The Great Fire ofNumeracy This half term we will be looking at place value and ordering numbers up to 100. We will be learning rapid recall of our number bonds to 10 and 20 along with our 2, 5 and 10 London times tables and introducing our 3 and 4 time tables. We will also use number lines to help us add and subtract, using them to help us solve problems . Literacy Year 2 Also we will be collecting data and looking to represent that data on a graph. We will Throughout the year we will be following Read Write Inc to aid our children in their also be discussing the different properties of 2D shapes. Phonics and spelling. We will also be looking at different writing genres from; newspaper Autumn Term reports, poetry and story writing all based around The Great Fire of London. In addition Science to this the children will be concentrating on improving their punctuation skills with capital This half term we will be studying sound, letters and full stops initially. We will be looking at past tenses and being able to change 1 that we listen with our ears and that sound a text into past tense along with how to make their writing more interesting. The book we comes from different sources.
will be using to help us in this will be
We will discuss how important our ears are and how loud we can shout.
R.E.
We will think about how we depend on This topic is designed to help the children appreciate that they are chosen and gifted by God to do him some definite service: to help others. It also develops the children’s Computing knowledge of Abraham, Moses and Daniel and gives some understanding of their faith and trust in God. This half term we will be looking at how computers use algorithms, recognising that these are a set of instructions for the processes on a computer and how they Our Learning Challenge this half term is all This half term we will be designing and work. Also, whilst using technology safely, about The Great Fire of London. building Tudor houses, working through the children will be learning how to organise Understanding when it was, how it started and discussing ideas. We will look at and store information. being able to build structures and will and why it spread so quickly. explore how they can be made stronger, more stable and fire proof. We will place London on a map and begin
History/Geography
Design &Technology
Music
to look at the similarities between London
Art
As part of our Fire of London Topic we will be listening to and singing chants and This half term we will be developing the techniques we use to paint, mixing different rhymes. colours and using different styles to produce different textures.