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PE date change

Due to the upcoming Year SATS asessments, Year 3 will have their PE lessons this coming Tuesday 12th May as opposed to Friday. Please can children wear their PE kits to school on this day.

Art Trip to Pitshanger Manor

As part of Year 3 Art curriculum, we will be visiting Pitshanger Manor on Monday 11th and Thursday 14th May. Dates for individual classes are listed above. This will give children the opportunity to see art first hand and explore a local heritage site. The 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. Full details can be found in the letter below.

Art Pitshanger Manor Trip

Year 3 Campout Residential

Our Year 3 overnight Camp Out will be taking place on the school field from Monday 1st June to Tuesday 2nd June. The experience, delivered by The Outdoors People, includes a range of outdoor and team‑building activities such as campcraft, bushcraft and games, giving children the opportunity to build independence, confidence and teamwork skills.

All children will camp overnight in tents on the Monday evening, with activities running throughout the two days.

The full residential letter with detailed information and equipment and kit list is available here.

The timetable for the residential can be found here for Camp A (3F and 3H) and Camp B (3P and 3S).

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 27.04.26 - Unit 9 - The suffix -ion - action, celebration, collection, distraction, injection, construction

Focus words - difficult, disappear, early, museum, crow, flew

wb 11.05.26 - Unit 10 - The suffix -ian - magician, optician, mathematician, musician, electrician, politician

Focus words - difficult, disappear, early, museum, crow, flew

wb 01.06.26 - Unit 11 - The prefix -re - redecorate, rearrange, rewrite, replace, retrace, refresh

Focus words - strange, occasionally, frantically, were, while, when