This spelling list follows the New National Curriculum and shows the lists of words that Year 2 children need to know by the end of the year. We have split them into Autumn, Spring and Summer as spelling focus points for each term.

Here is a Year 5 English plan (2 Weeks) that focuses writing 'Non-Chronological Reports' about the city of London. This would be ideal for a class with the topic of 'Big Cities' and 'London'.

This Year 5 English planning focuses on 'Letter Writing'. This unit explores the format and design of an informal/formal letter, exposes the children to the language used in letter writing and finally scaffolds the learning to allow the children to write their own letter.

This Year 2 unit of work focuses on Samuel Pepys Dairy that he kept to record the events of the Great Fire of London. This weeks worth of planning timetables: Mon - SPaG lesson (verbs), Tues - Freeze frame/snap shots of scenes described in the diary, Wed - Identifying features of a Diary entry using Samuel Pepys as an example, Thur - Planning own diary entry of the first two days of the fire breaking out and Fri - The Big Write of their own diary entry. The resources included: Lesson plans, verbs worksheets, Samuel Pepys Diary (PowerPoint presentation), diary writing questions and a diary features checklist. This planning could always be adapted for the use in other year groups.

Here is a weeks worth of phonics planning aimed at a Year 2 level. This planning focuses on using the apostrophe for contracted words.

This Year 2 lesson pack focuses on the teaching and learning of non-chronological reports. This weeks worth of planning includes the weekly lesson plan and some example non-chron reports about animals.

This Year 2 phonics lesson pack includes two lessons that focuses on (Phase 6) comparative 'er' and superlative 'est'.

This Year 2 phonics plan covers the letters/sounds 's', 'es', 'ing', 'er', 'ed' and 'y'. This pack includes the phonics plan covering four days and the accompanying notebook files.

This a handwriting worksheet with just the grid lines so you can writing on the board and get the children to follow or write in your own words and photocopy as you please.

Here is a weeks worth of planning focusing on teaching poetry using the poem stimulus 'Walking round the zoo'. This unit of work is aimed at a Year 2 level, but could be easily adapted to suit other year groups.

Here is a weeks worth of planning focussing on teaching Traditional Tales to year 2. The particular story that this planning focuses on is Hansel and Gretel. The plan includes the learning objectives, success criteria and differentiation.

This worksheet will back up any planning relating to the teaching of Hansel and Gretel. I have made this using my own ideas and other resource ideas. This sheet was designed for use with my Core/Lower Core group but can be differentiated as appropriate. I do not own the image, the copyright still belongs to the owner. No infringement intended.