Year 2 - Foxes
Welcome to Foxes Class
Class Teacher Miss Winfield
Below you will find the curriculum overviews for each half term in Year 2. To support our Theme lessons, Knowledge organisers are used to outline the main skills and information the children will be learning in each term. We use them in class to help retrieve key information quickly. You can use these to support your child at home.
Autumn 1 - Deadly Dinosaurs
Non-fiction writing
Through our History lessons we will write for a lot of different purposes. We’ll use different sources to help write fact files and research the types of dinosaurs to write about our own!
Fiction writing
We will then move on to learning a text map with the story of the Little Green Dinosaur. We will use actions and movements to remember the story off by heart. Then we will write our own version of the story using different sentences types and vocabulary that we liked from the original story.
Maths
Following the NCETM Curriculum, we will begin our journey in maths by consolidating our knowledge on numbers 10 - 100. We will work towards representing these numbers in a variety of ways and be able to accurately mark the position of these numbers on to a number line.
Deadly Dinosaurs information newsletter
Deadly Dinosaurs knowledge organiser
Autumn 2 - Artic Adventure
Spring 1 - Our Planet
We will be identifying geographical characteristics of the UK, as well as locating the 5 oceans on a world map, whilst asking the important question 'Why is our world wonderful?'
Why is Our World Wonderful information newsletter
Take a look at our map that we will be using to help us locate geographical places:
Why is Our World Wonderful knowledge organiser
Fiction writing
Firstly, we shall be looking at a range of different animals to create poems about them. We will learn that all these animals are unique in their own way and create acrostic poems to highlight this.
Non-fiction writing
Later in the half term we will soon discover that the animals we love and have researched are endangered. Some have even recently become extinct! We shall use persuasion to try to convince people to protect them.
Spring 2 - Castles and Dragons
Fiction Writing:
Firstly, we are going to be looking in detail at the story 'George and the Dragon', identifying what makes this a good story. To support our own imagination, we may be finding some mysterious, colourful dragon eggs and we will be using our creativity to write about why those dragon eggs are on our school field and what they may become...
Non Fiction Writing
Later on in the half term, we are going to be learning lots of new information all about castles. We are going to use all of this information to write our own non-chronological report, trying very hard to add in all of the features of a castle and tell the reader what their purpose is!
Summer 1 - Rumble in the Jungle
Non Fiction Writing:
We are are going to be learning all about the athlete Greg Rutherford, whilst looking at various writing features that we will begin to use in our own writing. We will then be using our creative minds to create our own athletes to be able to write a non-chronological report all about them.
Fiction Writing:
Once we have written our non-chronological report, we are then going to be engaging all of our senses and immerse ourselves in the jungle. With the help of plenty of sensory, exciting activities along the way, we will be writing all about our very own jungle experience. I wonder what we will find deep in the jungle.
Summer 2- Fire Fire!
Non Fiction Writing:
We are going to be reading extracts from Samuel Pepys' diary to find out what really went on during the Great Fire of London in 1666. We will be using this information, alongside visual and audio clues, to write our very own diaries.
The Grisly Great Fire of London
Fire Fire information newsletter
