Multicultural Week – Part 1
What a fantastic week we’ve had so far! Chatsworth’s focus country this year is Jamaica. We have tasted different foods, listened to reggae music, explored the sensory story ‘Jehvon Goes to Jamaica’, enjoyed a Jamaica-themed Music and Touch session, and even made banana pancakes!
RE Day
We’ve had a great RE day! As part of our current topic, we have been learning about the belief systems of the Aboriginal people of Australia. We enjoyed a sensory story called ‘The Rainbow Serpent’, which is all about how the world came to be. We also enjoyed making our own cave artwork to retell … Read more
Fun in Phonics
We have been reading a story called ‘Over in Australia: Amazing Animals Down Under’. In Phonics, we listened to the sounds made by animals such as crocodiles, parrots and koala bears, and chose musical instruments to represent them. We especially liked using the Boomwhackers to mimic a crocodile’s jaws snapping!
Dear Parents and Carers,
Welcome to another term in Chatsworth! We’ve got lots of exciting things planned for the next few months, including some fabulous whole-school events such as Multicultural Week, the Paces Danceathon and our Growing Up Days. We can’t wait to see how much progress the pupils make over the final term of the academic year.
Our new topic is Castles, Knights and Fairytales. As always, we will be using multisensory elements in all our learning activities to encourage as much engagement and curiosity as possible. We have a range of texts to get stuck into, such as ‘Prince and Knight’, ‘The Prince, the Cook and the Cunning King’, and some great sensory stories from the Myths, Legends and Fairytales collection on Inclusive Stories. We will be using these texts to develop our mark making skills, our emerging understanding of sentence construction, and our early reading skills such as listening, attention and anticipation. The topic has close links with History as we will be learning about British castles, kings and queens, and other important historical figures. In RE, we will focus on the Christian celebration of Easter in the first week back to school, but we will also learn about Islam, specifically Eid, during the second half of the term. Our PSHE sessions will focus on money and how this works in the world around us but, as mentioned above, we will also devote time to RSE and the topic of growing up. Additionally, we are very excited to be welcoming back Rosie from The Sheffield Music Hub whose weekly sessions are always fun, multisensory and perhaps best of all, noisy!
In Maths, we will continue to work on counting and cardinality through tuff tray exploration and topic-related songs and rhymes. Within the shape, space and measure strand, we will be starting to encounter patterns and will be working hard to recognise various patterns within our environment using concrete objects. Our Computing sessions are about photo and film, and we can’t wait to create our own media using different technologies like cameras and iPads!
You will receive your child’s new termly targets shortly, and we hope you will find these an encouraging clarification of their next steps. Of course, if you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with a member of the team and we will be happy to help.
Best wishes,
The Chatsworth Team