Queens Inclosure Primary School

Year 2 Curriculum Overview

Year 2 Curriculum Map

Summer Term 2 - 2018

This half term, we have been learning about the Norman Conquest and why we have so many castles around our country. We have written information leaflets for our year group assembly, made a memory book about our terrific trip to Arundel castle and we’ve even written our very own castle poetry.

In our theme learning, we have completed several different projects. Our favourite one was building our 3D castles with a working portcullis. We also enjoyed sewing our favourite memory patch using a running stitch and applique skills. We’ve really enjoyed our last term in Year 2!

 

 

Summer Term 1 - 2018

This half term, we have travelled across the Atlantic Ocean to explore the Titanic’s destination of New York City. We have noticed lots of similarities and differences between New York and London by using the street view app. When studying New York, we identified lots of human and physical features such as the Hudson River, the Statue of Liberty, Central Park and the Empire State Building. In English, we have been learning about alternative ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ stories and we enjoyed writing our own version as a bedtime story. We then moved onto ‘Paco and the Chile Plant’, after which we explored the Chilean culture by food tasting – which was very yummy!!

We wrote a speech bubble for the giant (Mr Good!) to persuade him not to eat us. In art, we learnt about an artist who lived and worked in New York – Jackson Pollock. We thought his technique was fun and it helped us understand to colour mixing.

 

Spring Term 2 - 2018

Our theme of ‘Iceberg Ahead’ has seen Year 2 dive back in time to learn all about the Titanic and its famous maiden voyage .The children have been fascinated by all the facts they learnt, even down to how heavy each anchor weighed! We visited Sea City Museum in Southampton to learn all about the crew and the survivors of the Titanic. We took part in some amazing workshops where we discovered how many flooded compartments it took to sink the ship, handled some artefacts of the time and worked out how to fill the lifeboats. We explored the museum to hear the survivors’ stories and found out our favourite fact - the fake funnel and its special use! We have used all our learning to write information posters that share our new found knowledge. Look out for these when you visit school.

Spring Term 1 - 2018

Year 2 had a sticky start to their learning this term - they had to make a marmalade sandwich for a very special bear. They soon discovered they were going to learn all about Paddington and his adventures and where he lived – London. We have been writing Paddington stories and using our expanded noun phrases to write lots of Paddington-inspired descriptions. We have discovered lots of amazing facts about London and its famous landmarks. We have used maps and globes to identify where London is and have compared London to Waterlooville. We have even used our ICT learning with our roamers to create routes around London and can programme them with our directions.

 

Autumn Term 2 - 2017

We started our learning this half term with a trip to the New Forest Wildlife Park, where we encountered animals who live in the British woodlands. We learnt about their habitats and used this to write an information book. We continued our learning about woodland animals in our school grounds by discovering how animals camouflage themselves; we tried camouflaging our teddies in the woods to find out the best ways to hide in the environment.

We also created Bugingham Palace as a home for all the minibeasts and are looking forward to seeing who moves in!We were also proud to present our Christmas performance of The Bethlehem Star to our parents. We had great fun learning our songs and lines.

Our last event this half term was learning our poems for our Poetry and Pies parent drop in. We even baked the mince pies and cookies. Our parents seemed to enjoy it all!

 

Autumn Term 1 - 2017

This half term, we have been learning all about keeping ourselves healthy. We have enjoyed investigating what foods are healthy for us and what foods we should only occasionally have as a treat, even if they are our favourites! We loved choosing different fruits to go into a fruit salad and we really enjoyed it after we had chopped, sliced and squeezed it all. We have learnt all about the importance of keeping our bodies clean and making sure we exercise for a healthy heart.

We have shared healthy songs with our parents and even became teachers for the afternoon when we taught them one of our songs "Too Many Toffees". We decided that our parents were very good learners as they picked the song up very quickly.