Daffodil, Buttercup & Nightshade Blog - Friday 6th November 2026

Happy Friday everybody! 

Welcome to the second half of the Autumn Term! A gentle reminder that next Friday is Children in Need Day. Please can the children come into school with a £1 for non-uniform. If they would like to take part in soak the teacher then they will need to bring in an extra £1 coin also. Have a great weekend!

CARDBOARD NEEDED

In DT this half term, the children will be making a Roman Gladius (sword) out of cardboard. If you have any spare cardboard and toilet roll tubes, please can your child bring them in next week.

Forest School

Starting from next week, Year 3/4 will be having Forest School every Thursday afternoon. The sessions will be linked to other areas of learning in our curriculum. Please ensure your child comes to school in suitable clothing.

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 -  Solving Problems (Page 16 & 17)

Times Table Rockstars

Please make sure your child is practising their times tables at home. Your child has been sent home with their login. 

The times tables we will be focusing on this week are the 4 times tables.

Spellings  

Year 3                                                                             

Year 4
 

FREE-WRITE FRIDAY

Every other Friday, the children will be completing an independent piece of writing based around a different text type that will be decided via a spinning wheel. To aid the children, they should complete a simple plan with ideas for their writing. This week's text will be:

SCI-FI STORY

The children will be writing a Sci-Fi story. This can be a story centred around space, time travel of aliens. If the children enjoy films such as Star Wars this could be a great way of gathering ideas. If they could collect some vocabulary to use for their writing e.g. characters, planets and description for both. THEY DO NOT NEED TO WRITE THEIR SCI-FI STORY AT HOME.

We hope you have a lovely weekend! The 3/4 Team :)

Daffodil, Buttercup & Nightshade Blog - Friday 16th October 2026

 

Daffodil, Buttercup & Nightshade Blog - Friday 16th October 2026

 Happy Friday everybody! 

The children have had a fabulous week creating their own Autumn Shape Poem, exploring the Forest School area and taking part in Food Day by cooking a range of different foods from many countries!

Year 3 Homework

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

GPS - Prepositions (page 24-25)

Maths - Written Addition (page 24)

Year 4 Homework

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

GPS - Prepositions (page 24-25)

Maths - Written Subtraction (page 23)

Times Table Rockstars

Please make sure your child is practising their times tables at home. Your child has been sent home with their login. 

Spellings 

              Year 3                                                                             

Year 4 

 

School Uniform

Please make sure your child is coming to school in the correct school uniform, including on PE days. Shorts need to be of an appropriate length and that jumpers worn for PE and navy and non branded.  

Children also need to have their legs and arms covered during Forest School sessions.

 Please ensure coats are being brought into school, as we do try to go outside in all weathers. 

Well being day

A reminder that well being day will be next Friday the 23rd October. The children can come to school wearing comfy clothing!

Free write Friday (Thursday 22nd October)

We will be completing Free Write Friday next Thursday 22nd, as Friday 23rd is wellbeing day. The children will be writing a diary entry! This can be about any day or experience of their choice! Please ensure your child is bringing in some notes, which they can use to write their entry from. 

Science

In our science lessons we are learning about forces and magnets. The children have the task to create a game which involves using a magnet. Therefore, we need some cardboard and things for junk modelling for them to complete this task on well being day. Please can this be brought into school next week.

Thankyou!

Have a fab weekend, 

Miss Smith, Miss Langley and Mr Greenfield x

Buttercup, Daffodil, Nightshade 9/10/26

Happy Friday everybody, 2 weeks left until half term!! The children have all had another wonderful week at school!! Please remember next week is forest school for Buttercup and Daffodil, however Nightshade will not have forest school due to World Food Day.  

Christmas cards 

We know, we know!! We are sending home the cauliflower Christmas cards on Monday 12th October, please make sure the artwork is returned to school no later than Thursday 15th October, if you miss the deadline the artwork may not be able to be collected. Instructions will be on the paperwork sent home, please ensure you tick the box if you are purchasing any products. 

