2DB Reflections on S2 and

learning in English

Week overview

We are going to be reflecting on the end of S2, your move into S3 and celebrating all your achievements in English this year.

What have we done?

I’d like you to make a mindmap, a list or note down in another way all the learning we have covered in English in S2

What did you enjoy the most? What did you enjoy the least?

Explain your favourite and least favourite learning experience of English in S2. Include:

- Specific reasons.

- Details of what might have influenced your feelings.

- How it felt during that learning experience.

Segar and Mrs Young debating whether it was okay to eat Segar’s cat

Aaron and Patryk’s dramatic performances

Reading your own examples of similes and metaphors after reading ‘The Wasps’ Nest’

Your ‘Where I’m From’ poems - outstanding

Your learning reflections

What do you think you’ve got better at this year?

Has anything surprised you about English in S2?

What has helped you learn this year?

What has stopped you from learning this year?

What does Mrs Grant need to know before she starts teaching her new S2?

Answer these questions now ☺

Your S2 reflections

What are your highlights? What have been your challenges?

What are your hopes for S3?How have you changed or developed over S2?

Answer these questions now ☺

Choice tasks

Write a letter to yourself at the beginning of S2. What do you want to tell yourself? What do you want to remind them of? What do they need to know.

Sketch out some of your favourite moments in S2. Share them with the people who are in these memories – they will love to see it and hear from you.

Write an email/tweet to me, giving me feedback on English in EN6 this year. Your experiences matter to me – I want to learn from you.

Write a list of goals for S3. They could be personal goals, academic goals, wider achievement goals… you choose.

Choose and complete at least one of these tasks☺

Reading homework

Everyone should have a reading book that they’ve taken from the library, or have at home.

You should be reading every week.

Set yourself a reading target and stick to it. There are further reading-based tasks on the ‘English tasks grid’ for you if you’re looking to think harder about your reading book.

I would love to hear what you’re reading and if you’re enjoying it – let me know!

Non-fiction article homeworkYou have a non-fiction article to read every week. This week your article is: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/52397246

You should read the article and then answer the non-fiction article Qs in your homework jotter (I’ve attached them to remind you)

Q1. Read the headline and make a prediction about what the article will be about.

Q2. Find three words you are not familiar with. Look up their meaning and write them down. If there are no unfamiliar words, write three alternative words you could use in place of the writer’s words.

Q3. Write down five sentences which summarise the article’s ideas.

Q4. Write down any questions you have after reading the article.

Non-fiction article questions

Literacy booklet homework

This week you are to complete task 18 and task 19 of the homework literacy booklet (it’s on the Wordpress webpage for you to access).

The titles are:

• Task Sheet Eighteen: Apostrophes

• Task Sheet Nineteen: Brackets and Dashes

“Pink is love. It reminds me of the way S2 loved each other.”