Year 3 have blown us away this week, they have shown great effort, enthusiasm and courage with all of their learning this week.

Maths
This week in maths we have been developing our subtraction skills and applying our existing knowledge of number facts and place value to solve a range of problems with increasing confidence and accuracy. Next week we will be developing our multiplication skills, multiplying 2-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers using short multiplication.

English
This week in English we have been preparing and writing our speeches for The Speaker competition. Next week we will be starting our new book for the term Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree. We will begin by writing a character description of one the characters but not using their name to see if people can guess who we have described.

Thematic
This week we have focused on PSHE, thinking about the British Values and thinking about our feelings. Next week we will begin our new topic in Thematic Revolutionary Romans. We will start with some Geography, naming and locating counties, we will learn what a city is and how they are different to counties and finally, we will look at a European map locating and identifying different countries and their capital cities.

World Book Day Thursday 5^th March 2026

This year’s World Book Day theme will be books that make us laugh.  We invite children to dress up as their favourite book or character for World Book Day. The children will take part in a variety of fun activities throughout the day. All children will receive their £1 World Book Day Voucher.  This can be used at our school Book Fayre or in shops. 

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.

Mrs Rowland-Hill - English Lead/Upper Phase Lead

Art Competition

NEW ART COMPETITON – DEADLINE 4th MARCH 2026

We would love to see children from Chilton entering the following art competition hosted by the Royal Academy of Arts. Families will be asked to submit their children’s artwork via the following link (you will need to register):

https://youngartists.royalacademy.org.uk/get-involved#artworks

ABOUT THE COMPETITON

Each student can submit one piece of artwork and there is no theme. When you enter, they will ask for an image of the artwork plus some information about the piece such as title, size, and some text written by the artist which can include why they created the work and what it means to them. Their panel of judges will see the artwork and the selected pieces will be shown in an online exhibition. Some of the artworks will also be shown at the Royal Academy of Arts.

Full details can be found on their website:

Young Artists' Summer Show | Royal Academy

We are very excited to see your submissions!

Good Luck! From Mrs Barlow and Mrs Howard

 

Home Learning
The Viking Speaker Competition – this week for Home Learning, we have sent home the speeches that the children have written in class this week. We would like the children to practice them in preparation for presenting them to their class next week. Their speech can be edited if they would like to but can be no longer than 2 minutes. In English this week we have looked at what makes a good speech:

- emotive language

- repetition

- addressing the audience (rhetorical questions)

- use conjunctions (because, but etc)

They may want to type their speech up to make it easier for them to read and practice.

 

Advance Warning for Next Term

Start thinking about your World Book Day Costumes for Thursday 5^th March

Year 3 will be having a Roman dress up day on Monday 23^rd March

 

Dates to Remember

Monday 23rd February – All children back into school at the normal time

Monday 23rd February – Friday 27th February – Bring in any unwanted world book day costumes

Wednesday 25th February – Year 3 Swimming begins and will happen every Wednesday throughout term 4

Friday 27th February – Second hand world book day costume sale from 3pm by school gates

Thursday 5th March – World Book day, children to dress as their favourite book character

Monday 9th March – Book fair in school this week

Friday 13th March – Chilton Speaker Final

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)

Monday 23rd March – Year 3 Roman Dress up day

Friday 27th March – Viking Speaker Final at Royal Harbour

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

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 wonderful weekend!

Mrs King, Miss Davey and Mrs Barlow

Sophie.Barlow@chiltonprimary.co.uk

Emily.Davey@chiltonprimary.co.uk

Measha.King@chiltonprimary.co.uk