The children will focus on the text, 'Jim and the Beanstalk' which is a twist on the original verion of 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. They will retell the story, sequence the main events and record a characters' thoughts and feelings. To finish, the children will innovate the text to create their own story.

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 unit, the children will use different disciplinary concepts to look at the changes in technology within living memory. The children will begin by thinking about the term ‘technology’ and what that means and consider the technology that they use in their everyday lives. We will then look more closely at how particular technologies have changed over the past 60 years such as how we write and how we talk.

Comparisons will be made between technology of the past and the modern day, thinking about how our lives have changed with the advances in technology. Throughout all of these lessons, children will discuss what things we do to help us find out about the past becoming history detectives themselves and will be encouraged to ask questions, make comparisons and use evidence to help them come to conclusions.

In this unit, children will explore the world using atlases and globes. They will learn to identify the seven continents and five oceans, as well as the countries, capital cities and surrounding seas of the United Kingdom. Children will also discover the location and significance of the equator, the North Pole and the South Pole. Children will develop their fieldwork and map skills by creating simple maps of the school grounds and observing, recording and describing key features in the local area. They will study the human and physical geographical features of Tulum, Mexico and compare them to the features of their local area.

The children will develop their understanding of pitch, pulse, beat and rhythm by participating in a variety of singing games. Through playful and interactive songs and movements, pupils will naturally develop their understanding of these musical elements.

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.