Burntstump Seely C of E Primary Academy

Eagles

Welcome to the home of the Eagles. 

We are taught by Mrs Ince, Mrs Wheatley and Mrs Smith.  Our class spans Year Five and Year Six children so we are super busy.

Our topic

For the Autumn Term, our humanities topic is Robin Hood where we will be answering our overarching question 'Which truths lie in the legend of Robin Hood?'  We will be learning if he was real by examining who he might have been and evaluating the evidence presented to tell us about this legend.   Eagles will be delving into life in Medieval times and how he might have lived and survived in the dense forest.  We will be learning about the geography of Sherwood Forest and taking our learning outdoors on a school trip there.  Maid Marion will deepen our understanding of the outlaws and how Sherwood Forest impacts on Robin Hood's legend.  

In science, the children are building upon knowledge that they gained in Kestrels about electricity.  We will be recapping our prior learning by making electrical circuits but extending this to trouble-shoot a circuit that doesn't work.

In RE, we will be asking whether God is loving or holy or indeed, both.  We will study the internal structures of cathedrals and designing our own churches to reflect if God was just holy or just loving.

In music, we are lucky enough to be able to turn out attentions to musical theatre - a unit, which is always super for drawing on children's knowledge of musicals and the songs from them.  We will be revising and building on our knowledge of Scratch computer programming in computing this term.

PE

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.

Class book

We love to read in Eagles and do lots of it.  Our class text is Outlaw by Michael Murpurgo since this tells a tale of Robin Hood and his merry men.   This lovely book links modern day with the medieval times that Robin is believed to have lived in.

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 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.

 

Thanks, as always, for your continued support,

 

Mrs Ince x