Autumn Term

Autumn - Incredible Me!

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 RWI Phonics 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.

 

Maths

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

  • Place Value within 20

  • Addition and Subtraction within 20

  • Place Value within 100

  • Shape

 

Science 

As scientists, we will study those who have created a path to understanding more about the world around us and how their theories and inventions have changed the lives of others, how we see the world and how we can learn from their discoveries.

  • Lego - Ole Kirk Christiansen

  • Space - Mae Jemison

  • Zoos - George Mottershead

  • Sensory Gardens - Eden Project

  • Weather - Rain Gauge - Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke, Meteorologists - Richard Towneley and George James Symons

 

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: Logging on safely and logging out of devices

  • Effective Searching

 

Art

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

 

History

We we become historians and look at timelines of our own lives and those of significant historical figures.

Personal timelines and changes over our own lives.

Significant People in History - Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole

 

PE

  • Outdoor: Invasion Games

  • Indoor: Yoga

 

PSHE

  • Jigsaw Piece 1: Being Me in My World

 

RE

  • Belonging to a Community - Judaism and Christianity

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