Year 2

Mrs Cummins & Miss Whitehead

Art – As artists we will:

• Know that collage is the art of using different materials to make images, e.g. paper, fabric etc
• know that a piece of art can be created to be any size.
• Cut and tear different materials to make different effects.
• Use different materials to create a piece of art, e.g. bus tickets, labels, receipts.

Computing – We will:

• Use 2 Sequence to create music.
• Explore how to create a tune and change the speed and add sounds.
• Consider how music can express feelings.
• Upload and use my own sounds.
• Use 2 Quiz and 2 Connect to present my own ideas.
• Discuss our work and make improvements based on feedback.
• Use a variety of software to manipulate and present digital content and information.

Design Technology – As designers we will:

• Describe fruit by talking and drawing.
• Explain our preferences and give reasons for them.
• Use utensils safely and explain the importance of food hygiene.
• Design a fruit smoothie selecting appropriate fruit.
• Give reasons for our choices related to the task.
• Evaluate my ideas and products against my own design criteria and consider the views of others to improve my work.

English – As writers and communicators we will:

• Form our letters correctly with diagonal and horizontal strokes needed for when we start joining our handwritings.
• Write non-chronological reports, recounts and stories.
• Use different sentence types, punctuation.
• Develop our knowledge of spelling and grammar and use it in our work.
• Use past and present tense correctly.
• Evaluate our writing with an adult and independently.

As readers we will:

• Read a wide variety of both fiction and non-fiction.
• Use inference to make predictions.

Geography – As geographers we will:

• Identify and describe the main differences between a place in England, e.g. Dewsbury and a non-European location (Rio De Janeiro).
• Identify and describe similarities and differences between the 2 places: features and physical features such as trade links, buildings, city, town, village, factories, farms, ports, etc.
• Identify the following physical features: mountain, lake, island, valley, river, cliff, forest and beach.
• Explain some of the advantages and disadvantages of living in a city or village.

History - As Historians we will:

• Have an understanding of the chronology of various
  significant British kings and queens and be able to place some in the correct order.
• Compare the lives of different monarchs.
• Compare life then to now.

Mathematics – As mathematicians we will:

• Recognise, find, name and write fractions of a length, shape, set of objects or quantity.
• Recall and use addition and subtraction facts to 20 fluently and derive and use related facts up to 100.
• Show that addition of two numbers can be done in any order (commutative) and subtraction of one number from another cannot.
• Add and subtract numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and mentally, including: a two-digit number and ones; a two-digit number and tens; two 2-digit numbers; adding three 1-digit  numbers.
• Solve problems with addition and subtraction: using concrete objects and pictorial representations.
• Choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure capacity (litres/ml), temperature (°C) and mass (kg/g) to the nearest appropriate unit.
• Compare and order volume, capacity and mass and record the results using >, < and =.
• Apply knowledge of numbers to 1000 to read scales to the nearest  appropriate standard unit.
• Use known facts to derive new facts (2g + 2g =4g so 200g + 200g =400g).

Music – As musicians we will:

• Recognise that music has a steady pulse, practise finding the pulse and decide how to find the pulse.
• Identify instruments and voices within a piece of music.
• Listen, copy and clap back rhythms.
• Explore the difference between pulse and rhythm.

P.E. – As athletes we will:

• Recognise and describe what their bodies feel like during different types of activity.
• Remember, repeat and link combinations of actions.
• Use their bodies and a variety of equipment with greater control and co-ordination.

R.E. – As theologians we will:

• Know that Jesus rose from the dead and still lives with us.
• Know what makes us joyful and what gives us hope.
• Explain how Christians show their belief about Jesus at Easter during worships.
• Retell the Easter story and explain what it means to us and how we can use it to guide our actions.
• Recognise and talk about signs and symbols of Easter.
• Talk about and discuss the different miracles Jesus performed and why he performed them.
• Explain what we would do if anything was possible.
• Talk and ask questions about our feelings and the feelings of characters in the Bible stories.

RPSHE - As children we will:

• Learn the different things that help our bodies to be healthy.
• Know that eating and drinking too much sugar can affect our health.
• Know how to be physically active and how much rest and sleep we should have everyday.
• Learn that there are different ways to learn and play; and how to know when to take a break from screen-time.
• Discover how sunshine helps bodies to grow and how to keep safe and well in the sun.
• Explore how different things / times / experiences can bring about different feelings for different people (including loss, change and bereavement or moving on to a new class/year group).
• Learn and discuss to manage big feelings and the importance of sharing our feelings with someone we trust and to recognise when we might need help with feelings and how to ask for help.

Science – As scientists we will:

• Plant our own seed and measure its progress over the term.
• Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants.
• Find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy.
• Know that seeds and bulbs look different depending on which plant they are for.
• Explain why plants need nutrients and sunlight to grow.