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Tom and Katie Cruise’s doll-like daughter Suri is to be trained in Scientology after her third birthday this week.

The Cruises are sending their daughter five days a week to the Church of Scientology’s £6,000-a-year New Village Academy in Los Angeles, launched last year by Tom’s friend, fellow actor Will Smith.

It is staffed by trained Scientologists and lists ‘study technology’ as a key curricular focus.

‘The children have a lot of responsibilities from a very young age,’ says a source.

‘The school is particularly strict about nutrition, demanding a low-carb, low-sodium and low-sugar organic diet.

‘Katie is understandably a little anxious about being separated from Suri.’

Katie, 30, has herself only just come to the end of her punishing Purification Rundown diet, apparently as a prelude to having a second child.

The diet – which consists of herbal drinks and a purification procedure to eliminate toxic substances – left her so run down that she was forced to miss the Oscars.

And as I revealed the actress resolves problems with her husband Tom Cruise by making weekly written confessions, as laid out in the Scientology code.

‘Katie has to confess to something as minor as forgetting to tell him she has met with a friend,’ says a source. ‘If she commits a transgression against the moral code of their marriage, she has to tell Tom in writing, giving full details of the time and place and what happened.’

Katie is currently filming The Extra Man in New York but will return to Los Angeles in May to try for her second child.

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The 2-year-old daughter of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise doesn’t seem to get much playtime with other toddlers. A local spy who’s seen Suri around other children says, “Whenever she sees kids, she gets excited and runs up to them and hugs them as if she never gets to see kids her own age. There’s not a lot of socialization there.” Indeed, almost every day there are different shots of Suri with her mother – always shopping and always alone.

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How do you celebrate the second birthday of one of the most famous toddlers around? In a low-key way, if you’re part of the Cruise-Holmes family.

Suri Cruise turned 2 on April 18, and parents Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes decided not to have an over-the-top soiree, but a small gathering just for family instead. The party, held in L.A., featured a big coloring area and “everyone at the party wrote birthday wishes and colored on a big card that Suri will have forever,” according to an insider.

Practically every family member made the trip to the West Coast to help celebrate. Specifically, Holmes’ siblings and her parents were on hand, and on the Cruise side of the family, Tom’s kids Bella and Connor. His sisters and parents were there, too.

A cake decorated with butterflies was the desert of choice for blowing out the candles. But that’s not it — the family hit the lanes for a bowling after party once the initial celebrating ended.

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