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 Lacrosse on Tuesdays and Athletics 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 12/5/2025,

we will: 

• use adjectives to form expanded noun phrases to write section one of our report about the appearance of our chosen minibeast
• use adjectives to form expanded noun phrases to write section two of our report about the appearance of our chosen minibeast
• Use formal language in our writing

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 (14/5/25)  they will be tested on the phoneme /qw/ as the grapheme /qu/ as in quack:

qu

quack

quick

quicker

quickly

quickest

quiet

quietly

quieter

quietest

question

squash

aquarium

quarter

quiz

quest

quiver

squad

squeeze

liquid

square

equal

unequal

 

From Thursday (15.5.25), we will focus on the phoneme b as the graphemes b as in ball and bb as in rubber:

b

ball

bash

brush

branch

black

blank

boxes

bulb

brick

bang

brisk

rob

rub

cable

stable

 

bb

rubber

rubbing

rubbish

robber

robbing

scribble

scribbling

wobble

wobbling

throbbing

stubborn

ribbon

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maths

w/c 12/5/2025,

we will: 

• complete an end of topic check on fractions
• complete a pre-topic check on time
• understand O'clock and half past
• understand quarter past and quarter to
• tell the time past the hour
• tell the time to the hour

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

Mass, capacity and temperature:

02 - 61 - 97

76 - 06 - 39

57 - 25 - 18

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 sentences which include one or more of the spelling words (from the list) and underline them.
• Practice writing in cursive handwriting - write words which contain the letter r but do not join the r to its neighbouring letter.
• Research a minibeast and write some fun facts about it.
• Write a statement, a question and a command about a minibeast or subject of their choosing.
• You write a root word such as jump - can write a sentence using that word then add a suitable suffix to change the word and write a new sentence? (suffixes = ing, ed, ful, er, ness, able, s, es and ment)

         Maths:

• can they identify half of an object, shape or an amount?
• can they identify a quarter of an object, shape or an amount?
• can they identify a third of an object, shape or amount?
• cut different pieces of the same sized paper into halves, quarters and thirds and talk about what they notice.
• write all the fractions to a whole - for example, quarters = 0/4, 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4
• can they prove that 2/4 is equal to 1/2 using toast, cake, sweets or objects?

     Other:

Look at an atlas and identify the seas or oceans between or surrounding the different continents. Can they name the different continents? Can they identify some physical features on or around a continent? Can they explain the difference between human features and physical features?

 

 

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