Year 2 Curriculum Plan Summer Term
This year we are combining our Literacy, History, Geography and Science into one subject area called
Learning Adventure. We are trying to encourage our pupils to demonstrate a high level of English
writing across the curriculum and hope this will be the best way to achieve this.
Summer 1: ‘Get Active’
This topic brings together getting active in Literacy with role play to show learning, getting active in RE
as Christians are called to go out amongst the people and ‘spread the good news’ and the
Cornerstones’ topic ‘Bounce’ – getting children active and fit through PE and education. From
designing games to creating sporting challenges, all the bouncing will make for tired children!
In Science, children learn about the heart and heart rate then complete physical activities that allow
them to see the effect exercise has on the body. The can also consolidate their previous ‘Everyday
Materials’ learning as they investigate a variety of balls made from different materials and drop the
balls to test their bounciness. How does the surface they land on also affect their bounce?
Through the use of humorous stories by Joanna Nadin in Literacy, the children will enjoy drama
techniques to actively explore and empathise with characters, role-playing scenarios and considering
how characters change over the course of longer stories. In the following unit, ‘Act it Out!’ they will
stage and perform a play in front of an audience.
Alongside this, the gift of the Holy Spirit, which is celebrated at Pentecost, strengthens Christians to be
active in sharing the mission of the church by ‘spreading the word’ of the love of the risen Christ. ‘Go,
tell it on the mountain’ as Jesus said – be active!
Literacy
Science
Cornerstones
RE
1) Muddles and
Animals, including
Bounce
Spread the Word
Mishaps
humans
- Pentecost
- The Whole
Coverage in English,
- Serving
Truth/Penny
Everyday Materials
PE, Art & Design,
- Spread the
Dreadful
(part 2)
Computing, D&T,
good news of
- dilemma stories
History, Maths, Music,
the Holy Spirit
- role play &
Projects:
PSHE, Science.
adverts
1) Why should I
2) Act it Out!
exercise?
- play scripts and
2) Do all balls
drama
bounce?
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Summer 2: ‘Street Detectives’
Whilst in Literacy the children will be exploring the question, ‘What is the most unusual place in the world
to live?’ in the Cornerstones’ topic, ‘Street Detectives’, they will make maps and plans of the streets around
us to compare our area with foreign lands.
This way or that way? Where should we go? Up to the local shops or down to the playing fields? As we learn
about our local community, looking at houses old and new, we will find out how our streets have changed
since our mums and dads were young. When the Lord Mayor writes to the children and asks them to help
make our streets a better place, they will need to get their thinking caps on and paint brushes at the ready!
Alongside this, the RE topic, ‘Reconciliation’, will get the children thinking about what makes a good
neighbourhood in terms of people’s thinking, behaviour and treatment of each other. As Jesus commands
us to love one another can we forgive our neighbours and keep the peace on our streets?
The following topic, ‘Treasures’, takes this ‘neighbourly’ behaviour further, onto the idea of helping those in
need around the world. The Bible answers the question of who our neighbours are in a different way to the
way we may expect. We are even called to love our enemies! From the need to respect creation as God
made it, to solidarity with those in need, the children can look at the work of CAFOD as ‘street detectives’.
There is also a ‘keeping fit’ section in the Cornerstones topic which can bring together what they have learnt
in the previous topic ‘Get Active’ with our school Sports Day.
Literacy
Science
Cornerstones
RE
1) Silly Stuff
Plants (continued)
Street Detectives
1) Rules
- stanzas and
- Reconciliation
poems
An opportunity Coverage in English,
- Inter-relating
2) Unusual Places to
to finish off any History, Art & Design,
- sign of peace
Live
objectives from Computing, D&T,
- sorrow
- postcard writing.
‘plants’ as the
Geography, Maths, PE,
- a good
children
PSHE, Science.
neighbourhood
identify plants
2) Treasures
in their local
- Universal
area – they
Church/World
could also
- creation
compare these
- helping those
to plants in
in need
unusual places
- CAFOD
to live.
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Maths - Summer Term
Strands
Wk Strands
Number and place value (NPV); Mental
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Mental addition and subtraction (MAS);
addition and subtraction (MAS)
Number and place value (NPV);
Measurement (MEA); Problem solving,
reasoning and algebra (PRA)
Mental addition and subtraction (MAS);
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Mental multiplication and division (MMD);
Problem solving, reasoning and algebra (PRA)
Problem solving, reasoning and algebra (PRA)
Mental addition and subtraction (MAS)
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Measurement (MEA)
Measurement (MEA); Statistics (STA)
9
Mental addition and subtraction (MAS);
Mental multiplication and division (MMD);
Problem solving, reasoning and algebra (PRA)
Mental multiplication and division (MMD);
10
Number and place value (NPV); Mental
Fractions, ratio and proportion (FRP)
addition and subtraction (MAS)
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