Tulip, Blossom & Sunflower Blog - Friday 30th January 2026

 Happy Friday everybody! Welcome to this week's blog. We hope you have all had a fantastic week!

• Thursday 5th March - World Book Day
• Wednesday 18th March - Parent/Teacher Consultations
• Thursday 19th March - Parent/Teacher Consultations

Next Forest Schools Session/PE Cross Country

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

• Friday 6th February - Sunflower
• Monday 9th February - Tulip
• Wednesday 11th February - Blossom

Please also note that the children are doing cross country in PE so a change of footwear will be very helpful for Tuesday as well.

Year 3 Homework

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

GPS - Staying in the Same Tense (page 34-35)

Maths - Length, Mass & Volume (page 46-47)

Year 4 Homework

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

GPS - Commas for Writing a List (page 42-43)

Maths - Written Multiplication (page 29)

Spelling Homework - Spelling Frame Year 3/4 Rule 16: /sh/ sound spelt"ch."

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 23rd January 2026

  Happy Friday everybody! Welcome to this week's blog. We hope you have all had a fantastic week!

• Thursday 5th March - World Book Day
• Wednesday 18th March - Parent/Teacher Consultations
• Thursday 19th March - Parent/Teacher Consultations

Next Forest Schools Session/PE Cross Country

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

• Monday 26th January - Tulip
• Wednesday 28th January - Blossom
• Friday 6th February - Sunflower

Please also note that the children are doing cross country in PE so a change of footwear will be very helpful for Tuesday as well.

Year 3 Homework

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

GPS - Suffixes -ing & -ed (page 72-73)

Maths - Solving Calcualtion Problems (page 30-31)

Year 4 Homework

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

GPS - Staying in the Same Tense (page 29)

Maths - Mental Multiplying & Dividing (page 27)

Spelling Homework - Spelling Frame Year 3/4 Rule 15: /k/ sound spelt"ch."

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 16th January 2026

 Happy Friday everybody! We have been very busy this week and we have been learning about differnet aspects of our new project "The Shang Dynasty!"

• Thursday 5th March - World Book Day
• Wednesday 18th March - Parent/Teacher Consultations
• Thursday 19th March - Parent/Teacher Consultations

Next Forest Schools Session

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

• Friday 23rd January - Sunflower
• Monday 26th January - Tulip
• Wednesday 28th January - Blossom

Year 3 Homework

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

GPS - Capital Letters for Names & I (page 36-37)

Maths - Counting in Multiples (page 8)

Year 4 Homework

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

GPS - Articles & Determiners (page 12-13)

Maths - Dividing by 10 & 100 (page 40-41)

Spelling Homework - Spelling Frame Year 3/4 Rule 14: Suffix -sion/ -ssion/ -tion/ -cian. (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 9th January 2026

 Happy Friday everybody! And welcome back to the Spring Term 2026! All the children have settled back brilliantly and coped admirably with the very cold weather! Here are some notable dates for this term:

• Thursday 5th March - World Book Day
• Wednesday 18th March - Parent/Teacher Consultations
• Thursday 19th March - Parent/Teacher Consultations

Next Forest Schools Session

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

• Monday 12th January - Tulip
• Wednesday 14th January - Blossom
• Friday 23rd January - Sunflower

Year 3 Homework

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

GPS - Clauses (page 12-13)

Maths - Progress Test 1 (page 18-21)

Year 4 Homework

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

GPS - Clauses (page 14-15)

Maths - Factor Pairs (page 28)

Spelling Homework - Spelling Frame Year 3/4 Rule 13: Suffix -sion/ -ssion/ -tion/ -cian. (Part 1)

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 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