The intent for Red Rose Year 2 Spelling is to provide a rigorous and thorough planning programme to strengthen the teaching and learning of spelling and ensure children become enthusiastic and successful readers and writers. 

To ensure our children become confident, proficient spellers, we strive: 

• To ensure that the foundations of spelling, such as using digraphs, trigraphs and alternative graphemes for phonemes, are secure through high quality phonics teaching using our systematic phonics scheme (Little Wandle) 
• To encourage children to use GPCs that they have learned when writing and using resources to support this process.
• To provide children with strategies to learn sight words (common exception words), for example, recalling the tricky part of the word.
• To provide pupils with a range of strategies that support children in being able to apply rules, practise spellings and remember the spelling of commonly misspelt words e.g. mnemonics.
• To build on children's phonics skills and systematically teach the spelling patterns in KS2 using our school’s spelling scheme: Red Rose Spelling
• To systematically teach the spelling patterns throughout Years 2 to 6.
• To develop children’s understanding of the role of morphology (units of meaning such as word stems, prefixes and suffixes) and etymology (origin of a word). 
• To provide children with the meanings for the words that they are expected to spelling correctly.
• To provide weekly opportunities for children to practise their spellings both in school and at home with their adults to reinforce their learning.