What a wonderful week we have had!

Nativity

We wanted to say a big thank you to you all for providing costumes, practising your lines and songs at home. We were so impressed with the children and could not have been prouder of their performance!

Christmas party

Thank you for all the food you provided at the party, the children had a great time.

Read, Write Inc.

This week in Read, Write Inc. we have been reviewing sounds we know and learning new sounds. We have continued to use our sounds to read and write words, phrases and sentences. In particular, we have been looking for special friends in our words, saying the sounds and reading the word. Any practise at home reading a word by finding the special friends, saying the sounds and reading the word would be greatly appreciated! We have also been working hard on our handwriting and writing sentences with capital letters and full stops.

Maths

This week in maths, we have been learning to work systematically to find different possibilities in Christmas problem solving activities. For example, the children coloured in Father Christmas’s hat using 3 colours, but each one had to look different.

Fact of the week

Our fact of the week this week and next week is:

Consolidating our learning of all the doubles we have learned this term (1+1, 2+2, 3+3, 4+4, 5+5).

RE

This week for RE we talked about what it was like and how it made us feel to give and receive gifts. We then looked at the chirstian’s story the birth of Jesus and drew pictures to show the story. On Thursday we looked at gifts that cannot be seen or wrapped, for example, a hug, helping someone or friendship.

Love to Learn

Thank you so much to the children/families for completing their love to learn task last week – creating your own pictogram!

Over the Christmas break we would like the children to have a lovely break. If they wish, the children can draw or take photos of their favourite things they got up to in the holidays.

Other news

Next term PE will still be on a Tuesday afternoon. Please can children wear a plain white t-shirt, black or navy bottoms and a plain black or blue sweatshirt.

Read at 3 is on every Friday at 3pm this is where we would love to invite you into our classrooms and read with your child for 15 minutes. This will happen every Friday this term.

Show and Tell

From next term, we will be changing the way we do show and tell in school. Please can you now send the teacher a picture of what your child would like to talk about via email and when we are able we can do show and tell. Unfortunately, the children will no longer be allowed to bring any toys into school as we cannot be responsible for any lost or broken toys, thank you for your understanding with this.  

Dates to remember for Term 3  

Monday 6th January – All children back into school at the normal time

Friday 10th January – Polly Billington MP is visiting Chilton

Tuesday 21st January 3.30-4.30 – Thrive Coffee afternoon

Friday 7th February – NSPCC Number Day. Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 to wear a number themed outfit and KS2 to come as Times Table Rock Stars

Tuesday 11th February – Safer Internet Day

Friday 14th February – School Disco

If you would like to contact us, please feel free to email, alternatively we are available to catch at the end of the day or the start of the day by the door.

Team Cornflower: eloise.hall@chiltonprimary.co.uk

Team Sapphire: nicki.cotton@chiltonprimary.co.uk and elaine.howard@chiltonprimary.co.uk

Have a wonderful Christmas and we look forward to seeing you in 2025!

Miss Hall, Mrs Cotton and Mrs Howard