Tulip, Blossom & Sunflower Blog - Friday 12th December 2025

 Happy Friday everybody! What a super Christmassy week it has been with our Christmas Jumper Day, Chistmas Dinner, meeting Santa and his reindeer and the Christmas Bazaar! Phew! Next week looks to be a bit quieter but please note the change of date to Tulip and Blossom's last Forest School session on Tuesday.

• Friday 19th December - Last Day of Autumn Term/Wellbeing Day - Children home at 2pm
• Monday 5th January - Children back for Spring Term

Next Forest Schools Session

Please remember your change of clothes/footwear on these dates:

• Tuesday 16th December - Tulip
• Tuesday 16th December - Blossom
• Friday 9th January - Sunflower

Homework

The children have all been working so hard this week on their termly assessments! You will receive their progress report on Wednesday 17th December. As they have been working so hard, we will not be sending any homework/spellings out until after the Chrisrtmas Holidays. However, any reading or times tables practice you can do will greatly help your child hit the ground running in January!

We would like to wish you all a wonderful Christmas and peaceful New Year! We look forward to seeing you all again on Monday 5th January 2026!

Mr Jude, Mrs Witherall & Mrs Devlin

Tulip, Blossom & Sunflower Blog - Friday 5th December 2025

 Happy Friday everybody! We had an amazing time at the Pantomime this week - a curtain raiser to all the fun activities coming up for Christmas:

• Thursday 11th December - Christmas Jumper Day & Christmas Dinner Day
• Friday 12th December - Christmas Bazaar Day
• Friday 19th December - Last Day of Autumn Term/Wellbeing Day - Children home at 2pm
• Monday 5th January - Children back for Spring Term

Next Forest Schools Session

Please remember your change of clothes/footwear on these dates:

• Friday 12th December - Sunflower
• Monday 15th December - Tulip
• Wednesday 17th December - Blossom

Year 3 Homework

Please complete the following pages and return to school by next Wednesday.

GPS - Commands & Exclamations (page 19)

Maths - Using Times Tables Facts (page 27-28)

Year 4 Homework

Please complete the following pages and return to school by next Wednesday.

GPS - Question Marks & Exclamation Marks (page 38-39)

Maths - Rounding (page 12-13)

Spelling Homework - Spelling Frame Year 3/4 Rule 12: The Suffix -ous. (Part 2)

Your child's new spelling list is inside their small spelling book. Use the website Spelling Frame to help practise these words ready for a test on Friday. Login details are stuck inside the front cover of your child's reading diary.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mr Jude, Mrs Witherall & Mrs Devlin

Tulip, Blossom & Sunflower Blog - Friday 28th November 2025

 Happy Friday everybody! Christmas season is certainly with us now and things are getting very busy over the last 3 weeks of term! Here are some reminders of what is coming up:

• Tuesday 2nd December - Pantomime Trip - ***Year 3/4 come to school in their PE kit but can wear a Christmas jumper over this***
• Friday 5th December - Non-school Uniform Day - please bring chocolate donations for Christmas Bazaar
• Thursday 11th December - Christmas Jumper Day & Christmas Dinner Day
• Friday 12th December - Christmas Bazaar Day
• Friday 19th December - Last Day of Autumn Term/Wellbeing Day - Children home at 2pm
• Monday 5th January - Children back for Spring Term

Next Forest Schools Session

Please remember your change of clothes/footwear on these dates:

• Monday 1st December - Tulip
• Wednesday 3rd December - Blossom
• Friday 12th December - Sunflower

Year 3 Homework

Please complete the following pages and return to school by next Wednesday.

GPS - Noun Phrases (page 15)

Maths - The 3, 4 & 8 Times Tables (page 26)

Year 4 Homework

Please complete the following pages and return to school by next Wednesday.

GPS - Noun Phrases (page 16-17)

Maths - Solving Calculation Problems (page 30-31)

Spelling Homework - Spelling Frame Year 3/4 Rule 11: The Suffix -ous.

