Welcome to Swan Class page

Class teacher: Mrs Jarvis

Class email address: swan.class@rawreth.essex.sch.uk

This email address is checked once a day but please still contact the office for urgent matters including absence, school lunch orders, change in home time collection arrangements etc. 

Dear Parents and Carers,

Updates for week beginning Monday 23rd March.

Last week of Spring term! How crazy - it has flown by and the children have all been amazing. :-)

Quick note - the Junior Music Festival has been opened up to Year 3s and is sure to be an amazing evening if they would like to sign up.

Monday 23rd March - I am out of class all day for PPA/ECT time - Mr Taylor to cover.

Can everyone please bring in either an Easter bonnet or crown for our Easter assembly practice. This does not have to be anything fancy and it is not a competition.

Wednesday 25th March - please join us for our Easter Celebration assembly at 9.15am if you are able.

Friday 27th March - Whole school football tournament! Each child will need their PE kit and trainers but also a coloured t-shirt to represent their house. Please ask your child to check if they are unsure which house team they are in.

It's going to be a busy but fun week!!

Thank you.

Homework

This is to be completed weekly and consists of:

• Reading at home (4 times or more per week would be amazing!)
• Reading records should be brought into school every day but must be in on a Thursday as this is when we count the children's reads for the week.
• Spelling Shed - children will be set weekly homework to consolidate the week's learning. They should be accessing this for the homework but also a wide range of education games based around their spelling 4 times a week.
• TTRS - (4 times or more per week would again be brilliant!) These do not need to be much longer than 3 minutes per day - little and often! We will sometimes have times table "battles" against other classes so please encourage your children to have a go!

Percentages of children who do each of the above 4 times a week or more are read out in our Celebration Assembly each week and dojos are on offer for these so please encourage your children to have a go.

Learning

This information will be updated every half term.

During Spring 2, we will be learning:

• Maths - we will be focusing on money as well as mass, capacity and volume.
• English - we will be writing a narrative based on a firefighter and also becoming journalists by writing newspaper reports on our local fire station. 
• Science - we will be learning about human life cycles. 
• RE - we will be learning the Easter story and why it is so important in Christianity.
• History - we will be learning about a variety of local heroes - past and present.
• D&T - we will be learning how to cross-stitch and applique, culminating in creating and decorating our own cushions.
• PSHE - we will be exploring citizenship, focusing on the roles that individuals play in looking after our local community.
• Music - we will be learning musical notes on the recorder as well as focusing on rehearsals for the Infant Music Festival.
• Computing - we will having a go at desktop publishing and even creating our own magazine covers.
• French - we will be recapping our previous learning as well as discovering how to talk about fruit and Easter.
• PE - we will be developing our dance and basketball skills.

It is going to be a busy but very fun half term!

PE days

These are Monday and Thursday.

Please ensure PE kits are kept in school and earrings are removed as well as hair being tied back. Thank you.