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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
Number and place value

 

Addition and Subtraction

 

Properties of Shape

 

Word Problems

MATHEMATICS
Recognise, find, name and write fractions

 

Recognise, find, name and write symbols for pounds (£) and pence (p); combine amounts to make a particular value, solve simple problems in a practical context involving addition and subtraction of money of the same unit, including giving change

 

Choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure:

 

length/height in any direction (m/cm);

mass; (kg/g);

temperature (°C);

capacity (litres/ml)

 

to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers, scales,

thermometers and measuring vessels.

MATHEMATICS:

Describe patterns and relationships involving

numbers or shapes, make predictions and test these with examples

 

Recognise and use whole, half and quarter turns, both clockwise and anticlockwise; know that a right angle represents a quarter turn

 

Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication or division in contexts of numbers, measures or pounds and pence.

Identify and record the information or calculation needed to solve a puzzle or problem

Number - using all 4 operations

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:

Animals including humans

Uses of everyday materials

SCIENCE:

Plants

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

 

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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

 

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Welcome Year 2

 

 

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Curriculum Impact in Year 2!

 

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