Foundation Stage 2 2024 - 2025
Mrs Newell
Teaching Assistant
Miss Durrant
Teacher
Mrs Birch
Teaching Assistant
Autumn Term 2024
Welcome to Foundation Stage 2!
We are so looking forward to welcoming all of our new starters to The Arches in September! We hope you all had a very enjoyable Summer break and that you are ready for your new school adventure to begin.
It can be a little scary starting big school for the first time, but we are all here to help settle you into your new environment and to make the start of your school journey a wonderful one!
We have lots of fantastic learning oportunities planned for our first term together, please explore our page for more information about our learning and download the FS2 Information Booklet at the bottom of this page. There is also lots of handy information about how you can support your child with their development and their learning journey linked below.Our main focus is making sure all our children are happy and settled in their new school environment and are reay to learn!
We know that starting school can be a worry for grown-ups as well as for children, so please do come and talk to us if you have any questions or concerns, the clas team is here to support everyone. We hope our Stay and Settle mornings will help both children and grown-ups have a good start to the day. Our classroom will be open for grown-ups to stay until 9:30am, giving everyone an opportunity to help children choose their lunch and get settled into play.
Key Information
Phonics: a big part of our learning this term will focus around Phonics. We will be following the Little Wandle phonics scheme and your child will be sent home with a booklet to support their learning at home. See below for extra support for parents!
Reading: we will be following the Little Wandle Reading Scheme which uses phonetically decodable books matched to your child's learning. We will be starting focused reading sessions in class during Autumn 1 and will start sending reading books towards the end of the half term. Books will be sent home on a Friday and should be returned to school by the Monday. Please make time to read with your child for a few minutes every day and it will support their learning so much. They are used throughout the week, so it is really important they are returned in a timely manner - thankyou!
PE: PE will start after October half-term
Key Dates
Wednesday/Thursday 4th/5th September - welcome morning sessions
Friday 6th September - children in school until 1:10pm
Monday 9th - children begin full time
Friday 13th September - Teddy Bears Picnic 2-3pm, grown-ups invited to celebrate our first full week of school!
Monday 16th September - School photos
Monday 23rd September - flu vaccinations
Tuesday 24th September - Phonics & reading workshop, 2:30-3pm in FS2 classroom
Tuesday 8th October - FS2 Memory Box making afternoon, 1:30 - 3pm
Monday 28th - HALF TERM WEEK
Monday 4th November - back to school
Friday 8th November - FS2 sing-along assembly, 9:10am grown-ups welcome to attend
Thursday 5th December - FS2 Christmas disco, in class
Monday 9th December - FS2 Nativity performance, 1:30pm
Tuesday 10th December - FS2 Nativity performance, 11am
Thursday 19th December - FS2 Christmas lunch
Friday 20th December - Last day of term
Contact
If you have an questions or queries please do not hesitate to get in touch with me using the school contact number or via email below!
If you need support to set up your Tapestry account please ask any time!
Miss Charlotte Durrant: cdurrant@thearches.cheshire.sch.uk
