Year 2
Year 2 Overview 2017-18
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Autumn 1 |
Autumn 2 |
Spring 1 |
Spring 2 |
Summer 1 |
Summer 2 |
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Topic driver
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Lost in Space |
Superheroes |
Castles |
The Titanic |
On the Farm |
The Rainforests |
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Literacy
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Fantasy Stories Humorous poems |
Repetitive poems Character descriptions Letters |
Fairy tales Instructions Recounts |
Diary entries Recounts letters |
Traditional tales Chronological reports |
Information texts Shape poetry |
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Maths (times tables done weekly for the 2,3,5 and 10 times tables)
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Place value Shape Fractions (1/2, ¼, 1/3) Calculations (number bonds, doubles) Time (O’clock, half past and digital) |
Fractions (2/4, 3/4) Calculations (adding 3 numbers, missing numbers, adding and subtracting multiples of ten) Measurement (cm) Money (making amounts) Number and place value
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Calculations (adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers) Inverse Shape Place vale < and > statistics |
Calculations (+ and - ten to/ from any number) Adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers) Inverse Number and place value < and > Position and direction Measurement (cm) Division by (2,5,3,10) Time (quarter past and to, nearest 5 mins) |
Inverse (+ and – and x and ÷) Finding the difference Odd and even numbers Measures (g, kg) Money
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Adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers Fractions (amounts) Arrays Time (digital and analogue nearest 5 mins) Turns Finding the difference Inverse. |
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PE
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Games and skills |
Multi- skills |
Gymnastics skills |
Dance skills and balance |
Games skills |
Athletics skills |
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Computing
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Scratch programming (We are astronauts) |
Learning how different games work and using scratch (We are programmers and bug fixers) |
Using cameras to photograph our trip and other models (We are photographers) |
Using a search engine to find information (We are researchers) |
Using emailing to communicate with peers in class (we are communicators)
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Collecting and representing information using tally graphs and bar charts. (We are data handlers) |
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Science
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Investigating gravity and materials planning out investigations and looking at fair testing. |
Healthy humans and hygiene. |
Materials and their uses.
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Investigations with a watery theme. Thinking of questions and testing them. |
Plants |
Animals including humans (life processes and food chains) |
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Art
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Clay aliens Paper mache planets |
Child lead Andy Warhol printing |
Building castles
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Child lead |
Van Gough sunflower |
Child lead |
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DT
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Superhero puppets |
Making bread |
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Where does our food come from? Making fruit smoothies |
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Geography
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Compass directions, walking on the moon Name and locate the world’s 7 continents |
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Aerial maps and plans of castles |
Identifying the 5 oceans. |
Field work (local environment) |
Compare our local area to a non-european country (Amazon RF) Use basic vocabulary to describe a less familiar area. |
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History
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Changes within living memory – space travel timeline The lives of significant individuals in the past (Neil Armstrong) |
Real life super heroes - Florence Nightingale |
Parts of a castle and defence
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Events beyond living memory. Sequencing events Looking at how daily life and outfits have changed over the last 100 years.
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Music
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Nativity songs |
Play tuned and un-tuned instruments musically (fairy tale theme) |
Listen to live and recorded music (Irish and Gaelic) |
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PSHCE SEAL
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Beginning and belonging |
Anti-bullying week, my emotions |
relationships |
Working together |
Healthy life styles |
Managing risks, stranger danger |
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RE
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Belonging |
Christmas and the Nativity story |
Judaism |
Stories about Jesus |
Symbols |
The creation story |
