Year Two - Hedgehogs
Welcome to Year 2, your Class Teacher is called Berna.
Key Information
Please see our newsletter and curriculum overviews for details of our topics, events and any key dates.
A reminder that the gate opens at 8:40am for children to enter through the main entrance and are expected to be in class by 8.50am. At the end of the day parents/carers pick up from the classrooms at 3.20pm.
P.E Days
Tuesday and Friday
Please ensure your child has their PE kit in school on the correct days.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to contact Berna, please email info@somerdaleet.org.uk or call the school office to book an appointment
To support children to achieve their full potential in writing, quality books are chosen as a termly stimulus for English which will fascinate and engage. The books are carefully selected as it is so important that children see themselves and each other in the books they read. The themes, characters and authors reflect the diversity of our communities to help children develop empathy and inclusion, as well as to build a more realistic view of the world around them. A planned sequence of teaching is followed to enable the children to meet a specific end of unit writing outcome; one for fiction and one for non-fiction. The sequence begins with sharing the text followed by detailed analysis. Key vocabulary and phrases from the text are highlighted and studied to expand the children’s word understanding. Weekly grammar lessons, are followed by opportunities for the children to practice these skills independently in their own writing. Each unit culminates in an end of unit write which will use the learning from the whole unit. Children are taught editing and revising skills in order to improve their own work. This sequence is recorded on the English Working Wall with examples for the children to use as prompts.
Throughout the year, children will write for a variety of purposes and audiences across fiction and non-fiction. Writing to entertain includes description, poetry and story writing. Story writing covers basic story plots from Pie Corbett including wishing, warning, conquering the monster, finding, journey, losing, meeting, rags to riches, fear, and character flaw tales as well as alternative endings to equip them with frameworks around which to base their own writing. Children also focus on a different non-fiction writing purpose including to inform, to argue and to explain, appropriate to their age and ability including a variety of text types: recount (newspaper and diary), report, instruction, explanation, discussion and persuasion. When a text type has been covered there are short burst opportunities for children to revise these throughout the year including outside of the English lesson in Enquiry, Science or Learn Together lessons. Children are supported by guided and modelled writing.
In additional to the above whole school initiatives successfully raise the profile of the school. This includes weekly Star Writers from class work celebrated.
Handwriting
There are high expectations of handwriting across the curriculum areas.
Key Stage 1: Precursive handwriting is taught in year 1 as children continue to learn forming precursive letters correctly. Diagonal and horizontal joins are introduced and practiced regularly with children all using neat, cursive handwriting by year 2.
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Capital letters and numbers are used from EYFS to year 6.
