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Chilton Primary School

Chilton Primary School

One Childhood, One Chance

Year 4

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  • 04/01/24

    Weekly News 5.1.24

    Welcome back to Term 3! The Year 4 children have returned from the Christmas break with a fantastic attitude and are raring to go with their learning. We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and we would like to wish you all a happy new year and all the best for 2024. A message just for Team Cyan...
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  • 15/12/23

    Weekly News! 15.12.23

    English In English this week we have been continuing to look at poetry and our focus this week has been on form and structure. We have looked at the different poem structures and syllables. More specifically, we have explored haikus and shape poems. They have really developed their poetry skills...
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  • 08/12/23

    Weekly News! 8.12.23

    English In English this week we have been continuing to look at poetry and our focus this week has been on form and structure. We have looked at the different rhyming patterns in different types of poems and as well as the rhythm. More specifically, we have explored limericks, acrostic poems and...
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  • 30/11/23

    Weekly News! 1.12.23

    English In English this week we have been learning about imagery in poetry. This is when poets create images in poetry using poetic devices such as figurative language. The figurative language techniques we have learnt about this week are similes, metaphors and personification. The children have...
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  • 23/11/23

    Weekly News 23.11.23

    English In English this week, we have been writing our own 5-part narrative stories set in a wintery location – like The Ice Palace novel. We have a good character and an evil villain that creates a problem. Our good character then goes on a journey to fix the problem the evil character ha...
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  • 17/11/23

    Weekly News 17.11.23

    English In English this week we have continued to learn how to write a 5 part story. This week we have been learning how to create suspense in the build-up section of our fantasy stories. We have learnt to use rhetorical questions, short snappy sentences, dramatic sentence openers and the way the...
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  • 09/11/23

    Year 4 Weekly News 10.11.23

    English In English this week we have continued to learn how to write a 5 part story. This week we have been learning how to describe settings using personification, ambitious verbs and adverbs, similes and metaphors. The children thought of some excellent personification ideas; this is where the...
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  • 02/11/23

    Weekly News 3.11.23

    English In English this week, we have started reading our new class text… ‘Ice Palace’ by Robert Swindells. This wintery fantasy story is going to support our narrative writing throughout the term. We have been focusing on ‘WOW’ adjectives and turning our ideas int...
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  • 19/10/23

    Weekly News 20.10.23

    English In English this week we have finished our writing unit on Non-Chronological reports. We learnt our last skill for the unit which was using subordinating conjunctions to write complex sentences. Then the children used a variety of information texts from the school library about animals. So...
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  • 12/10/23

    Weekly News 12.10.23

    English In English this week, we have started looking at non-chronological reports. We have started writing our reports using characters for ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes. We have been focusing on subheadings and categorising information correctly depending on the topic of information...
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  • 05/10/23

    Weekly News 6.10.23

    English In English this week we have finished our writing unit on character descriptions. The children created their own unique robot characters, planning what their new character’s appearance and personality are. They then used this to write their final character description piece using al...
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  • 28/09/23

    Weekly News 29.09.23

    English In English this week, we began reading our new text ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes. The children love the story so far! They are starting to find out that a large, iron robot might be a gentle giant after all… Alongside reading, we have been looking at character...
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Correspondence for the Head of School:

Mr Alex McAuley
c/o Chilton Primary School,
Chilton Lane,
Ramsgate,
Kent. CT11 0LQ

Contact the school office on:
01843 597695
or by fax on:
01843 852872

01843 597695