Archbishop Hutton's V.C Primary School
Class 2 2024 - 2025
Welcome to Class 2!
We are a mixed-age group of Year 1 and 2 children. Our teacher is Miss Hughes and we have a Teaching Assistant, Mrs Burns, with us each morning. We are very lucky to also have a few fabulous reading buddies who volunteer with us; Mrs Ross on Wednesday afternoons and Mrs Graham-Spicer on Friday afternoons. Miss Rawcliffe works with groups and individuals on Wednesday and Thursday mornings on targeted interventions.
This half term's whole school theme is 'The Science Lab'. Class Two's topic is called "Growing and Changing".
Please see below for the Summer Term 1 Newsletter and Medium Term Plan for more detail on what we will be learning, including the books we will be reading during this topic. Our Knowledge Organiser identifies the core facts we expect pupils to know at the end of the topic, as well as new vocabulary that they will encounter, throughout.
Home Learning:
Reading is the most vital skill in your child's Key Stage 1 learning journey. We expect all pupils to read at least three times per week, ideally daily (especially if reading is something your child needs additional practise in). In Class 2, pupils tick their names off on a list in class to indicate when they have read their book three times and need it changing. We endeavour to change it the same day, or the very next day at the latest. We aim to change your child's reading books at least twice a week (after it has been read three times, which equates to six 'reads' a week). If your child is an avid reader, this may be more frequent. Year 2 pupils reading colour-banded books change their own books as and when needed (these only need to be read once). Any children reading fluently should also be bringing home a 'Choose Me' book to share with an adult or a chapter book to extend their reading further and to develop a love of reading for pleasure.
Spellings need to be practised frequently. Year Group spelling lists are sent home termly, with the words your child can already spell highlighted. Please help them to practise and learn the words that have not yet been highlighted. We will assess these again towards the end of each term. Year 2 also bring home weekly spellings, which they should practise in their red spelling book but can also practise on the EdShed website. These come home on a Thursday and we do a quick quiz on Mondays (the children spell six of the ten words they have been practising).
Year 2 Homework comes home on Mondays and is due back on Thursdays. These homework tasks will alternate between Maths, Grammar and Reading Comprehension. These should all be tasks that your child can do mostly independently, but they will need some encouragement to do them and make sure they are returned on time. Please support your child to do these weekly home learning tasks.
PE: PE kit is a plain, team-coloured t-shirt, black shorts and black pumps for indoop PE and/or plain black trainers (for outdoor PE). A plain, team-coloured hoody may also be worn for outdoor lessons. It is a good idea for pupils who wear tights for school regularly to have a spare pair of socks in their PE kit bag to wear with their pumps or trainers. Pupils with earrings need to take them out or have them covered with plasters at home on PE days (currently a Wednesday).
Water bottles and snack: Your child needs to bring a water bottle into school each day. This can be kept in school and re-filled here, or can come home daily. This should contain still water only, no fizzy drinks or juice please. Key Stage 1 children receive fruit at playtimes; this varies week-by-week, between apples, bananas, carrots, cherry tomatoes, sugarsnap peas, pears or raisins. If your child has a preference that they don't get the option of, they may bring their own fruit for play-time.
Next trip / event: we will be taking a walk in the local area to identify plants and trees.
Volunteer helpers will be very welcome! A text will be sent home once a date has been set for this (weather dependent, this may be at short notice).
Please don't hesitate to email me via Mrs Robinson if you have any questions, or want to contribute in any way to our learning.