Eagle Class
Teachers: Miss Bryant (with Mr Thomas and Mrs Starr for a few months)
Adults in Class: Mrs Kite, Mrs Lyddon, Mrs Smith
Welcome to Eagle Class. We are a Year 5 and 6 class and we love learning! Please keep visiting our class website page as we will update it regularly. Our most recent learning will be at the top of our page.
Please see the documents below for our yearly overview and planning pathways.
Year 6 Camp
We have had an amazing first day at Kilve Camp. After we had arrived, had a tour and lunch, we hiked to Kilve Beach, where we found incredible fossils. On our way back to camp, we stopped off at the ice cream shop for a tasty treat. After a delicious dinner of lasagne or macaroni cheese, we learned some new circus skills. Our favourites were the devil sticks, diablos and spinning plates.
All of the children slept brilliantly! They were asleep by 11 and didn’t stir until 6:30. We have some fun activities planned for today, including mountain biking and the stream walk. More photos to follow this evening.
Monday
Tuesday
What an amazing day! Please have a look at our photos.
Wednesday
Another busy day with grass sledging and team building games. Mrs Smith and Mrs Lyddon arrived and then Mrs Harvey and Mrs Trudgeon. We all went in the maze and much to Mrs Harvey’s relief all safely came out too!
Term 6
Eagle class have continued to throw themselves into their learning in everyway possible. The Year 6’s have been working as writers to hone their writing skills and enjoyed delving into the land of Harry Potter to create instructions for taking care of magical plants, they have also been working on their skills of persuasion to try and get Mrs Harvey to extend lunch times.
More recently we have begun rehearsals for our production of ‘Darwin Rocks’ and we have enjoyed learning about the composition of script writing alongside trying to memorise our lines and choreography. Some of the class have been working on their backstage crew skill, learning when to manoeuvre scenery and cue music along with learning how to make props so that the audience can actually see them.
In the afternoons Eagle class have been working on their smoothie companies. In pairs and trios we have started our own smoothie businesses and we have been learning about the importance of secondary and primary research. We can’t wait to use our real-life data to produce graphs that will help us decide which is the best smoothie to make and sell. Watch this space for company names, logos and products that will be sold.
Term 5 So Far…
Eagle class have gotten off to a flying start this term. In the mornings the Year 6’s have been working tirelessly in preparation for their SAT’s and have enjoyed seeing their progress. Year 5’s have been enjoying joining Kestral class to build on their reading, writing and maths skills.
In the afternoons, we have been travelling back through history to the time of the Maya where we have learnt about the gruesome practices of ritual sacrifice for the gods and how to count in a different number system that also uses ‘zero’ as a place holder.
In RE we have been exploring how Jesus’ teachings of forgiveness can be adapted to modern day and thinking about how we can forgive those around us.
We have loved our science topic on electricity because we have been able to carry out lots of practical investigations exploring the impact of voltage on different components in a circuit.
As artists we have been learning about distortion and abstraction and we can’t wait to share our final masterpieces with you all at the end of the term.
24.3.25
Horrible Histories Writers’ Workshop
Kestrel and Eagle class had the amazing opportunity to work with one of the writers for the Horrible Histories TV show. Mrs Evans’ sister, Gabby Hutchinson Crouch, has written for the show for years (as well as being a published author) and she donated her time to hold a free workshop with our children.
We learned about the writing process and compared her initial script about Ancient Greek Sirens to the sketch which made the show. We also learned about the Puritans, generating ideas for a potential sketch, then watched her sketch. After watching the sketches, we thought about all of the jobs which people have to be able to make and produce them, including writers, editors, producers and costume designers.
Finally, we learned about Chaucer and how his books were rude, but she used a parody of CBeebies Bedtime Stories to teach us which rude words he published – this was the first time that such words had been published.
We then asked her many pertinent questions about writing, which she answered for us.
What a fantastic few weeks of learning in Eagle Class! We have read some excellent and interesting texts in reading lessons including poems, narratives and non-fiction texts about Giant Panda Bears and how species have evolved over billions of years. In our writing lessons, we enjoyed writing narratives based on the Pied Piper of Hamelin but bringing the theme into modern times (including the Wifi Wizard of Weston) and we are currently writing balanced discussions about whether or not animals should be kept in captivity.In Maths, we are working hard to master fractions having worked hard to master long multiplication and division in recent weeks too. Our maths morning work, step counting and daily times tables work is really helping us too.
