What a lovely week we have had at Chilton this week. The sun has been shining and we have thoroughly enjoyed this!

World Book Day Thursday 5^th March 2026 

Thank you for the amazing costumes that the children came dressed in yesterday. We had a great day celebrating World Book Day. Our story was Poo at the Zoo! We came up with our own version of the story, spent some time playing some rhyming games and designed our own robot/machine that would pick poo up at the zoo!

Chilton Book Fayre 

The Chilton Book Fayre will arrive on Monday 9^th March and run until Friday 13^th March outside the Year 5 classrooms. Children will come home with a World Book Day book voucher.  These can be spent at the Book Fayre. Cash and online payments are also available, and a percentage of the monies raised will go towards funding more books for Chilton children.  

Reading competition 

We will be running a reading competition the week of World Book Day (week beginning 2^nd March).  We would like the children to read as many books as they can in a funny or unusual place! Please take a picture of these and email them to Mrs Rowland-Hill (helen.rowland@chiltonprimary.co.uk) A winner from Ks1 and a winner from KS2 with the most books read in a funny and usual place will win a prize! Deadline for entries is Monday 9^th March 2026. 

RWI

This week we have continued our Read, Write, Inc lessons in small groups. Some children have continued to learn set 2 sounds, these are all special friends and have a special rhyme. For example ay- may I play? ee what can you see? Part of learning our sounds is learning the letters making up the sounds, practising writing and then reading these in words. Most children are also recapping set 1 sounds to consolidate their learning.

Please continue to read with your child at home. When you have completed a book, sign and date their reading record. It is also beneficial for your child to re-read books to help build their confidence and fluency, which is why we change books twice a week. Thank you for your continued support with this.

Maths

This week we have been learning about the composition of numbers. We have been learning that numbers can be made up of smaller parts. We focused on the numbers 6, 7 and 8 over this week. Each time we had to say ‘3 and 4 makes 7’ or ‘3 and 2 and 1 makes 6’.

Next week, we will be focusing on the composition of the numbers 9 and 10.

Thematic 

This week, we have started our new topic: On the Farm. We started the week by playing Animal Guess Who where we had to listen to clues and guess what animal they related to. We also had a lovely time sharing the Love to Learn activities that the children completed at home. Many thanks for helping with these at home. We read ‘What the Ladybird Heard’, discussed the animals in the story and the noises they make and used drama to discuss the feelings of the characters in the story. The children learned how to put the main events of a story in the correct order and drew a map of the own farm.

Next week, we will be looking at a piece of artwork: Wheatfield with Crows. We spoke about what we could see and what we liked or disliked about the art. We then created some artwork using paint with texture and presented our masterpieces in a class art gallery!

 

Young Artists’ Competition 2026

DEADLINE – Wednesday 1^st April 2026

The Rotary Club of Margate have launched their Thanet schools’ art competition. Selected entries will be displayed at Sainsbury’s Westwood Cross in their annual art exhibition.

To enter, please create a piece of A4 artwork with a wildlife theme. On the reverse, please write the following information:

Child’s Name

Year Group

Medium Used

Brief description of the artwork

Permission and Consent - By submitting your child’s artwork to the competition, you give permission for the artwork to be displayed in a public exhibition. You also consent to your child’s name, age, school name, and title of the artwork being shown alongside the piece. You understand that the exhibition may be visited by members of the public and that images of the display may be used by the organisers for promotional or reporting purposes, both in print and online. No other personal details will be shared.

If you have any questions – please feel free to contact Mrs Barlow.

Thank you, we look forward to receiving your competition entries!

Mrs Barlow and Mrs Howard

Important information

• Reading at 3 will be every Friday.

• Please make sure you name everything your child brings into school including gloves, scarves and hats

Important dates

Monday 9th March – Book fair in school this week

Friday 20th March – Red Nose Day (Wear something funny for money)

Monday 23rd March – Rock your socks for Downs Syndrome Awareness (Wear bright or mismatching socks to school)

Tuesday 24th March – Team Periwinkle to Quex Park

Thursday 26th March – Team Teal to Quex Park

Friday 27th March – Parents come into school to look at children’s books prior to Parent Teacher Consultations

Week Beginning 30th March – Parent Teacher consultation week

Wednesday 1st April at 9.05am– Easter Bonnet Parade for Team Periwinkle, Team Ocean and Team Cornflower

Wednesday 1st April at 2.45pm – Easter Bonnet Parade for Team Teal, Team Sky and Team Sapphire

Thursday 2nd April – Chilton Fundraisers Sponsored Eggscellent Event - Non-Uniform to be worn with further details to follow next term.

Thursday 2nd April - Last day of term. School to finish at 3.15pm

Have a great weekend!

From the Reception Team