Year 2

The following information is to provide you with an overview of the year. It is difficult to outline every area in detail and, if there are areas you wish to explore further, please contact your child's teacher.

History

How was school different in the past?

How did we learn to fly?

What is a monarch?

Geography

Would you like to live in a hot or cold place?

Why is our world wonderful?

What is it like to live by the coast?

Science

Living things - habitats

Living things – micro habitats

Materials – everyday materials

Animals including humans - lifecycles

Plans - growth

Making connections – plant-based materials

Art

Drawing telling a story

Painting and mixing media

Sculpture and 3d clay

D.T.

Making a moving monster

Textile pouches

Cooking and nutrition – balanced diets

Computing

Online safety

Programming

beebots

Digital content and the internet

 

Understanding application of ICT

English-

Texts

Pirate stories

Very Hungry Caterpillar

Princess and the Pea

Rapunzel

Genres

Stories with familiar settings

Recounts

Non-chronological reports

Short stories

Non-chronological reports

Explanations

Instructions

Procedural Narrative (e.g. own version of hungry caterpillar)

Poetry

Traditional tales

Recounts

Poetry

PE

Invasion games (football, netball, basketball, handball)

Net and wall games (tennis, badminton)

Striking and fielding games (cricket and rounders)

Athletics, gymnastics and dance

RE

What makes some places sacred to believers?

Incarnation 

Gospel 

Salvation 

 

Who is Jewish and how do they live?

Young Leaders' Award

French

Gingerbread Man

L'Homme en pain d'Epices

French through Stories 

Jacques et le haricot magique

Lapin, Cheval et Princesse Story 

L’Arche de Noé Story

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