Mrs Staff
Teacher
Miss Wastie
Class 2 Teaching Assistant
Miss Simmonds
Class 2 Teaching Assistant
Miss Read
Class 2 Teaching Assistant
on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday each week
In Class 2, we are building our collaboration skills, supporting each other and working together to develop our ideas.
We learn through our projects and concepts which provide learning opportunities through lots of interesting activities and investigations. We always allow an element of flexibility to be able to respond to interests and needs that the children bring. This ensures that their learning is relevant, exciting and engaging.
Autumn term project - What makes me ME?
The project will be based on learning about the concepts of identity, belonging and acceptance! First, the children will be exploring who they are. They will talk positively about themselves and develop an understanding of their self-esteem and confidence; Become aware of their own strengths, abilities, qualities, their achievements, personal preferences and goals.
Looking at the concept of belonging, we will widen the focus to people around us, i.e. family and friends that we belong to, children will identify and celebrate the similarities and differences with others in the classroom and our school. It is a great opportunity for them to understand the importance of acceptance.
As an outcome, children will recognise what makes them special and that we are all special in our own ways. The children will develop and practise self-acceptance, and their self-esteem will be enhanced through developing a greater sense of awareness and self-discovery.
HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS (HFWs) are, as the name would suggest, words which appear very frequently in the English language and in written texts such as and, the, as, it, dog, man, good, gone, which, think, began and so on. As these words are used and appear so regularly, it is very important for children to be able to read and spell them from an early age in Reception.
Please click the link below to view a full list of all words which are classed as high frequency and are therefore classed as being vitally important for children to be able to read and spell.
From Year 1, COMMON EXCEPTION WORDS are introduced. These are words which appear quite regularly in spoken and written English but, unfortunately for young readers and writers, do not always follow the fundamental single phonic sounds and digraphs (sounds which are composed of two letters such as th, sh and ch) which children become familiar with in Class 1/EYFS and indeed in a nursery setting.
Common exception words are best split into year groups with an expectation that children should be able to read and spell the relevant words by the time they reach the end of each academic year. As you would expect, Year 1 and 2 children start to learn simpler words which may still contain the odd irregular phonic sound or pattern such as once, friend, people and water, before progressing to trickier words in Key Stage 2 such as answer, breathe, certain, interest and peculiar.
Please click the link below to view a list of common exception words for year 1 and 2.
