Year 2 Meet the teachers presentation 2017-18

1. Welcome Parents!
Year 2

2. Staff in this year…
• Class teachers are Miss Coshan and Miss Shakespeare.
• English is split into four smaller groups with Miss Bird, Mrs Wheeldon, Miss Coshan and Miss
Shakespeare.
• Maths is also split into four smaller groups taught by Miss Bird, Mrs Trattos, Miss Coshan and
Miss Shakespeare.

3. Classroom
Schedule
8:50–9:05 SODA andregistration.
9:05–9:20 Assembly
9:20–10:20 English
10:20–10:40 Fruit&Break Time
10:40–11:40 Maths
11:40–12:10 GuidedReading
12:10–1:10 Lunch
1:10–2:30 Topic/ Science/ ICT/ P.E.
2:30–2:40 Break
2:40–3:25 Topic/ Science/ ICT/ P.E.
3:25 Schoolisdismissed
This is what a typical day in our
classroom looks like.

4. Topics covered this year are…
Creative Curriculum
Autumn: Victorians
Great FireofLondon
Spring: India
Pioneers
Summer:Wonder Woman
The Home Front (WWII)
Science Topics
Habitats, Exploring Everyday Materials, Growth and Survival, Super Scientist, SecretWorld of Plants
and Growing Plants.

5. Homework…
Power Projects! These will begiven outand the children canchoose from the given section
which task tocomplete.
Spellings –these will begiven outeveryFriday and tested the following Friday.
Mathletics –the children will bere-issued with a login for an online Numeracy resource.
Homework will be set each Friday and is tobecompleted by the following Friday.
Bug Club – the children have beenre-issued with a login for an online reading resource.
Letter Join –an online handwriting scheme.

6. Maths Challenges…
To improvespeed and accuracyof multiplication
facts, children will complete maths challenges
weekly.
When they scorefull marks on three occasions on a
challenge level, they progress onto the following
level.

7. Reading Comments…
• Yourchild will be listened to read byan adult at least oncea weekduring theirguided reading
session. It is still really important for you to listen to your child read at least twice a week if
possible.
• Children can change their books on a weekly basis and werequest that you complete and
sign their Reading Record. Reading Records area goodopportunity toleavecomments for
the class teacher should you haveany concerns about your child’s progress in reading.

8. Home Reading…
Books are taken in and sent outweekly. Your child will be given an allotted day for their book
toberead byand changed.Specified days can be found on thefront ofyourreading records as
well as in the classroom window.
Weencourage the children to read as much as possible and they canalso choosea book from
hometo read ortoaccess “Bug Club” for extra reading resources.
Ourclass author this year is Roald Dahl.

9. Bug Club…
Log into Bug Club from ActiveLearn (can beaccessedthrough google).
Username: First4 letters of first name, followed by first 4 letters of
surname.
Password: 2ac / 2ks
School Code: 3969

11. Handwriting – Letter join
• To encourage the children to use joined up, cursive writing, we are now using a
new handwriting scheme called Letter Join.
• Children will be able to access letter join in school on iPads as well as in
handwriting books.
• You can now also access this at home using the log-in:
• Username: ak7182
• Password: home
• Swipe code: Capital L

12. Timetable…
Tuesday – Childrenwill requiretheir outdoorP.E.kits.
Friday – Childrenwillrequiretheir indoorP.E.kits.
Power Projects, maths and spellingactivity given
out/ duein.

13. Behaviour
At Wylde Greenwearetrying to improve children’s learning behaviour by changing the
vocabulary that we use with them and oursystems for monitoring behaviour.
Children are asked to make the right ‘choice’with their behaviour and understand that the
consequences are as follows:
Warning.
Move down the ladder ONCE.
Move down again. Oncethey have moved 3 times, they will beissued a Yellow Card and will
spend the next morning break.
Red cards areissued for serious offences such as fighting (including play fighting), damaging
property and serious disrespect.

14. Educational Visits
• During the year we will be visiting a number of places to enhance the children’s
learning and understanding.
• These include:
• A trip to the Black Country Living museum
• A trip to the theatre to watch Awful Auntie
• A trip to Holdenby Evacuee Centre

15. Questions?