Welcome to Eagle class! Our teacher is Mrs Thomas, who is really good at maths and sport (especially football), and is really keen to make the whole school as active as possible!     

• Our curriculum map - find out about our current topics
• Our latest school newsletter
• Meet our school councilors, Alfie and Destiny

Home learning ideas:

• All of the maths we’re doing this term is dependent on quick recall of tables facts, so it would be brilliant if you could work on this. Focus on one table at a time and try: 
  • Making-up rhymes to help remember number facts (“4 x 6 is 24, bears growl and lions roar!”) 
  • Looking for numbers in that table in the world around you - on doors, car number plates, in phone numbers or when you’re out shopping. 
  • Writing-out tables with finger paints, chalk or water-on-tarmac, or make them from playdoh. 
  • Chanting, singing, whispering... Say tables out loud together whenever you have the chance.
• Each week we are set spellings to learn. Click here for guidance on strategies you can use to support your child in learning these at home.  
• We're exploring rivers and mountains in geography. We’re disappointingly short on these in our part of Hertfordshire, so if the opportunity arrives for a visit to an interesting riverside (on the way back from a day out or just for a Sunday afternoon walk), that’d be great. If you’ve ever been to the Alps, Scottish Highlands or anywhere else mountainous, sharing your experiences (and, better still, photos) would really help us to better understand what these environments are like.
• In science, we're exploring life-cycles. What ‘baby’ animals can you see when you’re out and about? Which look like small versions of their parents (like ducklings) and which look very different (like tadpoles)? 

Our latest news:

• To celebrate World Book Day, we transformed the classroom into a courtroom for a dramatic retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We were split into two teams: the defence, determined to prove Goldilocks’ innocence, and the prosecution, equally determined to send her straight to bear-jail! Everyone had a proper role to play - judge, lawyers, witnesses, jury members, even a very serious-looking court clerk. Goldilocks herself (played by Ayo) delivered an Oscar-worthy performance, complete with dramatic pauses and even a few tears to win the jury over. The Bears also gave powerful evidence… though Baby Bear did seem very upset about that broken chair. After a lively debate and much pointing of fingers, the jury reached their final verdict… and poor Goldilocks was declared guilty! The activity was a huge hit, filled with laughter, drama and some impressive acting talent that really brought the story to life! Bedwell School News : March 2026 
 

 
• Lots of us took part in the Young Voices project, which gave us the chance to sing at the O2 in front of an audience of 10,000! You can find out more about our experiences here.   
 

 
• A group from Year 6 have thoroughly enjoyed throwing themselves into a series of workshops linked to STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. The project, organised by local charity STEMPOINT, has seen us working with scientists and engineers from companies like Airbus, GSK, Unilever and Thames Water. We have learnt how to use real world lab equipment, built boats, explored risk, carried out lots of tests and even designed fuel tanks for spacecraft (with a real rocket scientist!) It has been great fun to take part in these sessions, and it has also introduced us to lots of careers that we never knew existed.
 

 
• With great excitement, Years 5 and 6 ventured to Hogwarts at the Harry Potter Studios in Leavesden. We started off with a creative writing workshop, where some secrets and tricks of the trade were shared with us. Then, after entering through the magical Great Hall, we were able to talk to experts about props, costumes and makeup, fly on a Nimbus 2000, walk inside the Hogwarts Express and experience the effects that were used in the films. Diagon Alley, Gringotts Bank, the Dursley’s House and the Forbidden Forest were all there for us to explore.
 

 
• Everyone in Year 5 and 6 thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the Bikeability project, which took place in May. Led by instructors from the HCC Cycling team, we all completed Level 1 training, learning to ride safely and control our bikes on the playground. The vast majority of us then progressed onto Level 2, which saw us heading out and about on local roads. As the week went on, each group went on longer and more complex rides, exploring local roads, learning to recognise potential dangers and getting used to riding on roads with other traffic. By the end of the week, 82 children had completed the course, and we were all presented with certificates and badges as a reward for our hard work.
 

We have been learning about... 

Science - This term we have focused on exploring electricity, finding out where it comes from, how it travels and how circuits really ‘work’. We’ve carried out an investigation to find out what affects the brightness of a lightbulb, and were lucky enough to take part in a work shop as part of this year’s Science Week, which taught us more about static electricity and the role of electrons.

English - In English, we have been writing stories in the style of Greek Myths and Fairytales as well as producing persuasive speeches which we presented in the style of the TV Show Room 101. We worked on balancing believable detail with the rhetorical tricks that make our arguments really convincing, in order to win-over our audience. 

Geography - Our learning this term has centred on Brazil. We have explored the different landscapes, climate, living conditions and culture found in this huge South American country. To accompany this, we made our own carnival masks, thinking about pattern, colour choices and how to decorate in an eye-catching way. You can see examples of our amazing creations below. 

This term's topics

English - Our next writing unit will see us exploring biographies. We will read about the lives of people who survived in difficult and dangerous places, like Ernest Shackleton and Aron Ralston, and use these texts to help us to develop our understanding of different tenses and the passive voice. We will learn to use brackets, commas or dashes for parenthesis, as well as exploring the use of semi-colons and colons to help the reader to get to grips with complex texts. Finally, we will combine all of these skills to draft, edit and present biographies of our own, retelling the lives of inspirational people we have chosen. Throughout the term we will also continue to work on improving our spelling through lessons and homework.

Maths - Year 6 will be working hard to revisit and revise the key maths knowledge we have worked on over the last year, so that we are as prepared as possible for our SATs in May. We will continue to practice our arithmetic skills every day (particularly those tricky fraction, percentage and division calculations), and will be working to apply what we know to new problem solving situations, often involving money and measures. We will be brushing-up on our understanding of time, angles and co-ordinates, and will have opportunities to suggest key areas that we would like to revise in our last few lessons before our tests. Then, once all that is out of the way, we have some fun work on nets and pie charts to look forward to.

Science - Our next science topic will see us investigating the life cycles of lots of different living things - from mammals to amphibians to insects to birds. We will identify the different stages that each creature goes through, and explore similarities and differences between them all. We will also look at the human life-cycle, thinking about the stages that we go through.

Humanities - This half-term we will focus on geography, starting by looking at major rivers around the world and discovering why they are so significant for the people and around them. We will look at different parts of river systems, understanding how they are formed, how they change over time, and how they interact with the landscapes they travel through. Following on from this, we will be focussing on mountain environments, locating the world’s major mountains and ranges on a variety of maps. We will discover the ways in which mountain ranges are formed and the reasons why they are found in particular parts of the world. We will round-off our unit by exploring the impact that humans are having on river and mountain environments around the world.

Take a look at our curriculum map for more information on our topics.