Our Lady’s Bishop Eton School

Welcome to Year 22020-2021

Teachers –Mr Bland and Mr Hanna.Co-Educators- Mrs Rogers and Mrs Hudson.

Drop off: 8:30-8:55Pick up time: 3:00

We ask that parents socially distance, wear a mask when dropping off/picking up children

from school and please use the one-way system.

Staying Covid Safe

Curriculum Overview

Our Lady’s Bishop Eton Long Term Curriculum Map Year 2

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2

Week 1

PSHE: Shine Week New Beginning &

Going for Gold (3 days) D+T Food

Lit Festivals and Anniversaries

Lit Animals including

humans

DT Healthy Snack

Lit Plants 2.2 We Are

Painters

Lit Living things and their habitats

2.5 We are Astronauts

Lit

Summer and the Seaside

Week 2

Lit Use of Everyday Materials

Festivals and Anniversaries

Rememberance

Visitor: Tara Kelly Liverpool Food for

Schools

Plants Living things and their habitats

Assessment Week

Week 3

Use of Everyday Materials

Lit Across the World 7 Continents

Lit Assessment Week

Lit Living things and their habitats

Summer and the Seaside

Design a beach hut.

Week 4

Lit Use of Everyday Materials

Across the World 7 Continents

Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole

Lit Plants

D+T Mechanism

Week 5

Lit Assessment Week Lit Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole

Art – Flowers Trip to Walker Art

Gallery

Lit Compare and Contrast Bangladesh

Lit KS1 Food Technology

D+T Textiles

Week 6

Lit Katie Morag Isle of Struay

Across the world 7 Continents

2.3 We are Journalists

PSHE Good to Be Me (3 days)

International week?

Compare and Contrast Bangladesh

Art – Andy Goldsworthy

(trip to Calderstones Park)

Week 7

Katie Morag Isle pf Struay

Lit

Week 8

Lit DT – Model of Isle of Struay

Key: Science History D+T / PHSCE Literacy Assessment Geography

Currently, we are implementing a catch-up curriculum, but by the end of the year we plan to cover these topics.

On a Friday, Maths and Spelling is set as an additional tasks. Children are expected to complete

between 20 – 30 minutes of Doodle Maths, Timetables, English and Spelling over the course of the week. If you are having any difficulties please

contact your class teacher.

Friday – Online MNP textbook and workbook

Because Doodle has adaptive features and reports progress and gaps to teachers we ask that pupils try to complete their assignments. We understand that this will not always be possible and therefore we will

allow for a week for completion.

Homework

Home Reading Books

The children will bring home their reading book every night. Often some of the reading is followed up by comprehension in class- that is why we set pages to read.

The focus of this comprehension is to ensure the children understand what they have read and can answer questions in full sentences.

If you child is tired after a long day it is okay to read alternate pages with you. Sometimes children might be reluctant readers so suggest to your child that they read to their favourite teddy while you listen in.

MathsThis is the fifth year we have been doing Singapore Maths in Year 2.

This has been very successful and already as your children have joined Year 2 we are seeing an increase in confidence.

MathsSingapore maths is a different approach to teaching and learning mathematics. Here are some introductory notes to help you in your understanding of what this approach aims to do : Pupils will approach problem- solving primarily by practical use of

manipulatives.(e.g. cubes, counters, straws etc) The children will spend time discussing and sharing methods with their

peer group of mixed ability pupils. The teacher will then lead the sharing of useful methods Gathered from the pupils. Pupils will share and or adopt methods which they will Journal in order to consolidate their understanding. Pupils will sometimes Peer Assess. This entails marking one-another’s work as supervised by the teacher and is anotherway for consolidation to occur.

Answers to some frequently asked questions.Unfortunately workbooks can not be sent home. All parents have now been given access to the Maths - No Problem website. Throughout the year, if the children struggle with concepts and we would like you to revisit them or you would like to talk through the concepts covered in class with your child, then you can access it online. Teachers will make parents aware of the lessons via Google Classroom. Some tips on what to do at home – Do not attempt any pages forward of those done that week, as these are

for the following week’s lesson.. Each page of the workbook increases in difficulty, this is the

differentiation. Therefore, only some pupils will be able to tackle and understand the development of these concepts.

Do not worry these concepts will be revisited later on in the year.The MIND WORKOUT is intended for pupils who have a mastery of the concept. This is only to be tackled if the pupil has confidently applied methods to complete the previous questions for thatworksheet.

By the end of Year 2 we want our children to be?

HAPPY ENTHUSIASTIC INQUISTIVE LEARNERS!!! Be able to work independently. Stay on task (30/40 minutes). Communicate and express themselves confidently within

class. Develop an awareness of the needs of others in class, school

and the wider world. Show empathy and willingness to help others.

How do we achieve this?

As a year group we strive to create a positive atmosphere and can do approach by a system of rewards.

Individual star charts. Star of the week. Weekly awards for Reading/ Maths/ Handwriting/ Values Stickers to reinforce teacher expectations. Table points

Also we have introduced a whole school house system

House Points System

St. George23rd April

St. Andrew30th November

St. Patrick17th March

St. David1st March

During Assembly on Friday a value will be introduced to the children and the winning house will be announced.

Good to be Green

Year 2 SATS.The SATS now have a new test which looks spelling/Grammar/ Punctuation.

Examples from Grammar and Punctuation Test.

Reading PaperThe texts in the reading papers will cover a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, and will get progressively more difficult towards the end of the test. Teachers will have the option to stop the test at any point that they feel is appropriate for a particular child.There will be a variety of question types:Multiple choiceRanking/ordering, e.g. ‘Number the events below to show in which order they happened in the story’Matching, e.g. ‘Match the character to the job that they do in the story’Labelling, e.g. ‘Label the text to show the title’Find and copy, e.g. ‘Find and copy one word that shows what the weather was like in the story’Short answer, e.g. ‘What does the bear eat?’Open-ended answer, e.g. ‘Why did Lucy write the letter to her grandmother? Give two reasons’

Maths Paper• The Key Stage 1 maths test will comprise two papers:

• Paper 1: arithmetic, worth 25 marks and taking around 15 minutes.

• Paper 2: mathematical fluency, problem-solving and reasoning, worth 35 marks and taking 35 minutes, with a break if necessary. There will be a variety of question types: multiple choice, matching, true/false, constrained (e.g. completing a chart or table; drawing a shape) and less constrained (e.g. where children have to show or explain their method).

Partnership

None of this would be possible without the support of you the parents. Our aim is to work as a team in partnership with you to do the very best for the children in our care!

We look forward to a HAPPY YEAR together.Thank you from all of us.