Year-2-Curriculum-Summer-2 (ID 1072)

• English
  English

  This half-term, the children are exploring a poem called Fox by Kathy Henderson. It’s a beautiful poem that describes a fox moving quickly and silently through the countryside. The poem uses exciting words and creates strong pictures in our minds.

  We will;

  • Read and talk about the poem

  • Learn new describing words

  • Act out how the fox moves

  • Write from the fox’s point of view

  • Write a letter as if they are the fox, describing its journey

  • Skills we will be practising during this unit are;

  • Writing in full sentences

  • Using describing words (adjectives and expanded noun phrases)

  • Writing in the past tense

  • Using capital letters, full stops, and commas in lists

  • Joining ideas with words like and, but, because

• Maths
  Maths

  This half term we’re learning about:

  • Position and Direction - language of position, describing movement and turns and making patterns by turning shapes.

  • Statistics - making tally charts, making tables, using block diagrams and drawing and interpreting pictograms

• PSHE
  PSHE

  Our theme is Economic Wellbeing. We’ll learn:

  Where money comes from

  Exploring needs and wants

  Using bank cards and accounts

  Identifying our skills and talents and linking them to jobs

  Describing how to make sure everyone feels welcome and is included

• RE
  RE

  We will be learning how to make a pouch using textiles.

  We will sew a running stitch with regular-sized stitches, prepare and cut fabric to make a pouch from a template, use a running stitch to join the two pieces of fabric together and decorate the pouch using various materials.

• Science
  Science

  This half term our topic is Living Things and Their Habitats

  We will be;

  constructing food chains, describing food chains from animals locally and from afar, grouping things according to whether they are dead, alive or never been alive, understanding deforestation and the effect it has on the world, looking at plastic pollution, it's effects and how we can help to reduce it.

• Spanish
  Spanish

  This half term in Spanish, children will be learning to talk about hobbies and sports. They’ll learn how to name a range of activities such as swimming, football, and painting, and practise asking and giving opinions like “I like…” and “I don’t like…”. They’ll also learn to say which sports they do, when they do them, and who they do them with, using words for days of the week and family members. The children will practise speaking, listening, reading and writing in Spanish through games, songs and stories, building their confidence in using the language in real conversations.

• PE
  PE

  This half term, Year 2 will be building their athletics skills by running at different speeds, learning how to jump and land with control, and throwing with accuracy. They’ll take part in relay-style activities, explore how to move safely in space, and begin to understand how to improve their own performance.

• Art
  Art

• Dance
  Dance

  Year 2 are building on their dance skills by combining actions to create short routines. They’ll explore direction, levels and timing, and begin to perform in unison or mirror a partner’s movements. The focus is on control, teamwork and enjoying movement through music.

• Music
  Music

• Computing
  Computing

  This half term we will be learning to;

  Make Music

  We will be learning to make music digitally, sequencing music, add sounds to a tune to improve it and think about how music can be used to express feelings and create tunes which depict feelings, to upload a sound from a bank of sounds into the sounds section, to record their own sound and upload it into the sounds section, to create our own tune using the sounds which they we added to the sounds section.