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Central Idea: 'Understanding and Celebrating Differences Can Help Bring People Together'
Central Idea: 'Understanding and Celebrating Differences Can Help Bring People Together'
Line of Inquiry 1: An inquiry into the diversity of our community.
Line of Inquiry 1: An inquiry into the diversity of our community.
For our very first line of inquiry in Year 2, we explored the differences found within our academy communities. The children sorted pictures into three categories (language, culture and tradition) to explore their meanings. We also identified how we were different to each other.
Line of Inquiry 2: An inquiry into how communities come together.
Line of Inquiry 2: An inquiry into how communities come together.
During this line of inquiry, we explored our feelings and how we can resolve conflict. The children also went on their first school trip and walked around the local community identifying ways we can show mutual respect. We visited the park, local roads and the nature reserve!
Line of Inquiry 3: An inquiry into why traditions help maintain cultural identity and connection.
In our final line of inquiry, Year 2 children have explored different traditions and celebrations found across the world. We spoke about our own traditions during a time of celebration and compared them with our friends.
We have also had the opportunity to compose our very own music (timbre) using musical instruments.
Skills Week in Art
10's and 1's in Maths
History Heroes Day - Great Fire of London/ Space
PYP Exhibition with our parents/carers
Science
The children have been practising their skills when working scientifically this term to prepare them for the rest of their upcoming learning across the remainder of the academic year. We have recapped and learnt what a prediction, results, method, findings, scientific questions and conclusion are and applied these to different experiments and activities.
Computing
Year 2 have introduced chromebooks to their learning this term and have been working on navigating these with skills such as typing, enterting their password independently and navigating the Google Classroom.
French
French has been introduced for the first time to Year 2 this term and they have enjoyed learning about French greetings including how to say hello, goodbye and ask how someone is feeling.
Art
Morag Myerscough has been the children's focus artist this term and they have been learning the key skills for painting and mixing together primary and secondary colours.
Maths
Year 2 children have been focusing on place value this term and ensuring they have a consolidated understanding of tens and ones using numbers to 100 whilst also practising their 2, 3, 5 and 10 times tables on TTRS. We have also started addition and subtraction, which will be continued next term.
History
The children have been learning what it means to be a significant figure in history and have applied this knowledge to the life of Rosa Parks by exploring what made her important and how she still has a global impact today.
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