Weekly News 22/11/2024 

English  

This week, the children have been writing dream sequences based on the main character, Michael’s, experiences of his new home including finding the man in the garage and exploring the attic with Mina. The writing focussed on using a range of sentence types including simple, complex and compound. The children also drew birds and performed poems about owls linked to the themes within the text. 

Maths  

This week, the children have been learning about Fractions, beginning with finding equivalent fractions, using the method of ‘what we do to the denominator we do to the numerator. We then converted mixed numbers into improper fractions e.g. 3 ½ = 7/2.   
 

Afternoon lessons 

We have, this week, continued our thematic topic – my home, my country. We have found out about three Viking and Anglo-saxon kings and decided which one was the best leader. The children have also learned about Danelaw introduced by Alfred the Great.  

This week, in Art, the children have sketched lightly in pencil ready to paint next week, using tertiary colours. This week in computing the children began to design a website.  

Home Learning 

To create a piece of learning based on fractions to show in a creative way something we have learned this week. 

Key Dates and Messages 

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