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

Dear Parents/Carers

We would first like to thank all of those who helped us with the last cake sale.

There will be a chance for Year 1 children to show off their baking skills on Thursday 24th May.

All you child has to do is to make some cakes at home, then bring them into school on the morning of Thursday 24th May.

Please contact The Friends if you are available to help with the sale via The Friends of Chartham Primary School Facebook page or email: charthamfriends@gmail.com

Happy baking!

Friends of Chartham Primary School

Dear Parents/Carers

In celebration of the Royal Wedding this Saturday, we are inviting the children to come to school on Friday 18th May dressed for the occasion!

They may like to be dressed in red, white and/or blue colours, a prince or princess or any other royal attire. Children will also be completing royal themed activities in class on that day.

Many thanks

Our recent Book Fair was incredibly successful due to such wonderful support from the children and their parents/carers. Over £1,000 was spent during the week which has raised money to buy new books for use in school. Thank you very much.

Part of the success is down to our Book Savers who save regularly each week and then use their savings at the visiting Book Fair. This is a great scheme to teach the children about the benefits of saving, it spreads the cost over many weeks and of course, it's exciting for the children to visit the Fair and spend their savings  on a new book.

There are slips available from the office or Mrs Flewitt if you would like your child to become a Book Saver.

Dear Parents/Carers

Your child has been invited to join us on Thursday 17th May for our Royal Wedding Themed Lunch.

There will be an assortment of sandwiches and rolls - sausage rolls/vegetarian rolls - chicken or vegetable bites - crudité and dips, and for dessert celebration cakes and cookies. 

A paper copy of the invite has gone home with your child, please fill in and return the slip to the school office.

Many thanks

Dear Parents/Carers

The Friends of Chartham Primary School will be hosting a Wine & Wisdom quiz night at the school on Friday 18th May from 7.30pm. Doors open via the dining hall entrance at 7.00pm for a prompt start.

Tickets are £5.00 per person with a maximum of 8 people per team.

Please bring your own drinks and nibbles.

In order to secure your table for a fun filled evening, advanced booking is recommended. Please bring your payment to the school office before Friday 18th May to book a table.

We hope that you will support us and look forward to seeing you there.

Friends of Chartham Primary School