Home learning – due by Friday 13th February 

- We would like the children to practise the following spellings: 

Important messages:

- Year 6 Margate Mosque Trip – The children will visit the Margate Mosque on Monday. The children will need to bring a packed lunch (a school lunch will be provided if you have notified the office). We ask that the children bring a coat, a bag to carry their lunch and water too.  We will return to school at 1:30pm. 

- Term 3 will finish on Friday 13th February at 3:15pm.

World Book Day – Thursday 5th March

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 9th March and run until Friday 13th 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 2nd 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 9th March 2026. 

Mrs Rowland-Hill - English Lead/Upper Phase Lead. 

English

This week the children started their commentary writing for the documentary – Snakes vs Iguana.  Watch the video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el4CQj-TCbA The children focused on sounding like an expert, verbs and adverbs to describe the action as well as using ambitious vocabulary and punctuation. As part of their punctuation and grammar challenge, the children were tasked to include a passive voice. Here is a video about passive and active voice (Team Cobalt is a huge fan of this one!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olS2Hu-HRJc 

Year 6 will continue this writing next week.  As part of our Reading for Pleasure, Year 6 explored cookery books and used their knowledge from their Thematic lessons to find recipes that were healthy.

Maths

The children took part in practical maths this week as part of our NSPCC Number Day.  We started the week buying items from a shop (the children were given a fictional budget of £20 in Mr Wheeler's supermarket and £20 in Mrs Rowland-Hill's bookshop.  The children played the Game of Life in Mrs Bax's room too.  The children were also tasked with furnishing their own bedroom on a budget of £500.  They used the Argos website to work within their budget! The children ended the week using Skittles to answer multiple questions linked to number, ratio, fractions and decimals. Next week, the children will learn how to answer calculations using Order of Operations (BIDMAS) and sequencing numbers.  Here is BIDMAS explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opmBUyg9dJ0

Thematic

We finished our How to Mind Your Heart topic this week.  We ended this with completing some market research linked to healthy snacks.  The children asked 20 adults around the school what they would rather like: a sweet or savoury flapjack.  Their results were SAVOURY so the children planned and made a savoury flapjack.  Their baking was very successful and tasty!