Welcome to Year 6 Eagles Class 2025-2026! 

We hope you enjoy looking at our Class Pages and seeing some of the activities we carry out as the year progresses.

Term 1

The Amazing Tale of Ali Pasha.

This has been our ‘class read’ this term.  We have learnt a lot about life during the First World War in preparation for our topic on the Second World War next term.   

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 drawn accurate circuit diagrams using scientific symbols.  We learnt about an inspiring scientist named Marie Van Brittan Brown who designed her own home burglar alarm system. 

We have also worked in groups on a D&T project which involved designing and creating a prototype for an electrical game.  These needed to include a switch and at least two circuits.  Our games were well received by Kingfishers Class, who tried them and offered us feedback so that we could evaluate their effectiveness. 

Homelearning

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.  Many of us have used technology effectively by creating powerpoints and word processing our research.  When learning our spellings, we have used Spelling Shed, practised using ‘look/cover/check/write’ and tried many other creative techniques to improve our spelling scores.

English – story writers and poets!

We have begun reading 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 with a focus on dialogue.  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 enjoyed playing hockey in the sun and learnt how to hold a hockey stick correctly, push and receive the ball, intercept and niggle the ball safely, control the ball and defend and attack in games. In gymnastics we have learnt how to mirror, match and contrast balances and sequences both on and off apparatus.

Harvest Performance – presentational skills!

We finished this term by performing our whole class poem: The Autumnal Gift 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.  We learnt it off-by-heart in order to recite it, were creative in its presentation and performed it with confidence.  Everyone worked collaboratively and it was wonderful to end the term together as a class.

These Eagles have read and maintained records in their reading record journals every week this term!  We are all very proud of them!

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

Best wishes, Mrs Jandu J