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Eagles

Welcome to Year 6 Eagles Class 2024-2025! 

We have made a fantastic start to our learning this year.

Term 1

Electrifying Games!

In Science, we have learnt about electricity.  This has included investigating the brightness of a bulb and the volume of a buzzer in relation to the voltage used in the circuit.  We have also worked in threes on a D&T project which involved designing and creating a prototype for an electrical game. Our games were well received by Kingfishers Class, who tried them and offered us feedback so that we could evaluate their effectiveness.  We enjoyed working on following an enquiry:  ‘Is salt dough a conductor of electricity?’ by finding ways to use salt dough in a circuit in which a LED bulb was lit using 9 volts.  As part of our home learning, we researched NikolaTesla, conductors and insulators, whether water is a conductor of electricity and the effectiveness of green power – some of us made some fantastic wind turbine models.

 

Sustainability advocates!

This term, Eagles Class participated in an online event with NFU Education.  This involved learning more about farming in the UK and also aimed to inspire children to connect with careers in science, technology and engineering.  The children were taken on a journey around several farms, meeting farmers from diverse backgrounds and hearing about what their work involved.  They learnt how celery, wheat and chillis are harvested along with how meat and eggs are brought to supermarkets.  These ingredients were then collected in a kitchen and used to make Caribbean curry patties.  The children learnt a lot and were keen to get involved in the cooking aspect of the experience.  Please find Tan Rosie's Secret Recipe for these patties on the Eagles Class Google Classroom if you would like to have a go.

 

English – story writers and poets!

Our class reading book this term was An Eagle in The Snow by Michael Morpurgo.  We used this story as inspiration to write a setting description and further developed it into a narrative.  We also wrote our own versions of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem: An Eagle and created a display of our published poems with illustrations. 

P.E – hockey players and gymnasts!

We have worked collaboratively and with great enthusiasm on our hockey skills as well as our gymnastics skills whereby we learnt how to mirror, match and contrast sequences both on and off apparatus.

Harvest Performance – presentational skills!

We finished this term by performing our whole class poem: Autumnal Treasure Box to our parents and the rest of the school.  We wrote this as a whole class; it was inspired by Kit Wright’s Magic Box poem, and learnt it off-by-heart in order to recite it with confidence.  We all felt very proud of everyone’s performance.

Eagles Class deserve a wonderful half-term break – full of autumnal treasures!

Best wishes, Mrs Jandu J

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