Welcome to Elm 1!

2025 - 2026

 Miss Aston - Class Teacher
Mrs Winyard, Mrs Whitlock, Mrs K Spencer - Teaching Assistants

Spring 1 

No Place Like Home

As part of Safer Internet Day, Mr Bailey came into school to give Year 1 and Year 2 an assembly to talk about staying safe online, with this year’s theme being ‘Exploring the safe and responsible use of AI’.

The children watched some short videos of their favourite characters, in and around school and were asked to spot the AI fails, where we could tell it was not real. We then looked at some real videos of characters coming to life, through an iPad. We talked about the importance of gaining permission, especially when sharing images, pictures or AI clips and if we didn’t get permission, how this might make someone feel.

Our growth so far from our autumn planting! They are doing so well!

Goldilocks was delighted with the instructions we wrote to show her how to make porridge.

Elm 1 had a lovely afternoon visiting Polesworth Library. We explored all the wonderful books and some of us chose one to take home and read. On our walk back to school we saw lots of ponies in a field as well as ducks and swans swimming on the river. Thank you Polesworth Library.

The children have been really excited over the last couple of weeks with the growth of the bulbs we planted in autumn. They're really coming along!

To get ready for writing our instructions for Goldilocks next week, where we tell her how to make a bowl of porridge, we followed a set of instructions called ‘How to make a pirate hat.’ We also looked closely at the special features of instructions.

Imagine our surprise when, after the Christmas holiday, we found out what had been happening in our classroom