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 23/6/2025,

we will: 

• plan the events to write about - seeing iguanas and giant tortoises
• summarise the excitement of the day

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 (25/6/25)  they will complete a spelling check on some Year 2 tricky words and their understanding of some phonetically spelt words which they should know the spelling rules for.

From Wednesday (25.6.25), we will focus on the phoneme /f/ as the graphemes /f/ in fun, /ff/ in fluff and /ph/ in phone

f

fun

frog

from

flash

fast

fitness

fish

fetch

lift

soft

famous

favourite

February

fruit

four

fourteen

forty

fortnight

unfortunately

Friday

fifty

fifteen

ff

fluff

fluffy

different

difficult

off

puff

coffee

scuff

sniff

toffee

suffix

waffle

ph

phone

dolphin

alphabet

phonics

elephant

photo

photograph

graph

amphibian

triumph

Maths

w/c 23/6/2025,

we will: 

• use the language of position
• describe movement

Infinity maths:

The link is 

https://infinity.whiteroseeducation.com/Home 

They can then add the

School code

SLR - JJW

PINS:

Position and Direction

87 - 04 - 13

Statistics:

40 - 80 - 94

99 - 42 - 02

Time:

75 - 96 - 66

Fractions:

79 - 45 - 21

21 - 64 - 35

44 - 31 - 69

63 - 70 - 81

FluencyBee:

10 times-table and the 5 times table

Additional Information

Thank you for all of your support and kind words during Sports day.

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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.
• adult to write two independent clauses (sentences), child to join them with a conjunction. For example: Adult = It was her birthday. She had a friend home for dinner. Child = It was her birthday so she had a friend home for dinner.
• write exclamation sentences and correctly punctuate them. For example: What a fantastic day it was! What large eyes she has! How funny you are!
• write a list of three or more items then put them into a sentence using commas - 

ham

cheese

salad

cucumber

He needed to buy some ham, cheese, salad and a cucumber.

Then try adding adjectives to make the sentence even better - He really needed to buy some delicious ham, smelly cheese, mixed salad and a dark green cucumber.

         Maths:

• ask friends and family their favourite colour between yellow, blue, green, red and other then create a pictogram to show this information (remember to include a key eg 1 circle = 1 vote or 1 circle = 2 votes).
• take a selection of your socks and record the amount of plain, stripy, spotty or picture ones you have on a pictogram (remember to include a key eg 1 triangle = 1 sock or 1 triangle = 2 socks).
• Keep asking your child to tell you the time on an analogue clock.

     Other:

Use the key on a map to find the different parts of an area - can they use the key to identify where the car park is? The toilet facilities? The picnic area etc.

Discuss with you the PSHE lessons we have had this week so that they feel comfortable talking with you about body parts.

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