Year 2

Year 2 Curriculum Project

Year 2 Project - Movers and Shakers

In the Movers and Shakers project, your child will learn five statements from Dawson's model that will help them identify people who are historically significant and use the words year, decade and century to describe dates and times. They will study the life and impact of a significant person in the locality and of 10 significant individuals from around the world. They will complete in-depth studies of significant explorers Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong, and significant activists Emmeline Pankhurst and Rosa Parks and think carefully about the impact of their actions. The children will also carry out an independent study of a significant person from the past and learn about people who are significant today. They will also learn how significant people are commemorated and design a memorial for a person they have studied.

Memorable Experience: Studying a local historically significant person

History: Historical models; Exploring significance; Local historically significant person; Historical vocabulary; Chronology and timelines; Historically significant artists, activists, explorers, monarchs and scientists; Facts and opinions; Memorials; Significant people – Captain James Cook, Christopher Columbus, Claude Monet, Elizabeth Fry, Emmeline Pankhurst, Florence Nightingale, Henry VIII, Isaac Newton, Joseph Lister, Mahatma Gandhi, Marie Curie, Martin Luther King Jr, Mary Anning, Neil Armstrong, Paul Cezanne, Queen Victoria, Roald Amundsen, Rosa Parks, Vasco da Gama, Vincent van Gogh, William Shakespeare

This project is also supported by mini projects in; 

Science: Habitats and Plant Survival

Geography: Using an atlas; Using a compass; Using map keys; Locating the equator, Northern and Southern Hemispheres and North and South Poles; Hot, temperate and cold places; Comparing England to Somalia; Sustainability; Fieldwork

Art and Design: Still Life

Design and Technology: Remarkable Recipes

Computing: lessons derived from D.A.R.E.S

Music: lessons derived from Kapow

PE: lessons derived from TeamThemeKent

PSHE: lessons derived from JIGSAW content

RE:  lessons derived from Kent SACRE scheme and Cornerstones projects 

 

More information about the Year 2 Curriculum can be found in the YEAR 2 Long Term Plan 2025-2026  document found below.

Year 2 Key Information

For this term, PE is timetabled for every Tuesday and Thursday. We will be doing lacrosse on Tuesdays and athletics on Thursdays. Please ensure that all earrings are removed on those days and that your child has their full PE kit in school. Please make sure that your child has a colder weather PE kit in school, including spare socks and trainers.

 

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English  

w/c 11.5.26

We will:

• use expanded noun phrases
• use adjectives in my writing
• use adverbs in my writing
• complete a reading comprehension test

Reading - Remember that they do not need to read the entire book in one day. Please continue to hear them read daily and write it in their reading record books.

Spelling:

This week, we are focusing on  understanding why some words use the /ey/ or /y/ graphemes for the /ee/ phoneme:

Word list:

donkey

chimney

valley

monkey

jelly

lolly

berry

alley

turkey

trolley

kidney

jellies

lollies

berries

alleys

turkeys

kidneys

trolleys

jockeys

Common exception words (prickly words)

move 

improve

friend

people

Homophones:

see 

sea

 

The underlined words are our focus words.

 

 

 

Maths

w/c  11.5.26

We will: 

• complete a post-topic check on fractions
• complete a pre-topic check om time.
• understand o'clock and half past
• understand quarter past and quarter to
• tell the time past the hour

Fluency Bee:

Introduction to multiplication and division

Infinity maths:

The link is 

https://infinity.whiteroseeducation.com/Home 

click 'enter code'

They can then add the

School code

SLR - JJW

Quiz Pins:

 

Time:

75 - 96 - 66

 

Fractions:

79 - 45 - 21

63 - 70 - 81

 

Multiplication and division:

16 - 15 - 61

43 - 23 - 20

51 - 03 - 50

63 - 80 - 31

Additional Information

Homework folders MUST be completed and returned to school every week.

The homework is designed to support their understanding of Year 2 tests which are completed at the end of every term. It is designed to prevent your child from falling behind so please support them with this EVERY WEEK.

 

All homework folders should be returned to school (completed) by every Wednesday.

If your child wears earrings,  please can these be removed or taped before school on Tuesdays and Wednesdays to prevent the risk of them being caught during PE.

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        This week's homework is:

• To read for at least 10 minutes everyday to an adult.
• complete the work in the homework folder and return it by Thursday for marking.
• spend 20 minutes (over the week) on Numbots (Usernames and passwords are in your child's reading record) or Infinity (see link and codes in the maths section above)
• spend 20 minutes (over the week) on Edshed (usernames and passwords in reading records)
• For those wanting additional work -

• English:

• complete the activity in the homework folder
• practice handwriting letters cursive a, c, d, o, s, g (the children should be able to show you how and tell you the rhyme - they all begin with off we go ......)
• write sentences which use some of the spelling words
• practice our new letters - i, l, t and h with the 'up we go ...' mantra first

         Maths:

• write numbers 70-80 correctly as both numbers and words
• find half of an amount
• find two-quarters of an amount
• find three-quarters of an amount
• write the days of the week

 

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