This term the Giraffes will be looking in great detail at the Victorian era and what life was like in the past for children in homes, school and life including toys and games. The children will focus on Queen Victoria, Florance Nightingale and Mary Seacole as significant individuals from the past. The children will look at life in Belthorn and how it has changed from past to present day. The children will immerse themselves into ‘A day in a life’ of a Victorian child in school and experience a school day from the past.
Discover
How has life changed?
How we'll be doing it...
WOW day
Children to come to school as a child from the past and to take part in a traditional school morning from the Victorian Era.
Authentic Outcome
The children’s authentic outcome will be to take part in a walk around the village with families.
Trips
Pantomime in December
Subjects
Literacy
The children will be exploring ‘The Jolly Post Man’ and ‘On board the Titanic’ building on their knowledge of genres and adding new style punctuations into their writing such as commas. Children will build on their knowledge from Year 1 and write letters and diary entries as well as innovating their own fairy tale story.
Maths
The children will be building on their mental arithmetic skills, problems solving and reasoning skills and focussing on the following areas:
Place value
Addition and subtraction
Science
This term the children will have an introduction to living things and their habitats. The children will identify what distinguishes something as living and non living and will carry out big hunts in various different habitat locations in the school grounds. The children will also plant bulbs as to observe the changes regarding growth throughout the year.
The second half of the term the children will learn about materials and their properties. The children will carry out many different lines of scientific enquiry testing different materials for their suitability for a project.
PSHE
This term Year 2 children will develop their knowledge of
Growth mindset – focussing on how to be a good team member and having a good growth mindset and discussing stereotyping people.
Families and relationships – building on our knowledge of family and feelings towards friendships.
PE
Mr Griffiths will be leading the PE this year. The children will carry out weekly lessons developing their gross motor skills. The children will be focusing on fundamental skills, net and wall, gymnastics and team building.
RE
RE in Year 2 focuses on:
How do we respond to the things that really matter?
During this term, children will discover:
- Christianity – Why do Christians say that Jesus is the ‘Light of the World’?
- Judaism – Does worship help people?
Computing
This term the children will build on their knowledge of Hour of Code from Year 1 and will work through a series of steps to solve and create algorithms by finding bugs, debugging and completing levels to develop their programming knowledge.
The children will also develop their drawing and painting skills by creating digital images of their DT projects of a soft toy.
DT
This term the children will be developing their sewing skills they initially explored in Year 1 and the children will be making a soft toy out of recycled materials. The children will perfect their fine motor skills by joining fabrics in different ways. The children will sew and glue to create a recycled material soft toy following a analysing a brief, designing, constructing and evaluating series of steps.
Music
This term children will enjoy a series of music lessons based around West African music focussing on dynamics and structure. Then for the second part of the term the children will focus on orchestral music.
Handwriting
This term Year 2 will continue to develop their handwriting skills by forming letters and number of the correct orientation and size on the lines.