Important messages

A message from Mrs. Cheshire about the Summer Fair:

Our Chilton Summer Fair will take place on Friday 5^th July from 3.15-5. In order to be able to run the fair, we need a little bit of help from our families. 

On Friday 21^st June, we will send home a white bag. Please can you decorate this and add in some small treats e.g. sweets or a small toy. Please can these come back into school on Friday 28^th June.

On Friday 28^th June, we will have a whole school non-uniform day. In return, please can we ask that KS2 bring in a bottle for our tombola stall. Reception and KS1, please can you bring in a prize that matches your child's house colour for our rainbow raffle prize. Please can we ask that these donations come into school on Friday 5^th July.

Finally, we will also be running a 'Take home a teddy' stall. If you have any unwanted soft toys, please could you send these into school before Friday 5^th July.

We are hugely grateful for any help you can give.

Dates for the Diary

26^th June - Transition workshop for year 6 parents 9-10 in small hall

28^th June - Year 6 to Bettshanger (Boonies)

1^st July - Year 6 to Elevate

2^nd July - Year 6 to London 

3rd, 4^th and 5^th July - Year 6 transition days (dates vary depending on school they are transitioning to)

5^th July - 3.15-5pm Summer Fair

10^th July - Sports day KS2 9-11.30 and Year R/KS1 1.45-3

11^th July - Year 6 assembly at 9am 

11^th July - Music evening with Mr Redwood

11^th July - Thanet Games Triathlon year 5 and 6

12^th July - School reports out to parents

15th, 16th, 17^th July - Transition days (children to spend these days with their new teachers)

18^th July - Inflatable fun day and year 6 leavers party 3.30-6

19^th July - Year 6 graduation

19^th July - School finishes at 2pm

English

Leading into our trip to London in a couple of weeks' time, the children researched famous London landmarks and wrote up their own Guide To London, focusing on a formal - yet familiar - tone.  After careful planning, the children wrote them up and presented them as real leaflets.  We hope to take them to London and, once on the London Eye, will look out at the view to try to spot those landmarks.  Next week, we will read more of the London Eye Mystery and write in role as the characters (using drama techniques like hot seating) as we learn more about them once the mystery takes off!  From this, we will understand the character of Ted a little more and learn about Autism in greater depth.

Maths

We have been exploring more of our problem solving skills: the children used trial and improvement to place two sets of digits 0-9 in certain orders before testing whether there were any other solutions; we challenged our understanding of the properties of shape to play Guess Who using 2D and 3D shapes; we worked systematically to Connect-3 with numbers -5 to 5 and a role of a dice; we worked backwards to solve how many marbles had been dropped from Andy's bag after reading a set of clues.  We have really been challenging ourselves and applying all the skills we have learned this year to work collaboratively and individually.  At times, we felt success and other times we felt pain (see photos below) but we learned to be resilient.  Next week, we will do more problem solving games and challenges.

    

Thematic

For our Light It Up! topic, we asked the question 'does the number of batteries in a circuit affect the brightness of a bulb?'  The children explored their logic, using their understanding of electricity to test their theories.  We wrote them up using a scientific method before posing our own questions that we wanted to investigate.

    

This week, the children also refined their skills on how to be responsible, which is important as they transition into secondary school.  The children had to look after a flour baby, considering its needs before thinking of their own.  These children particularly stood out for their positive attitude and success:

During French Day, the children enjoyed a breakfast of croissants and found out about famous French landmarks whilst learning the location of France: La France est un voisin du Luxemburg (France is  neighbour of Luxemburg) and learned more about masculine/feminine nouns.  In the afternoon, the children played games of Petanque (it was a really closely-fought match!) and added their scores to their Sport Slam scores.

     

    

    

Love to Learn

To help with our learning next week, we would like you to research autism: how does having autism help people to think differently?  Here is a good website to start you off; click this link: Autism: What is it? - BBC Newsround