Eagle Class

Teachers:  Miss Bryant and Mrs Starr

Adults in Class: Mrs Smith, Mrs McCluskey

Welcome to Eagle Class. We are a Year  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.

Term 2 Update

Eagle class have been working hard as the term continues.

In writing, we have moved on to a new unit of instructions and have thought about features such as imperative verbs and adverbials of time and manner and how to use these in our writing. We also had a go at creating some silly instructions such as How to Burn Toast and How Not to Feed A Dragon.

In maths, we are continuing with our fractions topic and have been learning how to multiply fractions by whole numbers as well as multiplying fractions by fractions and also dividing fractions by whole numbers. We have enjoyed watching humorous songs to help us learn the methods.

In French, we are learning how to describe family members, including their hair and eye colour as well as their age and when their birthday is. We have looked at how sentences in French are structured differently to sentences in English.

In DT, we are enjoying a topic of gears and pulleys – in our previous lesson, we investigated how gears work. This week we have thought about the design of teeth and how they can line up to rotate multiple cogs in a sequence.

Term 2

Eagle class have had a great start back to Term 2.

In English, we have begun our next narrative unit by looking at a detailed character description of Cerberus and identifying powerful vocabulary, expanded noun phrases, similes and metaphors.

In maths, we have begun our fractions topic by identifying and simplifying equivalent fractions, as well as how to compare and order them.

In history this week, we learnt about the Ancient Greek games and compared them to modern disciplines today. We enjoyed learning about the social and religious aspects of the games and had chance to plan out a schedule for our own games.

In music, we have begun a theme and variations unit and spent time learning a rhythm and performing it in different ways – clapping, stamping, tapping on knees, tapping on the table, singing and trying it backwards which proved to be the most difficult!

We started and ended the week with a focus on Remembrance – on Monday, we created a variety of poppy art in our community groups (please see the boards on display). On Friday, we had Remembrance service in school, which included the circles of reflection in the playground and then hearing from Nigel who told us all about his time in the RAF.

We also finished the week with our class showcase and really enjoyed sharing our learning with family members – thank you everyone who came along.

Life Skills

October 2025

Eagle class visited the Life Skills Centre in Bristol. They had a very informative morning, learning about risks and dangers in the home and community and most importantly, how to keep safe. They visited and interacted with many different scenarios including how to phone 999 for fire, ambulance and police. They learned about electrical and gas safety, as well as potential dangers in the home and garden. The volunteers who ran the session expressed how impressed they were with our children as they were polite, engaging and knowledgeable.

Term 1 Update

We have got off to an excellent start in Eagle class as term 1 continues.

In reading, we are enjoying ‘Who Let the Gods Out’ and in particular working on our inference skills.

In writing, we have been planning and writing a narrative piece based on a video called The Alchemist’s Letter. This has given us a great opportunity to develop our vocabulary skills and use our imaginations to build on what we have seen in the video.

In art, we are learning about Ancient Greek vases. We have created some positive and negative art pictures and, most recently, we have learnt specific patterns and have begun to apply these to our own designs.

Welcome Back

In Eagle Class, we have enjoyed exploring the etymology of words through our class poem ‘Newt’ that we also performed in a whole school service. Using the vivid descriptions, we delved into our creative side and sculpted our very own newts out of clay that we then painted using acrylic paints.

In maths we have been consolidating our skills in place value and familiarising ourselves with the structure of KS2 SAT arithmetic papers to make sure we know exactly how to answer questions. We have also enjoyed the new addition of Numeracy Ninjas to our maths learning and are excited to see who earns their black belt first.

Last Thursday we got our new topic off to a flying start with a Greek emersion day where we enjoyed learning about the ancient Greek alphabet and how to write our names, we cooked some traditional Greek food and tasted it, made laurel wreaths for our heads and investigated the useful Achimedes Principal in science.

We cannot wait to get stuck into all this year has to offer and are excited to share our journey with you.