Hello Everyone!

Welcome to Birch Class. I hope you have all had a wonderful summer and I am excited for a fun and productive year ahead.

Here is some useful information for Lower Key Stage 2. 

Useful information:

• Every fortnight I will send out a class newsletter which will let you know what we have been up to. This will be uploaded on to this webpage every other Friday. Please check this page for homework set.
• This term PE will be on a Monday and Wednesday afternoon. PE will take place on Monday afternoon with ACE sports coaches and on a Wednesday afternoon with myself for the Autumn term.  I will let you know of any changes to P.E. days after Christmas. Children need to bring suitable clothing for outdoor PE. There will be an outdoor PE session and an indoor PE session. As the weather changes, a warm kit – long tracksuit bottoms and sweatshirts, hats and gloves – are advised on very cold days. 
• A clean water bottle can be brought into school every day if required, to be stored at the back of our classroom.
• Children do not need to bring their own pencil cases to school as there are plenty of appropriate resources in our classroom.
• Reading books – As children are now in Key Stage Two, children are expected to independently change their books whenever they need to, using our school library or the class library. We simply ask that they record which new book they have taken in their personal reading log and choose a book within their colour band. Please read with your child at least 3 times a week and ask them questions about the text. Record and sign all reading in the calendar pages of their diary. This evidence of reading will earn them Take Care tokens, and bookmarks will be awarded for regular reading.
• Spellings: We are following the ‘No Nonsense’ spelling scheme and this will be taught during SPaG lessons or during a specific timetabled slot. Alongside this, we learn the Statutory Year 3/4 spellings; a statutory spelling list will be sent home fortnightly with the spellings your child needs to learn. This will be tested every other Friday, along with timestables.
• School diary: School diaries are needed in school EVERY day.  We use them to record reading and commendations and other information we feel you may need to know.

If you have any concerns or just wish to discuss your child’s progress, I am always happy to talk, but can I please ask that you make an appointment first, via the office on parentcorrespondence@st-peters.notts.sch.uk or by catching me at the end of the day in the playground. Thank you.

Looking forward to a great year!

Miss Waghorn.