Pattishall Church of England Primary School
Pattishall Church of England Primary School
  • Home
  • Events
  • Contact Us
  • Parent Info
  • Safeguarding
  • Online Safety
  • Class Info
  • Curriculum
  • Reading
  • Anti-racist curriculum
  • Inclusion, Nurture & ELSA
  • Premium Grants
  • Student Council
  • FOPS
  • Staff
  • Governors
  • Policies
  • Ofsted, SIAMS and Results
  • Useful links
  • Reception
  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3
  • Year 4
  • Year 5
  • Year 6
  • Vacancies
  • Gallery
    • Home
    • Events
    • Contact Us
    • Parent Info
    • Safeguarding
    • Online Safety
    • Class Info
    • Curriculum
    • Reading
    • Anti-racist curriculum
    • Inclusion, Nurture & ELSA
    • Premium Grants
    • Student Council
    • FOPS
    • Staff
    • Governors
    • Policies
    • Ofsted, SIAMS and Results
    • Useful links
    • Reception
    • Year 1
    • Year 2
    • Year 3
    • Year 4
    • Year 5
    • Year 6
    • Vacancies
    • Gallery

  • Home
  • Events
  • Contact Us
  • Parent Info
  • Safeguarding
  • Online Safety
  • Class Info
  • Curriculum
  • Reading
  • Anti-racist curriculum
  • Inclusion, Nurture & ELSA
  • Premium Grants
  • Student Council
  • FOPS
  • Staff
  • Governors
  • Policies
  • Ofsted, SIAMS and Results
  • Useful links
  • Reception
  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3
  • Year 4
  • Year 5
  • Year 6
  • Vacancies
  • Gallery

Social

image664

Miss Steph Bruce

Our Christian Symbol

Our Christian Symbol

Class Teacher 

Deputy Head Teacher 

RE Lead 

PP Lead 

DSL 

image665

Our Christian Symbol

Our Christian Symbol

Our Christian Symbol

The Star

image666

Mrs Claire Mills

Our Christian Symbol

Mrs Claire Mills

Higher Level Teaching Assistant 

Welcome to Year 2!

image667

  

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.


image668

Our Curriculum

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!


Year 2 Autumn Term

English

Science and Computing

English

image669

We  will be reading books with a weather theme:

  • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (a story with an imaginary setting.)
  • Lost and Found
  • Flood (stories with real settings.)

When writing we will be focussing on:

  • full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, question marks 
  • sentences with different forms: statement, question, exclamation, command 

Non-fiction writing will include:

  • Non-chronological reports  
  • Instructions 
  • Diaries

We will also be looking at weather poems.



Maths

Science and Computing

English

image670

Place Value:

  • Counting and representing numbers to 100
  • Partitioning numbers into tens and ones
  • Comparing and ordering numbers
  • Counting in steps of 2, 3, 5 and 10

Addition and Subtraction

  • exploring a range of strategies for addition and subtraction.
  • adding and subtracting two 2 digit numbers.

Money

  • Recognising coins and notes
  • Counting, comparing, finding totals and change.

Multiplication/Division

  • Making and adding equal groiups/arrays

Science and Computing

Science and Computing

Science and Computing

image671

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

  • Online Safety
  • Raspberry Pi Lost in space animation - moving a rocket, changing its size and making it hide 

RE and Music

Sports and PSHE

Science and Computing

image672

RE

Who is Muslim and how do they live?

  • recognising the importance of the Shahadah for Muslims.
  • identifying key Muslim beliefs about God.


Why does Christmas matter?


Music

Hands, feet, Heart

  • South African music styles


Ho, ho, ho

  • Christmas, Big band, Motown, Elvis and freedom songs.


Topic

Sports and PSHE

Sports and PSHE

image673

Our topic for this term is Extreme Weather. We will:

  • Name and locate the world’s continents and oceans. 
  • identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the United Kingdom and the location of hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles. 
  • Devise a simple map; and use and construct basic symbols in a key.
  • investigate how the seasons are portrayed in art and create our own versions.

Sports and PSHE

Sports and PSHE

Sports and PSHE

image674

PE

  • Rugby
  • Athletics
  • Football
  • Gymnastics


PSHE

Protective Behaviours

  • how to keep ourselves safe.
  • recognising warning signs that tell us when we are in danger.
  • identifying who we can talk to if we are worried about something.

Celebrating Difference

Learning how to:

  • Accept that everyone is different 
  • Include others when working and playing Know how to help if someone is being bullied Try to solve problems 
  • Try to use kind words 
  • Know how to give and receive compliments

Year 2 Spring Term

English

Science/DT

English

image675

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


Maths

Science/DT

English

image676

• Multiplication and Division

• Statistics

• Properties of shape

• Fractions

• Measuring length and height


Science/DT

Science/DT

Science/DT

image677

We will be:

  • investigating different materials and their properties.
  • Thinking about describing and comparing different types of movement.
  • Learning about electrical appliances and constructing simple circuits.
  • performing simple tests and using observations/ideas to answer questions.
  • Learning how to cut and join materials.
  • Using levers and wheels.
  • Designing, making and evaluating products with a clear purpose


Topic

Wider Curriculum

Science/DT

image678

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 & PSHE

Wider Curriculum

Wider Curriculum

image679

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. 

Wider Curriculum

Wider Curriculum

Wider Curriculum

image680

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.


Year 2 Summer Term

English

Science and Computing

English

image681

Come back soon - being updated

Maths

Science and Computing

English

image682

Come back soon - being updated

Science and Computing

Science and Computing

Science and Computing

image683

Come back soon - being updated

RE and Music

Topic and PSHE

Science and Computing

image684

Come back soon - being updated

Topic and PSHE

Topic and PSHE

Topic and PSHE

image685

Come back soon - being updated

Sports and MFL

Topic and PSHE

Topic and PSHE

image686

Come back soon - being updated

Kinetic Letters

 

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!

Curriculum Information

Key Stage 1 SATs information VIDEO (mp4)

Download

Kinetic Letters at home (pdf)

Download

English Long Term Plan Y2 (pdf)

Download

Maths Long Term Plan Y2 (pdf)

Download

End of Year Expectations

End of Year Expectations Y2 2018 (doc)

Download

Photo Gallery

Copyright © 2018 Pattishall Church of England Primary School  - All Rights Reserved.