Our Classes

Welcome to Year 2 

Below you can see the Year 2 team.

Here are the teaching staff:

                                                             Mrs Clifford        Mrs Marshall           Miss Cole

We are very to lucky to have some great people supporting us in Year 2.

Mrs O' Mahoney, Mrs Chase and Mrs Coldwell work in both classes over the week.

We have 2 classes in Year 2, with a total of 43 children. A couple of our children access Smarties.

Mrs Clifford teaches 2A all day on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Mrs Marshall teaches 2B on Monday, Thursday and Friday. 

Miss Cole teaches 2A on Monday and  Friday. She teaches 2B on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Our Curriculum

• We follow the National Curriculum for Key Stage 1

Mantle

Much of our curriculum is carefully woven into a Mantle story. 

Autumn Term

History Alive are a team of people who love bringing history to life for visitors to historical buildings or sites. They find ways to provide interactive experiences. In particular, they try to improve the engagement of younger visitors. The team have been contacted by the British Museum and English Heritage. Whilst the exhibition of the Bayeux Tapestry is a huge and significant one for the Museum, they are concerned about the experience for younger visitors. Do they understand what it is? How are they engaging with the exhibition? English Heritage are concerned about recent reviews for one of their castles. Families are concerned that the visitor's experience is poor. Information sources look tired. There isn't enough to keep children entertained on a day trip. History Alive need to explore ways to improve visitor experiences to both venues. Working on an exhibition which is time-limited adds demands on the team. The exhibition is already open. There can't be disruption for people who already have tickets. Meanwhile at the castle, the team may have to work out how to work in areas where walls may be crumbling. The castle is open to the elements, so will the weather add pressure? Can the team help out before next year's season begins?

Writing

We follow the Year 2 National Curriculum for writing and we use "The Write Stuff" by Jane Considine to learn how to stack fantastic sentences and create stories and non-fiction texts. 

Our writing is often linked to the work we do in Mantle; we write to entertain and inform as described by Michael Tidd on his website. 

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Spelling and Handwriting

Once the children have completed the Little Wandles Phonics programme, they move onto Spelling Shed. Through this we look at spelling patterns and rules. The children also have access to the online resource to enable them to practise their spellings both at school and at home.

We follow Kinetic Letters for handwriting. These lessons are daily and some children may have individual practise too. 

Reading

Most of our children begin whole class reading. These lessons are three times a week. We look at new vocabulary, have a chance to read with a reading partner and on our own, as well as having the chance to discuss the text. Some children are still completing the Little Wandles Spelling Programme and so these children will follow the Little Wandles Guided Reading Programme too. These books are closely matched the phonics we are learning. We can also read these books at home via the eCollins website.

We read lots of non-fiction texts as part of our Mantle stories and use websites like DK Find Out and BBC Bitesize.

Daily Story Time

In class, we love to share a book. We read a whole range of books and texts. When we have read a book, it goes in our class reading corner for us to read again independently. We are trying to read more than 200 different books and poems this year! Sometimes we just like to re-read old favourites!

Most weeks we have the chance to go to the school library and choose a book for ourselves.

Home Reading

As well as our eCollins books, we also choose a home reader and change this as we need to. These books may have some unfamiliar words in them, but they are for us to share with our families. Our grown ups can make a comment in our reading diary. We have a reading at home challenge. Who will be the first to fill their book mark?

Maths

We follow the White Rose planning for Maths. This is also supplemented by problem solving opportunities from NRich, I see Reasoning and I See Problem Solving by Gareth Metcalfe.

Four days a week we use the NCTEM's Mastering Number programme for Year 2. These sessions  help us to practise number bonds and calculation skills.

We also have a daily quiz. This challenge is to help us improve our fluency with number facts. Each quiz has 10 days of challenges. We love trying to beat our daily score. 

Once we have cracked addition and subtraction facts within 20, we will move on to times table facts. In the Spring Term we will also have access to TTRockstars.

Science

Sometimes we learn science through our Mantle story. Sometimes we just do science!

These are the National Curriculum areas of study we focus on:

Geography and History

We use Primary Connected History and Geography units for Key Stage 1. Mostly we will weave them into our Mantle stories, but sometimes we might teach them as individual history or geography units.

In History we learn about a local significant building. This is Kenilworth Castle. We will find out, why it was built there, who built it, how it changed, what life was like inside and which special people visited it.

In Geography we learn about and compare an area just a bus journey away from Woodrow, but one which is very different. Great Malvern and the Malvern Hills have lots of geographical features to explore and it has really interesting connections to famous writers and composers!

RE

We follow the Worcestershire Agreed Syllabus for RE.

Here are the questions we think about in Year 2:

RSE

We follow the PSHE Association's Thematic Builder. Here are the themes we learn about in Year 2:

Computing

We use the Teach Computing programme. 

Music

We follow Kapow Primary Music to learn about the instruments in the orchestra and to develop our composing and perfoming skills. We also learn how to play the ocarina in the Summer Term.

PE

We follow GetSet4PE. 

We are lucky to have a swimming pool on site and so we can swim for half a term in each term.

Lunches

 All children in Year 2 are entitled to Universal Free School meals. 

The children can have a school lunch or bring a packed lunch from home.

Lunches need to be ordered in advance via the parent app.

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