Welcome to Elm class's area of the website. Here you will find all the information you require to support your child in Elm class this term. Elm class is our Upper Key Stage two class and consists of Year 5 and Year 6 pupils. Mrs Winter is the class teacher. The Learning Support Assistants across the week are Mrs Smith, Miss Sherwood, Mrs Curquejo and Mrs Jones.
Elm Class will be enjoying Forest School on Wednesday in terms 1,3 and 6, with Miss Sherwood, our Forest School Lead. PE is on Monday and Wednesday, we ask you to leave PE kit in school all week.
We make sure we have lots of fun and plan exciting, engaging and practical activities for the children to explore! Any trips and themed days will be advised via Arbor and letters will be sent home so watch this space!
The information of the topics that we will be covering will be found here.
Please support your child by helping them with home learning. Our expectations for Year 5 and 6 are:-
Daily
- Read 5 – 10 minutes daily
- 3 days decoding
- 2 days comprehension skills
Weekly
- Word Knowledge – Using school focused spelling patterns to embed knowledge in sentence construction.
- Multiplication booklet and any maths set for the week
Learning Web
Useful websites
- DKfindout! – World War II Facts
- BBC – History World War Two: Summary Outline of Key Events
- Imperial War Museums – The Evacuated Children of the Second World War
- BBC Teach – A news report on the evacuation – Primary History KS2
- Country Life – The wartime recipes that kept Britain going in the Second World War
- Imperial War Museums – Rationing in Britain, 1943
- Imperial War Museums – Air Raid Shelters in London, 1940
- BBC Teach – The Battle of Britain and beyond – History KS2
- Anne Frank House – Anne
Good Reads - Title Author ISBN
• Letters from the Lighthouse Emma Carroll 9780571327584
• DK Eyewitness: World War II DK 9781409343677
• World War Two: Timeline of the Second World War Simon Adams 9781445143477
• Voices from the Second World War – Witnesses
• share their stories with the children of today
• First News 9781406365986
• Horrible Histories: Blitzed Brits Terry Deary 9781407167015
• Fighting Forces of the Second World War: In the Air John C Miles 9781445157856
• Anne Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl Abridged by Mirjam Pressler 9780141345352
