Year 2
Autumn Term
Year 2 Curriculum content
Topic for the Autumn Term is ‘Castles and Knights’.
Science
- Making healthy foods. Types of food and food groups. Better choices of food.
- Food as part of keeping fit. Medicines and dangers of misuse of medicines. What else do we need?
- Forces, push and pull – how to make things speed up, slow down, change direction.
Language
- Continue to develop reading and use more variety in books, both fiction and non-fiction (instructions). Reading books changed on Thursdays.
- Language, oral and written related to the topic. Topic books and stories.
- Continue to develop handwriting with a view to writing with a pen.
- Working on sentence structure, capital letters and full stops, question marks and wider use of sentence connectives. Use of connectives to extend sentences.
- Weekly spellings.
- Poem anthology.
Maths
- Revision of addition and subtraction – numbers to 100.
- Introduction/revision multiplication
- Tables 2, 5 and 10
- Measuring using standard and non-standard units. Measuring themselves and objects
- Data collection related to topic.
- Time language e.g. hour, half-hour
- Shapes – 2D and 3D names and terms.
- Money – coin recognition and change.
- Simple word problems.
R.E.
- Visitors to Infant assembly.
- The importance and meaning of Diwali, Hanukah, the Torah and Christmas.
P.E.
- Ball skills, passing and shooting
- Country dancing
- Gymnastics
Music
- Music making in small groups using voices, clapping, percussion.
- Use simple instruments
- Music related to rhymes
Art
- Various artists work linked to castles e.g. Turner.
IT
- Use mouse – learning to log on, use websites linked to topics
- Colour Magic
- Develop word processing skills – knowledge of keyboard functions.
Humanities
- Medieval history – knights and castles and medieval society
D.T.
- Make 3D castle, create working drawbridges, catapults, serge towers, sewing, swords and shields.
Year 2 Class Teachers
Mrs Harmon and Mr Wheeler.