WELCOME TO YEAR TWO! Y E A R T W O PA R E N T S C U R R I C U L - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

WELCOME TO YEAR TWO! Y E A R T W O PA R E N T S ’ C U R R I C U L U M M E E T I N G 8 t h S E P T E M B E R 2 0 2 0

THE YEAR TWO TEAM! Mr Fellowes Foxglove Class Teacher KS1 Phase Leader Miss Squires Teaching Assistant Mr Bird Teaching Assistant 1:1 Miss De Garis / Mrs Walker Orchid Class Teacher Mrs Bentley Teaching Assistant Miss Turner Lavender Class Teacher Miss Dea Teaching Assistant Mrs Nadat Teaching Assistant 1:1 Miss Pocock Teaching Assistant 1:1 Mrs Pollitt Daffodil Class Teacher Mrs Delafond Teaching Assistant Mrs Channell HLTA based in Year 2

The Autumn Term Curriculum  English: Core texts: ‘The Magic Finger’ by Roald Dahl, dinosaur poetry and ‘10 Things I can do to Help my W orld’. Focus on developing writing skills and comprehension.  Grammar and punctuation.  Weekly spellings/phonics and handwriting practice.  Maths: Place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, money, measures, 2D & 3D shapes, data handling and practical problem solving.

The Autumn Term Curriculum  Topics: The Magna Carta and The Gun powder Plot, Weather, Animals including humans  Learning about Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins  Other areas: Clay sculpture, collage, learning to play recorder.  PE: Daily Mile and other active classroom activities

Reading Books  Reading books sent home everyday – child to change own books when completed. Write ‘F’ when the book is finished. You can also use Bug Club to read.  Please try to read with your child daily for 10 minutes. Book should be in school every day.  Please use your child’s reading record - sign and add any comments.

Reading Records  Reading Records will contain login details for all online programmes including Bug Club, Mathletics and Purple Mash.  Please encourage your child to access these at home.

Behaviour  Bell Farm Primary is a Rights Respecting School  Class charters  Behaviour ladder  Rights and responsibilities of pupils  Encouraging independence  High expectations

Achievements  Golden postcards  Special Achievement awards  Good choice cards  House points  Head teacher and Deputy stickers  Behaviour ladder  Celebration assembly every Friday in CLASS

ROUTINES AND EXPECTATIONS Children to be dropped off to their classrooms / drop off point every morning where there will always be a member of staff to ask questions to etc. Early morning work will be in the classroom and pupils must be in their classrooms at 9:00am. Please ensure you are here during the allocated timeslot and only arrive 5 minutes before (no earlier please!) to drop off in order to avoid large groups gathering. Children will be dismissed at the designated area by their teacher at 3.30pm.

ROUTINES AND EXPECTATIONS Children are expected to wear full school uniform and weather appropriate clothing (coat) for school. Coats must be in school every day as we will be doing lots of our learning outdoors. Everything in school should be labelled, including pencil cases, pens and water bottles. Pupils should have their own pencil case which is left in school. PE kits and school bags are not permitted in school. Pupils will have a plastic folder for their homework planners and reading books.

CHANGES AT BELL FARM Pupils will need to have trainers in school every day (no PE kits allowed) and they will take part in daily exercise in school. There will be no homework or spelling books and this will be put on our new online platform from now on. Pupils have regular handwashing in the classrooms. All desks are wiped down regularly. Lunches are eaten in the classroom. Pupils will be within bubbles. There are no whole school assemblies but assemblies will take place in class and pupils will receive special awards / golden postcards in class when achieved.

CHANGES AT BELL FARM Face coverings will be worn by adults in communal areas and corridors but will not be worn in class or when teaching children as this can hinder communication and interaction. Children do not need to wear face masks, unless they use public transport to come to school. They will be supported to remove them safely once in school.

THE HIVE As you will already know, we have now opened The Hive at Bell Farm School. This is a specialist centre that teaches children with communication and interaction needs (predominantly autism). This is run by Mrs Seabrook. We will be welcoming our new children from The Hive into some of our lessons in the future, which we are all really looking forward to. We will be following the guidance on when it is safe for us to start this integration.

NEWSLETTER Approximately every fortnight, a newsletter will be sent home. This is to inform you of what is going on at school and may help you to support your child with what they will be learning about. The newsletter also includes upcoming events and dates. It celebrates some of the achievements of the pupils in the year group. The first newsletter will be sent out this week.

General Notices  Water bottles - children can refill at break or lunch – please bring in every day. Ensure they are labelled.  Fruit provided- extra fruit as an afternoon snack allowed.  Please label all belongings clearly.  PE trainers need to be in school everyday. Earrings ideally need to be taken out however they can be covered in school using plaster tape.

General Notices  Please can we remind parents that packed lunches MUST be completely nut free.  We do recommend that children bring in a piece of fruit to have as a snack at breaktime. (no fruit winders or other fruit based products – just pieces of fruit.)  Spelling list for Year 2 – all pupils should be able to spell these words correctly by the end of the year. This will be available on the Year 2 homepage on eSchools.

Homework  Spellings. Set on a Monday, tested on the following Monday. Spelling test to be sent home and returned the next day. Spelling homework to be returned on Thursday.  Maths or English Homework. Set on a Thursday and returned on a Tuesday please.  Encourage pupils to have their best presentation.

ESCHOOLS  eSchools is a new platform that we will use to set homework and other exciting tasks for the children to complete at home.  Each year group will have a homepage where important information can be found quickly and easily.

ESCHOOLS A parent training sessions will be next week.

UP COMING EVENTS  P honics and Handwriting Evening on Zoom - Thursday 17 th September at 7:00pm  PSHE Curriculum Evening on Zoom Thursday 24 th September at 7:00pm  This year, parents evenings will take place on zoom. Further information will follow.

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