World Food Day 

Next Friday 16th October is World Food Day, the children will need to come to school in normal clothes that may get a bit mucky. Families are welcome to join us in celebrating World Food Day at 3:15pm in the hall to taste all of the food the children have been busy making. If anyone would like to donate food from your cultures to our taste testing, we would be extremely grateful. Please drop the food to the school office by 3:00pm on Friday 16th October with a full ingredients list.  

Year 3 Homework

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

GPS - Verbs (page 8-9)

Maths - Partitioning (page 13 - don't worry if you did this when you completed p12!)

Year 4 Homework

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

GPS - Verbs (page 6)

Maths - Written Addition (page 22)

Spellings 

Year 3

Year 4

We hope you all have a lovely weekend! 

The 3/4 Team :)

Nightshade, Daffodil and Buttercup 2.10.26

Happy Friday everybody! 

Amazingly we have arrived in October! We have been learning all about Roman soldiers in History and learning to perform with instruments to Mama Mia in Music. Well done to our Year 3/4 Boys who represented the school in the Wickford Town Football Tournament on Thursday.

HARVEST FESTIVAL

Over the weekend, we would like the children to create a poster to support our Harvest Festival. Details were shared in Thursday’s assembly.

TTRS Year 4 MTC

Next week, the Year 4 children will be taking part in a TTRS mock times table check which will be very similar to the Year 4 MTC assessment that takes place at the end of Year 4. The children will be given time each day to practise this as well as a lunchtime club which take place on Tuesdays. To improve your child's confidence, it would be great if you could also practise their times tables at home as much as possible. 

Year 3 Homework

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

GPS - Conjunctions with main clauses (page 20-21)

Maths - Mental addition & Subtraction (page 22-23)

Year 4 Homework

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

GPS - Conjunctions (page 22-23)

Maths - Roman Numerals (page 15) 

Spelling

                     Year 3                                                                                                 Year 4

 

FREE-WRITE FRIDAY

Every other Friday, the children will be completing an independent piece of writing based around a different text type that will be decided via a spinning wheel. To aid the children, they should complete a simple plan with ideas for their writing. This week's text will be:

INFORMATION TEXT

The children will be writing an information texted based on topic of their choice. This can be anything such as their favourite game, a person they admire etc If they could collect some vocabulary to use for their writing e.g. adjectives or ideas around this topic. THEY DO NOT NEED TO WRITE THEIR INFORMATION TEXT AT HOME.

ADDITIONAL TASKS

• Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes reading to an adult every day is the optimum. Please also encourage your child to read by themselves and then discuss the text afterwards, sharing opinions, their favourite part or questioning what happened so as to ensure that your child is understanding the text as well as reading it.

• Times table practise - next week we are looking at 5’s.
• TTRS/Sumdog - lots of practise on these amazing programmes that complement what we learn at school.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

The 3/4 Team :)

Nightshade, Daffodil and Buttercup 25.9.26

 Happy Friday everyone!!

The children have worked very hard this week and finished their own Stone Age Boy stories this week. They worked very hard on them and we are proud of them for completing their first independent writing of the year!

Forest School

The children have Forest School next week. They will need to come to school in clothes and shoes you do not mind getting mucky. Please bring a change of clothing and footwear for the wetter months. See below for a reminder of which day the classes take part in Forest School.

Buttercup- Tuesday

Daffodil- Wednesday

Nightshade- Friday

Year 3 Homework

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

GPS - Sentence Practice (page 44-45)

Maths - Ordering and Comparing Numbers (page 10-11)

Year 4 Homework

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

GPS - Sentence Practice (page 40-41)

Maths - Ordering and Comparing Numbers (page 10-11)

Spellings

Year 3

Year 4

ADDITIONAL TASKS

• Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes reading to an adult every day is the optimum. Please also encourage your child to read by themselves and then discuss the text afterwards, sharing opinions, their favourite part or questioning what happened so as to ensure that your child is understanding the text as well as reading it.

