Eagles

Welcome to the home of the Eagles. 

We are taught on Mondays by Mrs Lister and on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays by Mrs Ince. 

Our class spans Year Five and Year Six children so we are super busy.

Our topic

For the Spring Term, our geography topic is 'Sustainability' where we will be focusing on the Amazon - the rainforest, the river and its basin.  We launched this by looking at the physical geographical features of the Amazon Rainforest and created a class display of the four layers of the rainforest.  The display had a piece of everyone's work on it and was polished by our TA, Miss Hodkinson.  We are super proud of the result! 

In science, we are looking at living things and their habitats, which leads up nicely to our school trip to Perlethorpe Environmental Education Centre.  One of the highlights of this term, according to Mrs Ince, is where we will be creating our own versions of spaghetti carbonara in our food technology lessons.  Check out our Curriculum map to see what else we will be learning this term.

Our PE dates this term are Mondays and Wednesdays.  Please come to school in PE kit on both of those days.  Details of our PE kit can be found on the website.

Music

We're back to learning an instrument - hurray!  This term, we will be continue to learn how to play the ukelele on Monday mornings.

Class book

We love to read in Eagles and do lots of it.  Our class read is The Explorer by Katherine Rundell.  This tale follows the plight of 4 children stranded in the Amazon rainforest after a plane crash.  We've deduced that they are not the first people to have lived there and are excited to see who else might be there!

Homework

The most important homework is to read for pleasure at home.  We recommend this is done at least 3 times a week and note this down in our home school diaries - children can write this in themselves.

Spellings will also be coming home once a week, so please take time to learn these ready to be tested on a Wednesday.

Maths and English homework will be alternated so there is a piece every week of either maths or English grammar work to do at home.

Dates

Look out for dates of parents meetings and other exciting activities on the website or on our newsletter Burntstump Bugle.

As always, we love to hear from parents or carers, so if you'd like to get in touch via email to the office@burntstump.snmat.org.uk 

by phone or in person, please do not hesitate.  We're always happy to help and love to hear successes that the children have had outside of school.