We use Class Dojo to reward our children, showcase our learning and send reminders.

Our Classrooms

Our classrooms offer an inviting and engaging environment in which the children are encouraged to become independent thinkers. They are a safe, happy place where our children feel comfortable and confident to explore and learn new things each day.

Our Areas

Our areas include English working walls, where the star writer of the week is always celebrated.  Our Maths working walls, which include some key facts such as times tables for the childrent to make reference to. We also include a range of resources that the children can access to help them work out answers during lessons.  We also have science walls, topic walls and a celebration wall which includes the children's birthdays and work to be proud of.

Our Book Corners

Both classrooms have an enchanting reading corner, which encourages the children to fall in love with reading and story books. The children have free flow access to this within the classroom and are encouraged daily to read in there. The children in Year 2 also have weekly access to our Key Stage 1 library, where they can take home a book of their choice to be returned the following week. We strive to encourage a love of books and reading in Year 2 and we greatly apprecite your help in reaching this goal.

Our Altars

Our classroom altars are a very special place where the children say collective worship prayers three times a day. The children are encouraged to bring in photographs of people they would like to remember in their prayers and use the alter in their own time to say a private prayer if they so wish. They also have access to child friendly Bibles and hymn books.  On all our Altars in Key Stage 1, we encourage the children to acknowledge and follow the 5 W's; Welcome, Word, Witness, Worship and Welfare.

We have launched a new reading scheme to match with our phonics capabilities.  This means that we are sending home books similar to those the children have been doing in class that same week.  

The Read Write Inc book bag book is targeted at your child's reading ability - they are to read this book independently.  Please go over the green/red words at the beginning, to ensure they understand the vocabulary.  Ask them questions using the information at the back of the books or ask them to retell the story,

The Oxford Owl book is for shared reading with an adult.  This is to help your child with comprehension and fluency with the aim to be reading 90 words a minute by the end of Year 2.

Please click on the picture link to learn more about how phonics is taught at St Marys.

For additional information about phonics and letter formation, please download the documents below.

	Phonics Sounds - Read Write Inc	[pdf 478KB]
	Rhymes for Letter Formation - Read, Write Inc	[pdf 197KB]

The children will receive new spellings each Friday. These will be stuck into their home reading diaries and we encourage the children to practice them each night at home.

They will then be tested the following Friday in a spelling book which will stay in school.

Our spellings are set based on the spelling rule we have taught in that week in English. 

The children will do weekly arithmetic quiz on a Thursday. These will also be stuck into their home reading diaries and we encourage children to practise the questions at home in preparation for the quiz

All children should have a PE bag with pumps that is left on their school peg.
Indoor P.E kit: St Mary’s quarter zip, plain white t-shirt, plain black/blue shorts/trousers and pumps.
Outdoor P.E kit for colder months: St Mary’s quarter zip, plain white t-shirt, plain black/blue tracksuit pants and trainers.
This term, we will be practising fundamental movement skills.