We are really enjoying learning about animal classification in our science lessons and learning about Ernest Shackleton and his crew’s mission. Keep up the great work everyone. Your hard work doesn’t go unnoticed and you are doing really well.
Photos to follow shortly so please watch this space…
Happy new year everyone. What an exciting year 2025 is going to be!
Eagle Class have started Term 3 really well. We enjoyed our Christmas break and are re-energised and ready for the big year of learning ahead. We have enjoyed continuing learning about World War II for a bonus week in preparation for our exciting school trip to Nailsea Tithe Barn.
In writing lessons we have been learning persuasive writing skills and in maths we have been multiplying and dividing. We have read a rich variety of texts and our class book is now ‘You are awesome’ by Matthew Syed because Eagle Class are indeed ‘awesome’.
Keep up the great work everyone in Eagle Class and I am really enjoying teaching you.
From Mr Thomas (Mr T)
We had a fantastic day on Monday 13th January when we went on our school trip to Nailsea Tithe Barn. Watch this space as photos will be uploaded soon.
T2 – Eagle Class have started Term 2 in an excellent way.
In maths, we have been extending our multiplication and division knowledge to think about multiples, factors and divisibility rules.
In writing, we have learnt a traditional tale ‘Matale comes to supper’ and are looking forward to innovating the story with our own changes of character and setting.
In reading, we have been looking at texts from a story teller point of view. We read and analysed an extract of ‘The Cat who walked by Himself’ by Rudyard Kipling and are now looking at the story of ‘Pegasus’ from Greek mythology.
In both music and PE this term we are looking at rhythms – through dance in PE and theme and variations of Pop Art in our music lessons. We have begun by learning a tune and discussing ways in which it can be varied.
We had a great sport morning playing ‘Fill the House’ with staff from the NSSPEA. We were incredibly supportive of each other in our teams and showed great competitiveness.
Thank you to everyone who came to our Parent Showcase on the 7th – we enjoyed sharing our learning with you.
T1 – Eagle Class have got off to a great start in Term 1!
In maths we have been consolidating and building on our place value knowledge by reading, writing, ordering and comparing numbers and beginning to multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000.
In writing we have been learning to retell our first story ‘Why the sky is so high’ and have looked at some of the grammatical features in detail.
In reading we have been enjoying our first text – an extract from Stig of the Dump. We have talked about some of the vocabulary that we were unsure of and have discussed the author’s choice of language.
In our afternoon lessons, we have begun our history topic by learning key vocabulary linked to warfare and discussing how WW1 started. In art, we watched a video about our focus artist – Fiona Rae – and earnt many raffle tickets with our excellent answers to a quiz about her work.
In science, we have begun with a recap of living things and worked with our peers to group living things in different ways. In PSHE, we have started the year with a positive mindset by setting goals that we want to achieve and have displayed these on bunting in our classroom to keep us motivated all year!
T1 – Eagle class have been continuing their hard work as we settle into Term 1.
In maths, we have worked on partitioning numbers and ordering and comparing decimals.
In writing, we have planned and written our own stories with a meaning or moral behind them. There have been some fantastic story settings – New Zealand, South America, the planet Mars to name just a few!
In reading we have studied a diary entry of a WW2 evacuee. We have had some fantastic discussions understanding what evacuation meant for those children.
In our afternoon lessons we have been making more links to our war topic by learning to sing ‘The White Cliffs of Dover’ and using graphic scores to help us understand pitch in music. In science we have continued our work on living things and have been working out ways to classify plants. We have also researched ways in which humans can impact habitats.
T1 – Eagles have had a busy couple of weeks with lots of extra curricular activities, as well as continuing our learning.
In maths we are practising methods of written addition and subtraction, as well as continuing to strengthen our times tables knowledge.
In writing, we have researched and written a biography of a famous person – these have included LeBron James, Chris Martin, Ariana Grande and Daniel Radcliffe to name just a few.
We have also been looking ahead to the Harvest service and have sketched some harvest foods and written Harvest poems/prayers.
We all really enjoyed the archery morning and the Tyntesfield trip and the Year 6s loved their visit to Life Skills. We also were visited by staff from Avon Fire and Rescue and we learnt a lot about spotting dangers and keeping safe both at home and around water.
