YEAR TWO
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Mrs Turner
Mrs Carter
Children in Year 2 are encouraged to work collaboratively on a range of activities through a play based curriculum. They work from the National Curriculm and the Teacher Assessment Framework in preparation for the end of Key Stage 1 assessments. Phonics is an intergral part of the curriculum as the children move from reading and recognising phonemes and graphemes to applying them in their writing. In maths, children build on skills aquired and apply them to real life experiences, being able to reason and explain their thinking. Our whole school themes engage and enthuse our learners; encouraging skills of questioning and independence leading to lifelong learning.
Year 2 Learning Overview
As Effective Communicators…
• We will read whole books and extracts from texts written for a variety of purposes, focusing on developing comprehension skills and identifying the techniques used by the authors.
• We will build up a repertoire of poems learnt by heart, appreciating these and reciting some, with appropriate intonation to make the meaning clear
• Write stories using adjectives to describe nouns and extend sentences using some subordination.
• We will develop our oral vocabulary as well as our ability to understand and use a variety of grammatical structures.
• We will write the sounds we hear in words (spelling skills), develop the physical skill of joined handwriting and how to organise our ideas to write a retell and innovate stories.
As Members of the Digital Age…
• As members of the digital age, we will be exploring e-safety. We will be looking at using technology safely, respectfully and responsibly, exploring acceptable and unacceptable behaviour. We will also be using technology to support our learning creating interactive images and refining our skills when selecting and retrieving information from the internet.
As Members of a Diverse Society…
• We will be learning about different faiths including Judaism and Christianity and discussing the belief of how the world began through stories.
As Geographers…
We will:
• Name
• Locate
• Identify characteristics of the four countries.
As Musicians…
• We will use our voices expressively and creatively by singing rhymes and singing songs. We will be creating rhythms using our body and untuned percussion We will be listening to a range of music and learning to find the pulse and rhythm.
As Artists and Designers…
• We will develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape form and space to produce work. We will also be exploring primary and secondary colours using paints.
As Mathematicians…
As mathematicians, we will be covering the following areas:-
• Place Value and Number – recognising the value of each digit in a 2 digit number, counting in steps of 10, read and write whole numbers to at least 100 in numerals and words, compare numbers using the greater than, less than and equals symbols.
• Addition and Subtraction – recall and use + and – facts to 20, use related facts to 100, add and subtract numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations and mentally.
• Measurement – compare and order length and mass and record the results using greater than, less than and equals symbols, choose and use units of measure in height and length.
• Geometry – 2D and 3D shapes.
As Scientists…
• As scientists we will explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive. We will identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats. We will describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food.
As Active Citizens…
• We will be thinking about how our behaviour affects other people and learning to listen to other people and play and work cooperatively. We are also beginning to recognise how to contribute to the life of the classroom considering friendships, feelings and emotions.
As Designers with a Purpose…
• We will be creating our own representation from a choice of materials.
As Historians…
Not a focus this term.
As Sporting Heroes…
• We will be mastering basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching as well as developing balance, agility and coordination in outdoor games.
• In dance, we will be creating dance frameworks related the weather. We will perform our dances using simple movement patterns.