Year 2 2024 - 2025

Year 2 marks the last year of Key Stage 1 and it is a very fun, exciting and busy year

Curriculum Overview

English:

• Spoken Language:
• Reading: Comprehension and Word Reading
• Writing: Transcription, Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation
• Handwriting

Key Class Reading Texts This Year:

• Rumble in the Jungle,
• The Great Paper Caper,
• Rainforest Explorers,
• Paul Perro Poetry,
• Vlad and the Great Fire of London,
• The Snowflake by Benji Davies,
• The Proudest Blue,
• Amazing Grace,
• The Owl who is Afraid of the Dark
• The Day the Crayons Quit
• Little Red Riding Hood,
• Little Red Reading Hood,
• Into the Forest.

Maths: 

• Number: Place Value, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication and Division, Fractions
• Geometry: Shape, Position and Direction
• Measurement: Money, Time, Length and Height, Mass, Capacity and Temperature
• Statistics

Religious Education (Religious Education Directory): 

• Covenant and Creation,
• Prophecy and Promise,
• Galilee to Jerusalem,
• Desert to Garden,
• To The Ends of The Earth,
• Dialogue and Encounter.

Science: 

• Living Things and Their Habitats,
• Plants,
• Animals, Including Humans,
• Uses of Everyday Materials. 

Physical Education:

Pupils will develop fundamental movement skills, become increasingly competent and confident and access a broad range of opportunities to extend their agility, balance and coordination, individually and with others. They will engage in competitive (both against self and against others) and co-operative physical activities, in a range of increasingly challenging situations.

• Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities,
• Participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending,
• Perform dances using simple movement patterns.

History: 

• Significant Individuals:

Why do we remember Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole?

• Events from Before Anyone I Know Was Born:

What happened in London in 1666 and how did it change the city?

• Changes Over Time:

How have toys changed over time?/our school over time?

Geography: 

• Locational Knowledge,
• Place Knowledge,
• Human and Physical Geography,
• Geographical Skills and Fieldwork.

Art: 

• Julian Opie - Portraits,
• Henri Rousseau – Understand how artists use images to stir emotions
  (printing, collage, understanding primary and secondary colours, mixing secondary colours),
• Anthony Gormley, The Jones boys, John Charles – Investigating how textures are used to represent different elements of landscapes (Clay tiles – experimenting with different compositions, manipulating textures in clay, drawing Liverpool landmarks),
• Man Ray, Andy Goldsworthy – Explore how natural materials make effective shapes
  (Experimenting with different compositions of chosen natural objects, observing and drawing natural objects, exploring composition through sketching and creating a sketch plan for final design).      

Design Technology: 

• Food,
• Textiles,
• Mechanical Systems.

Music: 

• Use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes,
• Play tuned and untuned instruments musically,
• Listen with concentration and understanding to a range of high-quality live and recorded music,
• Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions of music.

Personal Social Health Education (PSHE):

• The Wider World,
• Mental Health and Well-being,
• Relationships (No Outsiders),
• Healthy Lifestyles,
• Journey in Love 

Computing:

• Multimedia Text and images,
• Multimedia Sound and Motion,
• Handling Data,
• Technology in Our Lives,
• Coding and Programming,
• Online Safety.

Homework 

• Daily reading is expected at least 5 times per week for approximately 5-10 minutes. Reading books will be changed on a Friday during your child’s Phonics sessions. Please sign your child’s reading record every time you read with them.
• Spelling shed homework will be set and passwords will be given out.
• Numbots Maths homework will be set and passwords will be given out.
• Occasional Maths, English or Projects linked to our themes will be set across the year. 

General Reminders 

• Please ensure children have the correct school uniform daily and wear appropriate, black school shoes, not trainers (see policy).
• PE is on a Friday with Mr Tyson. Your child needs to keep their full PE Kit in school. This will be sent home at the end of each half term to be washed.

• Please ensure all items are clearly labelled with your child’s name.
• Children in Year 2 will have Music on a Wednesday afternoon which will be taught by Ms Neville-Evans.
• Please ensure your child brings their reading book and record to school every day.
• Please ensure you read and follow our packed lunch policy accordingly. 
• Please ensure you make the office aware of any absences as soon as possible.
• Our priority at the end of the day is to see the children out safely to their designated adults. If you have any queries please do not hesitate to phone the office to make an appointment with any Year 2 staff to discuss any concerns or issues relating to your child’s learning. `