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 first History topic of Iron Age to Stone Age 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 (Weds afternoon and all day Fri), Mrs Gawler (Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri afternoons) and Mrs Bates (Weds).

Important dates for the diary this term for Raven Class:

PE will take place on Monday afternoons. Please send your child to school in school PE kit.

 

Our learning this term: 

English: We are reading  A Place Called Perfect, a mystery story about moving to a strange town. Our English lessons will include writing character descriptions, newspaper reports and a balanced argument poster.

Maths: We are finishing our unit on multiplication & division and starting a unit on fractions. 

Science: We are learning about Materials and their Properties.

Topic: In Term 1 and 2, we will be learning about Stone Age to Iron Age as our History topic. This term, we will focus on the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.

RE: We are learning about Incarnation and focussing on the question Does the evidence suggest that Jesus was the Messiah?

German: We are learning to talk about the weather, clothes and countries.

Computing: We are learning to code mathematical and logical operators on Scratch.

Music: We will be learning to play the ukulele and singing in German!

 

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 1 highlights

Some of our favourite moments from Term 1 include:

DT

We enjoyed designing and making kites in DT- some of us tried flying them at home too!

 

Outdoor learning

In Science, we acted out the movement of the planets in the Solar System. We also explored how the movement of the earth relative to the Sun can be tracked throughout the day.

 

History artefacts

We enjoyed exploring replica artefacts from the Bronze Age; being able to see and touch them really helped us understand how they were made and used!