maple!

Year 4

This half term our topic is The Arctic.  We will be exploring this in humanities and Art.  We will also be using, 'Leaf' by Sandra Dieckman as our vehicle text in English to look at the adventure of the main character, Leaf the polar bear. 

In geography sessions, we will be studying all about the Artic, the climate comparing with the United Kingdom, the features, biomes in the Artic plus the animals, plants and Nenets that live and have adapted to live there. We will further explore the changes and impact of humans.

In Art lessons, we will be exploring Sculptures looking at the work of Andy Goldsworthy. We will be learning about freezing and melting in our Science lessons.  

This term, in RE we will be discussing key themes in Christianity of Jesus and king and saviour and the Trinity

Forest School is every other Wednesday starting on 6^th November.  Please come in your forest school clothes.  Make sure you have waterproofs and wellies or walking boots.

This term, PE will be swimming lessons on a Thursday starting on 19th September.  We will be having a PE lesson every other Wednesday starting on 13^th November.  Please make sure you have your PE kit in school, these should be available in school all week. 

We are using Class Dojo for our positive praise.  Here is the class link 

https://www.classdojo.com/ul/p/addKid?target=class&class=CE5AFFF

If you have anything you wish to discuss, please do not hesitate to contact me at

jpriest@smallwood.cheshire.sch.uk