Worked example · Humanities · Year 2
DCF: Interacting and collaborating → Communication
Also assessed, LNF: Literacy → Writing → Planning and organising for different purposes, audiences and context
A finished Year 2 activity page, as a secure pupil might complete it, with notes on what to look for. It is also the answer key. Task 1: letter, envelope with a stamp; phone call, telephone; email, laptop with an envelope; video call, tablet with a face. The fastest way to send words and a photo is email. Task 2: 1 video call, 2 email, 3 letter. Task 3: mountains; a photo. Tasks 4 and 5 have no single right answer. Mountain Star School and Class 2 are invented; Lesotho and Maseru are real. The pupil’s marks are shown in blue.
Look for: 4 straight joins, one line from each word, and the email picture ringed. A pupil who rings the video call may be thinking “you can show a photo on a video call”: ask “Can they keep the photo after the call ends?” This is digital competence evidence: talking about different forms of online communication.
1. See your friends’ faces and talk now.
2. Send your class photo today, to look at later.
3. Send a paper card they can hold.
Look for: video call, email, letter, one ring in each row. In the Step 3 talk, listen for a reason, for example “a video call is live, so you see them now” or “an email can only send a photo of the card, not the real card”. Digital competence evidence: choosing a form of communication to suit the purpose.
1. What can Class 2 see from their window?
the sea
mountains
a castle
2. What did Class 2 send with their email?
a cake
a teddy
a photo
Look for: mountains and a photo. The sea is a good trap: Lesotho has no sea at all, because it is surrounded by South Africa. A pupil who knows the paper clip means “attached” is reading the email screen, not just listening. Digital competence evidence: understanding a simple online message.
castles
sheep
the sea
rugby
Welsh cakes
our school
My question for Class 2. You can start with:
Do you have sheep in Lesotho?
Look for: exactly 3 ticks and a question that Class 2 could answer. Any 3 pictures are fine; what matters is that the pupil can say why the other class would want to know (“they have never seen a Welsh cake”). This is the first part of the literacy evidence: using talk to plan writing and noting down ideas. (Lots of families in Lesotho do keep sheep and goats, so this is a good question.)
class2@mountainstar.example
Hello from Wales
Lumela or Hello …
Lumela Class 2,
There are lots of sheep on the hills near our school.
We have a big old castle in our town.
Welsh cakes are small flat cakes with currants in them.
Do you have sheep in Lesotho?
From (first name only)
Cerys
Check before you send. Tick each one.
To and Subject
Lumela or Hello
3 sentences about Wales
1 question with a ?
first name only
no address, no surname
Look for, digital competence: the address copied exactly, a Subject that says what the email is about, a greeting, and a sign-off with the first name only (no surname, no address, no street). The Send button is coloured only after every box is ticked. Look for, literacy: the 3 ideas from the Task 4 plan turned into sentences, written for this audience (the pupil explains what a Welsh cake is because Class 2 may not know), plus a question with a question mark. Tasks 4 and 5 together are the literacy evidence.