Burntstump Seely C of E Primary Academy

Eagles.

Welcome to the summer term in Eagles.  We are taught by Mrs Francis and Miss Rowley.  Mr Bradshaw, our trainee teacher, will be joining us again too.

Our topic

This term, for our humanities topic, we will be studying the ancient Greeks and looking at the overarching question 'why were the Greeks so great?'.  We will be looking at where Greece is in the world, the rivalry between Athens and Sparta, the Battle of Marathon and how the Greeks left a lasting legacy on how we live our lives today.   For a good measure, we will be learning about the Greek gods and how belief in them lead to how the ancient Greeks lived.  Our class text, 'Who Let the Gods Out?' by Maz Evans will be helping us with our learning since it has some lovely links to the activities of the gods and it's hilarious!

In science, we will be learning about animals including humans.  This will include a look at the workings of the human heart and exploring reproduction.

In a first for Burntstump, we will be learning about micro:bits in computing.  These are tiny programmable components, which we can sing, show our animations and even be used as a temperature guage.  We are sure that the children will love this new learning because we are fascinated by them.

In RE, we are looking at Gospel for the first half term so improving our ability to locate verses in our Bibles and for the second half term, we will be learning about the links between religion and racism.  Here, we will examine different faiths and historic acts of racism.  Undoubtably, this will lead to some thoughtful and meaningful class discussions but all by observing our Christian value of respect.

We will be putting on our KS2 end of year performance with the Kestrels so expect line-learning for homework.

Surely, we can't finish off our termly overview without mentioning the much-anticipated Eagles residential.  We are off to Walesby Forest again because we had such good fun for the last three years there.  So, on their lake we will be paddle-boarding, canoeing and raft-building and carrying out indoor caving, outdoor climbing and some laser tagging.  Walesby have introduced new sleeping marquees, which the children will adore.  I would just love it if there was more sleeping involved!

As always, please feel free to come and see us if you have any queries or concerns and we will try to assist.  You can email office@burntstump.snmat.org.uk, pop to see us at drop off/pick up or telephone for a chat.

Thank you for your continued support,

Kind regards,

Sarah Francis (was Ince) x