Year 2 Autumn Curriculum 2022

English:

Maths:

In English, this half term, our quality text will be ‘The Bog Baby’. We will be creating story maps, collecting adventurous adjectives, writing descriptive sentences about the story and making a ‘Missing’ poster.

Our focus will be on handwriting, presentation and sentence structure.

In Maths this half term, we will be focussing on place value and deepening our understanding of numbers. We will consolidate, and build on concepts introduced in Year 1, including counting, ordering numbers, comparing numbers, and numbers as words.

Year 2 – Autumn 1: ‘Beastly Beings’ Science: Our Science unit this half term is animals and their habitats. Through our quality text we will look at a range of different habitats and discover why certain animals live there.

Art & Design and Design Technology: This area of the curriculum will be taught in the next half term.

PE: In PE, we will be developing our athletics skills through a range of structured activities. We will spend our sessions on the field with both our WLSP coach (Tuesday) and our class teacher (Monday).

History: This are of the curriculum will be taught during the next half term.

PSHE In our school, we follow the 1 decision scheme to teach our PSHE. Through PSHE, we see the children develop and grow – building positive relationships with their peers. This half term we will focus on feelings and emotions, including worry.

Geography: This half term our focus will be on geographical skills and language, using atlases and compass points, identifying continents and the key oceans Music: In Music this half term, we will be learning how to play the Djembe drums, practising a range of Autumn songs. In October, we will be visiting church for our Harvest festival assembly.

Computing: This half term, the children will be developing a range of basic computing skills and becoming more confident using IT.

RE: This half term our key question is: 1.4 How and why do we celebrate special and sacred times?

We will learn about which times are special and why, why festivals are important to religious communities and how people from religious and non-religious communities celebrate key festivals.

English: In English, this half term, our quality text will be ‘Traction Man’.

Through this we will be developing our descriptive writing and use of past and present tense.

Our class novel will be the ‘Christmasaurus’ by Tom Fletcher, this will also be a focus for our guided reading to develop our comprehension skills.

Science: Our Science unit this half term is materials, as part of this we will be planning and carrying out our own investigations on a range of materials.

We will also have a visit from Adrian and his travelling Science Show!

Maths: In Maths this half term, we will be focussing on addition, subtraction, time and shape. In addition and subtraction we will be developing key skills such as using the inverse to check our answers. In time we will be looking at o’clock and half past.

Year 2 – Autumn 2: ‘I need a hero!’

Art & Design and Design Technology: In our DT lessons we will be using our skills to build a chair for Traction Man, using a range of techniques to explore stability, strengthening materials and testing our finished product.

PE: In PE, we will be developing our athletics skills through a range of structured activities. We will spend our sessions on the field with both our WLSP coach (Tuesday) and our class teacher (Monday).

History: Through our History lessons, we will be learning about the life and times of Guy Fawkes. We will be exploring a range of historical enquiry skills to enhance our learning, such as role play and hot seating.

PSHE In our school, we follow the 1 decision scheme to teach our PSHE, we will also continue with our regular circle times.

In addition to this we will be looking at fire safety.

Geography: This area of the curriculum will be covered in the next half term.

Music: In Music this half term, we will be learning our Christmas songs for our class performance.

Computing: This half term, the children will begin to learn about word processing and developing our keyboard skills.

RE: This half term we will be learning all about the Christmas story and what it means to Christians, how Christians celebrate Christmas and the story of advent. We will also be joining our buddy classes in church for our Christmas assemblies.