Welcome to the Y2K parent information meeting!

Good Afternoon Parents and Guardians

• My name is Miss Kirby (Anna)

• I have previously worked in KS1 up the road in Woodsetts Primary and worked alongside Anston Brooke Staff.

• I spent the past year teaching in a Year 3 class

• My degree was in Early Childhood Studies

• I will always try to provide a comfortable, positive and tailored classroom environment for all the children

A little bit about me…

• Topic is called ‘To the Rescue’ and we will cover a variety of areas within this like people who help us, superheroes and Florence Nightingale

• In Science we will be looking at materials and the different properties

• In literacy we have been looking at extending the children’s writing and moving them into level 2/3 writers by using connectives in sentences

• In Maths we have been looking at basic number formation and moving into subtraction and word problems

An overview of the next half term

• P.E. days are Monday afternoons so P.E. kits need to be in school for this session

• Following a Governors meeting, they have decided that School Uniform is compulsory

• A reminder that children are only allowed to wear stud earrings and a watch but no other jewellery

• KS1 are now all eligible for free school meals

• Milk forms need to be filled out/paid for again now it’s a new term

• The newsletter and other information will be available on the website www.dcpschool.co.uk

Key Information

• School diaries, Reading Records and Books need to come back every day and go home every night

• I will make a general comment on the week in the children’s diaries on a Thursday to go home

• It can be used as a messaging system between myself and you

• It holds information such as attendance, levels and spelling test results

Diaries

• Each child has a homework book which I will put the activity in for them to take home on a Friday

• The homework will be linked to something we have done during the week; it could be Literacy, Maths, Phonics, Topic or Grammar

• Spellings will be stuck in their homework book as well for them to practice for the test on a Monday afternoon

• The homework book needs to come back on a Monday to have new spellings put in and then back in on a Thursday at the latest for me to be able to leave a comment and stick new homework in

Homework and Spellings

• In year 2 the children take SATs near the end of the spring term

• It’s a national test and the end result is a mixture of the results and teacher assessment

• They will do a SAT in Reading, Writing and Maths – the national level that they are aiming for is to be as close as we can to a 2B by the end of the year

• The SATs are independent and so we are trying to encourage more and more independent work; if you could try to encourage this during morning tasks and homework then that would be great

SATs

• To support with the children’s development we have set up a variety of interventions during P.E. and morning assemblies

• The interventions are there to address any misunderstandings or struggles from previous lessons and give time for any extra bits that will push on their learning

• Attendance and punctuality is key so that they are here on time to attend the interventions

• There are new reward systems in place for attendance

Interventions

• Friday 26th September – Training Day School Closed

• Monday 13th October – Parent open week where there will be lessons which you can book in to come and sit in to see how a lesson is structured

• Friday 24th October – Last day of school before Half Term week

• Monday 3rd November – Back in School and start of Careers Week

• Thursday 20th November – Parents evening 3:30-7:30pm

• Thursday 9th December – KS1 Christmas Concert

• Friday 19th December – Last day of school before Christmas Holidays

Dates for your Diary

A big thank you for coming

Any questions please come and

ask them!