Foundation Stage 2 2024 - 2025
Mrs Newell
Teaching Assistant
Mrs Porter
Teacher
Mrs Birch
Teaching Assistant
Miss Swan-Buchan
Summer Term 2025
Welcome to Foundation Stage 2!
Just like that, we are racing into the last term of the year! We have another exciting term planned for our little learners and we look forward spending these final months in FS2 with your wonderful children. Please have a look in the booklet below for further information about our learning and development over the Summer Term, it can be found at the bottom of this page.
Key Information
Phonics: FS2 started their phonics journey over the Autumn Term. We learned and explored all of the Phase 2 sounds and lots of tricky words too! This term we will be reinforcing this learning and starting to learn the Phase 3 set of sounds as well. Children should become more confident with their blending of CVC words such as 'sat', 'cat', 'man' and 'van' and many may start to blend words with digraphs in, such as, 'rain' and 'chip' over this term. Please keep supporting your child with their phonics practise at home. A weekly update of the new sounds this week is uploaded onto Tapestry on a Friday and further information can be found on the Phonics tab above.
Reading: we will continue to follow the Little Wandle Reading Scheme which uses phonetically decodable books matched to your child's learning. Reading books will be sent home on a Thursday and should be returned to school by the Monday. This is very important as books are used for other groups during the week. Please make time to read with your child for a few minutes each day over the weekend and it will support their learning so much - thankyou!
PE: PE is on a Friday morning, please send children into school wearing weather appropriate PE clothes and trainers on a Friday. We recommend trainers not pumps, as children will be wearing these shoes all day and they need to be sturdy enough to run around the playground in.
Key Dates
5th May - Bank Holiday Monday
19th May - Gardening afternoon 2-3:10pm - grown-ups are warmly welcomed into FS2 to spend the afternoon helping us in our garden.
26th - 30th May - HALF TERM
7th-8th June - Active Transport Festival in Chester
23rd June - Summer Fayre
10th July - Parent-Teacher Conference Day & School Reports
11th July - FS2 Assembly
14th July - End of FS2 Picnic
18th July - Last day in FS2!
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!
Mrs Charlotte Porter: cporter@thearches.cheshire.sch.uk
