Key Dates for the Diary

Term 3

Key dates:

January 5th -  Term 3 begins

January 6^th – Feast of the Epiphany mass @10am

January 16^th – St Peter visit Chatham Library

January 28^th – Guildhall museum trip (Victorians)

February 2^nd – Candlemas @10am

February 4^th – NSPCC Dress-up numbers day

February 6^th – St Paul visit Chatham Library

February 9^th-13 – Mock SATs week

February 13^th – Last day of term 3

PE

Both Mrs Morgan (St Paul's Class) and Mrs Muyuka (St Peter's Class) PE day will happen on a Wednesday

 The children will be expected to wear their PE kit to school on their PE days. They will keep this on all day, so they do not need to bring their daily school uniform. All children must wear a white polo shirt (logo optional), burgundy shorts, plain black shorts, or tracksuit bottoms. In addition, the school jumper/ cardigan should be worn to school on these days.

Interventions

There will be interventions daily. These will be available to support each child in their learning. For your child to get the most out of their interventions, please arrive promptly at school at 8:30.

Term 3 

Homework Week 1 - 9th - 16th January 2026

Arithmetic

Reading

Grammar

Christmas Holiday Homework 2025

Arithmetic

Arithmetic Mark Schemes

Reading

Reading mark schemes

Grammar

Grammar mark schemes

Homework

 Spellings 

Spellings will be given on a Monday in your child's learning journal and should be practiced at home every night for 10 minutes ready for their spelling test every Friday. These spellings should be practiced by writing them into sentences, so the children understand the meaning of each word. If your child misspells a word from the spelling list in the Friday test, this will be identified in their learning journal with a dot next to the spelling, so that parents can see the error made and continue to work on this spelling at home.

Reading

Your child should be reading daily and having their learning journal signed at home when they have read to you. Your child will receive 2 house points per day they have their journal signed plus an extra 5 if they had their journal signed every night! Once the book has been finished, the children will have the opportunity to complete a quiz based on the book and then change it for another of their choice related to their given reading range.

Those children who read every night, and have their journals signed indicating this, will be awarded a raffle ticket. They have the opportunity to earn more raffle tickets through completing quizzes on books they have read. At the end of each term, the raffle will take place and prizes can be won.

Times tables

A consistent focus should be given to times tables. The children in year 6 should be fluent in all times tables up to 12 and able to apply, recall and use the inverse (division) with ease. Please ensure you are supporting your child in achieving this.  We would encouraged children to spend 10 minutes per week on Times Table Rockstar in order to improve their accuracy and speed with these to allow for them to become more fluent.

 If you would like to contact your class teacher

Please write a comment in your child's learning journal- these are checked daily and any non-urgent messages will be replied to.

 If your message is urgent then please do contact the school office to arrange a return phone call or an appointment.

 Celebration of the Word and RSHE