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 7/7/2025,

we will: 

• continue to neat write my recount
• write poetry about myself

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 (9/7/25) the children will be tested on  the phoneme ch/ as the graphemes /ch/ in church and /tch/ in hutch:

ch

church

lunch

punch

chip

drench

speech

beach

chick

quench

chuck

squelch

which

bench

much

such

March

rich

each

coach

teacher

 

tch

hutch

catch

watch

notch

fetch

kitchen

match

stitch

witch

fetch

patch

pitch

From Thursday (10.7.25), we will consolidate year 2 common exception words and prior graphemes.

 

 

 

Maths

w/c 7/7/2025,

we will: 

• consolidate prior learning
• continue our fluencyBee lessons

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

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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.
• test your child on each spelling word
• write sentences which include apostrophes to show either contraction ( could not = couldn't) or possession (Dean's trainers)
• write rhetorical questions (Is it possible that there is a link between its beak shape and its diet?)

 

         Maths:

• give your child some directions to follow (take three steps to your right, four steps forwards, one step to the left and five backwards)
• check that they understand half turn, quarter turn, three quarters turn and full turn
• Keep asking your child to tell you the time on an analogue clock.

     Other:

Can they tell you about how humans can impact the planet and ways which we can reuse, reduce and recycle to prevent things going to landfill?

 

 

 

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