Important Messages and dates

10.09.25 - Swimming at Upton as part of PE (and every Wednesday this term).

11.09.25 - Kent Test.  Children to come into school at normal time, including those who have chosen not to take the test.  We will begin when everyone is ready.

16th September – Meet and greet for years 1 and 2 from 8.45am-9am in your child’s classroom. This is an opportunity to meet your child’s teaching team and get to hear about what to expect in the year ahead.

17th September – Meet and greet for years 3 and 4 from 8.45am-9am in your child’s classroom. This is an opportunity to meet your child’s teaching team and get to hear about what to expect in the year ahead

18th September – Meet and greet for years 5 and 6 from 8.45am-9am in your child’s classroom. This is an opportunity to meet your child’s teaching team and get to hear about what to expect in the year ahead

19th September – Welcome to Reception meeting for Reception parents from 2.30pm in school hall

25th September – Chilton School’s 50th Birthday (please see separate letters for details on how we will be celebrating this)

26th September – Thrive coffee morning 9am-10.30am in the studio – a chance to meet our well-being team

7th October – 9am Reception Harvest assembly and 2.45pm Year 3 Harvest assembly (in school hall with families invited to watch)

8th October – 9am Year 2 Harvest assembly and 2.45pm Year 1 Harvest assembly (in school hall with families invited to watch)

9th October - 9am Year 4 Harvest assembly and 2.45pm Year 5 and 6 Harvest assembly (in school hall with families invited to watch)

16th October – Kent test results sent to families

17th October – Final day of term

Maths

In Maths this week, we looked at the place value of a range of numbers, up to ten million.  Additionally, we explored the resources that are used to support our learning.  We wrote, said and read the numbers and partitioned them in a range of ways.  Next week, we will be rounding numbers, finding strategies to round larger numbers in different ways.  We will also see how negative numbers get smaller the further from zero you go.  

    

    

English

We have enjoyed our introduction to our new text, 'Way Home'.  The children asked questions about what they had read and wrote a setting description of a dark, dingy alleyway, using figurative language to engage our readers.  Next week, as we read more of the text, we learn more about the main character, Shane.  From this, we will research homelessness and the effects of it.  

Thematic

This week has had a PSHE focus, where we re-established the Chilton Way rules and discussed the zones of regulation.  Afterwards, we role-played scenarios where we considered our manners.  As part of our Thrive, we learned the new skill of juggling.  This was incredibly fun... with a variety of successes!  Next week, the children will be introduced to our first topic, Darwin's Delights.  

    

    

Love 2 Learn

Please choose ten words from the attached list (it doesn't have to be the words we looked at in our spelling lessons this week).  Please create a piece of art based on the spellings that you choose.  Here is some inspiration for you: