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.

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Year 2 Key Information

For this term, PE is timetabled for every Tuesday and Friday. We will be doing Lacrosse on Tuesdays and Football 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 21/4/2025,

we will: 

• complete a grammar focused task
• make inferences
• gather vocabulary including expanded noun phrases ready for writing a detailed character description
• describe a character in great detail

 

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 (23/4/25)  they will be tested on the common exception words:

sugar

improve

climb

above

because

hour

children

everybody

would

could

should

beautiful

many

what

why

who

where

when

 

 

From Thursday (24.4.25), we will focus on the phoneme th as the graphemes th (soft) as in thin and th (hard) as in the

th (soft)

thin

thinner

bath

bathroom

bathrobe

beneath

empathy

anything

everything

anthem

th (hard)

the

this

than

them

then

bother

bothering

brother

together

either

leather

 

These will remain on Edshed (passwords are in their reading record books)  over half term along with some punctuation and grammar games. Please allow your child some time on this as it supports them to understand how grammar is used correctly within sentences and how to spot errors.

 

 

 

 

Maths

w/c 21/4/2025,

we will: 

• recognise a quarter
• find a quarter
• recognise a third
• find a third

Infinity maths:

The link is 

https://infinity.whiteroseeducation.com/Home 

They can then add the

School code

SLR - JJW

PINS:

Fractions:

79 - 45 - 21

Mass, capacity and temperature:

02 - 61 - 97

76 - 06 - 39

57 - 25 - 18

FluencyBee:

Introduction to multiplication and division

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:

• Mix up a traditional tale - Cinderella climbed the beanstalk, The first little pig let down his golden hair etc and write a short story with the twist.
• Write sentences which include one or more of the spelling words (from the list) and underline them.
• Practice writing in cursive handwriting - making sure that letters with tails (such as y) go under the line and tall letters (such as t) are tall (we call them Mrs Horlock letters)
• Write a diary entry about a busy day during the school holidays or keep a diary for several days
• Write a letter to a friend or family member and post it
• Plan and write a menu for a meal and then help to make it
• write a poem about a sunny day

         Maths:

• help weigh/measure out the ingredients for making something together such as biscuits
• 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.

     Other:

Do some research on either of these two significant people: Christopher Columbus or Neil Armstrong including why they are significant. 

 

 

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