Welcome to Parrot Class!

Class teacher: Mrs Bryant

parrot.class@rawreth.essex.sch.uk

Mrs Bryant can be reached on this email address. This inbox will be checked at least once each day between Monday to Friday. 

Please still contact the office for urgent matters including absence, school lunch orders, change in home time collection arrangements etc.

Week commencing: 5th October

Monday: In class 

Tuesday:  In class  (At gate at end of day)  

Wednesday: In class

Thursday: AM - Supply, PM - In class

Friday: AM - Supply, PM - In class                 

PE Days

Tuesdays and Wednesday

PE kits to be kept in school, no jewellery allowed and hair to be tied back. 

Weekly Homework: 

• Play Times Tables Rockstars at least 4 times a week - 10mins each session
• Attempt Spelling Shed at least 4 times during the week - 10mins each session
• Read your book at least 4 times a week. - 10mins each session

During Autumn term 1, we will be learning:

• Maths - We will be starting off  looking at Place Value and then using this to help us with addition and subtraction skills
• English - we will be using Talk for Writing model to explore and write using texts based on the novel of Matilda: a narrative, diary entry and poetry.
• Science - Our topic is "Energy: Electricity and circuits. We will be exploring thinking about where electricity comes from,  electrical appliances, building electrical circuits using components and investigating conductivity. All this will be taught with the discussions about electrical safety
• Art and Design - We will be using the medium of Drawing to explore tone, texture and proportion to create realistic and expressive drawings, inspired by artists Sarah Graham, Nicola McBride and Beatriz Milhazes.
• Geography - Our topic is 'Why are rainforests important to us?'- where we develop an understanding of biomes, with focus on the Amazon Rainforest in South America, learning where rainforests are located, explore their layers and plant adaptations, and investigate how Indigenous peoples use rainforest resources. We also also examine why rainforests are important, how human activity is changing them, and what can be done to reduce negative impacts
• Computing - We will be developing Programming skills through Scratch, where we will design and programme a game using variables and sensors and 'if' statements to control outcomes and interactions
• PSHE - Our topic is "My Healthy Self: How can I make healthy choices", where we will have discuss how healthy choices support both physical and mental wellbeing by exploring exercise, nutrition and hydration.
•  RE - We will be exploring the question - 'Is believing in God reasonable?' We will learn what makes for a reasonable argument, arguments for the existence of God made by some Christians, arguments from a humanist perspective against the existence of God and arguments for the existence of God which have come from outside mainstream religious thought (Pascal's wager)
• Music - This is a topic of discovery and we will be making links with Geography unit exploring the Rainforests through musci and be introduce to new musical terms - tone and texture along side developing body and tuned percussion. 
• PE - Netball      Gymnastics
• French -  Describing portraits