Mr Pengelly teaches Class Two all day on Monday, all day on Wednesday and on Tuesday and Friday mornings. On Tuesday afternoons, Mrs Liddicott takes the class for PE and Art. Mrs Breeze teaches the class on Friday afternoons and all day on Thursday. Mrs Liddicott also works in class as teaching assistant, Mr Waters works as teaching assistant on Tuesday afternoons and Mrs Reed works as a teaching assistant on Friday afternoons.

PE lessons will be on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Children’s PE kit should be kept in school at all times if possible. We try to do as much outdoor learning as possible so we also ask that children should keep outdoor shoes/wellies at school if possible. Swimming sessions will also continue on Fridays with the same arrangements as before half term.

These are the statutory spellings for Years 2, 3 and 4. Any help you can give your child with learning and retaining the spelling of these words will be verybeneficial. Children also learn spelling rules every week. There are some very good games online that are helpful in practising these rules and for helping children to practise words that are exceptions to these words. Spelling Frame has lots of free games and activities for practisingthe spelling rules that we learn at school.

Please support your child with reading at home as much as possible. The benefits of reading and discussing what they have read are huge, and it is always wonderful to see the progress that children make, especially as they move onto longer and more complex books. When children have finished a book, they can take an Accelerated Reader quiz on it at school – this helps to check their understanding and keeps a record of what they have read. Most published books are on the AR system so if your child reads a book that is not from school, they are very welcome to take a quiz on that – all books that they read contribute to their half-termly target.

Having confident rapid recall of times tables is extremely useful in all areas of maths and is a very good thing to practise at home. Your child will be given a Login to Times Tables Rockstars – an online game that is very good for practising tables and for tracking progress. For those who are confident with multiplication facts, TTR can also be used to practise rapid recall of division facts. In addition, the free game Hit the Button is a very good way to practise individual tables and other key number facts. As a general rule, children should try to target getting at least 15 correct in a minute to demonstrate that they know a times table well.