Elm Class 2024 - 2025

Welcome to Elm Class!

Year 3 and 4

We are very fortunate to have lots of adults helping us in Elm Class. Our class teacher is Mrs Jones. Mr Ellinson will also be teaching us science on Wednesday afternoon and Mrs McCracken will take the year 4s for French whilst Mrs Jones teaches year 3s French on Thursdays.

 Our fabulous teaching assistants are Mrs Holder and Mrs Barratt. 

Rewards/ Behaviour 

As a school, one way we award positive behaviour is through Class Dojo. We get these when we are well behaved and when we do great work. It is very exciting to see which monster will have the most points at the end of the week and half term. 

We celebrate lots of different achivements in the week. We have a mathematician and writer of the week, reader of the week and a Values Champion - someone who has been a positive role model in the class. All these awards will be handed out in Celebration Assembly on a Friday. We also send home a weekly email to parents/carers for our "achiever" of the week and our Super Scientist of the week will have their name displayed on a class certificate for all to see. In addition to all of these, we are now also celebrating our handwriting champions of the week for those who are demonstrating extra effort in their handwriting across subjects. 

PE 

PE will take place on  Monday and Friday afternoon.  Please can you ensure your child comes into school wearing their full PE kit, suitable for outdoors (dark blue or black hoodie and shorts/leggings and a white T-shirt).This includes appropriate footwear (black pumps or trainers).  

Forest School -  We have Forest School in Autumn 2 AND Spring 2 so please bring in weather-suitable clothes to change into after lunch as well as coats and wellies. Thanks! 

Reading

We reward our readers! We ask that children in Year 3 and 4 read at least four times a week. We would encourage the children to read a range of different texts. This could range from a magazine to novels to poetry! We reward this effort at home with dojos in class and golden tickets. In line with the school procedures, reading books will be changed by an adult on Tuesdays. Children are also welcome to read books from home as well and document these in their reading records. If you need support with what type of comprehension questions to ask your child, just let us know and we can provide some ideas. 

Please also send in some photos of your child reading in an unusual place- we love putting these up on display!

Snacks/Water

Children are encouraged to bring a healthy snack (e.g fruit, veggie sticks, cereal bars, etc.) in for break as this is unfortunately no longer provided in Key Stage 2. Please also bring in a water bottle every day. Thanks! 

Homework

Spelling homework will be sent home every Friday. As times tables are also completed at school, we also encourage children to practise their times tables at home on a regular basis. As such, Times Table Rock Stars have been made available for the class and all have been given a log in for this. 

There will also be a menu of options for one half-termly project. These creative pieces of work allow children to explore our topic in more depth at home and also give them the opportunity to share their learning with the class.

If you have any questions, queries or problems please do not hesitate to ask a member of the Elm Class team. We're all very much looking forward to an exciting and successful academic year!

Thank you!