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Parent Volunteers for sewing

Year 2 will be sewing puppets and we would love parents/carers to volunteer to help.  Please speak to the class teacher if you are available to volunteer. 

30th April1:30 - 2:45 2P and 2S 

1st May  1:30 - 2:45 2H and 2F

Relationships and Health Education

During the summer term, our RSHE (Relationships, Sex, and Health Education) lessons will focus on relationships. As part of this, RSE (Relationships and Sex Education) lessons will be included in the summer term curriculum. 

Find out more about our RSHE lessons here. 

Read our updated Relationships and Sex Education Policy in the policy section here. 

Latest News: Relationship Lessons in the Summer Term (Year 1 - Year 6)

Dear Parents,

As we transition to a new approach to teaching writing, called IAACW, you may notice that your child's writing outcomes appear lower than expected when they are published. This is due to the adjustments we are making to align with this new method. You can find out more in our news article here. These are the key indicators for children to be working at age-related expectations at this point in the school year. We have redesigned our curriculum to fit with the new approach.

Key indicators include:

• Forming lower case letters correctly, starting and finishing in the right place.
• Forming uppercase letters correctly, starting and finishing in the right place.
• Thinking, saying, and remembering a sentence that starts with a time word (time adverbial / time adverb).
• Encapsulating what they want to say, sentence by sentence 
• Correcting any missing capital letters at the start of a sentence and for names of people.
• Writing a sentence starting with a wider range of time words (time adverb / time adverbial) and ending with a full stop.
• Writing a sentence starting with an opener and ending with a full stop.
• Using a capital letter for names of people.
• Using expanded noun phrases (adjective, adjective noun)
• Using a wider range of exciting sentence openers 
• Using the conjunctions because, and
• Using the present and past tense correctly. 

Thank you for your understanding and support as we implement this new approach to enhance your child's writing skills.

Exciting changes in how we teach writing continue, next stage of implementation 

To help support your child, can:

• Learn Year 2 common excepttion words listed here
• Encourage your child to write, making letters sit on the line and tall letters touch the line above
• Ensure the below spellings are consistently and correctly used 
• Ensure children are reading daily as this will help with their writing.

We will continue with Whole Class Reading Lessons next half term. As this approaches, we ask parents to purchase a copy of the Whole Class Reading Book for their child. Details of the book required are below.

These lessons explicitly teach the children a range of reading strategies in a challenging and engaging way. 

If your child has a Pupil Premium Passport, we will provide your child with a copy of the class text free of charge. Please speak to your child's class teacher if you do not receive a grant but will be unable to provide the book due to financial reasons. Many thanks for your support. 

We are very proud to continue to provide a fantastic opportunity for our pupils to attend cooking sessions. These sessions take place with their class teacher, within the School House kitchen, during the school day.

An annual voluntary contribution of £13.00 has been added to MCAS to cover the cost of ingredients, required to supplement the fresh ingredients provided from the school garden. This fee covers sessions for the whole school year, from September 2024 until July 2025.

This fee is voluntary, however, without the support of our parents, we will be unable to provide an opportunity such as this for our pupils.

To make payment, please log into your MCAS account. The fee, located within the Clubs section, is now available to be added to your basket.

The Giraffe, the Pelly and me. Roald Dahl

 Paperback IBSN 978-0141365435

Arthur and the Golden Rope

Paperback IBSN: 978-1911171690

Arthur and the Golden Rope (as Summer 1)

Poetry - no need to buy. 

Reading and/or talking about their reading to an adult for at least 20 minutes, 5 times a week. Complete your child’s reading record each time they read. Remember it doesn’t always have to be their school book. Reading records and reading books should be sent into school daily.

Numbots for Mathematics

Why do we use Numbots? Please read here to find out more about Numbots. The programme helps children develop a secure understanding of numbers bonds using multiple representations. This consolidates learning completed in school. Children should aim to do Numbots every week for at least 10 minutes. We would like to thank you for all the support at home.

Spelling patterns

Log books have been sent home. Some of the spellings will be different depending on what your child needs to learn and some will be the same as below. The log books are there to help children spot the spelling patterns. We will fill the log books in at school. 

Spellings week beginning 1.4.25 igh sound spelt with a 'ing' Part 2 

baking, making, phoning, shining, hunting, smiling

Red words: after, only, behind 

Orange words:  whole, half, money

Spellings week beginning 23.4.25 'j' sound

join, energy, large, bridge, adjust, badge

Red words: clothes, even, beautiful

Orange words: Mr, Mrs, puppet

Week beginning: 6.5.25 

We will complete assessments on units 5-10. Spellings are in Logbooks.