Priory Infant School

 

Year 2

Please see below the overview of learning for Year 2.

 

 Autumn 1

Autumn 2 

 

 Spring 1

 Spring 2

Summer 1 

 Summer 2

Topic

Monsters

 

Around the World

Our Colourful Past

Amazing People

Zoo

Chocolate

ENGLISH

 

 

Character/setting

description

Simple recount/newspaper

report

Free verse poem

Instructions

 

Letter about Scotland

Fact file

Information piece

comparing school in China

and Ramsgate

Story

Short narrative

Diary entry inspired by

Samuel Pepys about The

Great Fire of London

Information

Fable

Fact file

Extended recount

Poetry

Traditional Tale with

innovations

Story

Free verse poem

Extended writing:

traditional tale

Longer narrative

MATHS

Place value

Addition  and subtraction

Shape

Money

Multiplication and division

Length and height

Mass, capacity and temperature

Fractions

Time

Statistics

Position and direction

SCIENCE

How can we compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials?

How can we change the shape of some solid objects?

 

 

What are the differences between things that are alive, dead and never been alive?

How can we use fair testing to carry out an investigation?

What animals are suited to different environments?

What do plants need to grow and stay healthy?

How do seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants?

How can we classify and group plants?

What do living things need to survive? What are their stages of growth?

How do animals get their food from other animals/plants?

What food chains can we use to describe these relationships?

How can we group animals?

Why is exercise, healthy eating and personal hygiene important?

How can we grow a mature plant?

HISTORY

How can I use a source to

find out and answer

questions about the past?

 

How can we order a series

of events on a timeline?

 

How can we find out about

significant events, people and

themes from the past?

How can we describe what

significant people from the

past did and how it has

impacted the way we live

today?

How can we describe and

give detail about a local

historic event?

How has the way people

lived their lives changed

over time?

GEOGRAPHY

How can we use maps,

atlases and globes to

compare the four countries

in the UK?

What are the key

characteristics of the four

countries and their capital

cities?

 

 

How can we locate the

seven continents and five

oceans in the world?

How can I use a map, globe

or atlas to identify 4 other

countries in the world?

What vocabulary can we use

to describe daily and seasonal

weather patterns?

What are the similarities

and differences between

Antarctica and where we

live?

What must we include on a

map?

What language can we use

to describe features of an

area?

Where does chocolate

come from and what are

the physical differences to

where we live?

COMPUTING

 

Online Safety (‘Lee and Kim’, Webster’ & ‘Dongle the Rabbit’)

 

How can we use

instructions to control a toy

and debug a simple

program?

How can we use computing

to safely research the

continents of the world?

 

How can we use programming

software to make objects

move the way we want?

How can we use technology

in our daily lives and how

can we use the internet

safely?

How can we use technology

to collect and record

information?

How can we use computing

to create a book with text

and images? (Book Creator)

How can we safely

communicate with others

using technology?

(Email Detectives)

ART

How can we use weaving to

create a pattern?

How can we replicate

texture and pattern when

using clay?

 

How can we use weaving to

create a tartan pattern?

How can I recreate texture

using a range of media

when making a Christmas

card collage?

Who was Henry Moore?

How did Henry Moore create

his drawings?

How can we mix secondary

colours?

Who is Vincent van Gogh?

How can we use different

media to create texture

when painting?

Who is Pablo Picasso?

What is Cubism?

How can we use shading to

create depth?

Who is Zaha Hadid?

What does an architect do?

What is a sculpture?

What skills can we use to

develop our own art

exhibition?

DT

How can we use materials to make an egg carrier that is fit for purpose?

How can we use mechanisms to create a moving toy?

 

How can we design, make

and evaluate our own

Christmas decorations?

How can we use our knowledge to build a structure, applying methods to make it stronger, stiffer and more stable?

How can we prepare food hygienically? -Pancake topping.

How can we join materials

to create a puppet?

How can we safely and

hygienically prepare a

healthy dish?

RE

Who is Christian & what do they believe?

 

How & why do we celebrate special & sacred times?

Who is Jewish & what do they believe.

How can we learn from sacred books?

How should we care for others & the world, and

why should it matter?

MUSIC

Tony Chestnut Carnival of the animals Year 2

 

 

Christmas production

Grandma rap

Orawa

Trains

Swing-a-long with

Shostakovich Charlie

Chaplin

Tanczymy labada

Year 2 End of School

production

PE

Gymnastics

Ball Skills

 

Large Apparatus

Football

Christmas Dances

Dance

Games – Dodgeball

Orienteering

Games – Tennis, Kickball

Orienteering

Games – Tennis, Kickball

Athletics

Games – Cricket, Rounders

Sports week

 

VIPs

(Relationships)

 

Safety First

(Health and Wellbeing)

One World

(Living in the Wider World)

Digital Wellbeing

(Relationships)

Money Matters

(Living in the Wider World)

Growing Up

(Health and Wellbeing

British Values

Rule of law (linked to

golden rules)

 

Democracy

Mutual respect & tolerance of

different faiths and religions

(link to RE)

Individual liberty

Recap all BVs