All Saints' CE Primary School Alrewas

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Mrs Akers (Nathan Bryon Class)

Welcome to Year 2!

Outlined below are some of the routines and expectations for Year 2. We appreciate your support in promoting these and hope that you find this advice helpful and informative.

You can contact me directly through my email- vakers@allsaints-alrewas.staffs.sch.uk

Maths Day Homework

MAT Competition: What maths can you do with a packet of skittles? Please photograph entries and post on your X (Twitter) feed on Number Day tagging #JTMATnumberday. We can't wait to see all of your creative entries! We will judge these on Friday 14^th February.

Meet the Teacher - Friday 6th September 3:30 pm

Opening of the new library - Friday 13th September

Church visit for Year 2 - Thursday 10th October

Parents Evenings - Wednesday 23rd October and Thursday 24th October

EYFS & KS1 Christmas Production - Wednesday 18th December and Thursday 19th December

Parents Evenings - Wednesday 12th February and Thursday 13th February

Year 2 Class Assembly -Thursday 22nd May

Sports Day - Friday 13th June

6 Reasons Routines For Babies Are Awesome - The Early Weeks

8:35am- The EYFS/KS1 playground gate will be open and children may come straight to the classroom from this time ready to start learning at 8:45am. We kindly asked that children calmly walk round and are ready to enter the classroom.

10:30-10:45am- Break time- Fruit is provided by the school and the children will have option to buy a snack from the kitchen at break time for 50p.

12:00pm-Lunchtime- We are a nut free school so please ensure any snacks do not contain nuts. Food can not be shared with other children as there are a number of children with specific food allergies.

1:00pm- Afternoon lessons begin.

3:15pm- End of school day- The children will be dismissed on the corner of the path by nursery.

Key Information:

P.E:

Monday: Outdoor PE

Thursday: Indoor PE

PE Kit:

Trainers.

Navy jogging bottoms or leggings/shorts.

White t-shirt and a plain navy sweatshirt/ jumper.

Earrings- if you child cannot remove these independently, they should not be worn on PE days.

Long hair should be tied back.

Curriculum Outline:

Homework:

MyMaths homework:

If you need another copy of the login details please send me an email and this can be easily provided.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvTcpfSnOMQ - The Counting by Twos Song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftati8iGQcs - The Counting by Tens Song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_cn87hOCDM - The Counting by Threes Song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EemjeA2Djjw - The Counting by Fives Song.

Spellings:

Students will complete their spelling tests on Monday, they will then be marked and then returned on Tuesday morning. This will allow the opportunity to practice any corrections and give them access to their scores to relay back home.

Phonics:

Reading:

Reading Books:

Please can your child bring in their reading book and reading record everyday so we can listen to your child read. Reading books will be changed once a week on a Tuesday. Children are expected to read at home to an adult on a daily basis and 3-5 comments about your child's reading should be written in their reading record book each week.

All children who record 3 entries into their reading journal each week will automatically receive either a house-point token or a token for the prize box for the weekly competition and children who record 5 entries will either receive 3 house-point tokens or 3 tokens for the prize box.

At the start of the Rhino Reader book it is necessary to practise the sounds that will be needed for your child to fluently read the book.

The visual prompt can be very effective in helping the students remember the sound and to improve their confidence. This can then be referred to in the text whilst reading a word with that sound. For example, make has the a-e as in cake sound.

After practising the sounds the next step would be to practise the focus words to increase fluency whilst reading.

Finally, practising the common exception words (tricky words) will greatly increase confidence whilst reading the text and encourage students to read them straight away as sight words. Students will learn these common exception words by practising because they are words that can’t be entirely phonetically sounded out. For example, thought– ough is making an or sound.

Before progressing to reading, I would ensure that the children are confident with the sounds, focus words and common exception words needed for the book.

If you would like a copy of common exception words, phonics sound strips, these can be provided by contacting my email.