1. Broad Town C of E Primary School
Welcome to Class 2
Teachers: Mrs McEvoy and Mrs Lawrence

2. The start and end of the day
Morning Routine
Children must be in class and ready for registration at 9am. If not present when the register is started then the pupil will be marked either absent or late.
Children may enter the class from 8.50 am when they may start one of their morning jobs.
Reading books should be changed in class between 8.50 am and 9 am independently by the children.
No playing on the play structures before or after school please.
Children are expected to put away their own book bags, lunch boxes, water bottles, coats etc. Everything has a place in the classroom.
Home time 3.15 pm
Please be in the playground ready to collect your child(ren) at 3.15 pm
Children will come out to you once they have been dismissed. If no one is there to collect them, children will wait on the benches under the sheltered area.
Children are expected to take home everything they need, including letters, and sort themselves out independently; please encourage them to do this.

3. A typical day in Class 2
Morning Task and Reading book changing opportunity
Maths
Assembly
Playtime
English
Lunch
Guided Reading
Other subjects (e.g Science, RE, History, P.E, Art etc)
Body Blast
Story

4. Groupings
Children will be taught as a whole class with the appropriate learning objectives . The children will be given the appropriate differentiated learning to complete. This may be completed individually , with a partner or in a small group.
Children will be set for Phonics / Spelling and reading across the Whole School.

5. Rewards and Sanctions Traffic Lights
- children start each day on the green
- if they do not follow the agreed school rules they are moved to the black as a
warning.
- if they still don’t make the right choice they are moved to the orange and will miss some playtime and lose 5min of golden time at the end of the week.
- if they have to move to the red they miss more playtime. Miss Long will be informed and a behaviour record kept of this. A letter will be sent home to notify you.
Rewards
- praise and positive comments.
- stickers and certificates.
- Class 2 House Point system with a prize for the winning house at the end of each
‘long term’ .

6. Golden Time Reward
Children will earn 5 minutes a day of Golden Time for good behaviour, a positive attitude , hard work and effort.
If the children have not achieved this then they will be informed at the end of the day.
They will gain an additional 5 minutes of Golden Time on a Friday if they have achieved the 5 minutes each day of that week.

7. Teachers
On Monday and Tuesday class 2 will be taught by Mrs Lawrence and by Mrs McEvoy on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Mrs Jenkins, Mrs Clark and Mrs Whetham will be working with children from class 2 throughout the week.
If you have any free time and are able to help out in class either on a regular basis or on an ad-hoc basis please let either of us know.

8. Homework
All homework is given out fortnightly on a Friday and is expected to be returned the following Friday. A hand in date will always be clearly marked on the homework set.
Homework comprises of:
4 Reading Record entries- signed by an adult .
Spellings from the children’s Phonics/ Spelling groups which will be set and tested on a Friday.
All children in Class 2 will also be working on Common Exception Words appropriate for their spelling age / level. These will be tested throughout the year and a new set will be sent home in October, March and June
Learning of Multiplication Tables Facts – children will be tested on Monday and Thursday
Practice of 99 or Rainbow Club Maths Tests.
An optional learning task which may support topic work in class or an area of English/ Maths that the children are working on.

9. Reading
Children will have two whole class reading session per week with the class teacher when a range of reading skills will be taught. Some children will have additional 1:1 reading sessions with the teachers during the week.
Children will be expected to practise these skills independently in follow up sessions.
Children may have further opportunities to read with a parent or TA when they are available.
It would be helpful to your child if you could find the opportunity to talk to them and question them about what they have read and what reading skills they have been practising when they read at home. There is lots of information about the types of questions you could ask on our school website
We would always welcome additional adult support to hear our children in Class 2 read . It makes such a difference! Please do
speak to either of us if you think you may be able to help.
Mrs M and Miss H 9

10. Reading continued
Children will be expected to read at home at least four times a week as part of homework.
This must be recorded in their Reading Record and signed by an adult which will be checked on a weekly basis.
Children are responsible for making sure they hand in their record on a Friday morning.
This year will also be the first full year of ‘Battle of the
Books’. Children will be challenged to read 10 books through
the year. Children will be given a bookmark at the beginning
of the year which they can record their achievement on.
‘Battle of the books ‘ is designed to make reading fun for the children but also to give them a breadth of reading genres.

11. Reading continued Reading at home
The more frequently a child reads the better they will become, whether its sat down with a book, a menu in a restaurant or reading signs in the world around them. So reading out of school is extremely important.
There are lots of elements that children need to master in order to become confident readers these include; blending the sounds to read the words, knowing the meaning of the words (vocabulary) and understanding what they are reading. When reading with your children at home is it important to discuss the latter two as well as the children just reading the words. Please look on our website under curriculum, literacy for lots of tips and ways to develop these skills.

12. Hot and Cold Writes
We will be continuing to use Hot and Cold Writing sessions to help develop pupils’ writing skills.
At the beginning of a new unit of work the children will write a piece of writing in a particular genre (Cold Write) . This may be a letter , a descriptive story , an explanation text or some instructions for example . Following this session , the children will have personalised targets called EBI (Even better if) set for them to improve their writing on their next Hot write. Sentences will be unpicked , similar text types studied , good examples of writing modelled etc... At the end of the unit of work , children will write their Hot Write , this time considering their targets and all of their new learning.
Mrs D 12

13. Targets
Targets allow us to focus on an area that we feel needs improvement.
All children will have writing targets in the front of their book. The children will be told which targets they will be working on and these will be highlighted on their sheets. Once a target has been achieved it will be dated on their sheets.

14. General Reminders Please check that all uniform is named.
PE-all children must have a fully named PE kit in school everyday.
There must be no jewellery worn during PE. If you wish your child to continue to wear ear studs during these sessions, written permission must be given accepting responsibility if an accident occurs.
Information comes home with your eldest child in the form of a letter.
Book bags, Spelling Books and Reading Records should come to school everyday.
Water helps children to stay hydrated during the day, please make sure children have named water bottles and they are washed regularly.
Please encourage children to bring a healthy variety of foods for break and lunch!
In Class 2 we love to celebrate successes out of school as well as in school . Please do encourage children to bring in any recent certificates of achievement / badges/ awards / reasons to celebrate they have achieved out of school so that we can congratulate them too ! Successes are posted on the board outside the classroom. Photocopies are made of any certificates etc…
If you have any questions at all please do not hesitate to speak to either of us.