Year 2 Essential Learning Experiences | Landywood Primary School

Year 2

Essential learning Experiences

As part of our Creative Curriculum at Landywood, children learn through termly or half termly topics. These topics have been carefully selected and planned by our teachers to ensure they engage the children in learning and maximise opportunities available to us.

As part of these topics, we also plan ‘Essential Learning Experiences’ (ELEs). These may be day trips out of school, visitors that come into our school or school-based events. We have carefully designed our ELE programme to ensure that each year group has a balance of visits and visitors to provide the children with a variety of learning opportunities.

ELE’s can provide an exciting launch to a topic or an opportunity for children to draw a conclusion and apply their previous learning. We will ensure that at least three ELE’s are organised for each class throughout the year.

To make it easier for all families, following feedback from parents, we will ask for each ELE payment individually. As you will appreciate, some visits are more expensive than others. Given the rising fuel costs, the coach hire costs have significantly increased. The total amount given to parents covers the entrance costs, travel costs, insurance and any other related costs. Parents can choose to pay the total amount in September, or can pay it in installments over the course of the year using our new electronic payment system. Payment information is available on Scopay.

Our Exciting ELE's are:

Autumn: Toy Museum

Spring: First Aid Course

Summer: Black Country Museum

ELE's

Autumn: Toy Museum

Spring: First Aid Course

Summer: Black Country Museum

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ELE Cannock Chase Toy Museum

October 2023

"I loved the Punch and Judy puppet theatre because Mr Punch was naughty. It was funny when he hit the crocodile with the slapstick.”

"I liked looking at and playing will all of the old toys. There were ones I'd never seen and it was fun."

ELE Mini First Aid Training

March 2024

"Kate was really nice and knowledgeable. She taught us all about bleeds, bumps and how to use plasters and cold compresses.”

"We all learnt how to call 999 in an emergency and what to say to the operator. We all now need to learn our postcodes, just in case!"

ELE Black Country Living Museum

June 2023

"We saw so many different things from the past and the actors played their characters really well, I believed I was in the past with them!”

"We all had to go to an olden days school lesson which was very strict because of the teacher but it was still fun!"

Dodford Residential

June/July 2023

"Dodford was an amazing experience because I have never done anything like it before!"

"Feeding the animals was a 10/10 activity because I have never fed so many different animals before!"