• Times table practise - next week we are looking at 2’s.
• TTRS/Sumdog - lots of practise on these amazing programmes that complement what we learn at school.

A gentle reminder to label ALL of your child's belongings. We are not able to locate missing items if they are not labelled!

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

The 3/4 Team :)

Buttercup, Nightshade and Daffodil 18.9.26

 Happy Friday everyone!!

The children have had another great week at school and enjoyed their first forest school session of the year!

Year 3 Homework

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

GPS - Adverbs (page 10)

Maths - Numbers on scales (page 14-15)

Year 4 Homework

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

GPS - Adverbs (page 7)

Maths - 100 More or Less (page 9)

Spellings

Year 3

Year 4

FREE-WRITE FRIDAY

Every other Friday, the children will be completing an independent piece of writing based around a different text type that will be decided via a spinning wheel. To aid the children, they should complete a simple plan with ideas for their writing. This week's text will be:

ADVENTURE STORY

The children will be writing a story based on topic of their choice. This can be anything such as a favoUrite from today, a school with no Teachers! If they could collect some vocabulary to use for their writing e.g. adjectives or ideas around this topic. THEY DO NOT NEED TO WRITE THEIR STORY AT HOME.

ADDITIONAL TASKS

• Reading: Remember 15-20 minutes reading to an adult every day is the optimum. Please also encourage your child to read by themselves and then discuss the text afterwards, sharing opinions, their favourite part or questioning what happened so as to ensure that your child is understanding the text as well as reading it.

• Times table practise - next week we are looking at 9’s.
• TTRS/Sumdog - lots of practise on these amazing programmes that complement what we learn at school.

A gentle reminder to label ALL of your child's belongings. We are not able to locate missing items if they are not labelled!

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

The 3/4 Team :)

Daffodil, Nightshade and Buttercup Friday 11th September 2026

Happy Friday everybody! The children have had a fantastic first full week back at school, we are very proud at how they have settled into the new year! 

Roald Dahl Day - Monday 14th September

Monday is Roald Dahl Day and children may come to school dressed up as a character from a Roald Dahl book if they wish to! They may instead bring in a prop representing a character or a favourite Roald Dahl book if they prefer this to dressing up. We look forward to seeing all your gloriumptious ideas!

Forest School - please find dates below (children will need to come to school in clothes and shoes you do not mind getting mucky, please bring a change of clothing and footwear for the wetter months)

Nightshade -

Friday (18th Sept, 2nd Oct, 16th Oct, 6th Nov, 20th Nov, 4th Dec)

Daffodil-

Wednesday (16th Sept, 30th Sept, 14th Oct, 4th Nov, 18th Nov, 2nd Dec, 16th Dec)

Buttercup - 

Tuesday (15th Sept, 29th Sept, 13th Oct, 3rd Nov, 17th Nov, 1st Dec, 15th Dec)

Year 3 Homework

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

GPS - Adjectives (page 5)

Maths - Partitioning (page 12)

Year 4 Homework

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

GPS - Adjectives (page 5)

Maths - Counting in multiples (page 6)

Spelling Homework 

Below are a list of Year 3 and 4 spellings that we will be going through with the children next week. Please encourage your children to practice the spellings throughout the week. 

Year 3

Year 4

Accelerated Reader

All Children will have bought home an accelerated reader book. Once the children have read their book they use the iPad to complete a comprehension quiz, once they have completed 3 quizzes and achieved 80% they will move onto the next level. There are opportunities for children to quiz in school daily. Please encourage children to read for 5-10 minutes daily, we are encouraging the children to quiz weekly. 

A note to say Mr Greenfield will be having an operation next week, so the lovely Mrs Yuille will be in covering Nightshade until he returns. 

Have a lovely weekend, 

The 3/4 Team :)