Welcome to Elm Class 2025-26!

• PE will be on Thursday afternoons- make sure kit is in school please.
• Homework needs to 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 planners (if they have been handed in)

Any questions/problems- see Mrs Pounder :)

 

Autumn Term 1

ENGLISH

This English unit develops children’s reading comprehension, fluency and vocabulary as they explore the characters, plot and language in the story. Children make connections between the characters and themes to create varied, meaningful writing for a range of audiences and purposes. Grammar and punctuation teaching is embedded within the context of the text, with children exploring the effect language and structures have on the reader. The unit culminates in a final piece of writing where children apply all that they have learned about this story to produce a formal newspaper report telling how the Iron Man saves the world.

 

MATHS

In Year 3, place value learning focuses on three-digit numbers up to 1,000, where children learn to recognize the value of each digit (hundreds, tens, ones), identify numbers, compare and order them using symbols (<, >), find numbers 10 or 100 more or less than a given number, and solve problems using these concepts. They also learn to read and write numbers to 1,000 in words and numerals and partition numbers to understand the value of their digits. 

 

SCIENCE

This unit will focus on :

• identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
• identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement

 

GEOGRAPHY

This unit provides an overview of the locational knowledge of countries in the UK alongside looking at other mayor counties in each continent in the world. It is about ‘record breaker’ features such as longest rivers, tallest mountains and tallest building. Comparisons are made between the UK and countries from each continent. This unit allows for comparison between the UK and other countries in the world.

 

DT

In this unit pupils will be learning about shell structure products. They will explore a range of products, including packaging, and identify the purpose of the shell structure; for protecting, presenting, or containing. Children will disassemble shell structures to investigate how they are made and will learn about how materials are stiffened and strengthened. Children will practise using construction kits and card to make nets of shapes and will develop skills in scoring, cutting out and assembling nets to make 3D shapes. Children will design a shell structure for an intended user and purpose. They will apply their learning from the unit to make their product and will evaluate their completed products, judging the extent to which they have met the original design criteria.

 

ART

Children will develop a range of drawing skills using drawing pencils. They will be learning about the work of L S Lowry and producing artwork in the style of this.

They will begin to use a sketchbook to collect ideas and practice skills.

COMPUTING

Learners will develop their understanding of digital devices, with an initial focus on inputs, processes, and outputs. They will also compare digital and non-digital devices. Next, learners will be introduced to computer networks, including devices that make up a network’s infrastructure, such as wireless access points and switches. Finally, learners will discover the benefits of connecting devices in a network.

RE

In this unit, pupils will learn about the Old Testament people of God and how they lived their lives. They will learn the story of Noah, considering what it was like for him to follow God. They will learn about the covenant that Christians believe that Noah made with God, making links to the promises that Christians make at a wedding ceremony. Pupils will spend time looking at several texts that share stories from the Old Testament people of God in detail. They will consider the importance of returning to the original text for meaning rather than learning the story from videos or children’s books. Later in the unit, pupils will learn about the story of Abram/Abraham and the covenant that he made with God. They will consider why following God might sometimes feel hard for believers.

PE

PE will cover the following skills:

Can sometimes stop a rolling ball.

Make a series of passes to teammates.

Know how to dribble with the correct part of the foot.

Can shoot at a wide target with some power and some accuracy.

Can show how to mark (defend) a player

 

MFL

Where is French spoken and what is France like?

Name and basic greetings

Numbers 1-12 

Age