Eagles Class

Eagles Planning Letter: Autumn Term 1/2 2024 - Invaders & Raiders - Mrs Lancaster

We have enjoyed welcoming all of our Eagles, into class, and beginning to work in collaboration with you.

English

Children will be exploring two texts: Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo (linked to History and Geography and a stimulus for writing). and How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell (used in controlled reading).

They will use the texts to develop several pieces of writing:

persuasive adverts

narratives

They will also explore how authors create images of settings and characters in a reader’s mind, develop empathy for a character, infer information and identify how to use action in their writing.

SPAG

The children will be bringing spellings home weekly to practice. We would appreciate your support with these.

They will recap learning on word classes, sentence structure and speech punctuation, in context.

Science

This term we will be developing our understanding of, electricity.

We will:

improve our understanding of how to use electricity, safely.

learn how to draw and build simple electrical circuits.

explore what happens when voltage or components are changed.

Homework Expectations

Home learning will be set on a Thursday and due in on Tuesday.

Children will also be asked to complete a termly task from the home learning

3 x weekly reading to be recorded in reading records will be sent home

Spellings will be sent home on a Monday for a test on Friday.

Art

We will be studying portraits and using paint and mixed media.

French

We will continue to learn French this term.

Maths

In maths, children will develop fluency, problem solving and reasoning focusing on place value, and four operations This will include the following:

Writing, recognising and comparing numbers up to 1000000

Interpreting negative numbers and looking at intervals between

Rounding numbers of greater Rounding decimals and whole numbers.

add and subtract whole numbers with more than 4 digits, including using formal written methods (columnar addition and subtraction)

add and subtract mentally with increasingly large numbers

History & Geography

Our big question this term is ‘What happened to Britain when the Romans left?’. We will focus on why the Anglo Saxons came to Britain, who ruled Anglo-Saxon Britain and how the was country divided and how Anglo-Saxon England became a Christian country. We will also find out what life was like in an Anglo Saxon Britain including houses, jobs, clothes and leisure.

Religious Education

This term we are exploring the big question: ‘What does it mean if God is holy and loving?’. This will include looking at what the Bible says about God’s character and which symbols, images and colours represent holiness/love?