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Dirty Beasts - we wrote our own rhyming couplets about a dirty beast we had invented. We then illustrated our Dirty Beasts in water colour.

Our Science topic this half term is 'Light and Shadow'. This week we set up a fair test to find out which material would be most suitable for a new book bag design. We found that foil was the most reflective.

In English, we have been reading Roald Dahl's Dirty Beasts. We have created our own and have written a short story and poems about them. We have now painted our Dirty Beasts in water colour. Coming soon to our Art gallery!

Our new History topic is 'The Romans'

There is a new homework challenge on Google classroom.  The children have been learning about inverted commas to show speech.  Can they write a kind comment on Google classroom in the correct area, using the correct speech punctuation?

In Science, we have been learning about different types of skeletons; we then compared animals' skeletons to our own. We are also learning the names of the bones in our bodies.

Autumn Term 2020

 

Welcome to the Elm class page.  Mrs Lane and Mrs Edwards look forward to showing you all of the amazing activities the Elm class children will be taking part in over the coming year.  Please find the topic web attached for the Autumn term.

Here are some really useful reading resources for finding your next book!

Home Learning

There is a brilliant website to help you with your maths!

There are video links, great games and challenging activities at all levels to build up confidence and have fun with maths.  Please give it a go!

http://www.iseemaths.com/home-lessons/

Topic Webs

Elm class STEM challenge - Who can design and build the tallest free-standing tower using only paper and masking tape?

Our topic for the Spring term is 'Grand Designs'. Please take a look at our topic web to find out about our learning and for some ideas for Home Learning.

ICT - to help us make predictions for programming we acted out the blocks before we used it in Scratch

WANTED! Sheep Rustlers! A terrible crime has been committed, all of Elm class are suspects! Their fingerprints have been taken and we hope to discover who is the sheep rustler!

Christmas craft has started in Elm class!

Fantastic Mr Fox - the children created some brilliant settings which helped them to produce some wonderfully innovated writing about 'Wonderful Mr Weasel'

Year 3 Sleepover at school. A super opportunity to try different activities such as fire-making, orienteering, arts and even making our own beds! The night was rounded off by a sing-song around the campfire with smores! Delicious!

Autumn term topic web 'Marvellous Me'

Welcome to the Elm class page.  Mrs Lane and Mrs Edwards look forward to showing you all of the amazing activities the Elm class children will be taking part in over the coming year.  Please find the topic web attached for the Autumn term.

Elm class had a wonderful afternoon at the Kingfisher Project field trip. The children astounded me with their knowledge and their impeccable behaviour was commented on by all of the Kingfisher Project volunteers.

Welcome to the Summer term, please take a look at our topic web to see what we will be learning

Where will the river take us?

Uncharted Territories - our journey has begun

Welcome to the Spring term!

Year 4 making sound experiments

Year 3 study on light and shadow culminating in fantastic shadow puppet theatre shows!

Year 4 creating their own electric circuits

Roman numerals

Shape exploration

Autumn topic web

We investigated parallel and perpendicular lines around the playground and checked our answers using the ipads and QR codes.

We were inquisitive scientists on our trip to 'We the Curious'

Our Dahlicious Peach juice for Roald Dahl day!

A very warm welcome to the Elm class page.  In Elm class, Mrs Lane is our teacher and she is supported by Mrs Edwards.  We would love to share our learning with you, so please check this class page for regular updates.

We rescheduled 'French Friday' this week to 'French Thursday' as we had a very important French visitor.

We have taken full advantage of the sunshine for our science topic. The children produced some amazing artwork.

Fractions with pizza and chocolate 😊

Measurement and perimeter

Elm class turned the rock cycle into a choc cycle today. We created magma (melted chocolate), exposed our chocolate to erosion and created sediment (grated chocolate) and then added more layers for our sedimentary rock (Rice Krispies and marshmallows). We then heated our rock to see it's changes (metamorphic rock).

We had fantastic fun creating our theatre boxes to stage our shows starring Mozart and Lloyd-Webber!

Science day - which era did the ancient poo come from?

World Book Day, before the snow arrived in force!

The children were super excited about their fencing session. Some future Olympians maybe?

Skip2befit!

The children made a human bar graph to show their favourite sports.

Fantastic fossils that the children made

We have been studying Vincent Van Gogh. We used oil pastels to create our own sunflower artwork.

We have been rock detectives! We have discovered the characteristics of rocks, are they permeable? Do they sink or float? These clues helped us to find out what type of rock they were.

There has been a crime committed in Elm class! We have photo-fits of the suspects and have taken fingerprints. Who are the sheep-rustlers?

Wow! What a fantastic finale to our Ancient Greece topic! We prepared a feast of Greek food that we shared with Willow class and the children performed their Greek dance routines! Opa!

The children designed and crafted Grecian pottery, the attention to detail was outstanding!

Elm class had a visit from some amazing scientists today. We learnt lots of fantastic facts about the Earth, the Sun and the stars. We have some budding astronomers in class!

Remembrance Day

In RE we have been learning about different religions. This week we made kippahs as part of our study of the Jewish faith.

Elm class Olympics

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Javelin throwing

Elm class Olympics

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Chariot racing

Elm class Olympics

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The opening ceremony

Ancient Olympics. What an amazing, fun-filled afternoon. The olympics began with a procession following the Olympic torch. Our first event was the chariot race, we then moved outside to throw the javelin. This was shortly followed by the foot races where the competitors had to run in full armour! Our final event was the discus. Our closing ceremony took place in the hall with the winning teams' captains receiving an olive crown and leading the closing parade!

In Science we are learning about different types of skeletons. We had great fun finding all the bones in our bodies and then putting together a skeleton as a team.

Hazel class came to test our knowledge on Greece with some fantastic facts. They even tried to trick us with some false information, but there was no fooling Elm class.

We are reading 'The Magic Treehouse, Olympic challenge'. We got into roles as characters from the book to help with our understanding and innovation of the story.

Elm class have become travel agents, in groups they have researched an island of their choice, created a poster and presented their island to the class. The group's intention was for their island to be where everyone would like to visit.

The children celebrated Roald Dahl day in style with some fantastic and original outfits!

  • 3 times table We have been learning and practising our 3 times table.  Please use the link for our funky 3 times table song to the tune of 'Uptown Funk'. It may drive you crazy, but it's a great way for the children to learn.

Welcome!

In Elm class, Mrs Lane is our teacher and she is supported by Miss Hornby and Ms Lasseter.

Elm class had an amazing time at the Kingfisher Project learning about Crops, Raptors and Pollinators

Elm, Ash and Oak class evacuees on their steam train ride to Minehead.

Year 3 have been studying playscripts.  They adapted parts of Roald Dahl stories and created their own performances.  

Living with war

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Elm class have began immersing themselves in their new topic. Taking on the roles of evacuees and practicing air raid drills. We have also built an Anderson shelter in our classroom.

Volcanic eruption

Welcome to Elm Class!

From Mrs Lane and Mrs Hunt

 

 

Wessex Water visit - Elm class found out how to save and respect our water as part of our Extraordinary Earth topic.

Kingsbury Episcopi book day - the children looked fantastic in their costumes!