Welcome to Elm Class

A very warm welcome to Elm class web page – We hope you find the information below useful!

Welcome to Term 5.

Amongst other things, this term we will be learning about: 

Geography: Megacities and Sustainability

Science: Electricity

R&WV: Understanding Christianity and Humanism

PE

Please make sure that children come to school in their uniform everyday and bring their PE kit with them on the first day of term to leave in school.  This is: a plain red or Saltford T shirt, shorts/jogging bottoms, trainers and a plain hooded top. Please ensure all items are named.

Swimming – Monday morning

Outdoor PE – Thursday afternoon

Homework

The children have several homework activities given over the course of the week.

Reading: we encourage the children to read their book at home for a minimum of 20 minutes each day. Even though the children are older and may need less support with actually reading the words, they still need to discuss their reading with an adult, talking about characters, plot and any tricky vocabulary. Although we encourage the children to keep a record of their own reading, it is very useful if you could sign their record books regularly. (Children get house points in class for regular reading at home.) 

For more information about activities to support reading and recommended books, please see our Reading Room page here.

Spellings are given each Friday for a test on the following Friday, accompanied by a short activity based on a spelling pattern studied in class. Children will keep their spelling books in school to write their spellings each day as part of their morning activities. For homework, we expect 5 sentences, using the spelling words for the week, to be recorded in planners. For more information on our new spelling scheme, please see the letter here.

Maths homework is checked on a Wednesday, there will be an expectation of completing DoodleMaths and Doodle Tables 4-5 times a week, for about 10 minutes each time. We also encourage the children to use TT Rockstars to help them with their multiplication tables.

English homework is given out on Friday to be handed in on the following Friday. 

Further information

For more information, please click on the link for a copy of our class letter.

You can see a copy of our welcome presentation from September 2025 here.

A copy of our camp meeting presentation can be found here.