Welcome to Year 2 Team Mrs Makinson Mrs

Welcome to Year 2 Team Mrs Makinson Mrs Crawford Mrs Griffiths RSIA’s Mrs Bardrick

Year 2 General Information Monday – Home –School Diaries handed in. Wednesday – Library day – return books. Please send in a your Home. School diaries and a water bottle every day! Please make sure your child has full indoor and outdoor PE kit and trainers/pumps. Also keep a spare bobble and pair of socks in PE bags (girls) Plasters to cover earrings too. Rucksacks are not required in Y 2 – please only use the red reading bags! We do not have the room to store them!

English • Guided Reading and Shared Reading Sessions. • Library Books – Please share your child’s library book at home. • Spellings – Specific Spellings focus each week. Please reinforce and practise at home (once we start to send these home!) • SERI – Please continue to support your child’s reading at home and regularly read their SERI books.

English Curriculum - Mastery • Reading - Read a range of different genres, make inferences and predictions and discuss and clarify the meaning of words. Develop their reading stamina. Also continue to apply phonic skills, blend phonemes and develop decoding skills. • Writing – Children should develop a positive attitude to writing and writing stamina. Also develop the structure of their sentences, using conjunctions and punctuate sentences correctly. Emphasis will also be on developing a fully cursive handwriting style. • SPa. G – Key focus on all aspects of Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar. • Oral Rehearsal – Children should become more familiar with and confident in using language in a greater variety of situations, for a variety of audiences and purposes, including through drama, formal presentations and debate. Develop speaking audibly and fluently and listening skills!

Maths Curriculum • • • Place Value – count (forwards and backwards) in steps of 2, 3, and 5 from 0 and in tens from any number. read and write numbers to at least 100 in numbers and words. identify, represent and estimate numbers to 100 using different representations including the number line. recognise the place value of each digit in a two-digit number (10 s, and 1 s) compare and order numbers from 0 up to 100; use <, > and = signs use place value and number facts to solve problems Addition and Subtraction – solve problems with addition and subtraction recall and use addition and subtraction facts to 20 fluently, and derive and use related facts up to 100. Show that the addition of two numbers can be done in any order (commutative) and subtraction of one number from another cannot. Add and subtract numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations and mentally. (8+3, 15+7, 36+10, 65+20, 24+15, 36+17, 7+5+3) Recognise and use the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction and use this to check calculations and solve missing number problems.

The New Maths Curriculum • Multiplication and Division – Times Tables Rock Stars • • • recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables 2, 5 and 10, including recognising odd and even numbers. calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division within the multiplication tables and write them using signs. 6 x 5 = 30 solve problems involving multiplication and division show that the multiplication of two numbers can be done in any order (commutative) and division of one number by another cannot. Fractions (halves, quarters and thirds find fractional values of lengths, shapes or numbers/quantities) Measurement (Choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate length/height/weight/capacity and temperature) Money(solving problems with addition & subtraction of money, £ and p symbols) Time (tell and write the time to 5 minute intervals) Calendars / Dates (days of week, weeks, months, and years) Geometry (describe the properties of 2 D and 3 D shapes: edges, vertices and faces) Statistics (Data Handling: interpret and construct pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and simple tables. )

History & Geography Autumn Term – Rosie Revere, Engineer. The Gunpowder Plot, The Great Fire of London, Archie’s War Spring Term – Where The Forest Meets The Sea The Journey Summer Term – Meerkat Mail

Key Stage 1 SATS What you’ve all been waiting to hear about!! With effect from 2016, KS 1 SATS tests are no longer reported using levels. Children will be assessed on: • English – Reading and Comprehension, • English – Spelling, • English – Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling, • English – Writing (and Handwriting!) • Maths – Arithmetic, • Maths – Reasoning. Below Expected Standard, Greater Depth.

Key Stage 1 SATS • Please do not take your child out of school during April/May, as this is the assessment period. • You will no doubt be more anxious than your child, who in fact will be unaware of the SATS process. The tests are administered in small groups, in a very low key way, in a way that we often work in class. Most children are unaware that they have even done them, as many parents have commented in the past. • Juice and biscuits is always a treat here!

Whole School Approach to Behaviour We aim to keep the children at Queensgate on TRACK at all times: T – Tolerance of others, R – Respect and Responsibility, A – Achievement, C – Co-operation, Courtesy and Care, K – Kindness to others.

