Miss Barratt
Teacher

Mrs Morris
Learning Support Assistant

Miss Crutchley
Teacher

Mrs Roper
Assistant Head Teacher

Mrs Barnet
Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Year 2 Curriculum Map

If you would like to know a little more about what the children in Year 2 will be learning about this half term, please refer to our curriculum map document below.

Important Information 

• Year 2's PE lessons will be on a Tuesday afternoon. Please ensure your child is wearing the correct PE kit. 

Key Dates

Homework 

• Homework will be set every Friday to be returned for the following Wednesday.

English

For our spring term book focus, Year 2 will be reading 'George's Marvellous Medicine' by Roald Dahl. The children will be immersed into the two main characters of George and Grandma. The children will learn the following skills in order to apply these to a variety of extended writes:

• Expanded noun phrases 
• Adverbs and verbs 
• Prepositional phrases 
• Character descriptions 
• Instructional texts 

Maths

In Maths, for our next topic, we will be looking at Number, focusing on:

• Addition of ones and tens using 1 and 2 digit numbers. We will be using tens and ones charts to support us in our concrete and pictorial approaches and then apply these skills to reason and problem solve. 

• Subtracting ones and tens using 1 and 2 digit numbers. We will be using tens and ones charts to support us in our concrete and pictorial approaches and then apply these skills to reason and problem solve. 
• Multiplication of 1 digit numbers using our 2, 5 and 10 times tables. We are learning to represent multiplications in a variety of ways. Using arrays, equal groups and repeated addition to support our concrete and pictorial approaches. We will then start to problem solve.   
• Dividing using our 2, 5 and 10 times tables. Using concrete resources and pictorial representations to support our learning, we will be learning to share, group and problem solve.  

Curriculum

For our spring curriculum topic in Year 2, we will be answering the big question 'Who has inspired you?'

History & Geography:

We will be delving into this big question by exploring nurses in the past and the present; focusing on three inspirational people in History (Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole and Martin Luther King); and discussing who inspires us. 

Science

This term in science we will be looking at materials and exploring our big question... 'Can a school reduce single use plastic?'

To investigate this question, we will be looking at:

• Exploring what everyday materials are and their uses.
• Compare suitable and unsuitable materials for products.
• Discuss the dangers of plastic if used incorrectly. 
• Re-using and recycling.