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 13.7.26

We will:

• write sentences about ourselves
• review and complete activities about commons nouns
• review and complete activities about proper nouns
• review and sort common nouns and proper nouns

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 starting to review Phase 5 to make sure that we can remember which graphemes make which phonemes.

Phoneme/grapheme list:

Phoneme /ai/ as the graphemes - a-e ai ay a eigh ea ey aigh

Examples = brake, great, they, straight, eight, claim, astray and apron.

Phoneme /ee/ as the graphemes -  y ea ee e ie ey e-e

Examples = happy, treat, speech, be, believe, valley and these.

Phoneme /igh/ as the graphemes -  igh i-e i y ie

Examples =bright, time, tiger, why, cried.

Phoneme /oa/ as the graphemes -  ow o o-e oa oe ou

Examples = snow, most, alone, float, tomatoes and shoulder.

 

 

Common exception words (prickly words)

people

eye

whole

 

 

 

Maths

w/c  13.7.26

We will: 

• understand telling hours, minutes and seconds
• understand o'clock
• understand 1/2 past the hour
• complete a pre-topic check on Year 2 place value

Fluency Bee:

 

Infinity maths:

Is a fantastic way for your child to consolidate their learning.

The link you need is: 

https://infinity.whiteroseeducation.com/Home  

click 'enter code'

They can then add the

School code

SLR - JJW

Quiz Pins: (more are added as their learning progresses)

Year 1 Time:

90 - 51 - 60

57 - 38 - 47

Additional Information

Welcome to Year 2 and 'moving up week'

 

This week's information is for children going from Year 1 to Year 2.

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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 -

 

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