Elm 2025 - 2026
Autumn 1
In Elm this term, we have been very busy. We have settled back into year 3 and 4 really well.
We have travelled back in time to the Stone Age, with our topic of 'From Stones to Swords! We have enjoyed learning about how their lifestyle and looking at how it has changed over time. In our art lessons we looked at prehistoric cave paintings, we then got to create our own prehistoric paint which we used to paint our own cave paintings! Elm visited the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre in Craven Arms and took part in Stone Age and Iron Age activities. We had a great day and got up to lots such as preparing for a hunt, spear throwing, Celtic face painting and we even saw the most complete mammoth skeleton in the whole of Britain!
Autumn 2
This term has been busy and exciting in Elm class! Our topic this half term has been ‘Escape from Pompeii’. We have enjoyed learning about volcanoes and rocks as well as what happened in Pompeii. During our parent workshop afternoon, we enjoyed planning and making volcanoes with our families. The best part was experimenting and making the volcanoes erupt, some more than once! As well as learning about our topic we have also been preparing for the Christmas Nativity at the church! The children have worked really hard on singing the songs for KS1’s Nativity performance and they did an incredible job!
The children have explored calypso music this half term with Mrs Dyche, we have listened to different pieces and worked together as a class to create and sing our own! We even recognised some of the music out of the movie Paddington! In literacy we have wrote a newspaper report on the Sainsbury’s Christmas advert and a set of instructions on how to steal Christmas!