MONDAY 15th MAY - FRIDAY 19th MAY

This week...

• THE READ-A-NATOR. When your child has read at home, simply hit the button and click your child's class to add a point to their class tally. The class with the most points at the end of the term will get one hour on a bouncy castle in the Big Hall!

• Mailbag - Check your Friday Mailbag for whole-school news.

Coming soon...

• Friday 26 May - End of Term 5
• Monday 5 June - Start of Term 6
• Friday 23 June - Reception, Yr 1 & Yr 2 Discos

Assessments

As you may be aware, your child will be assessed using the End of KS1 tests throughout the month of May. These are known as SATs (Standard Assessment Tests) and are used nationally for all children in Year 2. The primary aim of these assessments is for the government and Local Authority to look at trends across schools throughout England. Within schools, these tests can be a helpful measure of children’s progress and this is used alongside the teacher's judgement of their work throughout the year.

The tests are presented as booklets with colourful pictures and characters. They are composed of two reading comprehension papers (sections to read with pictures, with corresponding questions) and two maths papers (one arithmetic and one reasoning/problem solving). Here is a website where you can find past papers if you want to take a look KS1 SATs Papers - SATs Papers KS1 [1999-2022] - Free Downloads (sats-papers.co.uk)

These assessments are carried out in small groups with a familiar adult. The children are unaware that they are taking place to prevent any unnecessary pressure, as the style and format of questions is similar to many of their daily activities. This is the format we have used over the last few years and it works really well.

Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

• Open Doors Day presentation - You can see the slides from Ms Norman and Mr McIntyre's talk under 'Letters' here - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

• All our dates and events for the year are on our website calendar. Click to view it in...
• calendar format
• or as a list of events
• In the calendar layout events are colour coded... 
• Events for everyone are in BLUE. Events for Yr 2 only are in TURQUOISE.

• Visit the Yr 2 Homework page HERE to download this week's Retrieval Questions.

• Click HERE

Teachers
(please only email teachers on school days between 8am and 5.30pm)

Mrs Lamb - klamb@hillcrest.bristol.sch.uk
Mrs Willis - kwillis@hillcrest.bristol.sch.uk
Mrs Howard - ehoward@hillcrest.bristol.sch.uk

Wright Brothers Class Reps:

Jo (Alma's mum) - email classreps@hillcrest.bristol.sch.uk FAO 'Year 2 Class Reps'
Charlie (Rowan's dad) - email classreps@hillcrest.bristol.sch.uk FAO 'Year 2 Class Reps'
Jessica (Rowan's mum) - email classreps@hillcrest.bristol.sch.uk FAO 'Year 2 Class Reps'

Louis Braille Class Reps:

Shamirraa (Zahra's mum) - email classreps@hillcrest.bristol.sch.uk FAO 'Year 2 Class Reps'

If you would like to be added to the Year 2 WhatsApp group then please get in touch with any of the above Reps