Whole School Approach to Behaviour • At Queensgate, we aim to provide a consistent approach to managing the school’s rewards and sanctions. • Children make their own good and bad choices and are aware of the sanctions in place. Behaviour is currently being monitored closely throughout the school and manners and respect are encouraged at all times. • Behaviour starts the minute the children enter the playground in the morning until they leave to go home at the end of the day (this includes Before & After School Club. ) • Please do not allow your children on the climbing equipment, or on the field before or after school. For health and safety reasons, children are also not allowed to ride on their scooters or bikes on the school grounds. • Please encourage your child to come into school independently before school, in order to enable a swift and prompt start to the school day. • By working together, we can help develop our children into independent, respectful, confident learners.

Snakes and Ladders Sanctions and Reward System Each day is a fresh start- all pegs start the day on the basket. Children can move up and down the Ladder and Snake progressively throughout the day. However, certain behaviours may mean that children go onto the Snake or Ladder at different points. They do not have to go 1 -2 -3 -4 -5

Snakes and Ladders Sanctions and Reward System

General Reminders ABSENCE FROM SCHOOL Please inform the school office from 8. 30 a. m. if your child is going to be absent from school. Alternatively you can leave a message. Please tell us why your child is absent. If the absence is more than a few days please keep us informed. All pupils’ attendance is monitored by both the school and the Local Authority. LATENESS If you are late bringing your child to school you must sign them in at the school office. If you are going to be late collecting your child/children you must contact the school office to explain why and indicate how long you will be. If you do not contact us or are persistently late your child will be supervised in our after school facility. This will incur a charge. HOLIDAY REQUESTS Holidays in term time are now discouraged by the Government and the ‘up to ten day’s discretionary approval’ by the Head teacher has been removed. If there is a special or exceptional circumstance you can submit a holiday request form to the Headteacher. This must be accompanied by a supporting letter. Failure to follow this procedure could lead to a fine. MEDICAL NEEDS If your child has a chronic health condition you must inform the school. Responsibility for ensuring medication is up to date is yours. You must inform us of any changes immediately. Occasionally your child may be prescribed medication by their Doctor. If it is impossible to administer this at home then a request form must be completed and signed. In these circumstances a first aid trained member of staff will administer the medication on your behalf. CONTACT INFORMATION If you change any details please inform the school office.

General Reminders SCHOOL UNIFORM Please ensure that your entire child’s uniform is labelled. This is particularly helpful if an item goes missing. The lost property box is kept in the Key Stage 2 bay. Overall the wearing of jewellery is not permitted. However a watch may be worn. This must be suitable for school. In addition if your child has pierced ears these must either be removed or covered for PE. All items removed for PE must be given to the class teacher who will return them at the end of the lesson. (Earrings must be small studs. ) The wearing of nail varnish and make up is not permitted. Hair styles – very short/shaved hair or extremely styled hair is not allowed. Long hair must be tied back for safety reasons. SAFEGUARDING If there any changes to collection arrangements e. g. someone else is picking up your child you must inform us. We will not allow anyone else to take your child home without your permission. Please do not pop into the school building without consent. If you need to speak to your child’s teacher a quick word can be had at the beginning of the day in the playground. Alternatively please arrange an appointment. WHO TO SPEAK TO? If you have any questions or wish to discuss a matter please speak to your child’s class teacher in the first instance. Senior members of staff Mrs Lee DHT, Mrs Rayner Inclusion Manager and the Headteacher Mrs Hitchcock can then be contacted if necessary. SCHOOL DINNERS Please ensure that if your child is being provided with a school dinner that this is ordered on time. Currently some families are forgetting. Whilst it is very early days with our new provider their service doesn’t cater for waste. We do not want there to be a situation when the food has run out!

General Reminders ADDITIONAL FUNDING Please ensure that you keep school updated with any information regarding your child, to ensure that Queensgate receives the correct funding, based on the information submitted in the Census returns. FREE SCHOOL MEAL ELIGIBILITY For your child to receive free school meals, you must be getting one of the following benefits… Income support, Income based job seeker’s allowance, Income related employment support allowance, Guarantee part of pension credit, Child Tax Credit but without Working Tax Credit and your income is £ 15, 575 or less. Please note, that all information is confidential. Please contact Mrs Holmes in the school office (Wednesday-Friday) if you think that you may be eligible. SCHOOL WEBSITE Our new school website is now up and running. Please keep an eye on it for any relevant information. http: //www. queensgate. stockport. sch. uk/

Tonight… • We hope that you have found the information provided useful. • Feel free to look around the classroom. • Please ask any questions. Thank you for coming Thank you!