Welcome to Year 2

In Year 2, you will find Miss Giles, Mrs Browne, Mrs James-Gascoigne and Ms Aleksic.

To support the learning of Phonics we use Letters and Sounds, the LCP scheme, Jolly Phonics and Bug Club Phonics.

To support the learning of reading we use Letters and Sounds and Bug Club.

Also

- We also ask that you bring in your child's PE kit on a Monday to be left in school until Friday.
- All children are expected to read at home daily and make a record in their reading challenges. Please send the reading challenge into school every day.

Below are our Year 2 topics and a taster of what we will be learning each term.

If you would like more details regarding your child's learning please speak to your child's class teacher.

Long Term Plan Year 2
Assessment:	Term 1	Term 2		Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
Topic	Homes and Houses	Winter Wonderland		Roald Dahl	Our Natural World	Achievers and Inventors	Journeys and Awesome Africa
Literacy + Reading	Hansel and Gretel	The Snowman Mog Saves Christmas		The twits: character description. Instructions for a new trick. Poetry. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.	Farm trip-recount Fact File – animals	Instructions for a new invention Non-Fiction writing – fact files on famous inventor. Women who changed the world.	Diary writing – Naomi James (sailor) Story of the Massia People.
Maths	Number and Place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. No measures.	Number and Place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. Doubling and halving.		Number and Place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. SHAPE 2D. doubling.	Number and Place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, Fractions. Position and direction, shape, revision for SATS.	Number and Place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, Time	Measures, money, shape 2D, 3D, statistics.
Science	Habitats – animals	Materials – Ice experiments Winter animals		Humans	Animals and plants	Materials	Materials – boats and planes
Computing	Algorithms –beebot – using maps - Create and debug programmes	e– safety		e– safety	Powerpoint about animals or plants - Manipulate and create digital content	Word Processing skills	Logical reasoning.
RE	Special occasions. Mosque	Special occasions. Church		Special occasions. Special place	Easter and special people	Special people and culture	Special people and culture
Art	Bridget Riley – Mrs Browne’s Class	Christmas Card Making		Design a new chocolate bar wrapper.	Nature art sculptures	European artists	African Art
DT	Making a diorama animal habitat. Design, make and evaluate.	Christmas Crafts		Making 3D sculptures of the Twits.			Cooking – recipe from another country. Design and make own transport.
Geography	Locational knowledge. Maps of local area. Physical geography.	Winter weather patterns.			Geographical Features (Human and Physical features).		Locational Knowledge and field work– journey to school.
History	Changes within living memory. History of where we live – Banbury canal.			History of Cadburys		Famous Achievers and inventors.	Amelia Earhart (piolet) Naomi James (Sailor)
Music	Listening and appraising music	Using voices expressively Instruments –xmas		Experiment with combining sounds	Singing songs, chants and rhymes.	Un-tuned instruments	Tuned Instruments
PE	Games Outdoor: ball skills, Gymnastics	Dance –xmas		Indoor Gymnastics Outdoor=football	Gymnastics/dance	Games	Athletics Outdoor: rounders
PSHE/ RSE	PANTS Identifying safe people you can talk to (SCIB)	Anti-bullying Coping with feeling alone (SCIB)		PANTS Confidence, resilience and perseverance.	P4C- friendship –relationships	PANTS understand suitable appropriate touch (SCIB) Life cycle of humans-child to adult. Keeping healthy.	Moving on Keeping healthy-healthy eating (Also reacting to any relationship worries throughout the year.)
PSHE/SMSC	New Beginnings	Getting on and falling out		Say no to bullying	Going for goals	Good to be me	Relationships and Changes
Trips	Trip to Banbury Wood Green Library Possible insect workshop or trip?	Black country museums	Cadbury’s World		Farm		Residential Hill end. African day with a workshop in.