Year 2

English

We will be inspired to create a persuasive letter based on our core text, "Izzy Gizmo". During the learning journey, we will be identifying how we persevere in our daily lives as well as writing a short reflection on how we can apply the values of perseverance and creativity in our daily lives.

Maths

This half term, we will be learning about place value. We will count and partition numbers to 100, identify numbers on a number line and compare and order numbers. We will then be counting in 2's, 5's and 10's. After this we will be focusing on addition and subtraction, number bonds to 10 and to 100 by identifying patterns and to add and subtract one from a given number.

Science

We will be learning about living things and their habitat. During the half term, we will be identifying, grouping and classifying all objects which are lliving, non-living and have never been alive. This will help us to identify the living and non-living things in a habitat and what these items need to survive to live in that habitat.

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History

We will be learning about how the suffragette movement has impacted life today. To do this, we will identify who the significant women from the past were and how they fought for equality. We will demonstrate our understanding of equality as we step back in time to the suffrage movement in 1890-1919.

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Computing

We will be learning about online safety and the uses of information technology in school and beyond.

RE

We will identify what it means to belong. We will look at look at different religions and identify how people show their faiths and beliefs. We will experience the importance of ceremonies and how beliefs and practices of different religions contribute to a sense of belonging for their followers.

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PE

In PE, we will be exploring gymnastics. We will develop an awareness of obstacles and how to avoid them as well as balancing, jumping and travelling to create a sequence. This will then lead to how we combine movements both on and off the apparatus.

Art

We will be continuing our learning journey from year 1 by sketching using shading techniques based on an inspirational artist called Jim Dine.

Music

We will be focusing on identifying different musical instruments in a variety of songs, and also comparing and contrasting different styles of music. We are using the online platform Charanga.

RSHE

We will be learning about how we control our emotions and feelings. In addition, we will learn that not all families are the same. We will identify unhappy relationships by comparing them to happy relationships and then we will learn about stereotypes.

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