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Chilton Primary School

One Childhood, One Chance

Weekly News! 04.10.24

Thank you to all the parents who joined us (and sang along) for our Harvest Bangers assembly on Monday. 

English  

This week, we have continued reading 'Floodland' following Zoe's arrival at Eels Island. We wrote a setting description of the Eel island, focusing first on prepositional phrases and then on sentence openers. We also created a show-piece focusing on weaving action and description. Next week, we will be focusing on character descriptions. 

Maths 

This week, we have been looking at multiplication. Initially, we recapped how to multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 100 using a place value slider before moving on to study multiples and factors and halving and doubling. Next week, we will be practising formal methods of multiplication. 

Thematic curriculum  

This week, we have to continued to work on our 'Darwin's Delights' Thematic unit. We looked at inherited characteristics and variations (thank you to all those parents who sent in selfies!) before designing an offspring and considering both its inherited characteristics and the variations from its parents. We also then looked at a number of famous places in the UK for fossil discovery, including Lyme Regis. Next week, we will be classifying plants and animals. We also looked at French foods, experimented with different gradient pencils in Art and looked at IP addresses in Computing.  

For the children's Love to Learn task this week, please could they write a letter to Mrs Winchcombe by next Friday (11th) telling her why you feel you would be a good peer mediator. 

What is a peer mediator: 

  1. Peer mediators are clearly identified by their hoodies and work in pairs in their school playground to help children who are involved in a squabble but don’t know how to sort it out. 

  2. The mediators encourage the children to talk about the problem openly and calmly and then come to a solution which is fair for all concerned. 

What qualities will a peer mediator need:  

A good listener Empathetic Non-judgemental Discreet Fair  Not bossy 

Helpful in getting young people to find their own solutions to their disputes.

If children are not interested in becoming a Peer Mediator, please could they create a piece of work showing both their inherited characteristics from their parents and their variations. These could be physical or personality-based traits. As always, the Love to Learn task can be presented in a creative way of the children's choosing.

Additionally, a MyOn reading task on Charles Darwin has been set that we would like the children to read and complete the quiz on.

Contact the Year 6 team:

Team Periwinkle: Mrs Bax paula.bax@chiltonprimary.co.uk and Mrs Rowland-Hill helen.rowland-hill@chiltonprimary.co.uk

Team Teal: Mr Wheeler david.wheeler@chiltonprimary.co.uk

Team Ultramarine: Mr Abel tom.abel@chiltonprimary.co.uk

Dates to remember   

Term 1 PE for Year 6 – Wednesday (Swimming)  

Term 1 Extra Sports – Every Thursday.  Children to wear trainers to school. 

Wake Up Shake Up – Every Wednesday morning on the top playground from 8:30am. 

Saturday 5th October – Cross Country

Tuesday 8th October – Flu vaccines

Friday 11th October – Fancy dress Disco Year 1, 2 and 3 3.15-4.15pm and Year 4, 5 and 6 4.30pm-5.30pm

Wednesday 16th October – No year 6 swimming this week; usual PE lessons to happen

Thursday 17th October – Kent test results to parents

Thursday 24th October – Parents invited in to look at children’s books at 3.15pm

Friday 25th October – Inset day – School closed to children

Have a great weekend!

The Year 6 team

Contact Us

Correspondence for the Head of School:

Mr Alex McAuley
c/o Chilton Primary School,
Chilton Lane,
Ramsgate,
Kent. CT11 0LQ

Contact the school office on:
01843 597695
or by fax on:
01843 852872

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