VICTORY HEIGHTS PRIMARY SCHOOL NURTURE-CHALLENGE - EXCEL

Welcome to Year 2

Specialists PE & Swimming Art Computing Music EAL Arabic Learning Enhancement

Timetables Swimming – Thursday P.E – Wednesday Library – Thursday Homework – Out on Thursday and in on Tuesday Spelling test – Wednesday Book change day – Wednesday

TIMETABLE

The rocket and how it works… The children begin each day on the middle of the chart starting on green. The children move up the rocket for good behaviour/work/manners. The children move down the rocket when they do not follow our golden rules. For each colour from green and above, children can earn points for their house. If a child reaches red in any given day, parents and a member of SLT will be informed.

Chris Quigley and the New Curriculum - Child led learning. Aut. 1 – Picture This & Production (21 st October) Aut. 2 – Fire, Fire! Spring 1 – How Things Work Spring 2 – Roald Dahl Summer 1 – Commotion in the Ocean Summer 2 - Olympics Topics

Writing At the end of year 2 children are expected to be working at a level 2b.

Here is an example of a 2b piece of writing : Some variety in sentence openings Story is sequenced chronological ly Word choices describe actions and simple feelings Correct spelling of simple high- frequency words Letters are correctly formed and orientated The basic ingredients of a story are present and used appropriately Subject matter is relevant

Maths Mathaletics Setting

Arabic Who will be teaching me Arabic and Islamic this year? Joumana Al Haloush and Arooj Nuisar for Islamic Studies. We expect each student to spend 20 minutes weekly working on Arabic & Islamic homework. AA,AB,ISA&ISB information has been sent to parents via the Welcome letter. The AA,AB,ISA&ISB outcome will be sent as soon as possible.

Collaborative Learning! Differentiating, challenging and extending… Streaming Learning Enhancement English as an Additional Language Supporting learning and how we work…

Questioning Engaging students through effective questioning Our focus this year at VHPS with regard to improving student learning is questioning techniques. Blooms taxonomy of questions is a widely-accepted framework that many teachers use to guide their students through the learning process. Though not necessarily sequential, the hierarchy of bloom’s taxonomy is often depicted as a pyramid, with simple knowledge-based recall questions at the base. Questions higher on the pyramid are more complex and demand higher cognitive skills from the children.

Collaborative Learning Activity

SCHOOL COMMUNICATOR IS BEING PHASED OUT- INFO ON MOBILE APP AND WEBSITE REPORTS AND ASSESSMENTS (NUMBER PER YEAR - X2 REPORTS AND X4 ASSESSMENTS) HOMEWORK - HOW MUCH, WHAT, WHEN, ONLINE ACTIVITIES, EXPECTATIONS (READING EACH NIGHT, X TABLES, MATHLETICS, SPELLINGS) PARENT HELPERS - READERS PARENT SKILLS - TOPICS CLASS REP Communication

NURTURE – CHALLENGE - EXCEL ‘PARENTS AS PARTNERS’