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Year 2

AUTUMN TERM IN YEAR 2

This term we will cover the following units of work:

Numeracy

Place Value

Addition & Subtraction

Shape

Literacy

Read, Write Inc. (Blue books and Grey books);

  • Poetry - Repetative poems and rhyme
  • Book: Great fire of London- Emma Adams.
  • The journey Home - by Frann Preston Gannon
  • Book: Wolves-Emily Gravett

Science
  • Materials: Uses of everyday materials
  • Living things and their habitats;
  • STEM
Geography
  • Why is our World Wonderful?

History
  • The Great Fire of London

DT

Mechanisms - The London eye/Faris wheels

Textiles-Christmas stockings

Art & Design

Painting: LIfe in media

Christmas crafts

Computing

ONLINE SAFETY

COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS: WHAT IS A COMPUTER?

RE

What do candles means to some people?

Church visit - Harvest time (Year 1 & 2 classes to visit together)

PSHE

POL-ED:

  • Relationships
  • Understanding the Law

PE
  • Fundamentals & Ball skills
  • Invasion games & Dance 

SPAG
  • Nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs and coordination (and/ but/if/when);
  • Noun phrases, questions, commas in lists, possessive apostrophe and subordination (because).

Music

Call and response

SInging 

 

SPRING TERM IN YEAR 2

This term we will cover the following units of work:

Numeracy

Money

Multiplication & division

Length & Height

Mass, capacity & temperature

Literacy

Read, Write Inc. (Blue books and Grey books);

  • Book: Jim & the beanstalk by Raymond Briggs
  • Poetry: An Easter Acrostic poem
  • Book: Tadpoles promise- Jeanne Willis

Science

Plants- Plant growth

STEM - Areoplanes

Animals- Life cycles and health

Geography

 At the farm

History

Explorers: Why are Christopher Columbus and Amelia Earhart Import?

DT

 Cooking & nutrition- A balanced diet

Art & Design

Drawing- tone and texture

Cooking and Nutrition: A balanced diet

Computing

PROGRAMMING: ALGORITHMS AND DEBUGGING

DATA HANDING: INTERANTIONAL SPACE STATION

RE

 What is a prophet? 

PSHE

POL-ED

Wellbeing

Celebratig difference

PE
  • Cricket
  • Striking & fielding 
  • Sending and receiving
  • Fitness 

SPAG
  • Prefix - un,
  • Suffixes - -full /ment/ness
  • Tenses - ing/ed
  • adverb
  • apostrophe 
  • Statements
  • Commands
  • Questions
  • Exclamations
  • Contractions

Music

instruments

Contrasting dynamics

 

 

SUMMER TERM IN YEAR 2

This term we will cover the following units of work:

Numeracy

Fractions

Time

Statistics

Position & direction

Literacy

Read, Write Inc. (Blue books and Grey books);

  • Poetry - Ocean shape poems
  • Book: Dear Earth by Isabel Otter
  • Book: Me and You by Anthony Browne

Science

Living things:Microhabitats

Making connections

STEM

Geography

 What is it like to live near the coast?

History

 Local history: How has Aspatria changed?

DT

Mechanisms - moving monsters

Structures: Baby Bear's chair

Art & Design

Map it out!

3D sculpture 

Computing

 PROGRAMMING: SCRATCH Computing systems and networks – Word Processing

RE

Where do some people talk to God?

Christian, Muslim, Sikh (also consider where a Buddhist would go to worship)

PSHE

Pol-ED

keeping safe

Changing me

PE
  • Target games
  • Net & Wall
  • Athletics
  • Gymnastics

SPAG
  • Commas
  • Apostrophes
  • Pronouns
  • Tenses
  • Statements
  • Commands
  • Questions
  • Exclamations

Music

Structure

Pitch

 

  1. Non Negotiable Parent Leaflet - Year 2
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