Important Messages

Dates to remember   

Term 1 PE for Year 6 – Wednesday (Swimming).  Please ensure that children come to school in suitable Chilton PE kit.  This includes no branded sportswear.

Term 1 Extra Sports – Every Thursday.  Children to wear trainers to school. 

Wake Up Shake Up – Every Wednesday morning on the top playground from 8:30am. 

CHANGE OF DATE - Monday 30^th September - 2.45pm Year 6 Harvest assembly for parents. 

Please enter the school via the main school office. As part of the celebrations, we will also be collecting food that we will be donating to Thanet Food Bank. We will be taking donations between Wednesday 25th September and Monday 30th September. If you are able to donate, the food bank accepts any tinned, jarred or packet foods that are in date. As a celebration of the donations all children will be entered into a draw to win last year's celebration teddy bears, Kenneth and Susan.

Tuesday 1st October – 9am Year R and 1 Harvest assembly for parents

Tuesday 1st October – 2.45pm Year 2 and 3 Harvest assembly for parents

Wednesday 2nd October – 9am Year 4 and 5 Harvest assembly for parents

Saturday 5th October – Cross Country

Tuesday 8th October – Flu vaccines

Friday 11th October – Fancy dress Disco Year 1, 2 and 3 3.15-4.15pm and Year 4, 5 and 6 4.30pm-5.30pm

Wednesday 16th October – No year 6 swimming this week; usual PE lessons to happen

Thursday 17th October – Kent test results to parents

Thursday 24th October – Parents invited in to look at children’s books at 3.15pm

Friday 25th October – Inset day – School closed to children

English

We have been introduced to our new text, 'Floodland', by Marcus Sedgwick.  After predicting what we thought would happen, we role-played as the characters Zoe and Natasha.  In the story, Zoe abandons Natasha on a flooding Norwich, which is becoming an island and so we used conscience corridor to discuss whether she had made the right decision or not.  We wrote a letter from Zoe to Natasha explaining why she left.

    

    

    

Maths

This week, we have been following on from addition by learning the most effective methods for subtraction.  We challenged our fluency skills first before playing subtraction games and solving subtraction problems.  On Friday, we focused on our Term 1 reasoning problem-solving skills.  

Thematic

It has been fun learning more about Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution, which he considered after visiting the Galapagos Islands.  We discussed how animals and plants adapt to suit their environments before creating our own imaginary animals, thinking about how they have changed to survive.  We also made fossils using PVA glue and a mould.  Thank you to everyone who has been able to bring in a fossil.

    

Love to Learn

If you can, please bring in a (recent) photo of your mum, dad or both.  In our thematic learning, we will be looking at inheritance: we will be comparing the similarities and differences in how the offspring (children) take on traits of their parents.  

Please learn these spellings for next week.  They all include the suffix '-est', meaning 'the most...'  This week, we focused on the spelling rules for each.  To keep the short vowel sound, double the consonant (big = biggest).  Some root words can just have 'est' added to them (smart = smartest).  If the word ends in 'e', remove the 'e' before adding 'est' (wide = widest).  If the word ends in 'y', change the 'y' for an 'i' before adding 'est' (silly = silliest).

biggest	smartest	widest	silliest
fattest	weakest	closest	bumpiest
slimmest	quietest	finest	ugliest

We would also like you to create an engaging poster that highlights next week's fact of the week: 8 x 6 = 48.  You can present this any way you wish but we would love to see colour!