Our aim for this term is to encourage the children to become independent learners and thinkers. We will aim to further develop children’s confidence across the curriculum allowing them to be autonomous and motivated learners. We will continue to focus on ways in which we can be Guardians of Gods Gift and Stewards of the Earth through looking at ways we can care for our school, each other and the wider community.
In History, we will use our enquiry skills to find out about seaside holidays comparing holidays now and holidays of the past.
Art lessons will link to our Geography topic (India) as we will be exploring Rangoli patterns, the importance of colour and symmetry in these patterns before having a chance to create our own.
In our English lessons, we will be reading about Fantastic Foxes and Roarsome Dinosaurs. Using these texts to inspire our writing where we will be completing a set of instructions and retelling a narrative. We will also be reading Acrostic poetry and using this to create our own rhyming poems. As always, we will be checking our spelling punctuation and grammar to make sure our work is of the highest standard. We will be reading lots in class to support our reading fluency and understanding of new vocabulary. Children will also begin to practise joining their handwriting following the correct letter formation.
Science will give us the opportunity to explore the topic of ‘living things and their habitats’ and ‘plants’. We will identify and classify living things before investigating how their habitats help them survive. We will plant cress and watch it grow observing what it needs to bloom and then we will enjoy the cress we have grown as part of a sandwich.
We will also learn about how to look after our bodies by keeping clean, exercising and eating the right foods. In Maths, we will be learning how to measure, we will be comparing length and heights and measuring length using objects and centimetres. We will also be exploring mass and volume, identifying what is heavier and lighter and comparing mass. We also start to look at telling the time, telling the time to 5 minutes, we will expand our fraction knowledge and work on statistics and position and direction. As always we will continue to build on children’s fluency of number facts and their times tables. Children are expected to know their 2, 3, 5 and 10 x tables by the end of Year 2.
Our Geography lessons will take us all the way to India as we learn about tropical climates and monsoons, we will compare this to the weather we experience at home. We will also be locating India on the map of the world and exploring the human and physical features of some of it’s largest cities.
In DT, Year 2 will be learning about food and nutrition, tasting a variety of vegetables and developing our cooking skills by making a vegetable curry.
When we are in the Computing Lab, we will be programming Lego projects. The children will also build on their typing skills and continue to learn about E-Safety.
In PE lessons, we will be taking part in invasion practicing our balance, strength, flexibility and co-ordination. We will also start to practise for Sports Day!
