Download individual curriculums for each year:
Year 2
Autumn Term
Year 2 Curriculum content
Understanding physical development, health and wellbeing
- Health and growth
- How to stay healthy
- Food groups
- SEAL– New beginnings Getting on and falling out
- PE– Throwing and catching Gym balance Dribbling Dance
Understanding English, communication and languages
- Daily guided reading groups
- Reading & writing dinosaur stories based on dinosaurs stories by different authors
- Looking at information books features of them.
- Make our own non-fiction books.
- Important info to put on a posters
- Dinosaur poetry
- Drama –including archaeological dig
- ICT– Combining text and graphics Animation Internet research
- Philosophy for children— learning how to ask a philosophical question
Historical, geographical and social understanding
- History-Fossils– how are they formed?
- Famous fossil finds from the past.
- Important archaeologist from the past.
- Geography– Study of islands–
- Look at the Isle of Wight
- Festivals– Diwali . Eid and Christmas
Scientific and technological understanding
- Science – health and growth
- How we can be healthy
- Different food groups
- Parts of the body
- Variations– how animals are the same and different. Why do they have certain Characteristics?
- Design and TecHnology– Dinosaur puppets
- Dinosaur model made from paper mache
- Design an island.
Understanding the arts
- Dinosaur pictures using different mediums.
- Clay dinosaur footprints
- Pencil sketching mark making
- Big Draw Week
- Dance– dinosaur dance
- Music—using different percussion instruments to mimic different dinosaurs and their movements.
- Learning songs for Y2 choir during nativity performance
Mathematical understanding
- Recognising 2 and 3 digit numbers
- Ordering numbers
- Number bonds to 10 and 20.
- Odd and even numbers , measure length
- Add and subtract 1 digit number from any 2 digit number. Problem solving
- Counting in 2’s 5’s and 10’s
- Halving and doubling numbers
- Properties of 2D and 3D shapes
- Data handling– lists tables bar graphs
Year 2 Class Teachers
Miss Poll and Mr Wheeler.