WHERE WE ARE IN PLACE AND TIME

Students will inquire into their family histories to understand where they come from and how culture shapes who they are. They will explore traditions, notice changes over time, and share diverse perspectives in their community. Through research and communication, students will ask questions, reflect on their identities, and celebrate cultural diversity. This unit fosters curiosity, open-mindedness, and meaningful connections as they discover the form and richness of their cultural origins.

IDEAS ARE EVERYWHERE

Students will continue to explore how stories work and how writers share ideas through words and pictures. They will read, listen to, and view texts to build understanding, ask questions, and create mental images. They will explore features authors use when storytelling, including illustrations, speech bubbles and word choice. They will use new words, and describe characters and settings. Students will write their own simple narratives with clear events, detail, and explore their writer's voice. They will speak, draw, and act out ideas, growing confidence in sharing thoughts and understanding how stories connect us.

PHONOLOGY

In this year-long phonics and spelling unit, students will grow into confident readers and writers. They’ll decode and spell using blends, digraphs, long vowels, and r-controlled sounds. Students will explore word families, affixes, and high-frequency words. They’ll build words by recognizing syllables, bases, and marker letters like silent <e>. By learning spelling patterns and sound-symbol connections, students will read with greater fluency and spell with increasing accuracy.

MEASUREMENT

Students will explore how to measure objects and events using tools and non-standard units. They will compare length, mass, area, and capacity using everyday items. They will use calendars to track days, months, and seasons. Students will tell time to the hour and half hour using clocks. They will estimate and compare durations of time. This unit helps students understand how we measure the world around us and why it matters.

NUMBER & NUMBER SENSE

In this standalone unit, students will continue to explore numbers and how they work together. They will count forward and backward over 100, break apart numbers and compare numbers based on tens and ones digits. Students will use symbols to show greater than, less than, or equal. They will count by twos, fives, and tens and begin to spot patterns like odd and even. This unit helps build a strong sense of number and how numbers connect.

OUR STORIES, OUR IDENTITY

Students will strengthen their confidence in using Portuguese to communicate, read, write, and express ideas about identity, family, and culture. Integrated with the Year 2 Who We Are and Where We Are in Place and Time Units of Inquiry, they will explore personal growth, family stories, cultural experiences, and connections to others through conversations, stories, reading, writing, and visual texts. As part of their stand-alone Portuguese learning, students will develop oral language, reading, visual literacy, and writing skills by retelling stories, identifying key details, using richer vocabulary, decoding unfamiliar words, and writing short, well-organised texts with increasing accuracy.

MOVING THROUGH CULTURE AND TRADITION

Students will explore how movement, games, and dance can connect us to family stories, traditions, and cultures. Integrated with the Year 2 Where We Are in Place and Time Unit of Inquiry, students will explore Connection, Form, and Perspective by experiencing movements and dances from different cultures, considering how movement can express traditions and belonging, and recognising that people and communities may express their identities in different ways. Through music, games, and movement, students will develop curiosity and respect for cultural similarities and differences. As part of their stand-alone PE learning, students will practise responding to music through movement, creating shapes and patterns with their bodies, moving safely and with awareness of others, and showing respect when participating in culturally connected games and dances.