1. St Charles’ RC Primary School Year 2

2. School mission
St Charles’ is our school with Jesus at the heart, where we share the joy of the Gospel. We work to be the best we can be and live life to the full. We respect and care for each other in a welcoming place. Together we follow in Jesus’ footsteps in our living and learning.

3. Catholic Life of St Charles’
Come and See’ RE curriculum
Daily worship in class
Children join in with whole school collective worship, liturgies, assemblies and celebrations
Children are encouraged to plan and lead liturgies
Charitable giving – Children in Need, Cafod, Macmillan, Daft as a Brush.
Mini Vinnies

4. Footsteps Behaviour system Building positive relationships
Footsteps are followed throughout school
We are sensible
We are polite and considerate
We are the best we can be
We include everyone
We listen carefully
We tell the truth
We care for God’s world

5. Structure of the school day
8.50am Classroom doors open
9.00 am School begins
12:00pm Lunch
1.00pm Afternoon session begins
3.15 pm School ends

6. Daily Routines
Children enter the classroom from their outdoor area. School day starts at 9am and doors open at 8.50am.
Snack time
Children receive a piece of fruit daily
Water
Water bottle – clearly labelled
Lunchtime
Universal Free School Meals
Hot or cold meal options – banding system

7. Daily Routines

8. Uniform
The uniform is white polo shirt/button up shirt, navy or grey trousers, navy pinafore or skirt and a maroon cardigan or jumper. Black flat shoes.
Ties optional
Jumpers, cardigans and coats can be purchased from school.
PE kit is a white t-shirt, navy shorts and black sand shoes. Please provide tracksuit bottoms and jumper for outdoor PE in colder weather.
No jewellery - including watches.
Hair longer than shoulder length should be tied up.

9. Cornerstones Curriculum
This year our school have introduced a new way of teaching Topics across the school. Cornerstones is a scheme of work that has been has been developed to ensure that you will have full coverage of the National Curriculum. Each lesson is linked to an essential skill and English is integral to all topics, giving children the opportunity to use their reading, writing and language skills across the curriculum.
What are the main principles?
Every topic is introduced with a memorable experience as a hook into the learning to engage children. Each topic also has an innovative challenge to work towards as the weeks progress. 
Every topic across the school is taught alongside the cornerstone's principles: starting with the engage stage, developing the learning, exploring the innovating challenge and then expressing what the children have learned and enjoyed. 
It uses History, Geography and Science as the main drivers but plans for wide coverage of creative and expressive Art, D.T., Music and Dance. Each topic links directly to History, Geography or Science knowledge, building on existing skills and understanding to ensure that learning is progressive and continuous.

10. Curriculum Year 2 Towers, Tunnels and Turrets D&T based
Making models of towers, bridges and tunnels
Wriggle and Crawl
Science Based
 Living Things and their Habitats; Animals, including Humans; Working Scientifically 
Land Ahoy!
Geography Based 
Using and making maps; Location knowledge; Using and giving directions 
The Scented Garden
Plants
Hail Caesar!
History Based
Roman Empire and it’s impact on Britain
Beachcombers
Habitats; Living and Non-living Things; Food Chains; Basic Needs of Animals; Working Scientifically

11. Maths Fluency, reasoning and problem solving Mental maths tests
Use of apparatus available such as Numicon, bead strings, peg boards, number rods, 100 squares and many more
Mental maths tests
Board work and KIRFS

12. Maths – end of year expectations
Some selected standards
The pupil can add 2 two-digit numbers within 100 (e.g ) and can demonstrate their method using concrete apparatus or pictorial representations.
The pupil can subtract mentally a two-digit number from another two-digit number when there is no regrouping required (e.g. 74 − 33).
The pupil can recognise the inverse relationships between addition and subtraction and use this to check calculations and work out missing number problems(e.g. Δ − 14 = 28).
The pupil can recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables to solve simple problems, demonstrating an understanding of commutativity as necessary.
The pupil can identify 1/3 , 1/4 , 1/2 , 2/4 , 3/4 and knows that all parts must be equal parts of the whole.
The pupil can read the time on the clock to the nearest 15 minutes.

13. English
Spellings
Punctuation
Grammar
Talk 4 writing
Read Write Inc.

14. English - end of year expectations
Year 2 – Working at the expected standard
The pupil can write a narrative about their own and other’s experiences (real and fictional), after discussion with the teacher:
demarcates most sentences with capital letters and full stops.
shows some use of
question marks
exclamation marks
using sentences with different forms in their writing:
statements
questions
exclamations
commands
using some expanded noun phrases to describe and specify
using present and past tense mostly correctly and consistently
using co-ordination (or / and / but)
using some subordination (when / if / that / because)
segmenting spoken words into phonemes and representing these by graphemes, spelling many correctly
spelling many common exception words
spelling some words with contracted forms
adding suffixes to spell some words correctly in their writing,
eg. –ment, -ness, -ful, -less, -ly
using the diagonal and horizontal strokes needed to join letters in some of their writing
writing capital letters and digits of the correct size, orientation and relationship to one another and to lower-case letters
using spacing between words that reflects the size of letters.

15. Handwriting
Nelson handwriting

16. Assessment Year 2 SATS GPS test Reading test Maths test
Grammar and Punctuation
Spelling
Reading test
Maths test
Arithmetic
Mathematical reasoning and problem solving
Writing: Teacher assessed
Scaled scores (100 expected standard)

17. Sample SATS questions

18. Sample SATS questions

19. Sample SATS questions

20. Sample SATS questions

21. Homework Weekly reading book - Monday Mental maths homework - Monday
To be returned to school every day
Mental maths homework - Monday
linked to current maths strand being taught in class.
Writing/Grammar homework – Tuesday
To be returned the following Tuesday
Spellings
Weekly spellings sent home at the start of every half term

22. Raised Expectations Presentation of work and children
Handwriting – Nelson Scheme of Work
Productivity and pace
Following the Footsteps
Always working to be the best they can be
Please ensure that the children arrive no later than 9:00 as teaching begins straight after registration

23. General information Marking Policy Text messaging service
Medical needs ~ any inhalers must come into school
Please label all clothing
Please inform staff of who will be picking up or dropping off your child if there are any changes
Information is available on school website
Open door – any concerns speak to the class teacher

24. Some important dates for the year ahead.
26th September Safeguarding training for volunteers at pm
28th September Brighten up the Harvest Year of Mercy liturgy. All welcome.
30th September MacMillan Coffee Morning – all welcome 9.00 am
12th October School Photographs
18th October NSPCC in school. Assemblies for KS1 and KS2.
19th October Sign up for Parents Evenings/ Consultations 3.15 pm
21st October Last day of this half term. School day ends at 3.15 pm
31st October School re-opens after half term

25. Any questions?

26. Please go into the New Hall to see our Curriculum Road-show and have a closer look at the resources and other things that your children will be doing this year. Thank you. Mr Smith