Maple

Maple Class is taught by Mr Gale.

Mr Gale's favourite animal is a Blue Whale (only seen on Attenborough, at present, unfortunately), his favourite ice cream is unknown, due to dairy intolerance, and his hobbies include playing chess, messing around in boats, climbing mountains, dressing up as soldiers for low budget national media entertainment, writing with fancy pens, collecting fancy books and dabbling as an amateur numismatist (yes, do google it). 

He has been teaching for eight years at Sandford and his favourite thing about schools is working with such fantastic young minds.

In Maple Class we really enjoy making Mr Gale sing during story time.  If we can sneak a few minutes of free time and free choice to learn, love or laugh together, you will find us involved with a whole class run, ending in a game of Temple Run, in which the teacher invariably plays the part of the proverbial boulder.

Our class novel is currently Rumaysa, written by Radiya Hafiza, which we also use for our guided reading sessions, to embed learning within a context. We are reading this because it's important to learn about other cultures, alternative fairy tale stories.