Year 3: Hawthorn, Aspen

Aspen and Hawthorn Weekly Update – Friday 13^th February 2026  

Staff Email Addresses: 

Aspen Class: bethwilley@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk 

Hawthorn Class: beckybridgman@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk   angelmartin@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk 

Important Dates 

Thursday 5^th March – World Book Day (see parent newsletter)
Tuesday 17^th March – Athlete Visit (see parent newsletter)
Wednesday 25^th March – Roman day (letter to follow!)
Monday 30^th March – Y3 Cake Bake
Tuesday 31^st March – KS2 Project Afternoon

Roman Day!

On Wednesday 25^th March, Year 3 will be having a Roman day. A separate letter will be sent out about this, but please note the clarified date, which was incorrect last week! Apologies for this. We would like the children to dress up if they want to and so we are giving you plenty of notice to create/buy a Roman outfit!

Our learning this week:  

Forest School: We were very lucky with the weather for our forest school session this week and enjoyed getting muddy for our science-themed learning. We examined different soils and talked about what soil is made from. We also created some very ‘informal’ looking seed bombs which are currently drying out in Miss Willey’s garden shed! We hope to scatter these seed bombs after half term.

Bike Track: The weather was on our side again on Wednesday for our time on the bike track: we even saw some blue sky and sunshine! The children showed great resilience and determination when running and cycling around.

English: This week, the children wrote reports about tea to conclude our work on Cloud Tea Monkeys. They put a lot of effort into this work and produced some really excellent work.

Maths: This week the children have moved on to learn about measuring. They have measured in metres, centimetres and millimetres. They have also combined measures, i.e. by measuring how long items are in m and cm, or cm and mm.

Spelling Homework: Over the next week, we have re-set -ly words for children who are accessing spelling lessons in class. This reflects our second week on this spelling pattern, which we are continuing with due to swimming last week. Children on the RWI programme are focussing on double consonants for their spelling homework (zz, ff, ll words, etc). The following week, we have set some revision words for all the children to practice. These come from the Y1 common exception word list (basically, tricky words!) as we have noticed a lot of children struggling with these. Please do encourage your child to complete 10 games on Ed Shed each week as it supports their progress in writing if they can quickly recall these words.

Rotten Romans

We would like to show the children the “Rotten Romans” film at some point this term. As it is a PG we need to know if parents object to us showing it to their child. If this is the case, please could you email your child’s teacher. More information can be found at this link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7715070/

Homework:  