Home Learning  

1. We would like the children to practise the following spellings that end in –ous.  This home learning is due in by Friday 27th February. 

Curious	Delicious
Generous	Serious
Courageous	Nervous
Poisonous	Ambitious
Mysterious	Precious

2. Year 6 will be learning about WW2 in Term 4 and 5 so we have set some home reading challenges on MYON about this subject - The children have a whole term to complete this task. https://www.myon.co.uk/login/index.html 

Important Dates: 

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 

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

Monday 2nd March – Secondary School Offer Day 

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) 

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 

The Viking Speaker Competition 

Dear Chilton Families, 

It is that time of year again that we will be holding the Viking Speaker Competition. The Speaker competition is an annual competition across the Viking Academy Trust that helps to develop children's Oracy skills. The children are invited to create and present a speech on a given theme. Four children will be chosen to represent the school, competing against children from Ramsgate Arts and Upton to become the Viking Speaker winner for 2026. 

This year the children are invited to ‘Pitch their passion’. The idea is the children choose something they are passionate about. This could be anything from Climate Change to Capybaras; it may be a hobby they have or just something they find interesting. They need to write a speech that inspires the audience to take an interest in their chosen passion. The speech can be no longer than 2 minutes and the children cannot use any props or slides to help them during their speech. 

To help the children with this competition, please could you support your child across half term to decide which passion they have that they might wish to ‘pitch’ in their speech. They need to consider what makes their passion so intriguing and why others should also take an interest in it. They can begin to make some notes or even create a first draft of their speech. They will then continue to work on their speech during the first week back in school after half term. 

Those children that wish to enter the competition will perform their speech to their class during the week beginning 2nd March. Each class will choose one representative. We will then hold the Chilton Speaker Final on Friday 13th March, where our four Chilton representatives will be chosen. These four children will take part in the Viking Speaker Final on Friday 27th March. 

We look forward to learning all about what our children are passionate about. 

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 

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. 

Year 6 Learning this week

English 

This week the children finished their Snakes vs Iguana commentary.  The children used verbs, adverbs, varied their sentence types, used a passive voice and used vocabulary and phrases to sound like an expert! Reading for Pleasure – this week, the children relaxed and read the lyrics to their favourite songs! Watch here - https://vimeo.com/1164623556/e1812264ab?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

Maths 

This week the children learnt a new skill: BIDMAS (order of operations).  They then moved on to number sequences and finished the week looking at some algebra.  

Afternoon lessons 

This week, Year 6 returned to RE in the afternoon and learnt about Islam.  We started the week by visiting the Margate Mosque.  This was a wonderful trip and experience for the children and meant that the children had a wealth of knowledge about this religion.  Here are some pictures from the day:  

As part of our play hard, we also enjoyed icing some biscuits as a well done for reading so much during the term!  For a reward, the children decorated (and ate) biscuits.  Well done for reaching your target!