Weekly News 08/11/2024
Key Dates and Messages
11th November – Service uniform day; children can wear their service uniforms to school
15th November – Children in Need; children to wear something spotty to school
22nd November -Year 1 and 6 Come Dine with Me
27th November – Year 4 trip to Maidstone Museum
29th November – Reception Come Dine with Me
4th December – Team Ocean Naughty Bus Trip
5th December - Team Sky Naughty Bus Trip
6th December – Year 3 and 5 Come Dine with Me
11th December – Chilton Christmas Fair from 3.15 – 4.30
13th December – Year 2 and 4 Come Dine with Me
13th December – Reception Nativity at 9am
16th December – Year 1 Nativity at 9am
17th December – Year 5 and 6 Church performance at 10am
17th December – Year 3 and 4 Church performance at 2pm
17th December – Reception, year 1 and year 2 Christmas party day (party clothes to be worn)
Wednesday 18th December – Year 2 Nativity at 9am
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
English
This week, the children have started their new book, Skellig. They spent their guided reading lessons exploring the first two chapters and predicting what they thought would happen next. They focused on describing a setting from the book through art and then took their time to write at length a setting description.
In our Reading for Pleasure lessons this week we explored leaflets and then decided on which leaflet was the best place to go!
Maths
This week, the children have returned to dividing and interpreting remainders as either decimals or whole number remainders. The children finished the week answering dividing word problems and then completing an investigation using ‘friendly numbers.’
Dividing using the bus stop method. Finding remainders and whole numbers or as a decimal.
Afternoon lessons
We have, this week, started our new thematic topic – my home, my country. They started the week completing an oracy task in small groups, answering the question: Is it ever okay to invade another country? They then learnt about the Vikings and how they came to our country. The children worked in their teams to then build their own Viking Longship (see our pictures!).
This term, Year 6 explored their painting skills in their art lessons. This week, the children learnt about the tertiary colour wheel and how you can make primary and secondary colours from them.
This week, in computing, the children spent time looking at what a good website has included. The children, this week, in French recapped their previous vocabulary and spent time counting to 20 - here is the song we used - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsEz58BblMY
Home Learning
For home learning this week, we would like the children to make their own clock as we will be learning about time next week in maths. They can present their clock any way they wish – these will also be displayed in class. Next week, the children will return to spelling their Red Words in their spelling lessons.
Contact the Year 6 team here:
Team Periwinkle
Mrs Rowland-Hill - helen.rowland-hill@chiltonprimary.co.uk
Mrs Bax - paula.bax@chiltonprimary.co.uk
Team Teal
Mr Wheeler - dave.wheeler@chiltonprimary.co.uk
Team Ultramarine
Mr Abel - tom.abel@chiltonprimary.co.uk
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