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Welcome to Dragonflies Class

Class Teacher:

Mrs Mayo-Evans

Teaching Assistant:

Mrs Pritchard

We hope you enjoy exploring our learning throughout the year!

Parents' Information

September 2024

Welcome to an exciting year in Dragonflies class!

Our PE days will be run by Paces on a Friday morning.

Please ensure that your child has the correct PE kit and appropriate footwear.

Swimming

Dragonflies will swim every Monday afternoon.

Please ensure children have their swimming kits including; a towel, swimming shorts/swimming costume and a swimming hat.

Children may wear googles if they have them.

Reading

We regard reading as high importance at Peterchurch and encourage children to read at least 5 times a week and that this is recorded in their reading log and signed by an adult. Children who met this expectation will have an additional play once a week where children who need to catch up on their reading will have the opportunity to do so.

Times tables

Please ensure that your child practises their tables using TT Rockstars. Your child can also practise using other games/apps or orally if preferred using their homework book. This is important as the children will take the statutory multiplication tables check (MTC) in June 2024. Please see further information about this below.

Spellings

Please ensure that your child practises their weekly spellings using Spelling Shed. Your child can also practise orally if preferred using their homework book. The children will sit a weekly spelling test every Friday.

Please also ensure that your child has a bottle of water and coat in school daily.

Thank you for your continued support, If you have any queries, then please see me at the start/end of the school day, contact us via Dojo or through the school office.

Thanks,

Mrs Mayo-Evans

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/multiplication-tables-check-information-for-parents

/docs/DF-MTC_Parent_workshop.pptx

Curriculum Overviews

Please click on the attachment below to find out more about the curriculum for each term.

/docs/Dragonflies_Curriculum_Overview_2024-25.pdf

Autumn Term

/docs/Dragonflies_MTP_Autumn_1_2024-25.pdf

/docs/Dragonflies_MTP_Autumn_2_2024-25.pdf

Parent Workshop

/docs/PE-parents-workshop-year-3-4.pptx

PE Parent Work Shop!

Dragonflies invited their parents, carers and families into school to take part in a physical education lesson, which was ran by a specialised coach from Paces. The children enjoyed teaching their grown ups all about the importance of physical activity and discussed the 7 core benefits of being active and outdoors.

Please see the attached power point for all the information.

Roman Day!

Dragonflies have been learning about the Romans this half term and held a special day to celebrate it. Everyone dressed up in their finest Roman attire, including the teachers, and took part in themed activities including, a Latin lesson, learning Roman numerals in maths, creating a Roman mosaic vase, finishing the day with a Roman battle and banquet.

The children and teachers had so much fun!

Roman Day

A lovely visit from Pudsey Bear and some of our local hero's to talk about road safety and the recent flooding.

Pudsey Bear 🐻 and a visit from out local heros 🚒🧯👨‍🚒

A wonderful visit to the amazing Cardiff National Museum!

A visit to the National Museum in Cardiff!

Dragonflies took part in an exciting Ramayana Diwali Dance Workshop

Ramayana Diwali Dance

Spring Term

Wow! Dragonflies have had a fantastic first week back.

We started the year off by dedicating our first week back to a whole week focused on our wellbeing. The children have experienced a range of activities, which have focused on their emotion, mental and physical health. Please take a look through the fantastic pictures from our wonderful week which included activities such as:

teambuilding, outdoor exploration, a kickboxing workshop and wellbeing baking.

Wellbeing Week Dragonflies

Check out what Dragonflies have been up to this half term...

it's been a very messy but fun few weeks!

Forest School Dragonflies

Allowing problem-solving and learning to manage risks in our very own on site forest school.

Creating our own 3D Solar System Model.

Building our own 3D model helped the children to understand distances in outer space, relative sizes of the planets and the sun, travel times in outer space, and just how far the planets get from each other as they orbit around the sun.

Discovering building techniques from Anglo Saxon times.

We used wattle and daub to explore the ancient technique of building houses during the Anglo Saxon times and evaluated effectiveness of the wattle and daub-making process.