Important Dates

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 

On Wednesday 11th December, we will be holding our School Christmas Fair. This will run from 3.15pm-4.30pm, with a Christmas sing along led by our school choir, which will be at 4pm. Stalls will include a Christmas raffle, tombola, hot food and drinks, guess the sweets in the stocking, splat the sprout, crack the code and many more. This event will take place on the school field (weather permitting) so wrap up warm.

This year the Christmas raffle will work in a slightly different way. We have some big cash prizes, with first prize being £100 and second prize being £50. We will send home a book of tickets. We ask you return any ticket stubs you wish to buy, with the correct money. We also ask you send back any unbought tickets. There will also be tickets available to purchase on the day.

In order to run some of the stalls, we do need to ask for some donations. We are aware of the financial pressures on families at this time of year, so all donations are of course voluntary, and we are grateful for any received. We ask for all donations to come into school on Tuesday 10th December.

We will be running a ‘Take home a Teddy’ stall. If you have any good quality, unwanted cuddly toys please send them into school on Tuesday 10th December to be used on this stall.

We will also be running a Tombola stall. We ask that you send in a bottle of drink for this. Again, we ask that his is sent into school on Tuesday 10th December

Lastly, we will also be running our traditional ‘White Bag’ stall. All children will bring home a white bag on Friday 29th November. We ask that your child decorates the bag, and you pop a small gift inside (sweets, notepad, pens, small toy etc). Can this also be returned to school on Tuesday 10th December.

If you wish to have a stall to sell gifts, then we will also be selling pitches for £15. Contact Mrs Cheshire at hannah.cheshire@chiltonprimary.co.uk if you wish to rent a pitch.

Maths

This week, we have been learning more about fractions: finding equivalent fractions and ordering & comparing fractions.  By the end of the week, we found fractions of amounts by dividing by the denominator then multiplying by the numerator.  We explored a range of activities including sorting cubes into different fractions, solving problems like mazes and working with playdough.  Next week, we will be identifying, comparing and classifying 2D shapes.

English

We have really enjoyed reading more of our book, Skellig!  We have been writing in role – using the present tense and emotive language – as Mina and Michael.  As well as this, we considered the themes of the text.  We noticed that ‘birds’ came up a lot within the book so decided to make clay birds, much like Mina in the story does.  Next week, we will be reading and writing a range of poetry.

Thematic

We have enjoyed learning more about the Vikings and their impact on Britain today.  We visited the longship in Cliffsend and played flag raiders whilst there.  As well as this, we explored a range of sources to check their reliability.  Next week, we will focus on geography, looking at a 6-figure grid reference to locate places on a map.

Love to Learn

Please learn these spellings for a test next week.  They all have the 'sh' sound using the digraphs 'ti' or 'ci'.

special	spacious	magician	musician	technician
information	competition	action	station	cautious

You should have also brought home a white bag for the Christmas fayre (see Mrs. Cheshire's message, above).  We would like you to decorate and fill these bags ready for the fayre.  The deadline for this is 10th December.