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Assessment Week

Assessment week will take place during the first two weeks of the new term, from 6th January to 15th January, including spelling, punctuation and grammar, maths and reading assessments.

British Museum Educational Visit

In order to support our upcoming History unit on Ancient Egypt, Year 3 will be visiting the British Museum on an educational visit this coming term.. This will take place on Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th January during the school day. Further details on the visit will be made available through MCAS. 

If any parents are available to accompany their child's class on the school trip, please make your child's teacher aware and contact the school office to complete a volunteer pack. Thank you in advance for you help.

Cooking & Gardening

Our next gardening and cooking session will be on the week beginning Monday 19th January.

We are proud to offer all pupils the opportunity to take part in cooking sessions during the school day. These sessions take place in the School House kitchen and are led by the class teacher. Please can pupils bring in a container for their cooking sessions in order to store their food.

Fresh ingredients from our school garden are used wherever possible, helping children learn about food, nutrition, and sustainability.

To support this programme, we ask for a voluntary annual contribution of £13.00, which covers the cost of additional ingredients for the full school year (September 2025 – July 2026).

• To contribute, please log into your MCAS account
• The fee can be found in the Clubs section and added to your basket.

Your support helps us continue offering this valuable hands-on learning experience. Thank you!

Healthy Snacks

To help keep energy levels up and minds focused, we encourage pupils to bring a healthy snack for break time.

Great options include:

• Fresh fruit or vegetables
• Plain rice cakes or crackers
• A small pot of dried fruit
• Cheese cubes or yoghurt (in a cool pack)

Please do not send sweets, chocolate, crisps, or fizzy drinks. Let’s work together to support healthy habits and happy learning!

Reading Records

Thank you to those who have remembered to log reading daily in reading records and sign. Please can we remind parents that the expectation is that children read for at least 20 minutes a day, 5 times a week and record in their reading record each time they read. Please can children remember to bring their reading record each day as these will be used to log spellings, reading and usernames and passwords for ICT. Thank you in advance.

Whole Class Reading

For whole class reading sessions this term, we will be reading Flora and Ulysees: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo. Please can we ask parents and carers to obtain a copy of the book to support learning in class, including vocabulary, reading and comprehension sessions.

Reading and/or talking about their reading to an adult for at least 20 minutes, 5 times a week. Complete your child’s reading record each time they read. Remember it doesn’t always have to be their school book. Reading records and reading books should be brought into school daily.

Times Table Rock Stars – children complete at least 5 minutes of Times Table Rock Stars practice at least 3 times a week using the link above. Login details are recorded in reading records.

New spellings to be shared on Mondays and recorded in reading records under current week. Please practice spellings for dictation tests every Friday.

wb 15.12.25 - Unit 2 - Adding the prefix im - imperfect, immoral, impolite, impossible, immature, impatient

Focus words - actually, address, although, because, beautiful, people

wb. 12.01.25 - Unit 3 - Ading the suffix -ous - generous, poisonous, dangerous, famous, mountainous, ridiculous

Focus words - answer, appear, arrive, pretty, floor, busy