Year 2 Term 2

January to April

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3 January 2025 at 12:27:43

Shopping 🛍️ & Habitats 🥶

Maths 🧮

Money

Count money
Choose notes and coins
Make the same amount
Compare amounts of money
Calculate with money
Make a dollar
Find change
Two-step problems

Multiplication & Division

Recognise equal groups
Make equal groups
Add equal groups
Introduce the multiplication symbol
Multiplication sentences
Use arrays
Make equal groups – grouping
Make equal groups – sharing
The 2 times-table
Divide by 2
Doubling and halving
Odd and even numbers
The 10 times-table
Divide by 10
The 5 times-table
Divide by 5
The 5 and 10 times-tables

Length & Height

Measure in centimetres
Measure in metres
Compare lengths and heights
Order lengths and heights
Four operations with lengths and heights

Mass, Capacity & Temperature

Compare mass
Measure in grams
Measure in kilograms
Four operations with mass
Compare volume and capacity
Measure in millilitres
Measure in litres
Four operations with volume and capacity
Temperature

Science 🧬

Plants: Light & Dark (Biology) ♻️

Explore plants
Plant parts
What plant needs to grow
Plan & investigate: light and dark

Living things and their habitats (Biology) ♻️

Habitats in my local area
Polar habitats
Desert habitats
Ocean habitats
Woodland habitats
Microhabitats
Habitats and diet
Food chains
Living, dead or never alive?

Reading 📖

In Year 2, all students have access to a comprehensive and systematic Phonics programme tailored to their individual needs: 👉 read more.

Dogs

Author: Emily Gravett

Who would have thought there were so many types of dogs? Big and small, hairy and bald, even scruffy and smart, they are all here in this sturdy board book, its pages alive with wonderful illustrations.

Full of humour and brilliant detail, there is plenty to delight babies and toddlers on every page.

Reading age: 6+

Matilda's Cat

Author: Emily Gravett

Fans of Emily Gravett’s gorgeous book Dogs (who include the protagonist of this book, who is pictured reading it!) will no doubt be keen to read this tribute to rather a grouchy feline.

Matilda’s cat watches with disdain as his mistress plays with wool, climbs into boxes and dons a funky hat. No matter what madcap endeavour Matilda embarks upon, her cat dislikes them all. He does, however, like one thing very much but readers will have to wait until the very last page to find out what it is!

Gravett’s illustrations in this funny and touching picture book are as delightful as ever. Picture book lovers will spot that Matilda’s cat costume, complete with ears and tail, pays gentle homage to another costumed character: Max, in Maurice Sendak’s classic picture book Where the Wild Things Are.

Reading age: 5+

Lila and the Secret of Rain

Author: David Conway

For months the sun has burned down on Lila's Kenyan village. It is too hot to gather firewood, too hot to weed the garden, even too hot to milk the cow. Without rain the well will run dry and the crops will fail. Lila is so worried that when her grandfather whispers to her the secret of rain, she decides to go and talk to the sky herself. How Lila saves the village by telling the sky the saddest thing she knows is told in David Conway's elegant and spare prose style, which is complemented perfectly by Jude Daly's beautiful and poignant illustrations.

Reading age: 5-8

Writing ✍️

Instruction Writing

Sequence simple instructions with basic time adverbs (first, then, next etc.)
Use commas to separate items in lists
Use conjunctions to join information
Coordinating conjunctions -with, and, or, but, so
Use present tense, including progressive
Use present and future tense
Adjectives to describe a noun
Adverbs for description and information
Write a series of fiction-based instructions
Include diagrams

Narrative

Simple narrative and description
Past tense and introduction to progressive past tense
Simple adverbs of time to sequence events
Adverbs for additional detail (slowly etc.)
Basic noun phrases (the big bad wolf)
Simple conjunctions to join ideas (and, if, with, but, so)
Exclamation sentences
Verbs chosen for effect
Exclamation marks for exclamations
Use speech without speech marks
Coordinating conjunctions -with, and, or, but, so
Use present and past tense including progressive
Use past, present and future tense
Adjectives to describe a noun
Verbs
Adverbs for description and information

Non-Chronological Reports: Pet Fact Files

Basic Non-Chronological Report
Present tense
Opening questions
Concluding exclamatory sentence
Coordinating conjunctions to join information and give reasons
Commas in lists
Assemble information on a subject, sorting and categorising information

Poetry

Acrostic Poetry
Shape Poetry
Exclamation marks for commands and exclamations
Coordinating conjunctions -with, and, or, but, so
Use present and past tense including progressive
Use past, present and future tense
Adjectives to describe a noun
Verbs
Adverbs for description and information
Use alliteration and simile with like

Across the curriculum 🌏

Overview: Shopping (History)

Timeline of ancient/modern (market) goods
Case study: Ancient Roman Market
Case study: 12th Century spice market (Istanbul)
Case study: 16th & 17th Century clothing and jewellery market (Rialto, Venice)
Ration market (London)
Comparison of four historical markets (Khan-El-Khalili, Grand Bazaar, Portobello Road, Chatuchak)
Comparison to modern day high streets around the world (Oxford Circus, Times Square, Shibuya, Via Monteneapolone)
Markets in Brunei
Kampong Ayer

Curriculum Objectives & Expectations

Observe and use pictures, photographs and artefacts to find out about the past
Observe or handle evidence to ask simple questions about the past
Observe or handle evidence to find answers to simple questions about the past on the basis of simple observations
Sort some objects/artefacts into new and old and then and now
Sequence pictures from different periods
Talk, write and draw about things from the past
Start to understand that during the same period of time, life was different for people in the past, such as rich and poor, male and female
Study primary sources and discuss their probable origin based on key features
Order artefacts chronologically on a timeline
Evaluate how location can make a difference to historical differences
Evaluate how historical events/circumstances can have an impact on trade and economy
Make inferences about people based on clothing and jewellery

Key Vocabulary

Travel, trade, wartime, rationing, society, community, exploration.

Art, Design & Technology 🎨 👷

Explore salads Food tasting (Science Link to plants and how fruit and veg grows)
Plan and make salad (local and non local fruits)
Artist : Henri Rouseau
Jungle Animal paintings
Design and make an animal mask
Digital Art: Lines and primary colours - Piet Mondrian
Digital Art: Shapes and block colour - Henri Matisse
Digital Art: Pointilism - Seurat

PSHE 😀 🫶

Personal, Social, Health and Economic education

Belonging to a community

About being part of different groups and the role they play in these groups eg class, teams, house groups
Different rights and responsibilities that we have in school and the wider community
How a community can help people from different groups feel included
Recognise that we are all equal and the ways in which we are the same and different to others in our community

Media Literacy and Digital Resilience

The different ways in which people can access the internet eg phones, tablets, computers
Recognise the purpose and value of the internet in everyday life
Recognise that some content on the internet is factual and some is for entertainment
The information online might not always be true

Money and Work

What is money? It’s different forms eg notes and coins (Brunei) and ways for paying for things eg debit cards and electronic payments
How money can be kept and looked after, getting, keeping and spending money
Recognise the difference between needs and wants
How people make choices about spending money