Maple Class Blog

​Wow, what a relief this half term holiday will be for all! For what has been the most challenging half term of the year 6’s year, I have to totally commend them for their can-do attitude and calm resilience running up to and during the SATs. After weeks peppered with some horrible bugs, everyone managed to bring their best to school and I know from talking to them that they could all feel the progress that they have made. Congratulations to all!
The SATs week brought with it some fun though and the yr 6 breakfasts seemed to go down a storm – almost a shame that we don’t start every day together like that. To round off, we also had the treat of a bbq and the sun shone for us. Thank you for all the delicious offerings and to James for being such a fantastic bbq chef and host.
It is not long now until we set off for France. Please make sure that you have everything ticked off on the kit list and particularly that you have an ‘administering medication’ form filled in for anything that your child will need. – travel medication included.  I hope that you managed to make the meeting at Oke College but if not, please don’t hesitate to forward any questions to me and I’ll endeavour to answer.
As a transition project we shall all be making collages of ‘All about me’. We have begun to discuss researching a bit of family history, gathering photos of any special family artefacts that give a bit of history or collecting pictures that represent where branches of our family came from (even if that is right here in Chagford). Then there is the present and what makes us ‘us’ now – our enthusiasms, hobbies, friends and family and experiences. Finally, we shall look to our ambitions for the future. If you could assist your child in collecting together anything that could contribute to ‘their story’ and also let them quiz you about generations past, that would be really useful.
We have been busy publishing our Princess’ Blankets stories this week and hope to soon have them in the school library for others to read. Adding an extra challenge onto this topic, we also got stuck into a maths challenge to work out what length of wool would be needed to crochet the princess a blanket – thank you to Lily for doing the crochet to launch our investigation.
Have a super half term everyone which I hope will contains some special moments.
Mrs Armstrong