Year 2

Year 2 Curriculum Project

Year 2 Project - Magnificent Monarchs

In the Magnificent Monarchs project, your child will learn about English and British monarchs from AD 871 to the present day and consider how the power of the monarchy has changed over time. They will study six significant sovereigns; Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria and Elizabeth II. Finally, they will choose which of the sovereigns that they have studied is the most significant.

Help your child prepare for their project
Research the monarchy timeline. Visit a royal building. Use a range of sources to find out about Balmoral Castle, Buckingham Palace and Osborne House. Visit the Tower of London.

Memorable Experience: English and British monarchy timeline

Geography: Significant places – royal residences

History: Historical vocabulary; Historical periods; Timelines; Power and rule; Historical artefacts; Significant people - Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror; Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth II; Bayeux tapestry; Feudal system; Actions and impact; Historical models

This project is also supported by mini projects in; 

Science: Animal Survival

Art and Design: Portraits and Poses

Design and Technology: Cut, Stitch and Join, Push and Pull

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 Thursday. We will be doing OOA on Tuesdays and Multi Skills 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 17/3/2025,

we will: 

• use repetition
• use action verbs and adjectives
• use adverbs
• use dialogue
• start my neat write

 

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 (19/3/25)  they will be tested on (through dictated sentences) the phoneme oo as the grapheme oo in look:

book

booked

booking

cook

cooked

cooking

took 

hook

hooked

unhook

unhooked

look

looked

looking

wood

wooden

good

goodbye

foot

soot

woolly

understood

misunderstood

shook

On Thursday (20.3.25), we will start our new phoneme /p/ as the graphemes p in pup and pp in cuppa

 

p

pup

hop

nap

shop

plonk

flap

drop

lamp

ship

grump

pitch

packet

champ

crisp

help

pp

cuppa

dapper

dropping

dropped

flapping

flapped

happen

happened

napping

shopper

shopping

hopped

hopping

 

 

 

 

 

Maths

w/c 17/3/2025,

we will: 

• complete a reasoning paper
• compare volume and capacity - practical
• compare volume and capacity - questions
• measure in millilitres 

Infinity maths:

The link is https://infinity.whiteroseeducation.com/Home 

They can then add the

School code

SLR - JJW

PINS:

Mass, capacity and temperature:

02 - 61 - 97

76 - 06 - 39

57 - 25 - 18

40 - 61 - 56

FluencyBee:

Bonds to 20

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 - 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)
• practise spelling some year 2 common exception words: said, so, have, like, some, come, were, there, little, one, do, when, what, out, oh, their, people, water, there, where, again, thought, through, work, mouse, many, laughed, because, different
• choose a book - can they identify the nouns, verbs and adjectives in the story. Write a list of them using commas to separate each one. 

         Maths:

• Cook something by measuring in grams and kilograms. 
• Discuss and compare the capacity of different containers.
• Ask them to measure out a specific volume of liquid - eg 100ml
• look at different temperatures on a thermometer.
• give them a length eg 6cm. Can they use a ruler to draw a line which is that length?

     Other:

Do some research and write about Henry VIII and Elizabeth I

Can they tell you about the Bayeux tapestry and Feudal system? If not can they find out more about them?

 

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