First Half of Summer Term 2016 Year 2

Teachers: Miss Cutler, Mrs Dicker, Mr Light, Mrs Whittle and Miss Gravely

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Cudd, Mrs Jackson & Mrs Farley

An overview of the curriculum for the forthcoming half term is outlined below.

English - as well as the Primary Framework

Reading: Comprehension

·  Book covers and finding out about authors.

·  Reading and writing book reviews.

Writing: Composition

·  Extended stories – The structure of stories and the importance of dialogue. Emphasis on using adjectives to add description, using speech to demonstrate a character is talking, writing in paragraphs, using connectives to extend sentences, starting sentences in different ways and including verbs and adverbs.

·  Instruction writing

Phonics:

ay – day / oy - boy / wh - when / a-e - make
ou – out / ir - girl / ph – photo / e-e - these
ie – tie / ue - blue / ew – new / i-e – like
ea - eat / aw - saw / oe – toe / o-e – home
au - Paul / u-e - rule

·  Introducing and teaching the past tense.

·  Investigating and learning how to add suffixes.

·  Teaching spelling long words.

·  Finding and learning the difficult bits in words.

Mathematics

Counting, partitioning and calculating

Read and write numbers in figures and words

Order, compare and round numbers

Partition numbers in different ways

Understand a variety of addition and subtraction strategies

Multiplication and division strategies

Securing number facts and understanding shape

Solving real life problems using money and measures

Consolidation of calculation strategies

Visualise and draw 2 step word problems
Reinforce all addition and subtraction facts to at least 10, pairs up to 20 and all pairs of multiples of 10 to at least 100

Statistics

Data Handling – following a line of enquiry

Measure

Reading a scale in the context of temperature involving negative numbers

Millilitres, litres, kg and g

Compare measures using < >

Science

Relating to the National Curriculum children will learn about Plants (Sc2) including:

a: to recognise that plants need light water, warmth and nutrients to be healthy

b: to recognise and name the leaf, flower, stem and root of flowering plants and know there functions

c: that seeds grow into flowering plants

Other areas of the Curriculum

History: The Great Fire of London

ICT: Algorithms

Music: Singing songs with simple patterns and accompaniments.

RE: The Creation Story

PE: Rounders

Dance: Creation Dance

Art: Developing drawing skills; line, tone, pattern, form

PHSE: Taking charge