Transcript Year Two Induction Evening 2014 final version

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Mrs Bates
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Mrs Pereira
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Miss Ashfield
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Mrs Castledine
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Mrs Prestedge
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Mrs Sherwood
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8:40 Children enter class and begin morning activity
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9:00 Start
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10:30 Break time
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12:00 Lunch time
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2:30 Break time
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3:30 Home time (wait under the covered way)
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Numeracy and Literacy (including ERIC time)
usually in the mornings
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Topic work and PE in the afternoons
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Phonics once a day
Phonics
Reading and Writing
Numeracy
IPC
• Systematic progression in phonic teaching
following on from prior teaching year groups
• Based on Government’s Letters and Sounds
programme will support phonics in the new
national curriculum
• Supported by interactive lessons, phonic
based reading material both fiction and non-
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Individual reading with adult
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Parents
Class teacher
Teaching Assistant
Reading in groups – ERIC
Parents
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 Teaching Assistant
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Differentiated literacy groupings within class
Spellings/Skills : Monday and Tuesday
Writing : Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
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Groupings for their current level of knowledge
reviewed every half term
Using ABACUS resources
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Buildings and Structures
Famous People
Our Environment
Transport
Flowers and Insects
Super Me
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ART and DT
Looking at the work of craftsmen
Looking at the use colour and texture inside and on the outside of
buildings
GEOGRAPHY
Finding out about different houses, homes and other buildings
around the world.
HISTORY
Finding out about how buildings were made in the past
Finding out how buildings have been used
SCIENCE
Testing the strengths of structures
Finding out about materials used in structures
Properties of materials and how they can change
ICT
ESafety and sending messages and emails
MUSIC
Beat listening to music and making music with instruments
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ART and DT
Working with line and tone using charcoal and pastels
GEOGRAPHY
Looking at the cities and rivers where famous people resided at points in
history using past and current maps
Different ways to communicate across the world
HISTORY
Finding out Samuel Pepys, Guy Fawkes, Henry VIII, Alexander Bell, Tim
Berners-Lee
Reviewing communication inventors and their inventions
SCIENCE
Understanding the states of materials
Recording investigations and drawing on observations
ICT
Using the keyboard to produce digital text and pictures for an eBook
MUSIC
Exploring sound through famous musicians
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ART and DT
Looking at paintings of different environments – urban and rural
through the Constable and Hockney
Finding out about colours and material selection
making model gardens
GEOGRAPHY
Finding out about plans and maps of our classroom and journey to school
Finding out the effects of any changes to the environment, good and bad
SCIENCE
Making electrical circuits and learning about electricity
ICT
Coding roamers and digital devices
MUSIC
Exploring timbre and texture in song
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ART and DT
Creating texture through collages of transport
Making plans and building a vehicle
Testing different vehicles
GEOGRAPHY
Finding out about different types of transport here/abroad
Finding out about getting to other countries
Thinking about the good and bad things about different types of
transport
HISTORY
Reviewing transport through the ages
SCIENCE
Reviewing forces used in transport
ICT
Using word processing to build factsheets
MUSIC
Changing tempo and music improvisation
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ART
Review of Van Gogh’s sunflowers and our multimedia interpretations
Observational sketches of living things
SCIENCE
About where flowers and insects prefer to live and grow
About how and where seeds grow
How to set up tests to discover how plants use water
How to grow lots of different things
About the life cycles of insects
About ants and bees
ICT/Geography
How to collect and store data about creatures in the garden
MUSIC
Understanding pitch
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DT
Levers and moving mechanisms in a body model
GEOGRAPHY
Continents of the world and where food comes from
How food is transported
SCIENCE
Food chains and sources of food
Importance of exercise, eating healthily and hygiene
ICT
Using graphing software to represent data collected in PE
MUSIC
Exploring sound through beat in song and percussion instruments
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PSHE supports the key values per half term
Friendship
Courage
Honesty
Tolerance
Perseverance
Happiness
Celebrating success
 Prepared for learning
 Supporting positive behaviour
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School rules
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Class rules
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Golden time
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Golden tickets
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PSHE/Assembly times
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PE teaching covers:
Gym and basic movement control
Dance
Unihoc and ball skills
Orienteering
Swimming and games
Athletics
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Kit in school for every PE lesson
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Outdoor
 Jogging bottoms, sweater, outdoor trainers
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Indoor
 Shorts, t-shirt, plimsolls
 1 session with teacher
 1 session with sports coach
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Swimming – summer term
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Parent helpers
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Daily reading
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Weekly spellings
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New spellings to learn in home book
Tests in test book left at school
Weekly numeracy
Weekly reading questions
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Book and record to return to school the next day
Word packs to practise in home and school
Begins after Christmas
Occasional topic homework
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Please ask any further questions in classrooms.
We look forward to seeing you and your
children in September!
Thank you for coming tonight 