Mrs Bullen,Mrs Colemanand Mrs Ferguson

Mrs Bullen (Class 9AB)Mrs Coleman (Class 8SC)Mrs FergusonMrs O’Cleirigh Mrs Claydon

Tuesdays and Wednesdays

Kits- pumps, blue t-shirt, black shorts

Remove earrings for P.E. days/ bring plasters in-but children must do this themselves

All P.E. kit items need to be clearly named!

Kit usually stays in school and is sent home every half term

In Year 2 reading books are changed Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Your child changes their own book and chooses from a selection they want to read from the level they are on.

Children/adults are responsible for writing the title of the book and the date before they write a comment.

Sometimes your child may take a book that they have already read before- this is ok!

We all use the cursive style at High Street

Daily handwriting sessions

Joining

We encourage the children to use this style in their independent writing.

Formation strips will be sent home bythe end of this week.

Letters and Sounds- Daily for 20 minutes Letter sounds, word building, spelling strategies, sentence

construction and reading

Homework Spellings from the Letters and Sounds Programme Literacy and Numeracy homework (from previous learning) Science homework every other week by Mrs Brook and Mr Bratt as

they will be teaching this subject area during PPA

Basic Skills- Daily 20 minutesRotating activities: Group 1- Guided Read/Independent read (teacher) Group 2- Additional Handwriting Activities Group 3- Role-play, Writing Table, reading for pleasure Group 4- Phonic/Spelling Games Group 5 –Comprehension activities

10th-12th February 2016

Two nights

Costs kept to a minimum

Last year’s cost was approximately £70

Children always enjoy the trip

Promotes social skills, independence, interpersonal

skills, communication skills, based on Victorian

topic. More information about this nearer the time.

Wednesday 21st October (4.30-7pm) and Thursday 22nd October (3.30-5.30pm)

Spring term

Reports handed out in Summer term

Parent’s evening will be split 3 ways between Mrs Coleman, Mrs Bullen and Mrs Ferguson.

Golden RulesPositive praisePeg systemGolden Time‘Time out’ ‘Reflection’

Reading every night- ok to read the book more than once.

Literacy and Numeracy most weeks- handed out Monday and in by Thursday.

Spellings every other week on Fridays. Children will feedback outcome.

After summer half term (usually 1st/2nd week of June)

We don’t tell the children that they are doing SATs- try to keep it as relaxed as possible

The format is new as of this academic year, but we will keep you up to date with any new developments.

Monday evenings 3:15-3:45

Any concerns please feel free to speak to us at any time