Year 6 have enjoyed another wonderful week of learning! Well done to Jess for winning Professor Fuzzball this week and to Team Periwinkle for winning Captain Macaroni. Here's what we've been up to: 

Maths

This week, we continued our Fractions study by looking at adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator before moving on to different denominators. We then moved on to identifying properties of 2D shapes and classifying them before completing a number card related problem-solving activity on Friday. Next week, we will be looking at area and perimeter. 

English

We have continued reading Skellig and couldn't believe when Mina discovered Skellig's wings. In our English lessons, we have focused on poetry, writing a group poem about angels, birds or fear (based on the themes of Skellig) before writing our own Winter themed poems based on William Blake's 'To Winter'. We then created some wonderful artwork to publish our poems on to in the style of William Blake. Next week, we will be writing narratives. 

Thematic

We have continued working through our 'My Home, My Country' thematic unit, focusing on Geography after finishing our History learning. First, we looked at how the geography of York (Jorvik) encouraged the Vikings to settle there before studying a range of different map types to decide where to invade in Kent as the Vikings (look out Canterbury!). We then look at the different Ordnance Survey symbols before adding them to a map of Ramsgate and learnt about how to find six figure grid references. Next week, we will continue our Geographing learning by completing fieldwork. 

Love to Learn

Please learn these spellings for a test next week.  They all have the 'sh' sound using 'si' or 'ssi'. For their home learning task, please could you complete a piece of work showcasing these spellings. This can be done in a creative way of your choosing.

occasion	tension	vision	expansion	pension
fusion	dimension	passion	profession	admission

 

You should have also brought home a white bag for the Christmas fayre last week (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.

Important Dates 

11th December – Chilton Christmas Fair from 3.15 – 4.30  

17th December – Year 5 and 6 Church performance at 10am 

17th December – Year 3 and 4 Church performance at 2pm 

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.

Have a wonderful weekend!

The Year 6 team