Year 2
In Dolphins, our class teacher is Miss Smith. In Sharks our class teacher is Ms Rosie.
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Our Curriculum
Throughout the curriculum, we give our children a broad range of experiences to strengthen their understanding of themselves, their community and the wider world. We will begin each topic with a ‘hook’ lesson to trigger our imaginations and leave us ready to learn more! We aim to enrich the children’s experiences through organising trips and visitors to come into school and inspire young minds.
English
Our English lessons are taught through a selection of class books. Our books are often inspired by our topic work to allow links to be made during lessons to the different subject areas.
We read both a fiction and non-fiction book each half term to develop our understanding of our key topic and English skills. We also supplement our key texts with additional poetry and text extracts during our lessons.
Every day we share a class story during story time which gives us the opportunity to simply enjoy listening to a story for enjoyment which we then discuss.
Our reading lessons for on developing of skills linked to film clips, novel extracts, images and we use Reading VIPERS to help us with this. Our writing lessons allow the children to learn about a range of genre and write in the styles of these genre. In year 2, children still have access to the Little Wandle phonics were appropriate.
Autumn Term Novels
- ‘Traction Man is Here’
- ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’
- ‘The Tear Thief’
- ‘How to Catch Santa’
Spring Term Novels
- ‘Wild Life’
- ‘The Rainbow Bear’
- ‘Little Boat’
- ‘The Great Fire of London’
Summer Term Novels
- ‘Flat Stanley’
- ‘The Twits’
Maths
Our Maths lessons focus the skills developed through Ark Mastery Maths. We follow the block planning schedule and differentiate the lessons to meet the needs of the children. We use a variety of mastery teaching methods throughout our lessons as well as a variety of resources and activities to support learning and provide stretch and challenge opportunities to all our learners within each topic.
Over the course of the year, we will be developing our knowledge and understanding of fluency, reasoning and problem solving. Our learning focuses on vocabulary as well as concrete, pictorial and abstract skills to develop the understanding required for each block of work.
Other Curriculum Areas
Autumn 1
- Science: Animals including Humans – Growth
- Computing: Online Safety
- Geography: Why is my world wonderful?
- Art: Craft and Design – Map it out
- Music: Folksongs
- PSHE: Healthy Lifestyles
- RE: Why is the Bible special to Christians?
- PE: Fundamental Movement and Fitness
Autumn 2
- Science: Animals including Humans – Life Cycles
- Computing: What is a computer?
- History: Which place are significant to me and why?
- D&T: Baby Bears Chair – Stable Structures
- Music: Jupiter
- PSHE: Keeping Safe
- RE: How and why is light important at Christmas?
- PE: Gymnastics and Ball skills
Spring 1
- Science: Living things and their habitats – Around the World
- Computing: Algorithms and de-bugging
- Geography: Wherever next?
- Art: Painting and Mixed Media – Life in colour
- Music: Toys
- PSHE: Feelings and Emotions
- RE: What does it mean to belong to Christianity?
- PE: Dance and Target games
Spring 2
- Science: Living Things and their Habitats
- Computing: Word processing
- History: Fantastic Firsts – Who helped shape my world?
- D&T: Ferris Wheels
- Music: 4 Seasons
- PSHE: Healthy Relationships
- RE: How do Christians celebrate Easter?
- PE: Invasion games and Yoga
Summer 1
- Science: Materials
- Computing: Chrome Music Lab
- Geography: Which places are significant to me and why?
- Art: Sculpture and 3D – Clay pinch pots and Gargoyles
- Music: Great Fire of London
- PSHE: Belonging
- RE: How do Buddhists show their beliefs?
- PE: Athletic skills and Net and wall
Summer 2
- Science: Plants
- Computing: ScratchJR
- History: Local History – Norman Cornish
- D&T: Mechanisms – Making a moving monster
- Music: Oceans
- PSHE: Growing and Changing, Money and Work
- RE: What can we learn about our local faith communities?
- PE: Games – Striking and Fielding and Team building
Homework
In Year 2, homework is given out each Thursday and is due back the following Wednesday. Spellings are also sent home every Thursday to be practised and are tested the following Thursday. Each day, children should bring their level-appropriate reading books to and from school.
