English
  • Make our sentences longer using connecting words
  • Different ways to start our sentences
  • Descriptive writing using adjectives and noun phrases
  • What are verbs and how to write the correct tense
  • Using a range of punctuation
  • Writing stories
  • Writing information reports
  • Understanding different question words (e.g. What? Where? Why? When? How?) and what the questions are asking us to do
  • Understanding the characters we are reading about and deduce their feelings and personality
  • Learning to join our handwriting and present our work in a neat way
/ Science
  • Know about the basic conditions needed for flowers and insects to survive
  • Know about the differences between living things and things that have never been alive
  • Know that living things grow and reproduce
  • Know that the features of the school environment affect the types of living things found there
  • Be able to sort living things into simple groups
  • Be able to recognise living things in the school environment
  • Understand that different locations support different living things
  • Know the names and characteristics of a range of animals
  • Know the names of the parts of plants
  • Know that seeds grow into plants
  • Know that plants need light to grow
  • Know that plants need water to grow
/ Computing & ICT
  • Know about some of the applications of ICT in everyday life
  • Know about some of the ways in which the use of ICT affects people’s lives
  • Be able to use ICT to organise and classify information
  • Be able to use ICT to present information
  • Be able to enter, save, retrieve and revise information
  • Be able to work with text, tables, images and sound
  • Be able to plan and give instructions to make things happen
  • Be able to use ICT to explore what happens in real and imaginary situations
/ Mathematics
  • Be able to explain how we solved a problem
  • Be able to explain and justify our reasoning
  • Addition and Subtraction – mental methods and written methods
  • 2x, 5x, 10x tables and corresponding division facts
  • Place value and partitioning
  • Time – knowing half and quarter past
  • Fractions – halves and quarters
  • Identifying the properties of 2D and 3D shapes
  • Money – identifying coins and making different values

P.S.H.E. & SRE
  • To describe how to look after particular parts of the body.
  • Explain why it is important to keep clean
  • To be able to describe and carry out basic hygiene routines
  • To know what they can take responsibility for and know when they need help
  • To consider touches we like and ones we do not
  • Identify people we can talk to
  • Consider good secrets and bad secrets
/ Year 2 Summer Term
Our themes for this term are:
The first half term the children will be learning all about the Flowers and Insects.
And…

after half term, our topic is ‘Hooray – Let’s go on Holiday’ / RE
Who influences our lives?
How important the Bible is for
Christians, including:
• Stories about Jesus
• How and when the Bible is used
• Stories that Jesus told about how
to live, e.g. the Good Samaritan
How important the Qur’an is for
Muslims, including:
• that the Qur’an was revealed to the
Prophet Muhammad
• Stories about the life of Prophet
Muhammad e.g. Muhammad and
the black stone
• Stories about the Prophet about
how to live, e.g. Muhammad and
the kittens, Muhammad and the old woman
  • In what ways are a church and
mosque important to believers?
Geography 8 History
  • Know about the weather and climatic conditions in particular localities and howthey affect the environment
  • Know that the world extends beyond their own locality and that the places theystudy exist within a broader geographical context
  • Be able to use secondary sources to obtain simple geographical information
  • Be able to communicate their knowledge and understanding in a variety of ways
  • Know about the main physical and human features of a selection of places that
  • they and other children have visited as holiday destinations
  • Know about some similarities and differences between different holiday locations and their own
  • Know how land and buildings are used by people for holiday activities
  • Know through their knowledge of holiday destinations that the world extendsbeyond their own locality
  • Begin to know how people on holiday can harm or improve the environment
  • Be able to use geographical terms
  • Be able to follow directions
  • Be able to describe the geographical features of the school site and other
  • familiar places
  • Be able to use maps at a variety of scales to locate the position and simplegeographical features
/ PE
  • Be able to perform simple activities with control and coordination
  • Be able to repeat and develop simple actions
  • Be able to apply movements in sequence
  • Be able to observe, copy and develop actions performed by others
/ Art & D.T.
  • Know about some of the forms used by artists in their work
  • Be able to use a variety of materials and processes
  • Be able to suggest ways of improving their own work
  • Be able to comment on works of art
  • Understand that the work of artists can be seen in a wide variety of places andsituations
  • Know about some of the ways that holidays are represented in art form
  • Be able to use a variety of materials and processes
  • Be able to suggest ways of improving their own work
  • Be able to use and comment on works of art
  • Understand that the work of artists can be seen in a wide variety of places andsituations
/ Music
  • Know a number of pieces of music associated with flowers and insects
  • Know how a number of musicians – including some from their home countryand the host country – use musical elements to create different effects and fordifferent purposes
  • Be able to recognise and explore ways in which sounds can be made, changedand organised
  • Be able to play simple rhythms with a steady beat
  • Be able to listen carefully to pieces of music and comment on them
  • Understand that musical elements can be used to create different effects