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.

Help your child prepare for their project
Research one of the historically significant people listed. Research and write about a more modern significant person such as Barack Obama, Rose Ayling-Ellis, Marcus Rashford etc. Include why you feel they are a significant person - use Dawson's model to support your points.

Memorable Experience: Studying a historically significant person

Geography: Historical landmarks; Significant places

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; 

Geography: Let's Explore the World

Science: Habitats, Plant Survival

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

 

More information about the Year 2 Curriculum can be found in the YEAR 2 Long Term Plan 2024-2025  document found below.

Year 2 Key Information

For this term, PE is timetabled for every Tuesday and Friday. We will be doing Fencing on Tuesdays and Cricket on Fridays. 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 2/6/2025,

we will: complete diagnostic checks prior to commencing our new topic

• check understanding of the different sentence structures
• recap the spelling rules for adding the suffix -ing to words ending with 'e'
• recap some useful tricky words
• recap adverbials of time
• understand and identify the features of a recount

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 by phoneme:

In class, we will focus on a different phoneme each week. The phoneme and its corresponding graphemes will be introduced on the Thursday with different activities running until the Wednesday. Their understanding will then be checked by writing a dictated sentence.

On Wednesday (4/6/25)  they will be tested on these tricky words:

could

couldn't

would

wouldn't

should

shouldn't

can't

why

what

people

about

children

because

improve

station

fraction

again

wrist 

write

right

wrong

usual

other

budge

bridge

 

From Thursday (5.6.25), we will focus on the phoneme n as the graphemes n as in not, nn in dinner and kn in know:

 

n

not

skin

went

bend

bent

next

chin

hand

ran

hunt

run

thin

 

nn

dinner

tennis

runner

running

funny

funnier

funniest

connect

thinner

runny

winner

 

 

kn

know

knew

knot

knight

knit

knife

knives

kneel

knock

knocked

knocking

knead

knuckle

knee

 

 

Maths

w/c 2/6/2025,

we will: 

• recap telling the time in 5 minute increments past and to the hour
• understand and record tally charts
• understand how to read tables
• understand block diagrams
• understand pictograms

Infinity maths:

The link is 

https://infinity.whiteroseeducation.com/Home 

They can then add the

School code

SLR - JJW

PINS:

Time:

75 - 96 - 66

Fractions:

79 - 45 - 21

21 - 64 - 35

44 - 31 - 69

63 - 70 - 81

FluencyBee:

2 times-table

Additional Information

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OUR LEARNING

OUR VISITS AND SPECIAL EVENTS

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        This week's homework is:

• To read for at least 10 minutes everyday to an adult.
• spend 20 minutes (over the week) on Numbots, TTRockstars or Infinity (Usernames and passwords are in your child's reading record)
• spend 20 minutes (over the week) on Edshed (usernames and passwords in reading records)
• For those wanting additional work -

• English:

• write the spellings words and use them in a correctly punctuated sentence.
• can they identify the noun, adjective, verb and adverbs in a sentence written by you.

         Maths:

• practise telling the time - they should understand o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to. We have been working on 5,10,15,20,25 and 30 minutes past the hour as well as the trickier 5,10,15,20 and 25 to the hour (these they will need more support with)

     Other:

Research animal and plant adaptations.

 

 

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