Your child's new spelling list is inside their small spelling book. Use the website Spelling Frame to help practise these words ready for a test on Friday. Login details are stuck inside the front cover of your child's reading diary.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mr Jude, Mrs Witherall & Mrs Devlin

Tulip, Blossom & Sunflower Blog - 21st November 2025

 Happy Friday everybody! It has been another busy week in Year 3/4! We have been writing newspaper reports about Helen Skelton's Amazon kayaking challenge and learning about the properties of solids, liquids and gases in science among other things!

Year 3 Homework

Please complete the following pages and return to school by next Wednesday.

GPS - Statements & Questions (page 18)

Maths - Solving Number Problems (page 16-17)

Year 4 Homework

Please complete the following pages and return to school by next Wednesday.

GPS - Fronted Adverbials (page 20-21)

Maths - Estimating & Checking (page 24-25)

Spelling Homework - Spelling Frame Year 3/4 Rule 10: The Suffix -sion.

Your child's new spelling list is inside their small spelling book. Use the website Spelling Frame to help practise these words ready for a test on Friday. Login details are stuck inside the front cover of your child's reading diary.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mr Jude, Mrs Witherall & Mrs Devlin

Tulip, Blossom & Sunflower Blog - Friday 14th November 2025

 Happy Friday everybody! It has been an exciting beginning of the second half of the Autumn Term as we have just had (or about to have!) our first Forest Schools lesson! Look out for all the fabulous photos in the upcoming newsletters to see all the wonderful things we have been up to!

Year 3 Homework

Please complete the following pages and return to school by next Wednesday.

GPS - Paragraphs (page 64-65)

Maths - Estimating & Checking (page 29)

Year 4 Homework

Please complete the following pages and return to school by next Wednesday.

GPS - Paragraphs (page 64-65)

Maths - Using Times Tables (page 26)

Spelling Homework - Spelling Frame Year 3/4 Rule 9: The Suffix -ure.

Your child's new spelling list is inside their small spelling book. Use the website Spelling Frame to help practise these words ready for a test on Friday. Login details are stuck inside the front cover of your child's reading diary.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mr Jude, Mrs Witherall & Mrs Devlin

Tulip, Blossom & Sunflower Blog - Friday 7th November 2025

 Happy Friday everybody! Welcome to the second half of the Autumn Term!

Year 3 Homework

Please complete the following pages and return to school by next Wednesday.

GPS - Present Tense & Past Tense (page 26-27)

Maths - Written Subtraction (page 25)

Year 4 Homework

Please complete the following pages and return to school by next Wednesday.

GPS - Present Tense & Past Tense/Verbs with -ing (page 26-27

Maths - Area (page 54-55)

Spelling Homework - Spelling Frame Year 3/4 Rule 8: The Suffix -ly.

Your child's new spelling list is inside their small spelling book. Use the website Spelling Frame to help practise these words ready for a test on Friday. Login details are stuck inside the front cover of your child's reading diary.

Samaritans Purse Shoebox appeal

We are collecting items and are hoping that each class can pack a shoebox for one boy and one girl. It would be wonderful if everybody could donate one small item to help us to achieve this. There is information about the items that can be placed into the boxes on the website  here. We would like to thank you in advance for your generosity and kindness.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mr Jude, Mrs Witherall & Mrs Devlin

Tulip, Blossom & Sunflower Blog - Friday 24th October 2025

 Happy Friday, everybody and unbelievably here we are at the end of our first half term! It has been a busy and long week with our trip to the Science Museum but we saw so much there - look for our photos in this week's newsletter!

Cauliflower Christmas Cards

All the children will have come home this week with their Christmas card design attached to the order form. If you wish, these designs can be turned into not just Christmas cards but mugs, books and wrapping paper too! If you do want to have the design realised into any of these items you need to place the order online first. All the details about how to do this are clearly set out on the form that came home. Once you have placed the order online, you must tick the box indicated and return the artwork and form back to school by Tuesday 4th November so we can send it away to be printed. If you do not wish for your child's design to be made into items then you do not need to return the artwork.

The children have worked so hard this half term so we want them all to have a rest over half term. To this end, we will not be sending home homework books over half term and will be carrying over the spellings to be tested on the first Friday back. We would encourage you, however, to read with your child as regularly as you can.

Have an amazing half term and we will see you all back here on Tuesday 4th November!

Lots of love

Mr Jude, Mrs Witherall & Mrs Devlin