What a fantastic term we have had!

Felderland Farm Trip

In term 6, Year 1 are going to Felderland farm for a thematic trip on Wednesday 18^th June. If you are free and if you could spare some of your time, we would really appreciate it. Please contact your child’s teachers if you can help.

Viking Games

Wow the children had so much fun when Ramsgate Art Primary school came to visit us for our Viking Games. Take a look at some activities we did!

Maths

This week in maths, we have been learning to solve missing number problems. We did this by using part, part wholes to help us solve the missing addition or subtraction question. To find an additional problem, we added one part and another part to make the whole. P + P = W. To find the subtraction problem we had to take away a part from the whole to find the other part, W – P = P.

Have a look at some of the questions we had to answer. Our teachers were very impressed with our fantastic learning!

Next term in maths we will be looking at multiplication. We will look at placing objects into arrays and understand repeated addition.

Fact of the week

Our fact of the week this week is:

5 + 1 = 6

1 + 5 =6

6 + 1 = 7

1 + 6 = 7

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.

Reading

Mondays – RWI books to be changed by an adult. Please could ALL reading wallets be put in the trays so that we can check who has earned a certificate.

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays – children can change their learning zone book (the one with the coloured sticker on). Please help them to have this book ready to change when they come in to the classroom in the mornings. Thank you!

Children will bring home two books in their reading folders, one being a RWI home book. Children are expected to try and read this three times during the week to ensure they are building on their reading fluency. The RWI home books will be changed, by an adult, every Monday.

The other book (with the coloured sticker) should be changed independently by the child themselves (on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)- first thing in the morning is a great time to do this! These books can be changed as regularly as needed.

Please listen to your child read as much as possible at home and record this in their reading records. Every week, one child from each class will receive a reading certificate in an assembly.

Children will also get a certificate for every 20 times they read so it is important that the reading record gets signed every time they read at home. BOTH RWI BOOKS AND THE LEARNING ZONE BOOKS CAN BE RECORDED IN THE READING RECORDS!

There will also be a sticker in your child’s reading record which will explain which skill they are working on with regards to their reading.

If you have any questions, please speak to your child’s class teacher.

RE

This week in RE we have been looking at Hindu celebrations! The children got to see a video of a Hindu wedding and see how they celebrate. We looked at how Hindu brides have henna tattoos on their hands and feet when they get married. We created our own henna tattoos. On our RE day we looked at the Hindu festival Raksha Bandhan this is where brothers and sisters promise to take care of each other. We then had a think who we look out for and who looks out for us too. We then drew a picture of them and wrote about how they take care of us.

Next term we will have a PSHE week and we will be looking at healthy relationships.

Love to Learn

In art next term, we will be looking at sunsets and beaches. For this terms Love to Learn, we would like you or your family to take or find some photos of a beaches in Thanet and sunsets. You can even try and draw, paint or collage your own beach or sunsets!   

Other news

PE is on a Tuesday afternoon. Children need to wear a plain white t-shirt, black or navy bottoms and a plain black or blue sweatshirt.

Next tern our Read at 3 will continue every Friday at 3pm this is where we would love to invite you into our classrooms and read with your child for 15 minutes

Show and Tell

A reminder that children should not be bringing any toys into school as these can get easily broken or lost. If children would like to do show and tell, please email a picture of the show and tell to class teacher(s) and we can use this when the children share with the class. Please could all parents ensure that children are not bringing toys etc in from home.

Dates to remember

4th June– Class photos

9th June – Year 1 phonics screen begins

18th June – Year 1 to Felderland

23rd June – Book fair this week

27th June – Thrive coffee morning 9am in hall

1st July – Music evening at 6pm

2nd July – Year 1 class assembly 2.50-3.05pm

4th July – Summer fair from 3.30pm

10th July Sports Day – KS2 9.15-12 Reception and KS1 1.30-3

11th July – Reports go out to parents

14th, 15th 16th July – Transition days; children to spend these days with their new class teachers

17th July – Inflatable fun day in school for all children

18th July – School finishes at 2pm for Reception to Year 5

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 weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Monday!

 

Miss Hall, Mrs Cotton and Mrs Howard