Year 3: Hawthorn, Aspen

Aspen and Hawthorn Weekly Update – Friday 16^th May 2025

Staff Email Addresses:

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

Hawthorn Class: samsmith@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Important Dates

Tuesday 20^th May – KS2 sports day
Tuesday 3^rd June – afternoon trip to River Neet in Stratton (see letter next week)
Wednesday 2^nd July – all day trip to Bude Sea Pool (letter to follow after half term)

Sports Day: Please ensure your child is in the right colour t-shirt for their house team on Tuesday and appropriate sportswear. Children will need to have a water bottle with them to take to the field and a sun hat. Please apply sun cream before they come in to school as there will be no time to do this before we need to head out to the field. Thank you!

Trip to Bude Sea Pool: After half term, our topic will be ‘The history of Bude Sea Pool’. As part of this, we will be visiting the Sea Pool on Wednesday 2^nd July. A letter will be sent out with more information after half term.

During our visit, the children will be having a session with Bude Surf Lifesaving Club in the shallows of the pool. For this, children will need to wear a wetsuit (either short-sleeved or long-sleeved). Many children will already have wetsuits at home, but if your child does not, please email your child’s class teacher ASAP so that we can arrange for them to borrow one for the day.

If you have a spare wetsuit at home (various sizes, suitable for 7years to 10years) and would be happy for another child in the year group to borrow it for the day, please also let us know via email.

Our learning this week:

English: This week, each class has continued to write their own class story with a focus on speech and paragraphing.

Maths: The children have learnt how to find change this week and have started their new unit of learning on time. They learnt Roman numerals to 12 and how to read and find five minute intervals on a clock.

Science: The children learnt how shadows are formed this week and investigated objects to find out which ones created a shadow.

Homework: