1. Welcome to Year 2 Elm Class

2. Year 2 Team
Mr Gary Bryan
Mrs Pettigrew

3. Aims Timetable Uniform Equipment Home Learning How you can help
Assessment
Parents as Partners
Key Events
Rewards
Questions

4. Daily Routine and Timetable
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
REGISTRATION
Guided Reading
ASSEMBLY
Maths
Maths/Literacy
10.20
Handwriting
10.35
MORNING
BREAK
10.55 –
11.05
Phonics
11.05 –
12.00
Literacy
P.E.
12.00 –
1.05
LUNCH BREAK
Topic (Hist/Geo/Art/D&T)
Music
ICT
Reading Buddies / Handwriting / French / Golden Time
PSHE RE
Science

5. Uniform Indoor shoes need to be black plimsolls or black shoes
Suitable outdoor shoes (no open toe sandals)
Hair tied back
A pair of small gold studs (if children have their ears pierced)
No nail varnish
Hair bands plain, not fashion accessories
Shirts tucked in

6. Equipment P.E. kit – black shorts and white t-shirt labelled, trainers
Painting apron/art shirt
Suitable coat - no hooded jumpers
Children in KS1 do not need to bring a pencil case to school

7. Home Learning
Learning Log – sent home on a Thursday and due in the following Tuesday
Reading – daily and recorded in Reading Record
Spellings – sent home on Monday and tested on Friday
Times tables – sent home on Monday and tested on Friday (beginning in the Spring Term)

8. How can you help your child at home in KS1
Appendix A: Homework Tasks for each year group
How can you help your child at home in KS1
Year
Reading
Learning Log
Spellings
Times tables
Other 2
minutes daily
Recorded in Reading Record with a comment written by a parent/carer.
30 minutes
Given at the beginning of each term, children complete one task per week.
minutes daily (if you can)
Children practise using ‘look, say, cover, write, check’ (an example will be stuck into the front of their spelling books).
minutes
daily (if you can)
Practise in the car/on the way to school/any opportunity. I can provide paper Numicon if needed.
Handwriting
Number bonds
Time

9. Assessment Formal Y2 SATs May 2017 Ongoing Big Writing
English grammar, punctuation and spelling
Writing
Reading
Maths
Ongoing
Big Writing
Teacher Assessment
Templewood Targets

10. Parents as Partners Communication is key Termly letter
Open door policy
Monday parent surgery
If you cannot attend a parent surgery, then we can arrange a meeting after school on another day

11. Key Events KS1 Christmas Carol Concert
Box Moor Trust – Science (habitats)
Zoo trip – Literacy (zoo topic)
History off the Page ‘Great Fire of London’ day – History and Literacy
Great Fire of London re-enactment – D&T and Science (uses of materials)

12. Rewards
House points
Star of the Week – takes Boris and a camera home to write in his diary about their adventures together
Gold Assembly
Sharing Assembly
Golden Time

13. Questions?