Friday 12th June 2020

Chartham Primary School

Email: secretary@chartham.kent.sch.uk Tel: 01227 738225 www.charthamprimary.org.uk

Pink Panther

It was lovely to see the children’s faces, and big

smiles. We are very proud of them. We have been making the most of

our wonderful outdoor areas we are so lucky to have here in school: we have been on mini-beast hunts and

have tried worm charming. Most importantly, we have been having

lots of fun - turns out, we are never too old for hide & seek

and mud cakes!

Purple Bubble

This week the purple

bubble have learnt to wash our

hands and sit at our desks, we've

explored the different forest school

areas, where we found a frog!

Purple bubble have also completed

maths and science activities using

different types of sweets and

designed our own aliens and

rockets. Well done

everyone!

Blue Bubble

We have had an excellent start to the term. We have

enjoyed making new friends, playing in the forest school area daily and recapping place value in maths.

Most of our learning has been inspired by 'Lost and Found' by Oliver

Jeffers. We have researched penguins, written diary entries,

poems and so much more!

Green Bubble

Green bubble have settled in well and have enjoyed pond

dipping this week. We have been on bug hunts outdoors and really

enjoyed ourselves. In English, we have described our own exciting

alien and in maths we have looked at tens and

ones.

Yellow Bubble

This week we have been getting used to being back at

school, we have done so well with hand washing and remembering to

social distance. Our theme this week has been yellow, each day we have learnt about a different yellow

thing such as where do bananas come from? We have really

enjoyed being back at school!

Silver Bubble

We have had a very busy week in maths, we sang songs

to help us learn how to count in 2s and 10s and we shared sweets in groups. We have loved our daily Forest School adventures. We

played in the mud kitchen and left a Hansel & Gretel trail of breadcrumbs.

We were amazed to find the birds had eaten all the bread and we couldn't follow the trail back to

school - just like Hansel and Gretel!

Black Bubble

Black Bubble have been looking at the sound collector

poem in English. We have also been learning all about the different

types of angle in maths. Black Bubble have loved their time outside during their forest school sessions. We also enjoyed pond dipping and have been

excited by finding new animals in the school

pond.

Dark Green Bubble

We have been writing a non-chronological report about a mini-beasts inspired by the mini-beast

hunt we carried out last week. Dark Green Bubble have been looking

around the pond and mud kitchen, in order to find mini-beasts and classify them. Today we went

outside for worm charming to try and get the worms to come to

the surface as part of our science experiment.

White Bubble

White bubble have been amazing this week! They have

settled in at their new desks really well and have found out about

bubbles and the importance of hand washing. White Bubble read ‘You

Can’t Eat a Princess!’ and designed their own aliens. We have also

been making our very own white rabbits and have been singing our

very special white bubble song.

Gold Bubble

In Maths we have been learning about percentages and

were shocked to discover cinemas mark-up popcorn by 90%! We have made model ants, worry dolls and paper houses. Gold bubble has a

general knowledge quiz challenge, did you know, that shooting stars are

actually meteors? The children are really enjoying their learning and we are very proud of their sensible and

mature attitude to the current changes, Gold is a great

place to be!

Reminder

Please can we remind all parents that children must not be sent to school if they are displaying any of the symptoms associated with coronavirus. These are:

high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)

new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)

loss or change to your sense of smell or taste – this means you've noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal.

Many thanks for your cooperation with this.

Dear Parents/Carers,

Welcome back!

Last week on Wednesday we opened our doors to children from Year 6, and this week on Monday some of our Parrot and Toucan children returned to school. The children have returned with smiles on their faces and have followed the changes in school really well. As you know we have also remained open since 23rd March for children from key worker families, and they too have been a credit to their families, in what we know has been a very challenging time.

Staffing

I would like to welcome our new School Business Manager, Mrs Sam Sage, who joined the Chartham and St Stephen’s Infants teams at the beginning of June. Mrs Sage comes to with us with a wealth of school business experience, having worked at several primary schools in Kent. We also have two new teachers joining us in September; Mrs Hidayat-Brown and Miss Goulding.

Bubbles and home learning

Every child in school has been allocated a bubble – see the bubble news on the first page! These bubbles have an allocated lead teacher and teaching assistant. As the numbers of children attending is increasing, this has required more staff to lead bubbles and therefore class teachers may be responding at different times to any home learning queries. We do however have some teachers overseeing the home learning to ensure this provision remains strong.

Remember, we love seeing what you have been doing at home so please upload examples onto Tapestry – we are including some examples of home learning in this newsletter too.

The staff in each bubble are as follows:

o Silver bubble: Mrs Marfleet & Mrs Tuff o White bubble: Miss Munro & Miss Marshall o Purple bubble: Mr Woollcott & Miss Smith o Yellow bubble: Mrs Crawley & Miss Hair o Green bubble: Mr Andrews & Miss Brice o Blue bubble: Miss Bransfield, Mrs Whitehead/ Miss Holness o Black bubble: Miss Smith & Mrs Pitchacaren o Gold bubble: Mrs Reeve/Mrs Bennett & Mrs Benson o Pink bubble: Miss Holden & Mrs Pattison/Miss Groves o Red bubble: Miss Copeman & Mrs Casey o Dark green bubble: Miss Foster & Miss Maple o Orange bubble: Mr Cheetham/Miss Ward & Mrs Keeler Transition

This time of year we all begin to think about September and new classes. At present, we do not know what school may need to look like in September but we want to reassure you that the transition for all children is a priority for us. We understand this can be very exciting for some children, but also recognise that for some it can be an anxious time of year. We will be informing you of your child’s class teacher in July and also provide you with a written report before the end of term. If you have any concerns about transition or next academic year, please contact Janine Morgan (FLO).

Emma Ribbans Head of School

Emily from Ladybird, Albie from Grasshopper, Noah from Dragonfly, Indi from Leopard and Neave from Tiger have all worked hard to achieve their target times on Nessy. Joshua and Freddie from Parrot, Charlie from Toucan, Alexandra and Barnaby from Bumblebee, Teddy from Ladybird, Connor and Leo from Dragonfly and Bobby from Grasshopper have made super efforts with their phonics and reading at home - Persevering, reading to friends and relatives on Zoom and writing book reviews. Rhys, Isaac and Rosie from Parrot along with Charlie from Dragonfly have been really creative when continuing to learn their tricky words. Leo from Dragonfly is regularly keeping us updated about his home learning and

undertaking some of his brother’s tasks as well as his own. 😊

Sophia from Toucan has been very busy at home and has been practising her beautiful

handwriting! We are very proud of her phonics work, well done Sophia!

Mollie from Parrot has drawn this beautiful flower and labelled it. She then went on to learn

about the function of each part of the flower! Wow!

Alexandra from Bumblebee has been very busy and has even created her own

experiment! She froze water in a glove and wanted to see what would happen if you added

sugar and salt...can you guess what happened? Well done, Alexandra 😊

A massive well done to Louisa from Jaguar and Arthur from Leopard who have gone over

and above everyday with their home learning.