Sherlock & Cinders – How to audition!

18th September 2025Sophie Myers

We are excited to announce that auditions for this year’s school production will be taking place via video submission.

Your child will be bringing home a script for the role or roles they wish to audition for. To take part, they should record a short video of themselves reading for that part (or parts). If they would also like to include singing the relevant song, this can be found on YouTube.

Once recorded, please email your child’s audition video(s) to [email protected] no later than 3rd October.

This approach allows every child the opportunity to audition in a relaxed environment and ensures we can give each submission the time and attention it deserves.

We look forward to seeing the children’s talents shine and are excited to begin casting our production. Thank you in advance for your support in helping your child prepare their audition.

Kind regards,
The Sherlock and Cinders Crew

Year 3 Drax visit!!

9th September 2025Robyn Cooper

Today the Year 3’s were lucky enough to have some special visitors in school. Our visitors were from Drax Power Station and taught us how to become engineers. They spoke to us about the different forces and how energy is made. We then used our knowledge to design and build our very own cars powered by pneumatic devices that we made. We had so much fun!! We definitely have some budding engineers in our year!

Y3/4 Parent Overview and Homework Menu

8th September 2025Sarah Walton

Please take a few moments to have a look at the overview for our Expedition learning this term. Additionally, each child would greatly benefit from completing tasks weekly from our Homework Menu. Many thanks,

Y3/4 Team

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W-nbGvjEe4htOy2fQoQ4cP8ECWZ1sVjqu-UmuN9HitM/edit?tab=t.0

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1by-S0UXsGdeuRTBVWj0MSbURqwqIoEWLFSwDrYDAAQw/edit?tab=t.0

Year 3 messages

7th September 2025Robyn Cooper

Starting this coming week the year 3 PE session is on Thursday afternoons. Year 3 will also be participating XP outdoors this term. This is on Tuesdays. Please ensure your child has the right change of clothes.

Thankyou in advance – Miss Cooper and Mrs Dutton

Year 3 – Hook Week Learning

5th September 2025Claire Dutton

This week has been all about getting ourselves hooked into the learning that we are about to embark on throughout Autumn term … in particular, our exciting new expedition all about the Romans – Coming to Doncaster; Why Then, Why Now?

Children have enjoyed getting to grips with geography to find out where Rome is in the world and they have got stuck in to all of our new expedition books! In reading, we have explored the historical story book, Vlad and the Roman Triumph and we have been learning all about the Roman armies and their armour. We made our own helmets and designed our own shields, as well as making dolly peg soldiers. In maths, we learned about timelines and calendars, and we even found out about Roman numerals before linking these to the clock and having a go at making our own! We were amazed by the history of the Roman colosseum and had a go at sketching this as carefully as possible. Then, we wrapped up all our learning with an amazing dress-up and workshop day where we were able to impress our expert visitors with the knowledge we already had about the Romans and their invasions.

At home, why not ask us about the different designs on a Roman shield and what they represent? And, why was red the colour of their military?

Year 3 – Roman Extravaganza!

5th September 2025Claire Dutton

Wowwee … what a fabulous Roman day we’ve had today in LKS2. A huge thank you to everyone who managed to dress up – your costumes looked AMAZINGGG!

Our visitors from Doncaster Heritage were fantastic and so knowledgeable … they held an assembly for us in the morning where we learned so many interesting facts. Did you know … the Romans used cobwebs to treat cuts and scrapes??? Then, children also had a chance to get hands-on with some real Roman artefacts and replicas, as well as asking lots of questions.

To finish the day off, we have enjoyed some Roman-themed arts and crafts alongside the Horrible Histories movie … what an awesome day!

Y3 and Y4 Welcome Meeting

1st September 2025Chris Mumby

We are delighted to invite all parents and carers of children in Year 3 and Year 4 to our Welcome Meeting on Wednesday 17th from 5.00pm – 6.00pm in the school hall (please use the hall door entrance). This meeting will be a wonderful opportunity to meet the Year 3/4 teaching team and to hear more about the exciting year of learning ahead. We will be sharing details about how we will continue to develop reading fluency, comprehension and a love of books, as well as explaining how we are preparing Year 4 children for the Multiplication Tables Check (MTCs) later in the year. Parents of Year 4 pupils will also hear about upcoming swimming lessons and how these fit into the wider PE curriculum. Most importantly, this will be a chance to learn about routines and expectations in Year 3 and Year 4, and to see how home and school can work together to make this a positive, successful and enjoyable year for every child. We look forward to welcoming you and sharing the exciting journey ahead!

Thank you in advance,

Y3 and Y4 Team

Class 10 – A Great First Week Back – Who’s ready for another one??!

1st September 2025Claire Dutton

It was a brilliant first week back in Class 10 last week and it was an absolute pleasure getting to know everyone better! On top of all the fun and exciting special activities we took part in outside of the classroom, the children were also super busy inside the classroom … revisiting what crew means to us, sharing ideas and creating the norms that will help us to work hard, be kind and get smart all year long! We used stories to help us think about what being a good crew member means to us, Bogtrotter for example … where we designed our own bogtrotters and thought about what new adventures they might go on in Year 3 … just like us! AND … we even managed to squeeze in a little visit to our brand new school library which is simply beautiful and we can’t wait to use again. I wonder what our new week will bring …?!