What a fantastic week we’ve had! We have started practicing our Christmas music in assembly, and we had our school trip to Maidstone! Let’s have a look at all we’ve been learning this week.

 

Maths

In maths this week we have been looking at 2-D shapes and their properties. We began by learning about parallel lines and that they are only parallel when they are going in the same direction and would never meet. We show that lines are parallel by drawing arrows on each of the lines.

We then looked at the different types of triangles and how to classify them. Equilateral triangles have 3 equal sides and 3 equal angles. Isosceles triangles have 2 equal sides and 2 equal angles. Right-angled triangles contain a right-angle and scalene triangles have no equal sides or angles. Similarly to parallel lines, we mark equal length sides by putting a dash on them.

Next week we will be looking at finding the perimeter and area of shapes.

 

 

English

In English this week we have been planning ad writing our own 5-part narrative. This has expanded on the idea of a story having a beginning, a middle and an end by fleshing it out and making  our stories far more interesting and dynamic. The 5 parts of our narrative are the beginning (where we set up the characters and setting), the problem (where the villain does something to cause the good guy to go on an adventure), the build-up (where the protagonist encounters issues on their journey), the solution (where the adventure is resolved), and the ending to tie everything together.

Next week we will be starting to read, discuss and write some winter themed poetry.

 

Thematic

This week saw the end of our learning about Ancient Egypt but what a way to end it. Our trip to Maidstone was fantastic! We got to see a genuine mummified Egyptian woman. The museum had the body and the full sarcophagus and it was fascinating to see it so close. We then had a workshop on mummification led by the museum team where we learnt a lot more about why each step of the process was done and got the chance to hold some genuine 4000-year-old artifacts.
We were incredibly proud of all of Year 4 in their enthusiasm and how they conducted themselves throughout the whole day. They made us and the whole of Chilton very proud.

Next week we are moving onto the science portion of this topic where we will be learning about teeth and the digestive system.

 

Spelling

Mr Oxley, Miss Stephens and Mr Keam groups:

Nervous, curious, poisonous, dangerous, famous, jealous, enormous, February, forward, forwards

Challenge words: outrageous, mischievous

Mrs Cousins’ group:

cube, huge, June, flute, rude, tube, cute, shouldn't, wouldn't, couldn't

Challenge word: perfume, fortune

Love to Learn

This week we would like you to keep an eye out for triangles and quadrilaterals. Draw them or stick in pictures and then label which type of shape they are. If they are quadrilaterals, which type? A rhombus? A trapezium? An oblong? A square? Make sure to label the parallel sides.
If they are a triangle, are they isosceles, equilateral, scalene or right-angled? Label which sides are the same length.

If you keep an eye out, you’ll notice there are triangles and quadrilaterals all over the place!

 

Christmas fair information:

On Wednesday 11th December, we will be holding our School Christmas Fair. This will run from 3.15pm-4.30pm, with a Christmas sing along led by our school choir, which will be at 4pm. Stalls will include a Christmas raffle, tombola, hot food and drinks, guess the sweets in the stocking, splat the sprout, crack the code and many more. This event will take place on the school field (weather permitting) so wrap up warm.

This year the Christmas raffle will work in a slightly different way. We have some big cash prizes, with first prize being £100 and second prize being £50. We will send home a book of tickets. We ask you return any ticket stubs you wish to buy, with the correct money. We also ask you send back any unbought tickets. There will also be tickets available to purchase on the day.

In order to run some of the stalls, we do need to ask for some donations. We are aware of the financial pressures on families at this time of year, so all donations are of course voluntary, and we are grateful for any received. We ask for all donations to come into school on Tuesday 10th December.

We will be running a ‘Take home a Teddy’ stall. If you have any good quality, unwanted cuddly toys please send them into school on Tuesday 10th December to be used on this stall.

We will also be running a Tombola stall. We ask that you send in a bottle of drink for this. Again, we ask that his is sent into school on Tuesday 10th December

Lastly, we will also be running our traditional ‘White Bag’ stall. All children will bring home a white bag on Friday 29th November. We ask that your child decorates the bag, and you pop a small gift inside (sweets, notepad, pens, small toy etc). Can this also be returned to school on Tuesday 10th December.

If you wish to have a stall to sell gifts, then we will also be selling pitches for £15. Contact Mrs Cheshire at hannah.cheshire@chiltonprimary.co.uk if you wish to rent a pitch.

 

 

Dates to remember

11th December – Chilton Christmas Fair from 3.15 – 4.30

13th December – Year 2 and 4 Come Dine with Me

17th December – Year 3 and 4 Church performance at 2pm

19th December – Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 Christmas party day (party clothes to be worn)

20th December – Christmas jumper day (children can wear usual school uniform with a Christmas jumper)

20th December – School Christmas dinner

20th December – Last day of school; School finishes at 2pm; No after school club on this day

Many thanks

We hope you have a lovely weekend