Extended Study – Whole School Artwork – Rangoli Patterns

13th October 2025Sophie Myers

This week, we will be celebrating and learning more about Hinduism. As part of our Faith day, we would love to create a whole school piece of artwork to display in school.

To take part, your crew leaders will give you a template to create your own Rangoli Pattern. They will also have examples that you could use to create your own. Use bright coloured pens or pencils to complete your pattern so that it stands out on our display.

Once you have completed your pattern, please return it carefully to your Crew Leader ready for Crew Council to collect next week!

Extended Study – World Mental Health Day!

6th October 2025Sophie Myers

Watch the story below called ‘Lucy’s Blue Day’. Reflect on the story by sharing your ideas with your crew about different things you can do if you are experiencing big feelings such as feeling scared, anxious, frightened or angry.

Which Zone of regulation might you be in if you are feeling this way?

What could you do to make you feel better?

Year 3 – Reading at Home

29th September 2025Claire Dutton

Last week, Year 3 children brought home a small blue ‘messages book’ with their school reading book, and we would just like to clarify the following:

Inside the little blue books, you will find:

  • your child’s reading book level – children should only be bringing home books that match the level indicated in their blue book as this is the level they have been awarded following their ‘Star Reader Assessment’ in school. This assessment is updated at the end of each term to check progress so levels will be changed then unless your class teacher deems this necessary beforehand.
  • a QR code to take you to the online Accelerated Reader programme – here, children can input the name or code of their completed book and take a quiz designed to help them develop their comprehension skills. AR quiz scores and minutes used are logged by the system, and will be periodically assessed by teachers to help us better understand how to support your child’s reading.
  • your child’s Numbots and TTRS login – children are encouraged to access Numbots if they still find this a useful and engaging tool, but are also invited to use TTRS regularly to help develop their times tables fluency.

The little blue books are not a ‘reading diary’ but if you wish to log your child’s reading at home then please feel free to use this. Teachers will check in with these blue books from time to time so feel free to include non-important messages that you would like us to take note of. However, any time-sensitive messages or matters of importance should be raised directly with your child’s class teacher to avoid it being missed.

Any further log-in details or the like will be added to these little blue books as we go, and you will be advised accordingly.

The expectations for home reading in Y3 are as follows:

  • Children should aim to read their level book at home with an adult, at least 3 x weekly.
  • Children should aim to quiz on AR at least 1 x weekly (depending on book length).
  • Children are responsible for changing their reading books via their classroom libraries and this can be done on any day of the week. Teachers will give pupils reminders to do this and support where necessary, but we encourage children to take the lead with this as they develop greater independence throughout KS2.
  • Children should keep their level book and little blue book in their school bag / book bag as this ensures they are in school with them each day incase they are needed by the class teacher or as part of a lesson.

We thank you for your support with this and, if there are any further questions, please don’t hesitate to speak with your child’s class teacher.

Mrs Dutton & Miss Cooper x

Extended Study – Are you up for the kindness challenge?

29th September 2025Sophie Myers

Next week is NSPCC Kindness Week, to celebrate the week we are hoping to see lots of you demonstrating one of our HOWL’s – ‘Be Kind’ and showing lots of compassion.

There will be some added activities and challenges next week but to get us prepared let’s see how many of you can tick off some of the challenges on the kindness grid. You could even have a go at creating your own kindness grid for your crew to complete!

Can you share some photographs of how you have shown kindness this week? Remember to share your story in Crew next Monday!

Class 10 – Shout Outs

23rd September 2025Claire Dutton

Two shout outs to share today …

Well done to Ivy-Beau who shared the handful of medals which she received at the weekend from her dancing competition – Well done, Ivy-Beau!

And, a shout out to Henry who brought in his entry for the Roald Dahl poster competition as part of his extended study … it looks fantastic!! … There is still time to enter if you haven’t already as the closing date is this Friday.