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Applebee Wood Community Specialist School

Respect, Belonging, Trust, Resilience, Aspiration

Simmonds

Welcome to Simmonds Class!

Welcome to Simmonds Class! We are a year 7/8/9 small class made up of 6 boys.

The team:

Miss Chadwick - Class Teacher

Mrs Murray - Teaching Assistant

Miss Danson - Teaching Assistant 

 

Our Timetable:

Summer 1: 

 

    This term, we will continue to develop our mathematical knowledge through numeracy lessons, number songs, computing, online platforms such as Purple Mash, and much more. Our focus in mathematics this half term will be on money and measurement skills.

 

    In literacy, we will be designing our own houses and writing fact files about a bee’s home. We will enhance our phonics skills, practise our spellings, and read our individual reading books daily.

 

    Our understanding of ourselves and the world around us will be woven into all lessons in Simmonds Class. Our topic this half term is The World Around Us.

Take a look at what we have been doing this half term:

Spring 2: 

 

    This term, we will continue to develop our mathematical knowledge through numeracy lessons, number songs, computing, online platforms such as TT Rockstars, and much more. Our focus in mathematics this half term will be on developing our addition and subtraction skills.

 

    In literacy, we will be designing our own recipes, which we will use to purchase the ingredients and bake our own food. We will enhance our phonics skills, practise our spellings, and read our individual reading books daily.

 

    Our understanding of ourselves and the world around us will be woven into all lessons in Simmonds Class. Our topic this half term is Being Active and Healthy.

Take a look at what we have been doing this half term:

Spring 1: 

 

    This term, we will continue to develop our mathematical knowledge through numeracy lessons, number songs, computing, and online platforms such as TT Rockstars. Our focus in mathematics this half term will be on time, division, and multiplication.

 

    In literacy, we will explore a variety of texts, using colourful semantics to support our understanding, with a particular focus on wolves in literature. We will enhance our phonics skills, practise our spellings, and read our individual reading books daily.

 

    Our understanding of ourselves and the world around us will be woven into all lessons in Simmonds Class. Our topic this half term is Books and the Literary World

Take a look at what we have been doing this half term:

Autumn 2: 

 

    This term, we will continue to develop our mathematical knowledge through numeracy lessons, number songs, computing, and online platforms such as TT Rockstars. Our focus in mathematics this half term will be on addition, subtraction, and shapes.

 

    In literacy, we will explore a variety of texts, using colourful semantics to support our understanding. We will enhance our phonics skills, practise our spellings, and read our individual reading books daily.

 

    Our understanding of ourselves and the world around us will be woven into all lessons in Simmonds Class. Our topic this half term is Seasons.

Take a look at what we have been doing this half term:

Autumn 1:

 

    This term, we will continue to develop our mathematical knowledge through numeracy lessons, number songs, computing, and online platforms such as TT Rockstars.

 

    In literacy, we will explore a variety of texts, using colourful semantics to support our understanding. We will enhance our phonics skills, practise our spellings, and read our individual reading books daily.

 

    Our understanding of ourselves and the world around us will be woven into all lessons in Simmonds Class.

Take a look at what we have been doing this half term:

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