Year 2 Curriculum News Spring 2012
Famous People
Vincent Van Gogh and Stevie Wonder
Language, Literacy and Communication – Our ‘Big Write’ sessions will be linked to our topic and the following genres will be covered:
- Our Biography - A new ending for a story
- Recount on Van Gogh’s life - Recount of St. David’s life
- Diary of my week - Biography of Stevie Wonder
- Diary of Van Gogh’s life -
- Review of a painting
We will be following the Jolly Phonic Grammar programme which will have a focus on adjectives, plurals, Possessive Adjectives, Homophone mix up, Alphabetical order,
Handwriting will form a crucial part of our literacy sessions and the children will be encouraged to use joined up writing when the child is ready.
Mathematical Development – This area of the curriculum will be taught through practical activities where possible. Our focus this term will be doubling and halving numbers, money and the value of different coins, odd and even numbers, ordinal numbers such as first, second, third etc and adding and subtracting numbers. The second half of the term we will be focusing on clockwise and anticlockwise which will link into time. Different ranges of graphs and how we collect information will be a focus especially looking at block graphs, pictograms and tally charts, 3D shapes and their properties, measuring will also form part of this area of the curriculum. To support these concepts we will be using the websites ICT games, BBC numeracy and Topmarks. These will be attached to our class home page on the school website.
Knowledge and Understanding of the World – Our theme for our scientific lessons this half term will be based on plants and understanding that plants are living things and that they have different parts that have different functions. We will look at how seeds grow into flowering plants and that flowering plants make seeds. The children will understand that when we are doing an investigation we need to make it fair on, our investigation this term will be ‘What do seeds need to germinate’? The second half of the term will have a focus on sound and the different sounds we hear around us and what sounds are used as warnings. The children will investigate how sound gets fainter and louder and how it travels.
Our history theme is linked to our class topic of ‘Famous People’. We will be looking at the ‘Vincent Van Gogh’ life and what inspired his paintings. We will also be looking at ‘Stevie Wonder’ and how music has been a big part of his life.
Our geography theme will focus on different countries around the world and their capital cities.
Creative Development – We will look at the work of Van Gogh along with other famous artists.
Physical Education - Gymnastic movements using the PESS scheme of work will enable the children to develop sequences and their apparatus skills. Dance skills will be developed through our creative theme of music through the ages with a focus on music written by Stevie Wonder. Games will cover the skills of throwing, catching, aiming, kicking, striking, rolling and developing into control. Awareness of others through running, chasing and avoiding games and making simple decisions about rules.
Personal, Social & Emotional Development and Cultural Diversity – This area of the curriculum will be taught through all lessons. The importance of class and school rules will be a main focus along with friendship and how we treat each other.
Religious Education –
Welsh Language Development – Dillad/Clothes –
ICT Development– This term we will learn about Control and how to use computer language when programming machines. We will also develop our knowledge of to create a Super Story, creating interactive stories.
School Trips –
How to help your child – Homework will be sent out on a Thursday and returned on a Monday. Your child will bring home two reading books a week and please could you focus on the whole book ie, pictures, punctuation, expression etc. Also there will be a focus on High frequency words and the transferring of them into everyday writing. Alongside this I will send home a selection of other words covering a range of different blends including some that have already been covered. Other mathematics and topic related homework will also be sent home when required.