Welcome back! Information about Year 1/2 can be found here.
Welcome back! Information about Year 1/2 can be found here.
This is a cross curricular theme and will be explored through all areas of learning.
Religious Education is central to all that we do and Collective worship and celebration are an essential part of this. Please pray with your children at home and help them learn the school prayers and the Our Father.
Our topics this term are Being Sorry, Islam and Neighbours. The children will discuss the times they have made good and bad choices and read biblical stories about forgiveness. They will then learn about the Islam faith and how it differs to the Catholic Faith. During our Neighbours topic we will be thinking about our neighbours across the world and how we can be a good neighbour to others.
In Maths, the children will be recapping partitioning, looking at the place value of numbers up to 100. They will also be working with money and making different amounts. Also, they will be learning to tell the time to the hour and half hour.
In Geography the children will be learning about the UK. They will be locating the countries of the UK on a map and will be learning interesting facts about each country and their capital city.
In computing we will be looking at Handling Data. We will representing information on a computer by making pictograms and block graphs.
In Art + Design the children will be designing and making a mechanical model of Barnaby Bear using card and different materials. They will use split pins to attach his arms/ legs and can choose if they want them to be fixed or movable.
In PE, the children will be doing Games. They will be developing their bat and ball skills and working in teams to compete in different games.
The children will have music every week with Mrs Hoskins. They will learn how to use their voices creatively and expressively by singing a variety of topic related songs and they will have opportunities to play instruments musically.
In the second half of the summer term, the children in Year 2 do a topic on Rules and Reconciliation, in which they learn the importance of following good rules and making good choices. They learn about God’s rules to help us live well with ourselves and each other and of the importance of forgiveness. They learn about the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
They will then do a topic on Treasures in which they learn that the world is a precious treasure for us to share, appreciate, to look after and to praise God for.
The children will continue to explore different types of writing including stories, poetry, letter writing and non-fiction. This term we will be working on writing at greater length and with accurate use of punctuation. We will be working on conjunctions (a word that joins two or more phrases together e.g. but, so, because, as, when, however). We will be revising adjectives, nouns and verbs and the four different types of sentences that there are: statements, questions, commands and exclamations.
In this half-term, the children will also be learning about tenses (which show the time of an action or a state of being as shown by a verb), specifically the present tense and the past tense.
Throughout the week the children will be heard to read individually and in guided reading groups. We will be reading a range of texts: fiction, non-fiction and poetry. This half-term the children will be reading ‘Claude in the City’ by Alex T. Smith and ‘The Secret of Black Rock’ by Joe Todd-Stanton. The children will use their knowledge to work out, predict and check the meanings of unfamiliar words and to make sense of what they have read.
In phonics, we will work on the alternative spellings for known graphemes. We will then move on to adding suffixes and how to spell longer and more challenging words.
The words that the children learn during the week will be sent home on the previous Friday and the children will have a ‘spelling quiz’ at the end of the week.
In Year 2, we will continue to use the White Rose scheme of learning which aims to provide pupils with key mathematical skills and knowledge using a mastery approach. Using the CPA (concrete, pictorial, abstract) approach ALL children are encouraged to use equipment and visual representations in Maths lessons and to tackle problem solving and reasoning questions. We will continue to develop mental maths skills and problem solving skills.
This half-term, we will be learning to tell the time to the hour, half hour, quarter past and quarter to and to the 5 minute multiples. We will also further develop our understanding of Statistics (using tallies, block diagrams and pictograms) and Position and Direction.
Doing practical activities at home to give the children opportunities to measure amounts and read scales will greatly support them in this area of mathematics.
In Science, the children will be learning about Life Cycles. They will learn that all living things have a life cycle and that they grow and change as they develop through their life cycle. They will learn about the life cycle of a butterfly in detail.
Children will develop an understanding of the nature, processes and methods of science through different types of science enquiries that will help them to answer scientific questions about the world around them. They will be equipped with the scientific knowledge required to understand the uses and implications of science, today and for the future. We will achieve this through practical investigations, working scientifically, as well as knowledge-based lessons.
The children will be learning about Programming. This unit initially recaps on learning about programming from Year 1. Learners begin to understand that sequences of commands have an outcome and make predictions based on their learning. They use and modify designs to create their own quiz questions in ScratchJr and realise these designs in ScratchJr using blocks of code. Finally, learners evaluate their work and make improvements to their programming projects.
After greatly enjoying learning about the Stone Age last half-term, the children will learn how life progressed during the Neolithic Age. We will look at how life changed with the advent of farming and study evidence from the past that indicates technological developments, such as making pots from clay and the oldest wheel in the world.
The children will use a variety of media including chalk, pastels and water-colours. In addition to weekly lessons, we try to incorporate art and creativity into as many other curriculum subjects as possible.
The children will focus on athletics and team games, such as cricket.
The children do PE on Tuesday and Thursday. On Thursday’s, the lesson will be conducted by Sports Coaches.
The children are expected to read daily.
Spellings are sent out on Friday and there is a quiz on the following Friday on the spelling patterns that we are learning in phonics that week.
English and Maths homework is given out on Friday and should be returned on the following Monday or Tuesday.