Tulip, Blossom & Sunflower Blog - Friday 17th April 2026

 Happy Friday everybody! Welcome back to the first week of the Summer Term!

• Thursday 23rd April - St George's Day - **Non-school uniform; children can wear red/white clothes today!**
• Monday 1st June - Non-Pupil Day

Next Forest Schools Session

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

• Friday 24th April - Sunflower
• Monday 27th April - Tulip
• Wednesday 29th April - Blossom

Year 3 Homework

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

GPS - Punctuating Speech (page 60-61)

Maths - Adding & Subtracting Fractions (page 36-37)

Year 4 Homework

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

GPS - Punctuating Speech with ! or ? (page 62-63)

Maths - Writing Fractions as Decimals (page 39)

Spelling Homework - Spelling Frame Year 3/4 Rule 23: Homophones & Near Homophones

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 27th March 2026

Happy Friday everybody! Welcome to this week's blog - the final week of the Spring Term!!

• Monday 13th April - Children back for Summer Term
• Monday 1st June - Non-Pupil Day

Next Forest Schools Session

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

• Monday 13th April - Tulip *First day back after Easter*
• Wednesday 15th April - Blossom
• Friday 24th April - Sunflower

The children have worked so hard and we want them all to have a relaxing Easter and recharge their batteries. To this end, we will not be sending home homework books over Easter 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 Monday 13th April!

Lots of love

Mr Jude, Mrs Witherall & Mrs Devlin

Tulip, Blossom & Sunflower Blog - Friday 20th March 2026

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

• Friday 27th March - Wellbeing Day
• Monday 13th April - Children back for Summer Term
• Monday 1st June - Non-Pupil Day

Next Forest Schools Session

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

• Friday 27th March - Sunflower
• Monday 13th April - Tulip *First day back after Easter*
• Wednesday 15th April - Blossom

Year 3 Homework

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

GPS - Apostrophes for Single Possession (page 52-53)

Maths - Progress Test 2 (page 42-43)

Year 4 Homework

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

GPS - Apostrophes for Single Possession (page 52-53)

Maths - Counting in Hundreths (page 32)

Spelling Homework - Spelling Frame Year 3/4 Rule 21: Homophones & Near Homophones

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 13th March 2026

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

• Wednesday 18th March - Parent/Teacher Consultations
• Thursday 19th March - Parent/Teacher Consultations
• Monday 1st June - Non-Pupil Day

Next Forest Schools Session

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

• Monday 16th March - Tulip
• Wednesday 18th March - Blossom
• Friday 27th March - Sunflower

Change of PE Day

Please note that next week, Year 3/4 are swapping PE day to Monday 16th March. This is a one off change and PE will revert back to Tuesdays next week. As Tulip Class are Forest Schools on this day, they will do PE in their Forest School clothes.

Year 3 Homework

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

GPS - Headings & Subheadings (page 67)

Maths - Length, Mass & Volume (page 46)

Year 4 Homework

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

GPS - Headings & Subheadings (page 67)

Maths - Add and Subtract Fractions (page 34-35)

Spelling Homework - Spelling Frame Year 3/4 Rule 20: Possessive apostrophe with plurals

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 6th March 2026

  Happy Friday everybody! Welcome to this week's blog!

• Thursday 12th March - Mother's Day Tea - 3:15pm
• Friday 13th March - PTA Mother's Day Sale - please bring money and a bag
• 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 13th March - Sunflower
• Monday 16th March - Tulip
• Wednesday 18th March - Blossom

Year 3 Homework

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

GPS - Its & It's (page 54-55)

Maths - Ordering Fractions (page 34-35)

Year 4 Homework

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

GPS - Confusing Words (page 32-33)

Maths - Equivalent Fractions (page 33)

Spelling Homework - Spelling Frame Year 3/4 Rule 19: /ay/ spelt in different ways

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 27th February 2026

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

• Thursday 5th March - World Book Day
• Thursday 12th March - Mother's Day Tea - 3:15pm
• Friday 13th March - PTA Mother's Day Sale - please bring money and a bag
• 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 2nd March - Tulip
• Wednesday 4th March - Blossom
• Friday 13th March - Sunflower

World Book Day - Thursday 5th March

This year is The National Year of Reading so we will all be celebrating World Book Day for the whole day. Please come wearing a costume to show your favourite book character. If you do not want to dress up, you can bring your favourite book in or a prop to give us a clue! Here is a competition you can take part in:

Competition

Email publicity@scholastic.co.uk with the header WBD NORA NIGHTSKY explaining why you want to win. Competition closes 15th April.

Year 3 Homework

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

GPS - Prefixes un/dis/mis (page 68-69)

Maths - Perimeter (page 48-49)

Year 4 Homework

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

GPS - Suffixes -ly (page 80-81)

Maths - Perimeter (page 52-53)

Spelling Homework - Spelling Frame Year 3/4 Rule 18: /s/ spelt sc

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 13th February 2026

 Happy Friday everybody! Welcome to this week's blog. It is amazing to think that we are half way through this academic year!

• 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 27th February - Sunflower
• Monday 2nd March - Tulip
• Wednesday 4th March - Blossom

The children have worked so hard and we want them all to have a good 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 24th February!

Lots of love

Mr Jude, Mrs Witherall & Mrs Devlin