Autumn Term

Autumn - Explorers!

We have a very exciting first term planned. We will spend lots of time exploring our new classroom at first, getting to know each other and settling into the routines in Year 2. 

Please take a look at our subject learning overview below for this half term.

 

Literacy

We will become writers and avid readers through our phonics programme, which will support our creativity to become fluent readers and writers.

For Literacy, we follow the Pathways To Write programme and Get Writing Scheme. Children will be assessed in the first week of term and grouped to match their ability levels. Our Get Writing scheme links to our Read Write Inc phonics scheme and builds upon their grammar and vocabulary to provide a rich English curriculum.

In Pathways To Write, children develop key literacy skills, such as creativity, by engaging with high-quality texts. In Autumn 1, literacy lessons are based from the story Troll Swap by Leigh Hodgkinson. In Autumn 2, our text is The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson. 

 

Maths

In Maths, we will become mathematicians and build upon our previous mathematical understanding through practical and written methods.

  • Place Value within 100

  • Addition and Subtraction within 100

  • Shape

 

Science 

As scientists, we will study the properties of materials and how these properties make the materials suitable for different every day purposes. We will learn to:

  • Name and identify materials.

  • Describe the physical properties of materials.

  • Compare and classify materials.

  • Understand how materials can change shape.

  • Explore suitability of materials. 

 

Computing

We shall become computer whizzes using our own personal login to Purple Mash and learn how to navigate around the program and understand the importance of logging out of devices. 

  • Online Safety: Feeling uncomfortable.

  • Online Safety and exploring Purple Mash.

  • Maze Explorers.

  • Questioning. 

 

Art and DT

In Art we will become artists and focus on drawing lines to define the background and foreground. We will learn drawing techniques of hatching, cross-hatching and shading to create depth of colour.

  • Drawing - pencil work 

  • Artist: L.S Lowry

 In DT, we will become sewists as we learn how to join materials, use running stitches, and design and make our own puppets.

  • Textiles - Puppets.

 

History

We will become historians and look at famous Explorers and how they have made a difference in our world. We will learn about:

  • Significant individuals - Christopher Columbus, Ibn Battuta, Amelia Earhart
  • Significant people in our own locality - Helen Sharman

PE

  • Outdoor: Ball Skills

  • Indoor: Dance

 

PSHE

  • Relationships

  • My Happy Mind

 

RE

  • Understanding Christianity - Incarnation

  • Belonging to a community - Christianity and Judaism 

  • Local Visit to St Helen's Church - details to follow