Year 2 Autumn 1

Year 2 Autumn 2

What Would You Do?

FICTION: (4 wk)

Pattern, Rhythm, Rhyme POETRY: (2 wk)

All About Explorers NON-FICT. 2wk

A Twist in The Tale FICTION (4 wks)

S.P.A.G.:

Full Stops, Question and

Exclamation Marks

Saying Sentences

Introducing Nouns

Introducing Verbs

S.P.A.G.: Coordinating Sentences

Different Sorts of Sentence

Introducing Capital Letters

Introducing Noun: Introducing Verbs:  Saying Sentences

Introducing Nouns

Past and Present Tense

READING:

To make predictions

To ask and answer simple questions.

Discuss favourite lines from poem.

Recognise simple rhyme & rhythm.

Identify patterns in a poem.

READING:

Ask questions as motivation for reading non-fiction.

Select and explain ideas from non-fiction to explain thinking.

Read non-fict. find answers to qus.

Make predictions

Discuss key fairy-story features

Explore characters within a story.

Discuss characteristics of fairy-tale characters (good and bad)

WRITING:

Write a story using a familiar setting.

Writing sentences around the non-fiction themes in Science, Geography and RE

Write a poem following a pattern.

Writing sentences in Geography about The Wonders of the World.

WRITING:

Write a short report on an explorer.

Writing about the lives of different explorers in History.

Write an alternative traditional tale.

MATHEMATICS:

Place Value

Addition and Subtraction

MATHEMATICS:

Multiplication and Division

Word Problems

PSHE:

Me and My Relationships

PSHE:

Valuing Difference

SCIENCE: 

Animals: Learning about animal habitats. Linked to geography finding habitats on the globe.

COMPUTING:

Computing systems and networks - Information technology around us

Creating media - Digital music.

GEOGRAPHY:

If You Go Down to the Woods today…

(Features of forests/Using maps and atlases)

HISTORY: 

How have explorers changed the world?

MUSIC:  Charanga: Hands, feet, heart 

ART: Aboriginal Art 

D.T.: Making a Bag: designing, creating and evaluating a bag

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION:   Who is a Christian and what do they believe? Christians

PE  Personal: To know where they are  with learning and to begin  to challenge themselves (Level 3) To try several times if at first they  don’t succeed and ask for help when appropriate (Level 2) To  follow instructions, practise safely and work on simple tasks by themselves. (Level 1) 

PE  Social: To show patience and support others, listening well to them about the work.

To show and tell others about their  ideas To help praise and encourage others in their learning 

To work sensibly with others, taking turns and sharing 

SPANISH:  Revision of colours, numbers, days of the week and months

SPANISH: Animals and body parts.