Class Blog for Eagles

The Summer Term has started!

Visitor, Anglo Saxon finds and Sound

We have started off the final term of the year. So far we have had a visit from the RNLI and Geevor mine.

Clint from Geevor visited for the afternoon, this gave us the opportunity to revisit our learning from our local history work from last year. He told us all about the mine and the jobs of the men, women and children. We got to try on the clothes and imagine how life would have been.

We are looking at the Anglo Saxons in our history lessons, and this week we dug up the artefacts that were found at Sutton Hoo. We discussed why these finds were so important and how it changed people's perceptions of the Anglo Saxon times.

We have started to learn about sound in science and have investigated how the size of vibration affects the sound we hear. We have also learnt how we hear sounds.

In PE we are starting to develop racket skills and are working on tennis. In PSHE we are focusing on relationships and started by talking about jealousy.

We are also looking at how music fits within film and TV, coding in computing, sketching skills in art and doing the final prep for the year 6 SATS!

There are lots of exciting events coming up this term, so keep an eye out for updates!

Spring term 2

What we have been up to this half term?

The last 6 weeks have flown by!

In literacy we have worked on the story of The Lost Thing by Shaun Tann to inspire our writing work. Children have tried hard to ensure they are using the different techniques we have learnt to make their writing as exciting and interesting as possible. We finished our class book - Cogheart, which had a very exciting ending. The children have now chosen to read War Horse.

In maths we have finished our fractions and mover to decimals and percentages. The year 6 pupils have moved to learn ratio and algebra.

In our wider curriculum we have finished our learning on the rainforest by writing letters to the King and Prime Minster to highlight deforestation. In science we finished our work on properties of materials by celebrating British Science week with some exciting experiments and looking at careers in science.

We have loved our keyboard lessons with Mrs Butlin and have made great progress. In
PE Andy thinks that our netball skills have gone from strength to strength!

2024

Spring term 1

It has been a while since we shared an update on what is happening in class. This term we finished our history work learning about the Mayans. We used our previous learning from Jays class to compare them to the Egyptians and considered whether they really were civilized!

We have now moved on to a geography based unit, where we can use our geographical understanding from learning about the Americas to learn more about rainforests.

In science we have moved on to look at properties and changes in material. We have been using our investigation skills to learn about dissolving and insulating.

We have have written the ending to the traditional tale Hansel and Gretel. We were focused on writing for a specific audience and did not want to write a tale for young children, but a darker creepier version for older readers.

In maths it is all about fractions, decimals and percentages!! We are starting to get our heads around the concept of equal parts and equivalences.

In DT we have made automata models. This involved a lot of problem solving and perseverance as you have to observe how it works to make small changes to make it move more easily!

This term we have Mrs Butlin back for music, where we are learning how to play the keyboard. Andy is here for PE and the children are loving developing their netball skills and playing competitively.

That is just some of the things we have been working on this term already!! As we finished for half term it was Children's mental health week and safer internet day. So we spent the week thinking about our emotions and how to use our time.

Lets catch up!!

Mexico, reproduction in plants, The Mayans and Remembrance

It's been a few weeks since we have updated you on what we have been learning in class. Before half term we finished lots of units including our Geography where we looked at the country of Mexico and how it compared to where we lived. We also finished our work on light by learning about how we see different colours.

We have now started our history work and are considering whether the Mayans really were civilized? Alongside this we are making appliqued pencil cases inspired by the Mayans/ Mexico. In science we are learning about living things and their habitats and have started looking at sexual and asexual reproduction in plants. In PSHE we are now looking at celebrating differences. We are also trying our best to get out in the forest and explore, investigate and try new things.

Last week we marked remembrance by making candle holders with silhouette images or poppy designs. We also took time in literacy to write poems about the different coloured poppies and their meaning.

We finished our first book of the year - The Nowhere Emporium. The majority of the class really enjoyed this story and requested the sequel next, but we have decided to try something different and are now start Cogheart as our next class story.

Week 3 and 4

Reflection, Refraction and Climate

Eagles are now settled in to their routine. We are still enjoying our class book - The Nowhere Emporium and have enjoyed reading chapters set at different times and linking the two time lines together. Year 5 and 6 have now designed their own Wonders inspired by the book for their independent writing.

Year 6 have moved on to calculations in maths and year 5 are nearly at the end of their place value work. In science we have explored reflection and looked at the Incident ray and reflected ray. We also investigated refraction by looking at images in different ways through water.

In Geography we are developing our knowledge of North and South America by looking at the different climates and then focusing our attention on Mexico and what life is like there.

In RE children are considering the question of how religion helps people when life gets hard and have been looking at religious traditions around death and how these help people to grieve.

We were visited by EJ again over the last two weeks to support our PSHE work. We were focusing on sympathy and empathy.

Everyone should have received a list of spellings that cover the whole year, if you haven't got yours, please let us know.

Week 1 and 2

Nowhere Emporium, light, place value and the Americas

Welcome back!

We have been busy in Eagles class over the last two weeks.

In the mornings year 5 and 6 have been working on place value up to 10 million. In literacy we are studying the Nowhere Emporium. We are rewriting the opening and using VIPERS skills to study some of the chapters. Year 4 join us at 12pm each day to hear the next chapter. We are focusing on handwriting this term and already we can see a difference!

In the afternoon year 4,5 and 6 have started their wider curriculum work.
On Mondays children are doing RE they are thinking about how religion helps people when life gets hard. On Tuesdays we do science and art. In science we are looking at light and this week looked at how light allows us to see. In art we looked at the South American arts Joaquin Torres Garcia to inspire a piece of art all about ourselves. On Wednesday children do PSHE - which this half term is about being me - French and forest school. On Thursdays children are focusing on hockey skills in PE, thinking about rhythm in music and networks in computing. Finally on Fridays we are doing geography where we have started to locate different countries in North and South America.

Remember PE kits need to be worn on Mondays and Thursdays.

There is a document below which summarises what we will be learning in each subject this term.