Welcome

We are really looking forward to working with you this year. The following information will help us to work together to support your child as fully as possible. Your child will soon be bringing home a curriculum overview that will give you some idea of the work we are covering this half-term. 

Our reading cafe is on a Wednesday morning at 8:30. It would be lovely to see you all!

Entry to school in the morning

It is important that children arrive at school on time and we would ask that all children are ready to come into school at 8.45am each day. Children will enter via the door in the Key Stage One playground.

Please bear with us at the end of the day, as we see the children out one at a time. The children will finish school at 3:15pm. Please also let us know if your child is being collected by a different adult.

 Water Bottles

Please send your child to school each day with a named water bottle. This should contain plain water only. Water bottles are kept in the classroom and children are encouraged to use their water bottles throughout the day.

Snacks

Children are allowed to bring a snack in to have during morning playtime. This snack must be a piece of fruit or a healthy snack. Children are provided with fruit daily in KS1.

Home Reading

There will be daily opportunities to change Home Reading books. When your child reads with you, please make a short comment in their Reading Record Book. They can read to an adult, sibling or even themselves. 

 Homework

Reading - Please read with your child at home as often as possible, daily if you are able. We would ask that you please keep your child’s Reading Record Book in their book bag and send it into school every day. 

Spellings – Your child will continue to bring home spellings linked to work covered in school that week. These spellings will be explicitly taught and the children will embed this knowledge through a variety of spelling games. There will be a weekly test on a Friday.

Maths (KIRFs) - In order to have rapid recall of number facts, your child will be sent home some maths facts to develop fluency. Please practise these with your child as regularly as possible at home. 

Homework Projects

Each half-term the children will have the opportunity to complete a homework project linked to the current curriculum. We have had some amazing projects in the past and hope that as many children as possible will submit a piece of work.

Projects can take the form of a model, a piece of writing, research on the computer or artwork.

This half-term we are inviting children to work on a project linked to our topic of Saltaire and Sir Titus Salt. We are hoping to visit Saltaire later this half-term.

Uniform - Reception and KS1

What a child wears to school reflects his/her attitude to learning; it portrays the school’s ethos and shared values. We have a very simple uniform that pupils are required to wear:

 PE Kit

PE sessions in Year 2 are as follows:

2H – Indoor  - Monday morning 

       Outdoor - Friday afternoon

Finally, if there is anything you are unsure of, please come and ask. After school is usually most convenient as mornings can tend to be very busy. 

 Thank you

Miss Hulston and Mrs Sheerin