Year 2

Mrs Cummins & Miss Whitehead

Art – As artists we will:

• Ask and answer questions about starting points for their work.
• Select and develop shading techniques.
• Review what they and others have done.

Computing – As programmers we will:

• Debug simple computer programs.
• Use printed code snippets so that children can’t run the code but must read it.
• Begin to understand how things can be shared electronically for others to see.
• Create our own piece of music and respond to others.
• Open and send an email to a 2Respond character.
• Explain what a digital footprint is.
• Give examples of things that we would not want in our digital footprint.
• E-safety - use safety in balance with other activities.
• Use search engines safely to retrieve information.
• Create pieces of artwork in styles such as impressionism, surrealism and pointillism.

Design Technology – As designers we will:

• Explore different fabrics to cut and join using simple techniques and create a Christmas hand puppet.
• Design a functional and appealing product for a chosen user and purpose based on simple design criteria.
• Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas as appropriate through talking, drawing and modelling.
• Select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks such as marking out, cutting, joining and finishing.
• Select from and use textiles according to their characteristics.

English – As writers and communicators we will:

• Write a character description.
• Write narratives from personal experience.
• Engage in meaningful discussions in all areas of the curriculum.
• Begin to use present and past tense correctly.
• Begin to self-evaluate our writing independently and with an adult.
• Discuss and give our opinion on a variety of texts.
• Develop our spelling strategies and rules.
• Be consistent using capital letters and full stops.
• Start to use other forms of punctuation accurately, e.g. question marks, exclamation marks and apostrophes.
• Write an expanded noun phrase and a list sentence.
• Use our phonics sounds to spell and decode words.

Geography – As geographers we will:

• Learn about our local area
• Follow and create maps of our local area.
• Follow a key to look for landmarks.
• Create our own maps of the local area.

History – As historians we will:

• Learn about nurturing nurses.
• Find out about Florence Nightingale and learn some interesting facts about her life.
• Understand how and why Florence Nightingale is a significant person in the history of nursing.

Maths – As mathematicians we will:

• Read and write numbers to 100.
• Know the place value of 2-digit numbers.
• Know our number bonds to 10 and 20.
• Compare and order numbers to 100.  Use < and >
• Add and subtract 1 and 2-digit numbers.
• Count in steps of 2, 5 and 10s.
• Recognise odd and even numbers.
• Understand that the 2 times table is same as doubling.
• Draw and measure lengths in cm’s.
• Compare and order lengths in m’s and cm’s.
• Construct pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and simple tables and ask and answer questions.
• Problem solving will be included in ALL areas of Maths.

Music – As musicians we will:

• Follow an integrated approach to music where games, the dimensions of music (pulse, rhythm, pitch etc), singing and playing instruments are all linked. As well as learning to sing together as a group, sing high and low sounds, explore feelings, thoughts, and emotions and improvise using notes provided to a backing track.

P.E. – As athletes we will:

• Explore gymnastics actions and still shapes.
• Copy and create link movement phases with beginning, middle and end.
• Be able to throw accurately at a range of targets.

R.E. – As theologians we will:

• Know how and why God created the world and discuss our favourite part of creation.
• Look at The Bible and learn about the different books included in it.
• Know why God chose Mary to be the Mother of Jesus.
• Describe the feelings of Elizabeth when she found out she was having a baby.
• Know the Christmas story and that a prophet communicates God’s message. 

R.P.S.H.E. – as citizens we will:

• Explore the different parts of our brain.
• Understand what the amygdala, prefrontal cortex and hippocampus do and why they’re so important. 
• Understand that looking after our mental health is as important as looking after our physical health.
• Practice different breathing techniques.
• Learn about our own feelings and how these feelings might be expressed.
• Learn about how important it is to talk about our feelings.

Science – As scientists we will:

• Investigate materials suitable for different purposes.
• Which properties make materials suitable for different jobs ?  
• Investigate which materials can change shape easily.
• Discuss the difference between man-made and natural objects.
• Explain why some materials need to be waterproof .
• Describe what happens when a material is heated up.
• Investigate the different uses of everyday materials and why not all materials are appropriate.