Welcome to Elder Class 24 - 25!

Elder Class are our Year 2 children, so there is a strong emphasis on acquiring basic literacy and numeracy skills and practising these across a broad and balanced curriculum. The learning contexts are carefully chosen to be engaging and inspiring.

Staff

Elder class is taught by Mrs Stuart.

Other adults who work in the class include Mrs Stockwell and Miss Ewers & Miss Fisher.

If you have a message or query about your child, you are welcome to speak to the staff member at the door in the morning, Mrs Stuart at the end of the school day (once she has seen the children out) or by contacting the school office to arrange a meeting or phone call.

Reminders

Pupil equipment list

At school your child will be given all equipment required for lessons, e.g. pencil, whiteboard and whiteboard pen, so there is no need to provide pencil cases from home.

Please ensure your child brings each day:

• a named small clear soft plastic water bottle with a non spill lid
• their book bag
• their yellow reading record

All uniform and outdoor clothing should be clearly labelled with your own child's name.

Library

Elder Class has a library session every Monday afternoon. Please remember to bring in library books on this day so that they can be exchanged.  Books can be kept for up to two weeks before being listed as overdue.

PE

PE kits should be available in school every day but this term our usual PE sessions will take place on Mondays and swimming lessons on Wednesdays.  A list of required items can be found here.

Homework

• Reading books

Children can change and take home two reading books every Monday from their specific phonics or coloured book band baskets. Please encourage your child to read and reread these texts daily to build up their fluency, accuracy and confidence with reading. Take time to pause for punctuation and discuss any vocabulary that is unfamiliar.  Reading records will be collected each Monday and returned on Tuesdays.

• Spellings

Children will bring home a new set of spellings to practise each Friday.  Each set of spellings will follow a specific spelling pattern or contain common tricky words.  Please ensure that spelling books are returned to school on a Thursday so that the weeks spelling test can be recorded and a new set of spellings can be sent home. 

Additional Learning Challenges

The resources below are provided to build on what we are learning in class and develop fluency.  They will not be routinely marked or checked but children are very welcome to use their homework books to record learning they have done at home.

• Common Exception Words - these are a list of words that children are expected to spell correctly in their writing by the end of Key Stage 1.
• Maths Retrieval Questions - these link to the Mastering Number Project that we are a part of and aim for children to show, notice and verbalise basic number facts at speed.  Please encourage the children to use the stem sentences where indicated.  Please use in slide show mode as the slides are animated.
• Times Tables Rock Stars - use the jamming option and select 10, 2 or 5 times tables to practise what we have been learning in school.  Passwords will be stuck into homework books Friday 21st March.

If you have any questions please speak to Mrs Stuart.