Important Messages

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

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

9th October - 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

A message from Mrs. Winchcombe: 

It’s that exciting time of year again when our Year 5 and 6 pupils can apply to become Thrive Ambassadors.

This year, we’ll be selecting a smaller group so that we can provide more in-depth training with our Thrive practitioners. As a Thrive Ambassador, you will play a very special role in our school community, offering support to others, being a friendly face in the playground, and giving advice and comfort to children who may need someone to turn to.

We are looking for candidates who:

• Show excellent behaviour

• Care deeply about others

• Have good attendance

• Want to make a positive difference to our school

If you would like to apply, please write a letter to Mrs Winchcombe, explaining why you would make the perfect Thrive Ambassador - Please hand these into your teachers, who will pass them on to her. 

Deadline: Friday 19th September

Good luck – we can’t wait to hear from you!

 

Maths

In Maths this week, the children were challenged to round numbers up to 10,000,000, including with decimals.  We identified the column that we needed to round before underlining the digit to the right of that column.  By following the rhyme '0, 1, 2, 3, 4... round it down to the floor / 5, 6, 7, 8, 9... round it up to the washing line', we were about to round a variety of numbers and solve problems based on this.  After the Kent Test (and continuing into next week), we were introduced to negative numbers.  We played a fun game involving a hot air balloon that helped us to understand adding and subtracting with negative numbers.  Here is the link: Balloon Game

English

After completing 'Way Home', we discussed its theme of homelessness and considered the causes, effects and solutions to the issue.  From this, we wrote a non-chronological report about homelessness, using a formal tone.  Next week, we will be writing in role as the main character (Shane) and creating art based on a cityscape.

Thematic

The children discussed the Big Question in our new topic of Darwin's Delights: Is Change Good?  We used a Consensus Circle activity to decide whether we agreed with each other or not.  After this, we researched three explorers and had a treasure hunt-style activity on the playground to locate clues about each person.  On Friday, we created a timeline of Charles Darwin's life.

    

    

    

Love 2 Learn

We would like everyone to plan and rehearse a short speech that they will present to the year group that outlines which responsibilities they would like this year.  Roles that will be available this year will include House Captains, Play Leaders, Sports Captain, Sports Crew, Peer Mediators, Librarians and Maths Ambassador.  We understand that this may take some out of their comfort zones however this is an opportunity to gain confidence in a safe space and to really sell themselves!  Next Friday afternoon, everyone will have a chance to present to the Year 6 teachers and children.