Eagles

Welcome to the home of the Eagles. 

We are taught by Mrs Ince and Miss Richards.  Our class spans Year Five and Year Six children so we are super busy.

Our topic

For the Summer Term, our history topic is World War Two where we will be answering our overarching question 'What was life like on the Home Front?' We will be learning about the reasons that the war started, what life was like for the people living in Britain during this period and the use of propaganda during the war years.  We will be delving deep into life on the 'Home Front' via rationing, air raid shelters and evacuation for children livin in cities.  

In science, the children are really excited to be learning about Space, the moon and the planets.  Expect lots of facts coming home from school on this one!

In RE, we will be looking at the People of God to see how following God can bring peace and justice and in the second half term, we will be exploring Creation and science to decide if they complement or conflict each other.

In music, we are lucky enough to be able to learn an instrument again - the cornet.  Our visiting teacher from Inspire will be teaching us how to play these and work up to being able to perform a tune on the cornet.

It's DAART time again this term and Mrs Spencer (our DAART officer) will be joining us weekly to teach us again Drugs and Alcohol Awareness.

In July, we will be going on our annual residential to Walesby Forest.  The children are very, very excited about this and I am looking forward to the limited sleep but spending time outdoors with this fabulous class.

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 text is 'Letters from the Lighthouse' by Emma Carroll and this will lead us through our English and extended writing sessions.  This lovely book is about two children evacuated from London to Devon.  I'm sure the children will empathise with these children and love the book.

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

Here's a copy of our book containing the Year 5 & 6 non chronological reports about Victorian workshouses - that we did in the Autumn term - for you to enjoy.  Can you spot your child's?