A very warm welcome to Year 2!

We are really looking forward to the new school year, starting on Monday, September 5th. We have worked really hard in school to create a safe but very much an inviting, creative and fun environment for our children to have the best learning experience.

New Classes:
Sycamore Class – Miss Aviss
Maple Class – Mrs Hibbard and Miss Eskell
Magnolia Class – Miss Humphries

Year 2 meeting

This blog post contains the important information for starting this year. There will be an opportunity if you have any further questions about the start of this new year, then there will be a meeting on the patio outside Maple and Sycamore Class.

on Wednesday 14th September at 3:00-3:20pm.  

Start and Ends of the Day

All doors open at 8:50 am with registers completed by 9:00am. We finish school at 3:30pm.The children will need to be dropped off and collected from their classroom patio door. Please let your class teachers know if you have different pick up people throughout the week and if your child will be attending any clubs or after school club on certain days. If the person picking up changes during a school day then please call the office as we can not always pick up our class emails through the school day.

PE

Each class will have 2 sessions of PE each week. Your child’s PE kit should remain in school in a named drawstring bag on their peg. The PE uniform is a white t-shirt and black shorts. They will also need a change of appropriate footwear, trainers or pumps. All of these also need to be named. We ask that you take some time to support your child with changing out of their school uniform at home to practice their independent changing for school. Make sure fastenings etc. are easy for them to undo on their PE kits and uniforms.
*We will inform you of the days each class will have PE on our first blogs of the year.

Lunches

The children will have the same choices as Year 1.
The children can have:

• A Packed lunch brought from home in a wipeable, named box.
• A packed lunch option of ham, tuna or cheese wraps with fruit and biscuit/cake/flapjack (provided by school).
• A hot meal (provided by school). Your child will bring a menu with the weekly choices for school provided lunches and they are also available on the website.

Please can you help your child by making sure they know what they are doing for lunch each day.

What to bring

Please try to keep your child’s bag small as there is not a lot of space for big rucksacks. They will need their Named PE kit bag that will stay in school and a named Book Bag to be brought in each day.

Children are also asked to bring in a named water bottle and piece of fruit each day.
Milk may be ordered. Please get details from the school office on how to order milk.

Our First Learning Theme will be:

‘Knights and Castles.’ We will share more with you about the learning over these early weeks on this blog page. Each week you will also find information here about the week’s learning. We shall also post on here other relevant information of up and coming events on the noticeboard section  and Star of the Week etc.

More information about our teaching and learning for the year and expectations for the curriculum and assessments (including End of Key Stage assessments )  will be covered in a ‘Curriculum Evening’ which we will invite you to shortly. More information will follow on the exact date, time and  format and running of this evening nearer the time.

Reading

Your child will also bring home reading books each week and 1 book for sharing from our class and an additional book from our school library during the first few days. These should come into school each day and will be changed weekly. A log book will also come home for you to record home reading with your child. The log book will  include some information about how to fill in the book and guidance. This will be discussed further at our Curriculum Meeting later in the term. Please allow us sometime to settle your children in and we will look to move any children to new book level when appropriate. 

Year 2 WOW day

We will be having a WOW day in Year 2 to help kickstart our learning. We will invite the children to dress in clothes connected to our theme of Knights and Castles. Our WOW day will be on:

Monday 12th September

Finally…

The first couple of weeks will be all about helping your children to settle in and learn the new routines of Year 2.

Our usual weekly format of our blog, including a summary of the learning week by week for each subject will follow on as we start our new term. We look forward to meeting you all soon and hope everyone has had a restful and safe holiday.

Thank you, The Year 2 Team