Science
Music
Computing
Biology
Life cycles of plants and animals.
Learn the basic conditions needed for
survival.
Using knowledge of basic life processes
of growth and reproduction to describe
similarities, differences and changes in
plants, animals, and non-living things
Identify, compare and contrast
minibeasts.
Explore timbre:
Use our existing knowledge of pulse
to understand tempo.
Listen to music and identify changes
in tempo.
Play untuned musical instruments
keeping the pulse and changing
tempo.
Explore dynamics: loud and quiet.
Use a branching database to identify
minibeasts
Take photographs of minibeasts on
ipads and edit photographs
Use data to create a chart on 2simple,
2graph
RE
Explore important symbols for
Christians and Muslims and what they
mean.
Visit to St Stephen’s Church
Compare different faiths and how they
show belonging.
Explore and re-tell the Easter Story and
understand its importance in the life of
Jesus and to the Christian Faith.
Into the Wood
Fire! Fire!
Explore and Evaluate existing winding
mechanisms
Design and make a winding
mechanism using a box as the starting
point to show a scene from the Great
Fire (somebody escaping from a
house).
Evaluate the completed winding
mechanism against design criteria.
History
PE
Outdoor PE:
Participate in a range of team games
using balance, agility and coordination,
developing simple tactics for attacking
and defending.
Indoor PE:
Athletics: ‘Run, Jump, Throw’ (Part 2)
Developing agility and movement skills
at different speeds, levels and
directions.
Design & Technology
Year 2
Spring
2nd half term
Maths
Add and subtract mentally, including:
A 2-digit number and units
A 2-digit number and tens
Two 2-digit numbers
Apply knowledge of number up to 100 to solve a one or
two-step problem involving addition, subtraction and simple
multiplication and division.
Solve problems with addition and subtraction applying
knowledge of mental and written methods.
Use appropriate strategies to add and subtract numbers
that move between, through and beyond 100.
Solve problems involving division, using materials, arrays,
mental methods, and multiplication and division facts,
including problems in context.
Calculate mathematical statements for division using the
division and equals signs.
Recognise, find, name and write fractions 1/3, 1/4, 2/4 and
3/4 of a length, shape, set of objects or quantity.
Compare and order lengths, mass, volume/capacity and
record the results using > < and =.
Choose and use standard units to estimate and measure
mass in kg and g using scales.
The Great Fire of London
Find out about the past from
different sources.
Research when and why the fire
began, how it spread and how it was
extinguished.
Sequence events of the fire.
Explore how it was evidenced in
pictures and in the diaries of Samuel
Pepys.
Participate in drama and role play
workshop to recreate the events of
the fire.
English
Main text - Traction Man is Here by Mini Grey
Contribute to a Class journal, responding to the text
Explore the ways in which pictures, graphics and text
combine to tell the story.
Describe an action figure or toy and create an ID card
including name, age, appearance, likes and special powers.
Debate and write an opinion piece on ‘What is a hero?’
Use co-ordinating conjunctions (or, and, but) in a lot of
writing and sometimes use subordinating conjunctions
(when, if, that, because).
Use expanded noun phrases for description and specification.
Use the present tense and past tense correctly.
Handwriting
Continue to practise writing capital letters, lower case letters
and digits correctly and in the correct size.
Join some letters with the correct joining strokes.
Grammar & Spelling
Apostrophes for missing letters
Suffix - ly (turning adjectives into adverbs)
Commas to separate items in a list
Apostrophes for possession in nouns
Sentence Functions.
Reading
Continue with Group Reading using Oxford Reading
Tree/Project X/Rigby Star.
Home Reading books to continue