Welcome back to term 2. We hope you have had a well-rested break. Thank you all for your time this week, we really enjoyed chatting to you all at our parent teacher consultations.

If you need any more WOW moment slips, please do ask your child’s class teacher.

RWI

This week children have gone in to groups to learn RWI. This means they are taught the sounds they need to know and lessons are tailored to their needs. All groups are still recapping set 1 sounds, with lots of oral blending, segmenting and word building. Please continue to use children’s pink sound books at home to quickly recall the sounds.

Maths

In maths this week, we recapped our numerals 1-5 and practised representing these numbers on our fingers. We then counted different groups of objects and matched the amount to the correct numeral and then we had to write the numerals ourselves.

Next week we will be matching numeral to quantity up to 10.

Thematic

We began this week with a hook into our learning about celebrations. We shared the photos you sent to us of your child at a celebration. We discussed all the different celebrations children went to and the meaning behind those celebrations.

After this, we learnt about Guy Fawkes and his importance in our history. We learnt how James I was crowned King, but some Catholic men were cross about it. They had an idea… to put gunpowder under the houses of Parliament. The King’s men caught Guy Fawkes and his fellow plotters, and they were put in prison.

Children learnt actions to the story to help them remember, and then we acted the story out to our friends. We learnt a song about The Gunpowder Plot. See the link below. We practised singing the song, giving it actions. We then performed the song in front of the class, remembering to use our singing voices and actions to make it a great performance!

Next week, we will be learning about Kindness week.

Important dates:

4th November – Poppies on sale this week and next week

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

e-mail addresses

emma.dudley-smith@chiltonprimary.co.uk

kirby.walker@chiltonprimary.co.uk

Many thanks for all your continued support,

EYFS