��Welcome to�Year Two�Please sign in and take the pack with your child’s name on.

2023-2024

Teaching Staff in Yellow Class

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• Class Teacher – Miss Gray
• LSA – Mrs Paul
• Mrs Fitzgerald – HLTA - Thursday

Teaching Staff in Saffron Class

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• Class Teacher – Mrs Muller
• LSA –Mrs Hatch (HLTA)
• HLTA – Mrs Fitzgerald - Monday

Sunnymede Primary School

Core Values:

• Honesty
• Independence
• Respect
• Resilience
• Determination
• Kindness

Sunnymede Primary School

Learning Behaviours

• Be Safe
• Be Respectful
• Be Ready to Learn

Sunnymede Houses

• Martin - Blue
• Pilgrim – Yellow
• Chantry – Green
• Mayflower – Red
• Children have been allocated a house (siblings are in the same house). Children can earn Dojo points and these points go towards their house points. The house with the most points at different points in the year wins.

Growth Mindset

WE ARE CONTINUING TO DEVELOP A CULTURE OF ‘GROWTH MINDSET’ WITHIN THE SCHOOL TO SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE THE CHILDREN.

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EACH WEEK, THE CHILDREN WILL VOTE FOR WHO THEY BELIEVE HAVE SHOWN A GROWTH MINDSET AND THE WINNER WILL BE AWARDED NEURONE OF THE WEEK. THE CHILD WILL THEN HAVE THE CHANCE TO SHARE HOW THEY HAVE DEMONSTRATED A GROWTH MINDSET OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL.

THIS BOOK WILL BE GIVEN OUT ON FRIDAY AND SHOULD BE RETURNED ON WEDNESDAY.

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��Reminders

• Please label all jumpers and cardigans. Hopefully this will stop them from getting lost.
• Please do not put key rings onto book bags as these can jam in trays.
• Children should have a named book bag that fits into their tray.
• Please keep their reading books in their plastic RWI bag.
• Gates open at 8.35am and all children need to be in by 8.45am. The gates will be closed at 8.45am
• Please stand opposite your child’s classroom door at home time so the teacher can see you clearly.

P.E. Days

• Yellow class –
• Timetable- Monday (Football this half term) and Wednesday

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• Saffron Class–
• Timetabled for Monday (Football this half term) and Tuesday

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Essex County Council states that;

Earrings should not be worn for PE lessons.

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• Long hair should be tied back for PE lessons.

At the current time all children will need to come dressed into school in their PE kit, this can include a blue tracksuit.

Please ensure your child is dressed in the correct colours, plain dark tracksuit bottoms and jacket and a white top.

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Homework -Literacy�

• Children will take home a reading for pleasure book, a book bag book and
• their coloured RWI book

( usually on a Friday)

• Please ensure that they bring their book into school in the named plastic
• bag that they were given last year. This stops books from getting lost.

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• All children will have a SATs reading comprehension book and will be expected to complete the set pages each week. (more information on the next slide)

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• Children will also have the opportunity to take home a book from our school library.

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• Books that are not returned may incur a charge.

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• At present, children will still have access to Reading Eggs and Maths seeds.

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Homework - Maths

• In Year 2 children do not have a half termly Maths Challenge.
• The White Rose 1 minute app is a useful app for quick practise of number facts (addition, subtraction, multiplication and Division)

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• As an Infant school, for the last 2 years we have purchased SATs booster books for each child.

(Maths and Reading Comprehension).

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• As a school we have found that these books have given the children and parents more of a focus for homework and have supported their learning in class as well as helping with the end of year SATs (more detail on next slides).

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• Each week children will be expected to complete the set pages per book.

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SATs Homework books�

• The set pages will be sent home each week via parent mail. The work will be linked to the work we are doing in class.
• Please only do the pages set each week. This books are used all year
• for homework in Year 2.

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• Children will receive a stamp each week when their books have been
• checked (we will collect them in weekly).

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• All Parents and carers are asked to sit with their child and help
• them complete the pages, discussing new words and concepts.

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• We understand and appreciate that some children will find these
• easier than others.
• We ask that all children have a go with parental support even if they
• only complete one page per week per book.

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• A letter will be sent in the coming weeks explaining how his system will work.

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Literacy

• Spellings have become more of a focus in the National Curriculum recently.
• (for example: rainbow, peaceful, fossil and gnaw).
• Grammar has a higher profile now in the National Curriculum which includes changing the tense of verbs (action word e.g. running) and identifying types of words in various contexts (e.g. London – is a noun)
• All Writing tasks in school focus on grammar and sentence structure, punctuation , purpose and handwriting. We use pieces of writing from across the year that the children have completed independently to make a judgement on their writing level for the end of the Year.
• Each child will be coming home at the end of each half term with their spelling card. There is no formal spelling test so please help your child to learn their words whilst at home.

SATs

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Following the 2017 consultation on primary assessment, the government announced in July 2022 that end of key stage 1 (KS1) assessments will no longer be statutory from the academic year 2023 to 2024 onwards. The necessary legislative amendments have now been made and will take effect from 1 September 2023.��

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• SATS at KS1 (end of Y2) are no longer statutory but the government will still provide optional tests for schools to use internally. The results will not be published to parents and nationally. As a school, we have decided to do these for the following reason.
• When children move to KS2 they complete 'test's each term to complement the on-going assessments based on their daily work. Completing these test are important as the end of KS2 test in Y6 are test based for maths, reading and spelling/ grammar/punctuation. The children, therefore, need to have practice in doing these tests from time to time. Therefore, the tests will be completed at the end of Y2 to give Y3 teachers an idea of how children do in written tests. Some children, believe it or not love tests! Others find them quite challenging. It helps us to see which children might need further support with written tests as they move to KS2. The tests will not be used to make a judgement about the level your child is working at the end of Y2 but will be used as a SMALL part alongside a whole host of evidence gained through their daily work. In light of the changes to KS1 SATs we as a school will decide on how we track and assess pupils progress in Year 2.

�Expectations in Year 2�

• At the end of the academic year and end of KS1 pupils will be judged on their attainment, shown in their end of year report. The wording in the past has been:
• Not met the expected outcomes for the year.
• Met the expected outcomes for the year.
• Exceed the expected outcomes for the year.

and Finally…

• Remember Internet Safety: Smart rules (please see our SMART rules sheet) and the E-Safety section on the website.
• Our topic this half term is LONDON
• Please see the Star grid that was sent out on Parent mail. This explains what the children will be learning.
• Please look out for additional information that is sent home e.g. Knowledge organisers.

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Thank you for your support