Sheldwich Primary School and Little Hedgehogs Pre-School
Welcome to Class 3 - Squirrels
These are the staff who work in Class 3
Mrs N Hammond - Class Teacher
Mr M Thomas - Class LSA
Mrs S Warren - LSA
Mrs R Twynam - LSA/MDS
Squirrels are learning about green plants in Science and we have planted our own sunflowers which will be ready to take home soon and also dissected a daffodil into 13 pieces!
Squirrels enjoyed a SCARF workshop about acceptance and what we can and cannot control and how we manage these feelings.
Canopic jars
Squirrels had a great time at Kent Life. We learnt a lot about The Egyptians through dancing to the pharoah ,learning about medicine and mummification.
Squirrels have had a fantastic Book Week inpsired by the 'Power of Imagination.' We read the book 'The Magic Faraway tree' by Enid Blyton and we read all of the variety of imaginative lands. We made our own faraway trees with our own magical lands. Squirrels also went on a gallery walk with the school to see everyones art. We did a book speed read and spot the teachers favourite book. Squirrels also enjoyed writing poetry inspired by Mrs Mathurs and we took part in a Book day live lesson. We also had Year 6 read to us and we performed the story of The Faraway tree. What an AMAZING week!
Fantastic Friday fun!
Squirrels have enjoyed some experiments in Science - we have made sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rock from sweets (then ate them!) and then experimented with how many paperclips could be balanced onto a magnet.
Squirrels made Stone Age tools in Forest School.
Mr Thomas celebrated a big birthday so Squirrels threw him a birthday bash to celebrate.
Squirrels have begun making canopic jars. We have placed mod roc onto our bottles and shaped into the shape we would like for the jar and we look forward to showing these at our assembly.
Spellings
Friday 6th February 2026
blue
continue
argue
avenue
untrue
Spellings
Friday 30th January 2026
generous
interest
different
supermarket
energy
Squirrels had a fantastic Winter walk spotting signs of Winter.
Squirrels learnt about mummification and had a go at wrapping a Mummy. We had prizes for the best coverage, best wrapped and best teamwork. They did an excellent job!
Spellings
Friday 23rd January 2026
accident
accidentally
actual
actually
February
Spellings
Friday 16th January 2026
breathe
complete
experiment
believe
experience
Rapid Recall Facts - Term 3
Thank you so much for myself and Mr Thomas' lovely Christmas presents. We are so appreciative and we loved them all. We hope you had a fantastic Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Spellings
Friday 9th January 2026
Egypt
myth
pyramid
Egyptian
gym
Spellings
Friday 12th December 2025
Squirrels have completed all of their spellings for this term so we will be recapping on all spellings learnt this term. There will be no official spelling test but it would be great if you could go through spellings learnt this term and the spelling patterns.
Spellings
Friday 5th December 2025
describe
exercise
decide
sunrise
survive
Spellings
Thursday 27th November 2025
increase
suppose
promise
surprise
purpose
Spellings
21st November 2025
vein
eight
reindeer
eighth
reign
Squirrels had a fantastic time at Dover Museum, we made a bronze age boat and learnt about the boat. We handled objects from the Stone Age and made predictions what the objects were used for.
Spellings
14th November 2025
mention
position
potion
fiction
station
Squirrels have had a fantastic STEM week. The theme of the week was 'change and adapt' Squirrels made a wormery to investigate how worms can improve the soil. We did experiments which observed changes - rainbow colour mixing, tabletop glaciers and melting maths. We learnt about Katharine Johnson being a Mathematician at Nasa and also designed an invention which can help the spread of germs. We also designed the home of the future.
Spellings
7th November 2025
popular
particular
regular
calendar
peculiar
There will be TT rockstar homework, My Maths on Friday too.
Squirrels thoroughly enjoyed the Halloween Fun Run. We ran very fast and did lots of laps of the playground! Well done Squirrels on raising so much money, you all looked amazing!
Squirrels had a Fantastic Friday reading our stories we wrote to Ladybirds and Butterflies.
Spellings
31st October 2025
New spellings will start on Friday 31st October 2025 and will be tested on Friday 7th November. These are:
early
learn
heart
heard
Earth
There will be TT rockstar homework, My Maths and English homework on Friday too.
Spellings 10.10.2025
These are the spelling words that we are focussing on this week. We will have a test on Friday to see if we have remembered how to spell them!
Remember to practise your times tables on TTRS too!!
favourite
group
famous
various
enough
Squirrels designed and made delicious desserts. They tasted amazing!
Spellings 03.10.2025
These are the spelling words that we are focussing on this week. We will have a test on Friday to see if we have remembered how to spell them!
Remember to practise your times tables on TTRS too!!
remember
though
although
thought
through
An Autumnal walk
Spellings 26.09.2025
These are the spelling words that we are focussing on this week. We will have a test on Friday to see if we have remembered how to spell them!
address
answer
arrive
appear
disappear
called
Remember to practise your times tables on TTRS too!!
Squirrels designed and made their own healthy main course. Squirrels thought they tasted delicious and enjoyed presenting their dish.
Squirrels class had a great time making and designing a healthy starter. They looked and tasted delicious!
Spellings 19.09.2025
These are the spelling words that we are focussing on this week. We will have a test on Friday to see if we have remembered how to spell them!
when
where
were
went
want
what
said
with
Remember to practise your times tables on TTRS too!!
Squirrels have been enjoying playing basketball. Check out our dribbling skills!
