Book now for Let's Leap Holiday Camps this Summer Holidays!

Let's Leap will be running our popular activity camps here at Chartham Primary this Summer holidays from Monday 24th July - Friday 18th August.

Operating every school holiday from 8:00am - 5:30pm, we can't wait to get started!

From Electric Segway Go-karts to Arts & Crafts, Let’s Leap are sure to have an activity for every child.

Let’s Leap not only provides childcare with a safe and supportive learning environment, but it ensures that your children leave feeling empowered, confident, and excited to return the following day. Being healthy and active is for all children, which is exactly why Let’s Leap offers a wide range of varied activities to ensure every child is engaged all week long.

Your children can attend our camp for any number of days or the whole week, and for parents, our days are flexible, giving you standard and extended day options to assist with busy family schedules and work life.

Closest Camp Location: Shalmsford Street, Chartham, Kent, CT4 7QN  (here at your child's school!)

Booking Link: http://lets-leap.childcare-online-booking.co.uk/

We look forward to seeing you all this Summer holidays.

February 2023 Newsletter

Link to Trust Website

Children, don't forget to keep reading regularly over the summer in order to keep up the reading mileage and ensure that you return to school in September ready to learn.

You can join the Summer Reading Challenge at the public library in town or the mobile library which visits the village. You can try Mrs Flewitt's Summer Reading Challenge which has been sent home or you could check out the links below for useful websites. Overall, our message is read, read, read and enjoy, enjoy, enjoy! Have a super summer.

https://www.booksfortopics.com/reception

https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-1

https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-2

https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-3

https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-4

https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-5

https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-6

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/welcome-back/for-home

Throughout the past academic year, The Friends have very kindly funded magazine subscriptions and the purchase of some newly published books for the school library. This is so important as it keeps things fresh for the children and provides great variety. Look under English in our curriculum section to see just what has been chosen.

The Friends  have agreed to continue this for the next year so the staff and children would like to say a huge thank you!  

Canterbury Library at The Beaney will launch the Summer Reading Challenge on 14th July

https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/news/general/about-mischief-makers

Could you take a few moments to enter this competition to win £5,000 of books for our school library please. It takes a minute or two and what a wonderful prize!!

Enter at www.nationalbooktokens.com/schools

Dear Parents/Carers

We are delighted to announce that we have booked a Keeping Up With The Children English course in Term 6. The course is designed to help familiarise adults with the main strategies currently used to teach reading, writing, spelling and handwriting in primary schools. It aims to help parents feel confident in supporting their children's learning of English whilst proving an opportunity to brush up on their own skills. It can be used as a route onto a longer English course with accreditation at the end.

Course content will include:

• Look at how reading is taught in schools with the emphasis on synthetic phonics but including other key strategies.
• Learn the accurate pronunciation of the 44 phonemes and how to use them when blending and decoding words.
• Understand what is meant by tricky words, CVCs, synonyms, alliteration and other English terms and vocabulary which may be new and unfamiliar.
• Explore story sacks and how to make reading fun for reluctant readers.
• Discuss handwriting and practise cursive writing in line with the school's handwriting policy.
• Ideas to encourage writing and VCOP (if used in school).
• Make a selection of phonic and high frequency word resources to support literacy learning at home.
• Discover hints and tips to help learn spellings.
• Play a variety of games to develop speaking and listening skills.
• Explore and evaluate useful literacy resources including dictionaries, thesauruses and those available on line.

The course is for parents/carers only and it will run for two hours every Monday, 9.30am - 11.30am starting on Monday 11th June 2018 and ending six weeks later on Monday 16th July 2018.

The course is completely free! All you will need to bring with you is a pen/pencil and a writing pad. Please let the school office know if you are interested in attending or if you have any further questions/queries.

Many thanks