Year 2

Literacy

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.

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
• Shape

Science

This term the children will have an introduction to animals and their need for survival focussing on different types of animals and their needs for survival. We focus deeper into humans how to stay healthy and strong.

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 –  focusing 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 at Belthorn explores a variety of religions, beliefs and traditions. Children will have the opportunity to discuss their own and understand other peoples’ beliefs. This allows them to gain a better understanding of the world around them and show the importance of acceptance.

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’?
• Hinduism – How might people show their devotion?

Computing

This term the children will build on their knowledge of computers around us and build on their knowledge technology and how to make smart choices when using them.

After half term the children will build on their skills of programming from Year 1 and will work their way through a series of steps to solve and create algorithms by finding bugs, debugging and completing levels to develop their programming knowledge of Hour of Code.

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 and will begin to learn about joins.