Hello, I'm Mrs Dwyer and I'm delighted to be back at St John's teaching Raven Class. I can't wait to explore our History and Geography topics and our amazing English texts this year.

Outside of school I love reading, walking and trying hard to learn to knit!

 

Other staff working in our class are:

Miss Walker (teaching all day Fri), Miss T Pelle-Gedara (Mon, Tues and Thurs), Mr Gilman (Weds afternoon) and Mrs Bates (all day Weds).

 

Important dates for the diary this term for Raven Class:

PE will take place on Tuesday afternoons.  We will be swimming so please send your child in with their swimming kit.

 

Our learning this term: 

English: We are reading The Light Jar by Lisa Thompson, a story about friendship, courage and perseverance. We will be writing poetry, setting and character descriptions, narratives and a newspaper report.

Maths: We are continuing our fractions work before moving on to decimals and percentages.

Science: We are continuing our learning about Living Things and their Habitats, focussing this term on animals' life cycles.

Topic: In 4, we will be carrying on studying South America and Deforestation as our Geography topic. We will be learning about the Amazon Rainforest, deforestation and its impact on people and the water cycle.

RE: We will be studying the events around Easter, exploring the meaning of Jesus' death and resurrection for Christians.

German: We will be revising days, months, numbers and colours.

Music: This term, we are learning all about orchestras, the instruments in them and composers. We will also listen to some famous classical music and learn a song which we will perform with an orchestra at the Marlowe Theatre!

 

Learning at home for Raven Class :

• Reading AR books 

• Spelling shed 

• Times Tables Rockstars 

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Be ready for learning! In Raven class your child will need to have these items in school: 

• water bottle (no squash or juice) 
• small rucksack (big enough to hold lunch box and reading books) 
• wellington boots (to leave in school) 
• coat (weather appropriate) 

Please don’t bring other items to school, as we do not have space to store them, and it can cause upset if things are lost or damaged. 

 

Term 3 highlights

Some of our highlights from Term 3 include:

Science:

We were bees! After learning the parts of a flower, we made flower models and used them to act out the stages of pollination, thinking about where this process fits in the life cycle of flowers.

 

French:

We enjoyed a French lesson with Madame T, where we learned how to say which foods we like and dislike, as well as some key vocabulary for shopping!

South America hook day:

To start our South America topic, we learned about foods that come from the continent and tried some different fruits from there- we then voted on our favourite! We also learned some phrases in Spanish, used maps to locate various countries and made flags.