27/02/26

Welcome back! We have had a very busy first week back and the children have been working hard.

World Book Day

Next Thursday (5th March) is World Book Day. A electronic letter was sent home in the holidays detailing the events of the day.

📚 World Book Day School Activities (2026)

🎭 Dress-Up Day

• Children can come to school dressed to represent:
  • their hobbies or interests (e.g. sports kit, chef, artist, pop star)
  • a favourite author or idol
  • or a favourite book character.

🏅 Blue Peter Book Badge Challenge

• Children are encouraged to apply for a Blue Peter Book Badge (with parent support online).
• Badges earned will be brought into school to celebrate together.
• The school hopes to reach 50, 100, or more badges.

📖 Book Swap Event (Children)

• Families donate 1–2 ‘like new’ books the week before.
• Each child will choose a new book to keep during the school day.
• Extra books will go into school or class libraries.

📚 Parent Book Swap

• Book swap stalls set up in playgrounds (weather permitting).
• Parents bring a book and swap it for another.
• Planned to run across the week.

🔎 Mystery Reader

• Parents/carers can volunteer to visit classes in March.
• They will read a story or extract to the class as a surprise guest.

✍️ Author & Visitor Events

• George Webster author visit — Tuesday 17th March.
• Visit from Wendy from Truman Books on World Book Day.

🎟️ World Book Day Vouchers

• Every child receives a £1 World Book Day voucher.

📚 Book Fair

• Book Fair visiting the Junior building from 21st–26th March.
• World Book Day vouchers can be used as part payment.

Here is another copy of the letter.

Highwayman

This week we have started our new unit of English looking at the poem ‘The Highwayman’ by Alfred Noyes. The children worked really well with the themes and language of the poem and discussed their likes and dislikes. We then moved on to our first piece of writing for the term – a love letter! We collected lots of phrases to help us declare our love and the children have written some lovely pieces. Please see the attached work.

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Homework

• English – mixed practice – word types pg 34, 35 and 36 
• Maths –  decimals and finding missing numbers 
• Spelling Shed 
• Maths bot – arithmetic/reasoning 
• Extreme Reading every day

Have a lovely weekend!