Mars class - Brabourne Church of England Primary School

Miss Stevens, Mrs Green, Mrs Riggs, Mrs Hopkins and Mrs Graves are Mars’ teaching team. We are also fortunate to work with PE coaches – Coach Hayley and Coach Ben.

Welcome to the Autumn term of our brand new academic year. We hope you all had a restful and enjoyable Summer holiday.

Our Topic for both term one and two is London’s Burning. This explores the key concept of Movement and People, investigating the key question: How did the great fire affect life on London? For English, we will reading the core text ‘The Great fire of London’ to help us explore this question. We will be finding out who Samuel Pepys was and how his records encapsulated a piece of history. We will also be baking bread for DT.

In Science, we will be learning all about materials. We will experiment with a range of materials, discussing what their properties are and what their uses are. We will find out who John McAdam is and why he was important. Please refer to the topic planning map on the website for more details.

The main focus for home learning in Mars class is daily reading. Please encourage your child to read each day at home; your support with this plays a huge part in your child’s progress. Please record in the reading record book when you hear your child read, we celebrate with children when they read regularly.

A homework grid with enrichment activities will be posted onto Seesaw. This is to foster a love of learning. Children should aim to complete a piece of home learning each week. Spellings will be posted on to Seesaw. The focus will be on learning the common exception words. These are words that children should be using regularly in reading and writing. We will not be formally testing spellings each week, we would rather spelling to be learnt organically, encouraging the use of words in context, such as within dictated sentences.

We would appreciate Reading Records in school every day. They are checked in school each morning. It is the best way to keep in contact with us so please do use them. Reading records will have passwords/logins for Seesaw and Mathletics.

PE will be on a Wednesday and Thursday this term. Children should come to school in smart, school PE kits on these days.

Please ensure that your children have named water bottles in school every day and also warm winter coats, hats, gloves and scarves for when the weather turns more chilly.

If you need to talk to one of us, we are always happy to catch up. You can catch us on the gate at pick up, email us (directly or through the office) or post on seesaw.

Thank you for your continued support and we look forward to a happy, successful term.

Mars Team