Yorkley Primary School

Phoenix - Year 2

Welcome to Phoenix (Year 2)

Teacher: Miss Southgate

Teaching Assistants: Ms Solana and Mrs James

Autumn 1 Key Reminders

Phoenix need to be in their school uniform every day.

Phoenix will have PE on Tuesdays this term, remember the children must bring in their PE kit to get changed into in a labelled bag.

Phoenix have forest schools on Wednesday, remember children must bring their forest school kit in to get changed into in a labelled bag. 

Please see below for PE uniform & Forest School Kit required.

Attendance
A reminder that school gates open at 8.35am and close at 8.45am. Attendance matters for doing well in school: academically, socially, and emotionally. As a parent/carer you are responsible for making sure your child develops the habit of regular attendance – every day counts! Punctuality is also highly important. Pupils who arrive late to school are not only losing out on learning, but disrupt the learning of others when they arrive late into the learning that has already started. Thank you for your continued support with this matter.

Book bags

Please send your child’s book bag in with them every day. This will allow us to send home letters and prevent them from losing things from the classroom to home. Replacement book bags can be bought from the PTA for £7.00.

Reading books

Your child will bring home a new reading practice book every Monday. This will be a fully decodable book. We encourage you to listen to your child read at least 3 times a week and record it in their reading record.  Your child will also bring home a sharing book that they have chosen themselves from our library; this is a book we would like you to enjoy reading to your child. The sharing book will be changed on a fortnightly basis on a Tuesday.

Homework

Homework will be sent home on a Tuesday and will be due in on the following Monday. The homework set will be spellings that are being learnt in the classroom, with the term's common exceptions words too. Maths homework will be set on Sumdog, but there are also KIRF's (Key Instant Recall Facts) and the term's Maths Knowledge Organiser that indicates all learning taking place that term. This will be in the homework books termly.  It is important to encourage your child to complete the homework as independently as possible, however some work will require working together.

Maths games

We are very lucky to be able to have access to Maths games that we send home to support the children and their learning. These were created by our PTA voluntarily and a lot of time and effort went into making them. Please can you take care of them, making sure pieces stay in the packs. Maths games will be swapped on a Tuesday every other week, to coincide with library sessions. If they are not returned, we will not be able to give out a new game.

Water bottles

Please can you provide your child with a water bottle at the start of the year. It will need to be named. We will send the water bottle home daily to be washed. Only water should be provided, please. We will fill the bottles with fresh water throughout the day.

Milk and fruit

The children will receive a piece of free fruit in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. You can order milk for them to have at break time. Please speak to the office if you would like to order milk. If your child does not like a variety of fruit then you are welcome to send in a piece of fruit that you know they will enjoy. We are a healthy school so no crisps, chocolate or junk food, please. Please remember we are a nut free school.

PE kits

The children will be doing PE on Tuesday. Children will need to bring their PE kit in to get changed into. We are hoping that most PE will happen outside, therefore they will need to wear warmer clothes in the colder weather.  Please can you remove your child’s earrings on a Tuesday. On non PE days, children must wear full and correct school uniform including NO jewellery.

Uniform is as follows:

Shorts (blue or black)

Plain T-shirt (white)

School jumper or fleece may be worn in cold weather

Tracksuits may be worn in cold weather 

Daps (plimsolls) or trainers

Forest Schools

Phoenix class will be having off site Forest School sessions with ‘Follow my Lead’ during the Autumn Term 1. Children will need to be appropriately dressed for this, weather depending. Children will bring their Forest School kit with them to school. It will take place on Wednesday AM. Parents are not required for these sessions. An additional pair of shoes are needed for your child to go to Forest Schools in. 

Kit needed is as follows: 

Normal school uniform on the top half: blue or white polo, school jumper, cardigan or fleece

Black tracksuit bottoms or leggings (no large logos)

Wellington boots or walking boots/trainers

Hats/scarves/waterproofs as required

School shoes to change into after

Bike ability

Bike ability sessions for Phoenix class will be during Autumn Term 2. The children will NOT need to bring their own bikes for this as age appropriate bikes and helmets are provided.

 Miss Southgate