Welcome to Year 2
YEAR 2
Class 9 – Carn Brea
Mr Hill
Mrs Joyce
Mrs O'Brian
Class 8 – Dolcoath
Class 8 – Dolcoath
Mr Hughes
Mrs Lach
Mrs Lach
Mrs Cracknell
Class 7 – South Crofty
Miss Maun
Miss Pelassa
Class 7 – South Crofty
Miss Maun
Miss Pelassa
Mrs O' Brian
In Year 2, the curriculum has been carefully planned to build upon and progress from Year 1. Our lessons are creative, exciting, and fun as well as being challenging. We aim to build on our children’s independence to become confident, resilient, and self-motivated learners who will be ready for their journey to KS2.
We follow the school’s progression of skills which is linked directly to school’s locality. Each half term has a topic focus which brings together some of our learning and makes links between curriculum areas. At the beginning of each half term, we send home a topic map that outlines the learning for parents to discuss with their children. We also send regular updates on Class dojo to show parents what we have been up to and how children can be supported further.
We follow the school’s progression of skills which is linked directly to school’s locality. Each half term has a topic focus which brings together some of our learning and makes links between curriculum areas. At the beginning of each half term, we send home a topic map that outlines the learning for parents to discuss with their children. We also send regular updates on Class dojo to show parents what we have been up to and how children can be supported further.
We believe children learn best when they have first-hand experiences. We plan the children’s learning to be exciting, memorable and in context. We have several trips planned to enhance the learning that the children do in school.
Phonics and reading is taught discretely every day in Read Write Inc. sessions and then embedded throughout the rest of the days teaching and provision. Children take home reading books that are linked directly to the phonics stage they are on. We also read a wide range of books in class reading (fiction, non-fiction, and poetry) where we focus on reading comprehension skills, development of vocabulary and reading for pleasure.
Children are taught a daily maths lesson following the White Rose Maths scheme which we adapt to match our calculation policy. We also do short mental maths lesson each day following Number Sense Maths. We use Numbots and TT Rockstars to support this learning at school and at home.
In our English lessons, we use the Talk For Writing approach to learn texts and then innovate on them allowing us to practice the skills we have learnt before inventing our own texts. Some of the specific grammar is embedded into the texts the children learn and some in taught in discrete English lessons. Children are given the text maps to take home and practise with their families. Spellings are taught in class using the RWI Spelling Scheme and sent home for the children to practise. Handwriting is taught using the Nelson Handwriting scheme.
Phonics and reading is taught discretely every day in Read Write Inc. sessions and then embedded throughout the rest of the days teaching and provision. Children take home reading books that are linked directly to the phonics stage they are on. We also read a wide range of books in class reading (fiction, non-fiction, and poetry) where we focus on reading comprehension skills, development of vocabulary and reading for pleasure.
Children are taught a daily maths lesson following the White Rose Maths scheme which we adapt to match our calculation policy. We also do short mental maths lesson each day following Number Sense Maths. We use Numbots and TT Rockstars to support this learning at school and at home.
In our English lessons, we use the Talk For Writing approach to learn texts and then innovate on them allowing us to practice the skills we have learnt before inventing our own texts. Some of the specific grammar is embedded into the texts the children learn and some in taught in discrete English lessons. Children are given the text maps to take home and practise with their families. Spellings are taught in class using the RWI Spelling Scheme and sent home for the children to practise. Handwriting is taught using the Nelson Handwriting scheme.