Suggested for Home Learning Tasks
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Daily reading focusing on comprehension.
Half-termly home learning will be set based on areas of the
curriculum.
Learn times tables for the 2, 3, 5 and 10s and related division
facts.
Practise telling the time to the nearest 15 minutes and using
different coins to make the same amount.
Phonics strategies for learning spellings.
Useful websites – topmarks, ictgames, phonics play, spelling
play, bbc schools.
Learning common exception words whilst practising
handwriting.
Planned Visits (TBC)
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Seaside visit
Things to remember
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Swimming kits- Tuesday.
PE kits for Friday sessions– to be kept in school.
Half termly home learning
Home comprehension tasks (to be sent occasionally in place of
reading book).
Reading books- Can be changed as soon as your child has finished it.
We do expect for books to be changed at least twice a week
Phonics books and weekly spelling investigations – handed out
Monday, due Friday. Remember to help your children to learn these
words. They will need them for the weekly dictation.
Punctuality and full attendance during May for SATs.
Curriculum Outline
Spring Term 2017
Year 2
Teachers: Miss Providence, Mr Reeves, Miss Taylor.
Year 2 Theme: Summer 1: Plants and Gardens. Summer 2: Pirates and Seasides
English
Mathematics and Development
(Fluency, Reasoning and Problem Solving)
Writing Narratives
 Reading familiar stories and developing an
Measurement:
understanding of the features of narrative
 Reading and writing time on a clock face (to 5
writing.
minutes).
Poetry
 Understanding the amount of minutes in an hour
 Reading a range of poems, imitating, rehearsing
and hours in a day.
and writing our own poetry.
 Comparing and ordering intervals of time.
Instruction Writing
 Reading the temperature from a thermometer in
 Writing instruction for a range of purposes
scales of 1, 2, 5 and 10.
including temporal connectives and ‘bossy’
Four Operations
verbs’.
 Adding 2 digit numbers up to 100 by partitioning
We will continue to build our transcription skills and
into tens and ones.
read, recognise and write subordination –
 Subtracting 2 digit numbers from one another,
because/if/when and coordination – joining sentences
including calculations where regrouping is
using and/but/so.
required.
 Multiplying and Dividing by 2, 3, 5 and 10.
Statistics:
Creative Development
(Art. D&T, Drama, Music, Singing)
Art
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D&T
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 Interpreting and creating graphs.
Fractions
 Recognising and comparing fractions and fractions
of amounts. ½ 1/3 ¼ 2/4 and ¾ .
Using applique and sewing techniques to create
a small scale representation of a garden.
Personal, Social and Emotional
Designing and making a small scale model
Development
garden.
 Using suitable tools to enable our gardens to be
Living in the wider world
prepared successfully.
Keep money safe:
Drama:
 Learning about how to look after money and to
 Considering emotion and intention of
develop an independence for handling money.
characters in written texts to create role-plays
that assist our writing in first person.
Rights and responsibility:
Music
 Understanding the British values and why they
 Singing in assemblies and in class, playing
are important in our day-to-day lives.
instruments musically, listening to a range of
 Developing independence in order be responsible
high-quality music, and experimenting and
for things e.g. pocket money.
combining a range of sounds.
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
(Science, Geography, History, RE, ICT)
Science: Plants
 Observe and describe how seed and bulbs grow
into mature plants.
 Find out how plants need water, light and a
suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy.
Science: Working Scientifically
 Asking simple questions and recognising they can
be answered in different ways.
 Observing closely, using simple equipment to
perform simple tests.
 Gathering and recording data to help in answering
questions.
Geography:
 Recognising and describing human and physical
features using basic geographical vocabulary.
 Using and creating aerial plans which include
basic keys.
 Identify seasonal weather patterns in the UK and
the locations of hot and cold areas of the world.
History:
 The history of pirates and the seaside.
RE:
 The Torah - Its importance and its stories.
ICT:
 eSafety and competence.
 Basic skills including beginning to use word
processing.
 Creating an animation of a growing plant.
Physical Development
P.E:
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Perform dances using simple movement and
patterns.
Swimming.