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Welcome to Year 2!
I am so excited to begin the new academic year and to be back together at school again. This year we have some great topics lined up.
I can't wait to see what this year brings - keep checking this page for updates.
This year we have some super topics lined up:
Autumn: Exteme Weather
Spring: Cracking Ideas
Summer: Australian Adventure
Each term this page will be updated with the curriculum information for our latest topic, so you can see what we are learning.
In the files below is also other curriculum information such as year group expectations, our long term English and Maths plans, and some information on end of key stage assessments (also known as SATs).
If you've ever any questions - please do not be afraid to pop in and ask!
We will be reading books with a weather theme:
When writing we will be focussing on:
Non-fiction writing will include:
We will also be looking at weather poems.
Place Value:
Addition and Subtraction
Money
Multiplication/Division
Science
We will be looking closely at how the weather changes across the four seasons and how this affects humans, plants and animals.
We will also be learning about how day length varies and studying the apparent movement of the sun during the day.
We will look at contrasting global climates and how this affect plants and animals.
Computing
RE
Who is Muslim and how do they live?
Why does Christmas matter?
Music
Hands, feet, Heart
Ho, ho, ho
Our topic for this term is Extreme Weather. We will:
PE
PSHE
Protective Behaviours
Celebrating Difference
Learning how to:
We will be reading books with an inventing/ superhero theme:
Cottonwool Colin - help Mrs Mouse to make a shirt to keep Colin Smally safe!
Send for a Superhero - use expanded noun phrases to persuade superheroes to come to the rescue and create a comic strip.
Traction Man
• Multiplication and Division
• Statistics
• Properties of shape
• Fractions
• Measuring length and height
We will be:
Cracking Ideas
This is an exciting topic all about designing and inventing. We will be thinking about the design process and learning all about some simple machines that will help us to solve problems such as how one child can lift a teacher! We will also be looking back in time to find out about famous designers and inventors - what they did and why they did it. We will be putting these on a timeline to help us to begin to understand chronology..
Our topic will finish with a superhero day and a Superegg Vehicle Challenge.
RE
Spring 1 Who is Muslim and how do they live?
Beginning to identify some key Muslim beliefs
Spring 2 Why does Easter matter?
PSHE
Spring 1: Dreams and Goals
Includes goal-setting, aspirations and resilience building
Spring 2: Healthy Me
We will focus on self-esteem and confidence as well as healthy lifestyle choices including healthy eating and exercise.
PE
Spring 1: Hockey & Dance
Spring 2: Netball & Badminton
Computing
Rock Band - creating instruments, adding sound and layering music
Ghostbusters - adding events and conditions for catching ghosts
Music -
Spring 1: “I wanna play in a band”
In this unit we will learn about singing and playing together in an ensemble.
We will listen to and appraise classic rock songs throughout.
Spring 2: "Zootime"
We will listen to and appraise reggae music before learning a reggae song. We will learn to compose and play instruments with the song.
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Last year we introduced Kinetic Letters as our chosen approach to teaching handwriting and I'm glad to say we'll be continuing this year. It helps us make our bodies stronger, hold our pencil correctly, and form our letters using six key movements.
There is some information and ideas for helping at home in the files at the bottom of the page for your information.
The children really enjoy learning letter formations in different ways and we've seen such an improvement already. We are so proud of the children for their hard work!
End of Year Expectations Y2 2018 (doc)
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