Welcome to Elm Class 2025-26!

• PE will be on WEDNESDAY afternoons- make sure kit is in school please.
• Homework needs to be handed in ASAP to allow time for marking. New homework will be given out every Friday.
• Spellings will be tested on Friday and new ones stuck in homework books (if they have been handed in)

Any questions/problems- see Mrs Pounder :)

 

Spring Term 2

ENGLISH

This six-week unit is a study of the children’s classic, The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams, written in 1920. This sequence of learning will develop children’s understanding of the story, characters, themes and language. The unit teaches reading, including fluency, vocabulary and comprehension and meaningful writing, for a range of forms, purpose and audience. The teaching of grammar and punctuation is embedded within analysis of the language and structures used to tell the story, with children exploring the effect these might have on readers. The children are taught to apply what they have learnt to their own writing, making choices to affect their reader’s thoughts and feelings. All learning culminates in a final piece of writing, where the children apply all that they have learned about this story to create an original story of their own, drawing on the writing style of Margery Williams, and language and sentence structures from the 1920s. This story will give the children an opportunity to write in a very formal style.

 

MATHS

Fractions

In Year 3 (ages 7–8), children move beyond basic halves and quarters to explore fractions as numbers in their own right. The curriculum focuses on understanding how wholes are split into equal parts and introduces more complex concepts like tenths and equivalence.

They will continue to learn the multiplication tables and corresponding facts.

3x 4x 8x 11x moving on to 6x 12x 9x when ready

 

History- The Iron age

 

This continues children’s learning about pre-historic Britain. They will learn about changes from the Stone Age to the Iron Age – a period of 2500 years! These will include the changes brought by the Beaker people to Britain and the impact from bronze to iron tools and weapons. Pupils will also start to understand that Britain became a very wealthy country and deduce the possible reasons for Caesar’s invasion.  The children will continue to investigate issues and solve valid historical questions as well as to use the evidence to pose their own enquiry questions. This will all build upon the skills they started to acquire in the first unit. There is also a strong emphasis on knowledge and developing the historical narrative so that the children can fit their learning into future units at KS2 and beyond.

 

ART Portraits

 

This focusses on teaching children about facial proportions, diverse artistic styles, and the stories behind the subjects. 

Key Skills and Techniques include-

Proportions: Students learn to use guidelines to place features accurately—for example, eyes are typically positioned halfway down the head. 

Observational Drawing: Using mirrors to create lifelike self-portraits or "look up, not down" exercises to draw partnersThey will continue to use a sketchbook to collect ideas and practice skills.

 

COMPUTING - Sequencing Sounds

 

This unit explores the concept of sequencing in programming through Scratch. It begins with an introduction to the programming environment, which will be new to most learners. They will be introduced to a selection of motion, sound, and event blocks which they will use to create their own programs, featuring sequences. The final project is to make a representation of a piano. The unit is paced to focus on all aspects of sequences, and make sure that knowledge is built in a structured manner. Learners also apply stages of program design through this unit.

 

DT - Healthy and Varied Diet

In this unit pupils will learn about the principles of a healthy and varied diet, linking back to food that was gathered and eaten during the Stone Age. They will investigate and evaluate a range of healthy eating products, considering taste, appearance, texture and smell. Pupils will learn to use a range of equipment and utensils to prepare ingredients and will follow a simple recipe to make a healthy eating product that combines foods collected by Hunter Gatherers

 

RE  What do Christians learn from the Creation Story?

This unit focusses on the stories of Creation and the Fall as two parts of the ‘Big Story’ of the Bible. Pupils familiarise themselves with the first Creation story from Genesis and key messages within it for many Christians about the world being good and how Christians are called to look after God’s world. They move on to think about the story of Adam and Eve and how the Fall fits into the ‘Big Story’ of the Bible.

 

 

PE- Fitness

Lesson 1: How fit am i?

Lesson 2: Aerobic exercises

Lesson 3: Co-ordination and control

Lesson 4 : How long can you exercise for?

Lesson 5: Circuit development  

Lesson 6: Re-test fitness

 

MFL

- Key classroom language 

- Animals 

- Colours