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Kew Bridge Educational Visit

Gardening and Cooking

Geography Trip to Kew Bridge

As part of Year 3’s Fielding Learning Challenge Curriculum about rivers, we will be visiting Kew Bridge on Wednesday 22nd April during the school day. This will give children the opportunity to study the features of rivers and surrounding areas. This trip is free.

In order for the trip to take place, we would be very grateful for adult volunteers. Please let your class teachers know if you are able to volunteer. Please provide permission for your child to attend on MCAS.

Full details can be found in the letter below.

Geography Kew Bridge Visit

Cooking & Gardening

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.

Our next sessions start on the week beginning Monday 9th March 2026.

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 in Summer term, we will be reading 'Seed' by Caryl Lewis.

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 the current week. Please practice spellings for dictation tests every other Friday.

wb. 13.04.26 - Unit 8 - The sh sound spelt ch - chef, machine, parachute, chalet, moustache, brochure

Focus words - complete, consider, continue, everybody, father, people