

Welcome to F2
at St Anne’s Primary School
Assistant Head Teacher & Early Years Foundation Stage Lead:
Mrs A Jones
Foundation Stage Teachers:
F2 – Mrs A Jones & Mrs C Lyon
Foundation Stage Teaching Assistants:
F2 – Miss M Ballard
EYFS (PM): Miss K Plant & Miss C Brady

Welcome back to Spring 2
Welcome back we hope you have had a fun filled half term and the children are looking forward to being back!
The children are now half way through their F2 journey and have made some brilliant progress. We have enjoyed watching them making their brains grow with our weekly challenges and our new ‘Word of the Day’ activities.
Challenges became a great part of children accessing our provision as they began to build a rainbow with their lolly sticks - different challenge areas each week ensured the children explored all of the different areas of provision. This will continue through the year as more challenges are added and bigger rainbows are built.
Our texts this half term are ‘The Elephants Umbrella’ and ‘Chimpanzee’ a non-fiction text. We start Spring 2 with ‘The Elephants Umbrella’ which gives the children lots of opportunities to continue to become confident with their writing. Lots of opportunities will be given to Say, Write and Check as the children embed their sentence writing knowledge. Our second text, ‘Chimpanzee’ is a non-fiction text which gives children another opportunity to explore a non-fiction text. In maths, we will begin by exploring time, length and height. Following this we will explore number 9 and 10 and finish the term exploring 3D shapes. We will continue our daily phonics lessons and the children will continue to develop their confidence segmenting and blending words embedding all their phase 2 and 3 sound knowledge. In Understanding the world and Exploring Arts and Design we will explore the season of Spring and Animals from warm climates and begin to look at some simple map work.
Reading is key to all learning and we would encourage you all to share books daily with your children. Developing a love of reading from an early age is essential for every child. We will be continuing our guided reading sessions four times each week and the children will continue to bring a reading book home each Friday alongside a book for pleasure for you to read together. Please remember to practise the children’s phonemes and tricky words with them as much as possible as this will really help them with their reading.
Each day follows the same routine which the children thrive upon as they know what to expect. Please see below:
8:30-9:00 – Our doors open from 8.30am when the children can self-register and access Calm & Connect activities and check in with staff
9:00-9:10 – Register, Prayer and Song
9:10-9.30 – Literacy Carpet Session
9:30-10:20 – Adult led activity Literacy, Indoor and Outdoor Continuous Provision, Snack
10:20-10:40 – Phonics
10:40-11.20 – Indoor and Outdoor Continuous provision, Snack
11:20-11.45 – Maths Carpet Session
11:50-1.00 – Lunchtime
1:00-1:20 – My Happy Mind Monday/RE/PE or Handwriting (each day differs)
1:20-2.50 – Guided Reading, Indoor and outdoor provision, Interventions, Adult led activities through provision
2:50-3:05 – Story/Rhyme time
We will continue to use Class Dojo to communicate with parents - look out for messages posted on here which include key dates, activities to do at home and class updates. Please feel free to send any photos in of what the children have been up to outside of school, we love looking at these photos together in class.
A few quick reminders - We will be starting to access the hall for PE from this half term - PE Day is Wednesday, please ensure your child comes to school wearing their School PE Kit and pumps or trainers, the children will need a jacket or hoodie on top of their t-shirt please. Children also need to bring a coat every day - we do go out come rain or shine.
Children also need a water bottle each day.
Please make sure all uniform is labelled with your child’s name including their coat and water bottle.
We are excited to see the children continue to have fun with their learning and make more progress.
As always our door is always open, please don’t sit at home worrying about anything, get in touch if you have any questions.
Thank you for your continued support!
Mrs Jones, Mrs Lyon & Miss Ballard x