Eyam

Welcome to Eyam!

Hello everyone, welcome to the class page for Eyam! 👋🌈 Here, I hope you find all the useful information for our class:

- Important days and dates 📅

- Our topics and areas of learning for each term 🎨🧪🏺🗺️📏📝

- Pictures of the exciting activities we have been up to 📷

For anymore information that may be missing, please get in contact with us.

Useful information

Our PE day is Wednesday, please ensure you come in appropriate PE kit as we will be doing a mixture of indoor and outdoor activities.

Spellings

Spellings are now on SpellingShed! Spelling tests will be every Friday. Once the test is done, a new list will be released so you have a week to practise.

Use this link SpellingShed Login Page to get logged on!

Reading

Our library trolley day is on Friday, remember to bring in your library books to change each week 📚. The expectation is that you read every day. You can log your reading on Seesaw or record yourself reading so we can hear you.

Our class novel, this term is Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Chloe Daykin.

What are we learning this term?

This term we are learning about:

In Geography we are learning all about The Amazon.

We will be able:

to use maps and atlases to locate South America and the countries, capital cities within
to compare the geographical features and climate of England and Brazil
to describe the features of the rainforest and how this impacts those living there
to know that uncontacted tribes (indigenous people) live in the Amazon Rainforest
to describe how the rainforest is used by those who live near and it
to explain the impact humans have on the Amazon Rainforest and suggest actions to reduce this impact to be more sustainable

In Science, we will have a Physics focus and will be learning about Forces, we will be able to:

explain that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object
identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces
recognise that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.

In Maths, we will be learning about:

Arithmetic and reasoning practise as part of their SATs preparation

Adding and subtracting decimals up to 3dp
Multiplying and dividing decimals by 10, 100 and 1000
Identifying angles and using a protractor to measure them
Calculating angles on a straight lines and around a point

In English, are learning will be focused around our Geography topic, 'The Amazon':

Setting description of a rainforest
Balanced argument of whether deforestation should be legal or not
Explanation of how a contraption that we have designed works

For more information about what we are learning, please click on the curriculum link below.

Class newsletters

Please find below Eyam class newsletters!

Self portraits inspired by Frida Kahlo

A great session with Shape - We practised our accuracy, balance, communication and reaction times.

Science investigation - separating a mixture, what methods could we use?

World Book Day - Buddy Reading

World Book Day 2022 - Potato Parade

Boogie Bounce

Henry Moore - Underground Tunnel Art

WW2 writing - Battle of Britain non-chronological reports

WW2 artefacts

Visit to Newbold Observatory

We had so much fun at the Observatory on Monday. It was amazing to get to look out of a real telescope! We also found out some very interesting facts about Space. The team at Chesterfield Observatory were extremely impressed with the children and their extensive space knowledge