P3 Week Beginning 22nd September 2025

Hello P3 families!  Here are our highlights this week from The Ferrets:

Eliza enjoyed House Groups this week.  Each child joined the rest of the school and broke up in to their House Group (St Peter, St Francis or St Teresa).  This time, the groups were thinking about the different ways brains work and what can support us to learn i.e. some children identified that fidget toys help them to stay focused, some liked pictures to accompany instructions etc.  We discussed what an inclusive classroom looks like and what more could your teacher do to support you.

Sophia liked our phonics lesson this week, focusing on the long i sound (homework next week will link to this).

Matteo said the learning he enjoyed most this week was when we finished our story writing of recounting the Viking myth of how Odin created the world.  We talked about the Describing Bubble and had the challenge of including as many describing words as we could.  The children did very well!

Ollie and Ellie have both picked our class novel, Thorfinn the Nicest Viking.  We heard how in the past, carrier pigeons used to carry messages from one place to another.  The children have expressed an interest in learning more about this.

Izhaan and Tyler T loved making Viking axes with our P6 helpers from Mrs Valente’s class and throwing them in the woods to practise their aim.

Joseph said his highlight was our nature walk where we collected moss, twigs, leaves and pebbles for the bug hotels that some of us made for taking care of God’s creation.

Vihaan loved it when we made our bug hotels and bird feeders.  I was so impressed with the creativity the class showed that we invited Mrs McLaughlin to see them before they went home.  She too was very impressed!  A big thank you to our pupil support worker, Mrs Garvin who was a big help supporting us.

My highlight matches Matteos!  Well done everyone for your efforts in story writing this week!  I am sure your parents are going to be impressed when they read it at our upcoming Parent Consultations.

A big congratulations to Oscar for being this fortnight’s Reading Champ!

I hope you are all enjoying the weekend, despite the rain.

Mrs Brown