School Year 2020 - 2021

Year 2

Curriculum Newsletter

Titanic

Autumn 1 2020

Literacy

• Story writing
• Recount using time adverbials
• Newspaper report using past tense
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 Grammar

• Punctuation e.g. ? ! .
• Verbs
• Adjectives/ nouns
   
  Maths

• Number facts to 20
• Place Value
• Comparing and ordering numbers
• Addition and Subtraction
• Measure weight
• Position and direction
• Temperature - reading scales
   
  Art

• Create silhouette pictures
• Colour mixing
• Drawing the Titanic
  DT

• Cutting, joining and measuring to make a  Sukkah hut.

Science

• Identifying and naming different mini beasts/ plants and describing how they are suited to different habitats through a longitudinal study.

P.E

Monday and Thursday

• Gymnastics
• Football skills with our Specialist Coach

Computing

• Bee Bots
• Exploration.
• Recording algorithms.

 Music

• Water – Pitch
• Weather – Exploring Sounds

History & Geography

• Researching the timeline of events that led up to the sinking of The Titanic
• Debating the cause and effect of the sinking of The Titanic
• Identifying similarities and differences in classes of passengers and why they were on board The Titanic
• Exploring artefacts
• Following the route of Titanic – labelling key places
   
  RE

• Learning  about the Jewish festival of Sukkot
• Harvest
   

PDL  - Being Me in My World

• Hopes and fears
• Rights and responsibilities
• Rewards and consequences

Merton Mission – This can be done at anytime during the half term. You can choose from below or do them all!

Make it: Make your replica of the Titanic. Children can create their models through junk modelling, paper mache etc but these must be no bigger than 50cm long.

Read it: Read 3 non- fiction books about the Titanic.

Do it: Produce an information poster/leaflet with any facts you find. 

Miss L Bennett                                                               Mrs C Epstein

Maths manager/ KS1 leader                                          Science / RE manager

School Year 2019 - 2020

Year 2 curriculum newsletters for translation

Save the Rainforest!

Year 2

Spring 2 2020

Our Topic this half term is about ‘Saving the Rainforest’.  We will become global detectives and scientists as we learn about the issues surrounding the rainforests all around the world. We will learn about plants, animals and their habitats.

Literacy

Fiction

The children will become storytellers as they write and recite their own stories and poetry to a younger audience using:

• Adjectives, verbs and nouns
• Contractions
• Alliteration, rhyme and similes

Non Fiction

The children will become news reporters as they highlight the dangers of palm oil and deforestation using:

• A range of sentence types (commands, exclamations, questions and statements)
• Expanded noun phrases

Science  

• Describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants.
• Describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy.

Geography

• Explore how rainforests are different from our environment

• Location of rainforests and continents
• Effects of palm oil/ deforestation
• Name, locate & identify characteristics of the four countries and capital cities of the UK.
• Global issues and endangered animals
• Map work on human and physical features found in Popley, the Amazon and Uganda.

Art

To create a collage in the style of Henri Rousseau using:

• Pastels, paints and pencils to draw rainforest leaves.
• Techniques such as blending and smudging, patterns and textures.
   
  Maths

• Place value
• Polygons and quadrilaterals.
• Lines of symmetry on 2D shapes.
• Inverse of addition and subtraction.
• Inverse of multiplication and division.
• Equivalent fractions

Computing

Children to report from the Rainforest using the software ‘Green screen’ to film their news

Music

Pitch (higher and lower sounds).

Beat (to know the difference between rhythm and beat).

PE

Gymnastics – shape and balance

Dance - Jungle theme.

Merton Mission - Please choose from below.  It can be done at any time during the half term. This should be a fun and enjoyable time with your child to embed their learning skills.  A new mission will be given out for each new topic.

Read it: Research which companies use palm oil.

Make it: Make a pair of binoculars and/or an animal mask for the rainforest role play area.

Do it:  Make a poster for our playground protest to save our rainforests.

Miss L Bennett                                                               Mrs C Epstein

                         Maths Manager/ KS1 leader                                             Science / RE Manager