Eagles 2024 - 2025
Mr Orford
Mr Orford is the teacher in Eagles class.
Mrs Parkinson is our fantastic teaching assistant for Eagles class.
Please use the following link if you are a parent and need to connect to your child's class dojo. Your request will be verified by Mr Orford
Class Dojo Parent Link (Click here)
In English this half-term, we will be finding out all about Charles Darwin, the Galapagos Islands and endemic species. This unit links wonderfully to our science topic - Evolution - and allows us to explore report writing. This involves focusing on skills such as: passive verbs, correct use of verb tense, cohesive devices, speech and advanced punctuation. This unit will lead us to write a journalistic report about Charles Darwin's discoveries!
In Maths, we shall be exploring the fractions, decimals and percentages.
Our Science topic for this half term shall be evolution. Throughout this topic, we shall be working towards being able to: plan different enquiry types, take measurements, record data, make predictions and explore scientific evidence to help us describe the genetic changes and traits that species evolve and adapt in order to change.
Our new Geography topic is going to be all about Natural Resources! We shall be exploring what that actually means, what natural resources are found in Great Britain and this will open up to a wider focus that will include biomes.
Our Art and D.T. lessons will be linked to our species and animal theme - creating, designing and producing an animal mask using different mediums.
In P.E., the children will cover invasion games with a focus on tennis and hockey.
Kind regards
Mr Orford
Just a little reminder about attendance – school can’t authorise term-time holidays and ten consecutive missed register marks or ten missed register marks (not consecutive) in a rolling ten-week period will result in fixed penalty notices. Please see: Working together to improve school attendance - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Homework:
Useful websites:
Maths: mathsoftheday.org.uk
TTRockstars (Time Tables), Spag.com and maths.co.uk - Message Mr O on Teams if you've forgotten the password login:
Reading: Find the right book for you and even read the first chapter for free to see if you like it! https://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/