Year 2
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The Wider Curriculum
Science: In our science lessons we are continuing with our learning all about plants. We will be planting cress in different conditions and discussing how these conditions affect the rate of growth. We will be discussing the conditions that plants need to grow, such as water and sunlight and making a prediction based on what plants need. We will also be discussing the importance of plants for humans and how destroying plants can have negative effects for us.
Geography: During our Geography unit we will be comparing Poole (UK) and Sydney (Australia). We will study both their harbours, oceans, beaches, rivers and quays and learn about the similarities and differences. We will get to see Poole harbour during our school trip from Sandbanks and then Poole Quay! During the trip we will use our direction and location skills and will continue to use compass skills in the classroom.
DT: In DT we will be exploring different mechanisms. We are focusing on levers and sliders. We will explore and discuss pop-up books and design our own based on a well-known story of our choosing. Then we will be making our pop-up books before sharing them with others and writing an evaluation of our design and final product.
Jigsaw: In Jigsaw our new topic will be Changing Me. We will learn about the life cycle of different animals and how humans grow and change over the course of their life. We will discuss what we like and don’t like about getting older and begin to think about the following year as we move into Year 3, discussing what we are looking forward to and any worries we have.
RE: In RE we will study Hinduism. We will discuss the Hindu belief in Karma and how Hindus believe all actions have consequences. We will reflect on the idea of the soul and how Hindus show acts of selfless kindness when following the teaching of their holy books.
English
Writing- In our writing units, we will be using our whole class reading book ‘The Giraffe The Pelly and Me’ to learn new skills in our own writing. We will be identifying the past progressive tense and the present progressive tense in the book and writing our own sentences in this form. These will be our key skills to practise and apply in our writing. The children will retell parts of The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me and as our writing outcome, will create their own character to add to the story.
Handwriting- We will continue to use practise using our joined handwriting within whole words daily. Many children are now joining their letters and this will be a focus for the half term in handwriting sessions and all other lessons where writing is involved.
Spelling/phonics- In phonics we will continue to work in ability groups to close gaps in phonic knowledge or move onto spelling more complex Year Two words.
Reading: All children will read three times a week in a small group session according to their ability. They will also have daily whole class reading sessions which will develop their comprehension of the text. We will begin by reading ‘The giraffe, the Pelly and me’ and use skills from the author in our own writing.
Maths
Maths: In maths we will be studying statistics. We will collect data to answer questions using tally charts and record the data in a table. We will create and interpret simple block diagrams and pictograms. We will also be studying position and direction and create simple patterns and sequences of shapes and numbers. We will learn about clockwise and anticlockwise turns and a quarter, half and three quarter turns, including identifying right angles. Once a week the whole class will work on a problem-solving activity where they will be encouraged to explain how they would solve a problem using mathematical vocabulary. The children will also have a short number sense activity daily.
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