Year 2 Curriculum Intent
We want our Year 2 children to be open minded, independent, respectful, resilient, active, creative and forward thinking.
Year 2 Curriculum Overview
Autumn | Spring | Summer | |
English | ENGLISH Silly Billy and Operation Night Monster/Percy the Park Keeper (FICTION) Pattern, Rhythm, Rhyme (POETRY) All About Orangutans (NON-FICTION) A Twist in The Tale (FICTION) | ENGLISH How to Trap a Dragon.(FICTION/INSTRUCTIONS) Does Chocolate Grow on Trees? (NON-FICTION) Closer Look (POETRY) Twist in the Tale (FICTION) Word Detectives - Spelling Investigations | ENGLISH Muddles and Mishaps (FICTION) Silly Stuff (POETRY) What’s the most unusual Place? (NON-FICTION) |
SPAG | S.P.A.G.: Full Stops, Question and Exclamation Marks Introducing Nouns and Verbs, Coordinating Sentences, Introducing Capital Letters, Past and Present Tense | S.P.A.G.: Suffixes , Noun Phrases, Adjectives, Compound, Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives:, Irregular past tenses | S.P.A.G.: Apostrophes, Suffixes, Commas in a list, Using suffixes |
Reading | READING: To make prediction, ask and answer simple questions, discuss favourite lines from poem, recognise simple rhyme & rhythm, identify patterns in a poem. ask questions as motivation for reading non-fiction. Select and explain ideas from non-fiction to explain thinking, read non-fict. find answers to question, make predictions, discuss key fairy-story features, explore characters within a story, discuss characteristics of fairy-tale characters (good and bad) | READING: The children will ask and answer questions to find out more information, use a Glossary to find the explanations of words, read a variety of poems to explore imagery and the use of descriptive language and to, explore the poet’s feeling, read a variety of books from a significant author, answer questions on a text using literal retrieval and inference, read words with suffixes. | READING: Comprehension To ask and answer simple questions. To make predictions To read a variety of poems, identifying features To ask and answer simple questions. To read non-fiction texts, To find information from a non-fiction text. Reading Play scripts To read information for History topic on the first flight. |
Writing | WRITING: Write story using a familiar setting. Write a poem following a pattern. | WRITING: Collect information for an explanation text Draft, edit and compose their own poems and read them aloud. Children plan and write a sustained story independently. | WRITING: To write a story following work on extended stories. To look at poems based on models and write own poem. |
Maths | MATHEMATICS Choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure: length/height in any direction (m/cm); mass; (kg/g); temperature (°C); to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers, scales, thermometers and measuring vessels. | Describe patterns and relationships involving numbers or shapes, make predictions and test these with examples Identify and record the information or calculation needed to solve a puzzle or problem | |
PSHE | PSHE: Being me in my world | PSHE: Dreams and Goals Healthy Me | PSHE: Relationships Changing Me |
Science | SCIENCE: Living things and their habitats | SCIENCE: | SCIENCE: |
Computing | COMPUTING: We are photographers
| COMPUTING: We are game testers: Explore how computer games work | COMPUTING: We are Zoologists |
Geography History | GEOGRAPHY: Where do different animals live? HISTORY: Who were the Greatest Explorers? | GEOGRAPHY: What are the seven wonders of the world? HISTORY: How has food changed over time? | GEOGRAPHY: What will see on our journey around the world? HISTORY: How did the First flight change the world? |
Music | MUSIC: Charanga: Hands, feet, heart | MUSIC: I wanna play in a band | MUSIC: Friendship |
DT/Art | ART: Aboriginal Art D.T.: Making a Bag: designing, creating and evaluating a bag | ART: Super Sculptures D.T. We are super structure designers | D.T.: We are Spanish food designers ART: Henri Rousseau |
RE | 1.1 Who is a Christian and what do they believe? Christians 1.3 Who is Jewish and what do they believe? Jewish people | 1.2 Who is a Muslim and what do they believe? Muslims | 1.8 How should we care for others and the world and why does it matter? Christians, Jewish people |
PE | Fundamental movement skills | Ball Skills/Target Game Dance . | P.E. Physical Health and Fitness |
Spanish | SPANISH: Revision of colours, numbers, days of the week and months of the year. Animals and body parts | SPANISH: Speak in sentences, using familiar vocabulary, phrases Planet names | SPANISH: Recognise, respond to and use greetings in Spanish |
DT | We are Bag Designers | We are Super Structure Designers | We are Spanish Food Designers . |
Welcome Year 2
Miss Koukas & Mr Kirkbride
Here are some of the amazing things that we have been doing in Year 2 so far...