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KS2 staff:
Mrs Spencer, Mrs Jones, and me. |
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Personal development |
The KS2 children enjoy a wide range of roles and responsibilities from a very young age- recycling officers, road safety officers, etc. They have opportunities to perform in plays, concerts and church services from when they first start school and are therefore keen, confident performers by the time they get to KS2. |
All children have the opportunity to earn merit awards for good work, good manners, and showing care and consideration to others. |
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Twenty merits means a highly prized certificate-usually presented in our good work assembly. |
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| KS2 classroom |
Children from the ages of 7 to 11 are taught within the mixed key stage KS2 class (years 3, 4, 5, and 6). The national curriculum subjects taught are literacy (English), numeracy (maths), science, design technology, art, music, information and communication technology (ICT), physical education (PE) and religious education (RE). Children also have weekly citizenship/personal/social/health education lessons and fortnightly French lessons. |
| Themes |
Because we have four year groups in the class, curriculum themes are on a four-year rolling programme. Each year there are two history-based themes and one geography-based theme. At present our theme is WW 2. |
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Children’s learning is enhanced by these cross-curricular themes in which their learning is put into a relevant context. |
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Within the class children are taught according to their ability. A typical day might begin with a maths lesson where children are working within up to four ability groups on aspects of place value and decimals. This would be followed by a literacy/history lesson where... |
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- the Year 6 children are writing a report on the causes of WW2,
- Year 4 and 5s are writing an information leaflet about the effect of WW2 on children, and
- Year 3 children are doing research on the internet about rationing.
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| The final lesson of the morning would then be a music lesson on the songs of WW2. |
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| The afternoon may begin with Espresso news (on the interactive whiteboard) followed by a Religious Education lesson. At present the children are learning about the precept 'Blessed are the peacemakers’ and the role of the UN, linked to our WW2 theme. We are a Christian school and we hope that our Christian values are evident in everything we do. In KS2 children learn about the Islamic and Jewish faiths as well as Christianity. |
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Throughout the day individual children are withdrawn from the class for short periods of time for specific teaching, or are supported within the classroom situation. |
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Teachers plan lessons using a wide range of technology: interactive whiteboards, laptop computers, digital cameras, etc.. The school has an excellent range of subject specific software which is well used to promote learning. KS2 children are at present in e-mail contact with a teacher who was evacuated with his class to Wincle during WW2. |
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The school buys into the Cheshire school library service which means children benefit from an enormous range of resources-books, theme packs, DVDs, big books, book bags, puppets, stuffed animals, models etc which are delivered and collected from the school every second Thursday throughout the year. |
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The KS2 classroom adjoins our hall and teachers make excellent use of the variety of teaching spaces this provides. For example Y3 children may be being taught in the classroom, while year 6 work in the ICT area, Y4 are using the library area and year 5 children are doing artwork in the hall with our specialist art teacher. |
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