Welcome to Maple!

Year 4

This half term our topic is Rainforests, we will be exploring this in humanities.  We will also be using, 'The Great Kapok Tree' by Lynne Cherry as our vehicle text in English; we will be writing a letter to persuade regarding stopping deforestation.  

In geography sessions, we will be studying all about rainforests, locating the equator, Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn, the Arctic and Antarctic Circle on globes and maps. Further to this we will locate the world's major rainforests; research animals in the Amazon, compare human life in the Amazon to the UK. 

In Design and Technology lessons, we will be making rainforest creatures.  We will be classifying and identifying living things in Science lessons.  

This term, in RE we will be discussing key themes in Cross Religions and World Views exploring: What kind of world do we want to live in? What impact can I have? 

Forest School is every other Wednesday starting on Wednesday 30th April.  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 continuing on 24th April.  We will be having a PE lesson every other Wednesday starting on Wednesday 30th April.  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