Eagles 2022 - 2023

Mr Orford

Mr Orford is the teacher in Eagles class.

Mrs Parkinson is the fantastic teaching assistant for Eagles class.

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In English this half-term, we will be starting off with poetry in order to get our vocabulary flowing and our use of figurative language and description up and running again. After poetry, for the rest of the half-term we shall be looking at story writing with a flashback feature. This will see us practise writing from different points of view, within different settings and using a variety of characters too. By focusing on character development and setting description, we shall look to: group related ideas into paragraphs, use conjunctions to express time, place and cause whilst, each week, building an increasing range of sentence structures to help create our own stories that will hook our reader and keep them wanting more!

In Maths, we shall be exploring place value in the first few weeks before moving on to the four operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Our Science topic for this half term shall be animals including humans. Throughout this topic, we shall be working towards being able to:

Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and explain the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood
Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function
Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans.

Our new History topic is going to be all about the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons!! We shall be:

exploring what Britain was like before the first Viking

invasions.

finding out about the Viking invasions of Britain.

finding out about the Viking settlement of Britain and

how this affected the Anglo-Saxons.

determining why King Alfred was dubbed ‘Alfred the

Great’.

researching what life was like for Vikings living in

Britain.

exploring how and when England became a unified

country.

finding out all about the end of the Anglo-Saxon and

Viking era in Britain.

Our Art and D.T. lessons will be linked to our Vikings and Anglo-Saxons theme - using various mediums to recreate viking drawings, patterns and styles.

In P.E., the children will cover gymnastics and invasion games.

Kind regards

Mr Orford

Useful websites:

Maths: mathsoftheday.org.uk

Times tables (message Mr O on Teams if you've forgotten the password login):

English: Star of Fear, Star of Hope

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/

Science: Living Things: