Year 2

Year 2 Curriculum Overview
Year 2 Long Term Plan

Summer Term 1 - 2019

This term, we have been practising a variety of skills that are needed to be a secret agent. All secret agents need to be great detectives! In English, we have been helping Hermelin the mouse detective search for Captain Potts’ missing cat, Parsley. We created a missing cat poster, which lead to Parsley’s safe return to Captain Potts. Afterwards, we received another message from Hermelin requesting our help once again. Unfortunately, Sid, the cat on Aristotle Street, had run away to another street after his six owners found out they were sharing him! Once again, we used our writing skills to create a detailed missing cat poster which we published using our ICT skills. Throughout the term, we have received secret missions from QII. We think this mystery person could be Queen Elizabeth but ssshhhh, it’s a secret! Our missions have included cracking codes, investigating forces and solving mathematical problems.

 

Spring Term 2 - 2019

This half term, we have thoroughly enjoyed our history-inspired theme related to the sinking of the Titanic. We were hooked into the theme by our dress up day, as we relived the excitement of boarding the largest cruise ship of its time. Sadly, some of us knew that we wouldn’t reach the glorious city of New York. We needed to inform the captain by writing a telegram, warning him that there was a dangerous, glistening iceberg up ahead. Alas, the message never reached him in time!

 
   

We extended our knowledge about the Titanic by visiting the Seacity Museum. The children participated in a variety of exciting activities including a guided tour (with a quiz), a science experiment, smelly containers (with smells from the ship), handling artefacts from 1912 and listening to eyewitness accounts.

   
   

The children understand that we have learnt a lot from this tragic event in history. Cruise ships have been made safer simply by increasing the number of lifeboats on board. We have also learnt about the class differences in this era; the children were surprised so many people were treated in different and unfair ways.

 

Spring 1 - 2019

This term, we have been learning all about London! We have discovered lots of amazing facts about England’s capital city and its famous landmarks, using maps and globes to identify where it is, and comparing the city to Waterlooville. As well as England, we understand that there are three other countries that make up the United Kingdom.

Time-travelling back to 1666, we discovered that modern day London had disappeared! Instead, the city was full of wooden houses built very close together - which was part of the reason it suffered from the spread of a huge fire. As historians, we read an extract of Samuel Pepys’ diary which left us very confused as the language was very different. We enjoyed adapting this old-fashioned diary to help modern day children understand what happened in the Great Fire.

 

Autumn Term 2 - 2018

Year 2 began the half term looking at the habitats of different British wildlife. To help us investigate where animals live, we went on our first school trip to the New Forest Wildlife Park. We learnt which animals live in our British woodlands and which no longer live here. Although it rained, it didn’t stop us from gathering information to help us to write a leaflet.

 
   

We have been introduced to a new religion this term, Judaism. We enjoyed learning about the story of Hanukkah and how it differs from the Christian celebration of advent. We used this information to celebrate how people are different and to recognise differences in our friends.

It was that time of year again, and we got to show all of our parents and peers our wonderful Christmas performance, ‘Born in a Barn’. We had great fun rehearsing the songs and learning our lines with Year 1. Our favourite songs were: ‘A long way on a donkey’ and ‘Don’t worry Mary’. To finish the year, we invited our families to come and listen to our poetry recital. We enjoyed writing our own contemporary poem in the form of a Haiku and sharing an extract from ‘How the Grinch stole Christmas’, which is a classic poem that we learnt in CRAW. 

   
   

Autumn Term 1 - 2018

This term, Year 2 have been getting to know themselves and others in our first theme, ‘Knowing me, Knowing you’.

As part of our science learning, we have investigated how to keep healthy through eating the correct foods and regular exercise. Using our cutting, slicing and squeezing skills, we made yummy fruit salads and then used the experience to create our first fruit salad recipe.

   
   
   

Science experiments enabled us to see the impact of exercise on our bodies, including how it made us feel. We were super-tired afterwards and our muscles ached!

To finish our theme, we really enjoyed preparing for our music concert. We loved singing the songs and creating our own healthy-living t-shirts especially for the occasion.