PE
Daily leap into life.
PSHE
Healthy mind and body.
Recognising our emotions.
Dealing with our emotions.
Staying safe
Literacy
Art and Design Technology
Instructions – how to care for a dragon egg
Creative writing – Describing dragons
Story – rewriting myths
Letters – Letters to Chinese school children
Chinese blossom art – printing.
Chinese dragons – junk modelling.
Making collages using a range of
scrap materials and fabrics.
Myths and Legends – Year 2
Spiders, Dragons and Giants. What do they have to do with
the UK?
Music
Maths
Learning to compose music based on the
pentatonic scale on a range of instruments.
4 operations - + - x and ÷.
Strategies to solve calculations.
Basic notation to record our compositions.
Proving and explaining.
Data collection and presentation.
Shape, space and measure.
Geography
Comparing day to day life for a child in
the UK to the day to day life for a child
in China.
Computing
Using laptops.
Unplugged computing – basic algorithms.
E-safety.
Counties and capitals of the UK.
Science
Animals and humans
Human body and senses
How we change as we grow
Different animals - carnivores, herbivores and omnivores
RE
Chinese New Year.
Leaders and followers in Christianity
and Judaism
Bible stories – Abraham and Moses.
History
Myths and Legends associated with
the history of the UK – George and
the Dragon, The Welsh Dragons, Finn
McCool, Robert the Bruce.
PE
Ensure PE shoes are in school
daily.
PSHE
Talk about rules and boundaries for
behaviour in different situations.
Talk about what makes your child
happy, say, angry etc. Do they
notice what happens to their body
when they feel cross? Do they get a
knot in their tummy? What can they
do when they feel like this?
Music
Listen to range of music with your child and
help them to imagine what story the music
may be telling.
Geography
Talk about different places you have
visited in the UK. How are they the same
and how are they different to Braunton.
Talk about other countries you or others
may have visited. Look at photographs
or different environments and talk
about similarities and differences.
Literacy
Art and Design Technology
Read daily with your child. Let them read to you and also read them a
bedtime story. Complete your child’s reading record/support them to
complete it.
Support your child to learn the spellings sent home weekly and
encourage writing lists, letters and other notes or stories.
Collect magazines and colourful
supplements from newspapers for
collaging.
Myths and
Legends
How to help at home.
Maths
Practice counting daily.
Support your child to buy items themselves in shops
using coins. Help them to learn to recognise different
coins. Let them add up the pennies in your change jar.
Support your child to start telling the time.
Computing
Help your child to follow basic instructions such as
recipes or instructions for a new game or toy – eg model
kits etc.
Monitor your child’s online activity and talk to them
about staying safe on line.
Science
Talk about how you have changed since you were a baby.
What can you do now, that you could not do when you were
a baby? What else changes as you grow older?
Notice and name animals and birds that you see when you
are out and about.
Look out for pictures of daily life in
China.
Look out for pictures of Scotland,
England, Ireland and Wales.
RE
Talk about what makes a good
leader. Talk about leaders that you
know. Why is it important to have
leaders? Can we all be a leader?
History
Read a range of myths and legends
and talk about whether or not the
stories are true, or have elements of
truth in them.