The text explores issues of conservation and starts to explore whether we can escape the issues that endangered animals face on a day-to-day basis. Children will create fact files on endangered animals as well as writing short persuasive pieces on why we need to save a particular endangered animal. 

During this writing root, the children will explore two different versions of Goldilocks. The children will initially familiarise themselves with the traditional tale. They will focus on adjectives to create a 'Wanted' poster for Goldilocks and then go on to retell the story. In the 'Me and You' version, the children will have a more sympathetic view of Goldilocks and will tell the story from her point of view.

For Year 2, Monster Phonics will focus on the Year 2 National Curriculum Spelling Programme. Tricky Witch will support us in learning different spelling patterns for known sounds. 

 

In this unit, children will learn about the concept of ‘Gospel’ and the good news of forgiveness, peace and love that Christians believe Jesus brings. Children will learn about Matthew the Tax Collector and how Christians believe that Jesus offers forgiveness, looking at their heart rather than what they have done in the past. Children will learn about the instructions that Jesus gives in the Bible and how Christians follow his example and these instructions in order to behave in a Christ like way. Children will take time to consider whether Jesus’ good news is only good news for Christians or whether there are things for people from different worldviews to consider.

This term the children will look at examples of Still Life as a style of Art and talk about what we can see and how the paintings make us feel.  Our focus this term is painting and the children will be introduced to tints and shades.  They will explore everyday objects, matching them to tints and shades using a colour chart. Then we will look at monochromatic art and photography.  The children will study how Cezanne used tints and shades to create artwork and begin to compare it to the modern art of Shepard Fairy. They will mix and add varying amounts of white and black to their base colour to paint tints and shades.  The children will have the opportunity to select different materials to create their own drawing, paintings or sculpture.  Finally we will look at the role of a designer, thinking particularly about car designers.

During this half term, the focus for our Maths lessons will be Place Value and Addition and Subtraction. The children will be working with numbers to 100 and learn the value of each digit. The children will be using concrete manipulative to develop their understanding and then this will develop to pictorial representations.

 

Support you child at home by downloading the DoodleMaths App or access DoodleMaths online. We encourage the children to access DoodleMaths daily to develop their mathematical skills and understanding. We expect the children to be in the Green Zone by the end of the week as part of their homework.

 

Click on the link: DoodleMaths

 

The children will continue with their journey in Mastering Number in Year 2. The children will develop good number sense and have automativity in number facts.

The children will work scientifically by classifying objects into alive, was once alive and has never been alive. They will explore different habitats , naming plants and animals that can be found there. The children will learn how a range of different living things depend on each other for food and shelter. They will explore this further by creating food chains to show the sequence that living things eat each other for energy to grow and stay healthy.

In this enquiry, the children will be interpreting a range of historical evidence relating to life and times in Britain during the period of the First World War, both at home and overseas. The children will discover how people communicated using pigeons and describe how horses were used during the war.

This term, the children will explore the question, 'Why don't penguins need to fly?'. Through stories, maps and atlases, the children will discover what live is like in Antarctica and compare this with the Arctic and Sahara Desert.

 

The focus for this half term is Pulse and Metre.  The children will learn how to find pulse and how to move in time to the pulse. They will move on to creating simple pulse patterns while we are singing and understand how a pulse can be subdivided.

Focus: Robot algorithms

This unit develops children's understanding of instructions in sequences and the use of logical reasoning to predict outcomes. They will use given commands in different orders to investigate how the order affects the outcome and learn about design in programming. The children will use ScratchJr to design algorithms and then test those algorithms as programs and debug them.