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Stone Age Workshop

Year 3 will take part in a Stone Age workshop on Wednesday 15^th October. Children will cover key topics within this time of prehistory whilst handling ancient fossils and artefacts.

In order for the workshop to take place, we would kindly ask parents/carers to contribute towards the cost of the workshop. Payment can be made via MCAS from today. Further details on the trip are available via the letter attached below. If you have any questions or queries, please speak to your child’s class teacher.

Stone Age Workshop Letter

Cooking & Gardening

We are proud to offer all pupils the opportunity to take part in cooking sessions during the school day. These sessions take place in the School House kitchen and are led by the class teacher.

Fresh ingredients from our school garden are used wherever possible, helping children learn about food, nutrition, and sustainability.

To support this programme, we ask for a voluntary annual contribution of £13.00, which covers the cost of additional ingredients for the full school year (September 2025 – July 2026).

• To contribute, please log into your MCAS account
• The fee can be found in the Clubs section and added to your basket.

Your support helps us continue offering this valuable hands-on learning experience. Thank you!

Healthy Snacks

To help keep energy levels up and minds focused, we encourage pupils to bring a healthy snack for break time.

Great options include:

• Fresh fruit or vegetables
• Plain rice cakes or crackers
• A small pot of dried fruit
• Cheese cubes or yoghurt (in a cool pack)

Please do not send sweets, chocolate, crisps, or fizzy drinks. Let’s work together to support healthy habits and happy learning!

Reading Records

Thank you to those who have remembered to log reading daily in reading records and sign. Please can we remind parents that the expectation is that children read for at least 20 minutes a day, 5 times a week and record in their reading record each time they read. Please can children remember to bring their reading record each day as these will be used to log spellings, reading and usernames and passwords for ICT. Thank you in advance.

Whole Class Reading

For whole class reading sessions this term, we will be reading Flora and Ulysees: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo. Please can we ask parents and carers to obtain a copy of the book to support learning in class, including vocabulary, reading and comprehension sessions.

Reading and/or talking about their reading to an adult for at least 20 minutes, 5 times a week. Complete your child’s reading record each time they read. Remember it doesn’t always have to be their school book. Reading records and reading books should be brought into school daily.

Times Table Rock Stars – children complete at least 5 minutes of Times Table Rock Stars practice at least 3 times a week using the link above. Login details are recorded in reading records.

New spellings to be shared on Mondays and recorded in reading records under current week. Please practice spellings for dictation tests every Friday.

This week's spellings: 

Unit 10

magical

plural

vocal

tropical

medical

comical

capital

animal