Homework is set every Monday to be returned on Friday.
Children have access the following websites in Year 2 to help enhance their learning journey. Each child will have their own log-in details and can also access the sites at home. Please click on the picture to be taken to the website. If your child forgets their log-on details you can contact the class teacher via Dojo.
Further information on these websites and others we use in school are linked here.
Y2 | Autumn | Spring | Summer | |||
English | The Great Fire of London Emma Adams and James Weston Lewis Information writing Letter formation Capital letters and full stops Capital letters for Proper Nouns Common nouns Note taking Being verbs- “is, was, had” Past Tense verbs
Diary Writing First person Adjectives to describe feelings Use co-ordinating conjunctions Time adverbials | A Walk in London Salvatore Rubbino
Persuasive Travel Leaflet Present tense Superlatives- er est Adjectives to describe settings Command sentences- direct address Rhetorical questions
Information Travel Guide Write in 2nd Person Present tense Sub-headings To write noun-phrases Questions using question marks | Wolves – Emily Gravett Non chronological leaflet Write questions and statements -Facts and opionions -co-ordinating conjunctions -subordination -Expanded noun phrases
Character Description: Wolf (Link to Little Red) -Expanded noun phrases -Exclamation sentences -conjunctions -Retell a well-known story -Time and place adverbials
| Jim and the Beanstalk Raymond Briggs Fairytale Narrative Co-ordinating conjucntions Events in sequence Adverbials to sequence Write own narrative based on the story To edit and improve writing
Explanation Text: Life cycle of a bean Adverbials to sequence Subordination Co-ordination Use of technical vocabulary | The Dragon Machine Helen Ward Dragon Guide- Information/ Explanation Commands, questionsand statement sentences Conjunctions- Co-ordinating and subordninating Prepositions Noun phrases Commas in lists Past tense verb forms
Setting Description: Describe a scene Noun phrases Place adverbials/ Prepositional phrases Commas in lists Write in first person
| Toys in Space Mini Grey Fantasy Setting Descriptions/ Own version narratives
• Sentences with different forms: statement, question, exclamation, command • Expanded noun phrases to describe and specify [for example, the blue butterfly] • The present and past tenses correctly and consistently including the progressive form • Subordination (using when, if, that, or because) and co-ordination (using or, and, or but) |
Maths | Place value Addition and Subtraction Shape | Money Multiplication and Division Length and height Mass, capacity and Temperature | Fractions Time Statistics Position and Direction | |||
Science | Living things and their habitats
Use of everyday materials | Animals including humans | plants | |||
Geography | Human and physical geography in the local area | Mapping and fieldwork | Study human and physical geography of a small area of the UK, and of a contrasting non-European country | |||
History | Great fire of London | Study historical events, people and places in their own locality – Barrow story
| revisit events beyond living memory – The Great fire of London | |||
Art | Drawing – Expressive mark making
Painting – Mark making with Primary & Secondary colours
| Print making –repeated patterns | 3D – mould and manipulate paper | |||
STEM/DT | Structures – towers
| cooking | Understanding materials – waterproofing | |||
Music | Call and response instruments | Contrasting singing | Pitch and structure | |||
Computing | Computing systems and networks – IT around us
Creating media – digital photography
| Programming A – robot algorithms
Data and information – pictograms
| Creating media – digital music
Programming B – programming quizzes
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PE | Dance Moving Monkeez Fundamental movements Fitness
| Swimming Gymnastics Ball Skills Net and Wall | Striking and Feilding Athletics – Barrow Raiders Yoga Team building | |||
PSHE | Me and my relationships
Valuing difference
| Keeping safe
Rights and respect
| Being my best
Growing and changing
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RE |
Leaders and teachers
Christmas celebrations
| Who was Buddha?
Why is the Torah so special?
| Christian rites of passage
What do Sikhs believe?
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