Year 2

Mrs Cummins & Miss Whitehead

Art – As artists we will:

• Explore mark making using paints, brushes and other tools
• Investigate and use materials and processes to communicate ideas and meaning.
• Explore expressive mark making in response to music and begin to explore and record objects and arrangements from different viewpoints

Computing – We will:

• Understand that the information on pictograms cannot be used to answer more complicated questions.
• Understand what is meant by a binary tree and design one to sort pictures.
• Understand what is meant by a database and use to answer simple and more complex search questions.
• Recall the meaning of key internet terms and  identify the basic parts of a web search engine search page.
• Explain what is meant by impressionist art and use 2Paint to create art based upon this style.
• Explain what pointillism is and use 2Paint to create art based upon this style.
• Describe the main features of Piet Mondrian’s work and use 2Paint to create art based upon his style.
• Children can describe the main features of art that uses repeating patterns.
• Children can describe surrealist art. and use the Collage function in 2Paint to create surrealist art using drawing and clipart.

DT - As designers we will:

• Generate ideas based on simple design criteria and their own
  experiences, explaining what they could make.
• Develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, mock-ups and drawings.
• Plan by suggesting what to do next.
• Select and use tools, skills and techniques, explaining their choices.

English – As writers and communicators we will: 

• Write for different purposes.
• Read a wide variety of both fiction and non-fiction.
• Use different sentence types in our writing.
• Use our knowledge of spelling and grammar to improve our work.
• Use past and present tense correctly.
• Evaluate our writing with an adult and independently.
• Discuss and give opinions on a variety of texts.

Geography– As geographers we will:

• Know about the 7 continents of the world and the 5 oceans
• Locate the different continents and oceans using an atlas, map and globe.
• Name the different continents and oceans
• Compare two contrasting locations from two different continents.

History – As historians we will:

• Know about who Victoria was and her early childhood.
• Learn how she became the queen of England and how life changed during this period of time.
• Think about life for Victorian children and how their lives differed from our lives today.

Mathematics – As mathematicians we will:

• Tell the time on an analogue clock: quarter past, quarter to and five minute intervals.
• Sequence daily events.
• Know how many minutes in an hour and hours in a day.
• Know fractions as part of a whole or a whole set.
• Illustrate, represent and explain addition and subtraction involving regrouping including ‘Make Ten’,
• ‘Round and adjust’ and near doubles strategies to support with addition and subtraction.
• Recognise coins and notes and use £ and p accurately.
• Add and subtract amounts of money and calculate change.
• Explore, sort compare and describe 2-D shapes and 3-D shapes.
• Identify lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes
• Identify 2-D shapes on 3-D shapes
• Use language to describe position, direction and rotation to follow a route.
• Develop our 2, 5, and 10 timetables knowledge.

Music – As musicians we will:

• Listen, Sing, Play, Compose and Perform.
• Follow and understand rhythm.
• Say how music makes us feel.
• Explain how music can make the world a better place.

P.E. – As athletes we will:

• Explore yoga poses and still shapes.
• Move confidently and safely in their own and general space, using changes of speed, levels and direction.
• Copy or create and link movement phrases with beginnings,
  middle and ends.
• Perform movement phrases using a range of body actions body parts.
• Be able to throw accurately at a range of targets.

R.E. – As theologians we will:

• Know that Jesus belonged to a family.
• Know about some of the celebrations in a church.
• Understand what it means to belong to God’s family.
• Use religious words to describe signs and symbols of Lent.
• Describe some ways that people can act in Lent.
• Reflect on how we pray.
• Retell the story of the Good Samaritan and the Easter story.
• Respond to the Easter story and what it tells us about Jesus.

RPSHE - We will:

• Look at how jobs help people earn money to pay for things they need and want.
• Learn about a range of different jobs, including those done by people they know or people who work in their community.
• Discuss how people have different strengths and interests that enable them to do different jobs.
• Explore how people use the internet and digital devices in their jobs and everyday life.

Science – As scientists we will:

• Explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive.
• Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other.
• Identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats.
• Describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food.