Weekly News! 29.11.24

Thank you all for your donations today for Children in Need, they are very much appreciated. Reception have had an amazing week of fun and learning which we cannot wait to share with you.

RWI

We continue this week to learn our sounds in smaller groups. Children are working hard to speedily recall sounds and orally blend the sounds they are learning. We are practising writing our sounds to develop the correct letter formation, and some of us are practising writing words beginning with our sound of the day. In our lessons, there are plenty of opportunities to build words with the sounds we are learning both orally and practically. Please continue to use your pink sound books at home to reinforce your child’s learning at school.

Maths

This week we have been learning about 2D shapes including their names and properties. We used a range of resources to make 2D shapes and learnt the words sides and corners. We used these to describe circles, triangles, squares, oblongs and pentagons eg a triangle has 3 sides and 3 corners. We then recapped our learning of prepositional language to describe where something is eg in, on, under, in front of, behind, next to and in between.

At the end of the week, we combined our learning to make pictures using 2D shapes by listening to instructions of where to place them on our page. We then got to see what the picture was supposed to look like and compare to see if we got it right!

Next week we will be learning to compare items by their length and height.

Thematic Curriculum

This week we began our topic on transport. This started with our classrooms being trashed! When we came in from lunch, our classrooms were a mess and we couldn’t work out why! We had some great ideas as to what might have happened… some children thought a naughty elf might have come to visit, or maybe the Grinch from our nativity! Finally, we found a clue amongst the mess. An envelope contained a book…. Naughty Bus! We read the story, and decided the naughty bus from the story must be to blame for the mess.

We explore the book, and discussed our favourite part. Then we created a collage of our favourite page, when the bus falls into the pond. We chose a range of materials to stick onto our picture to represent the goldfish, reeds and winch.

After this, we learnt about London landmarks including Tower Bridge, Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament. In groups, we had to sort a range of landmarks into London and NOT London.

Finally, we listened to a Naughty Bus song. Every time we sang the song, a new part of the story was added. This helped us to recall the story and remember the order of events. 

Next week we will continue our transport topic, including our first reception trip to the harbour.

• 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

Important information

- Please complete the WOW moment sheets and pass them on to your child’s class teacher, so that we can add these to the children’s learning journey books. (These are not for the children’s love to learn books).

- If you have any small/medium boxes, please send them in. We will be using lots of these over the next few weeks to make different vehicles.

- 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.

e-mail addresses

emma.dudley-smith@chiltonprimary.co.uk

kirby.walker@chiltonprimary.co.uk

Many thanks for all your continued support,

EYFS team