Year 2

Year 2 Curriculum Project

Year 2 Project - Land Ahoy!

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Get ready to take to the high seas and set sail in search of treasure!

This term, we’ll visit Chatham Historic Dockyard to find out about boats and ships of all shapes and sizes. We’ll write about our visit, read information books, investigate amazing sea rescues and write postcards and poetry influenced by the sea. Our science skills will help us to understand how boats float and we’ll design and make model ships using a variety of materials. We’ll study paintings of boats. Our map reading skills will help us to identify different seas and oceans, and we’ll learn about famous sea explorers. Stories of pirates will inspire us to make pirate flags, treasure maps and fact files. We’ll even find out how to talk and sing like a pirate!

Help your child prepare for their project
The sea is fascinating! Why not take a trip to the coast? Visit the harbour, lifeboat station and beach and take plenty of interesting photographs. You could also make boats from plastic cartons, cardboard boxes and polystyrene trays. Add sails and cargo then see which boats sail around the bath successfully! Alternatively, sing along to some lively sea shanties performed by The Fisherman’s Friends from Port Isaac in Cornwall. Visit their website to access free sample tracks.

 

Memorable Experience: Visit to Chatham Historic Dockyard

Geography: Using and making maps; Locational knowledge; Directions

History: Significant historical people – Captain James Cook, Grace Darling; Famous pirates

 

This project is also supported by mini projects in; 

Science: Human Survival, Uses of Materials 

Art and Design: Flower Heads

Design and Technology: Beach Hut

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  document found below.

Year 2 Key Information

In Year 2, PE is timetabled for every Monday and Thursday. We will be doing Paralympics sports on Mondays and Netball on Thursdays. Please ensure that all earrings are removed on those days and that your child has their full PE kit in school. Please ensure that your child has a colder weather PE kit in school, including spare socks and trainers.

 

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English  

w/c 18.11.24, we will:

• create a pirate fact book
• complete a spelling, punctuation and grammar check
• complete a reading comprehension check - part 1 
• complete a reading comprehension check - part 2

 

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 where their understanding will be checked.

oy as oy (boy) and oi (coin) 

Spelling words:

boy

toy

enjoy

annoy

voyage

boycott

gargoyle

flamboyant

coin

oil

join

point

soil

disappoint

poison

moisture

 

On Wednesday they will write a dictated sentence which uses some words containing these graphemes.

On Thursday we will begin our new phoneme to grapheme focus:

i as i (sit)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maths

w/c 18.11.24, we will:

• complete some pirate maths activities
• continue solving mixed number problems
• complete an arithmetic check
• complete a maths reasoning check - part 1
• complete a maths reasoning check - part 2

Fluencybee:

1 more within 20, 1 less within 20

 

Additional Information

Pirate day - Monday 18th November - children can come to school dressed as a pirate - no weapons please.

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OUR LEARNING

OUR VISITS AND SPECIAL EVENTS

OUR DISPLAYS

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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 (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:

  • Thinking about our two stories - 'Adventures are the Pits' and 'Something Fishy'. They both started as people doing everyday activities which turned into amazing adventures (going down a soft play slide and landing in a deep dark ball pit mountain or sitting in a launderette and opening a washing machine to swim into the clothes ocean) - create your own amazing adventure. Where would you be when it started? Where do you go? What do you see? How do you get back?  This can be drawn and/or written.

 

Maths:

• solve mixed number problems e.g.    24 + 8 = 21 + ?,        45 - 7 = 32 + ?,          37 - ? = 41 - 9 etc
• solve:

67 - 12 = 

56 + 14 =

82 - 36 = 

27 + 27 = 

98 - 54 = 

34 - 27 = 

 

 

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