HOW WE EXPRESS OURSELVES

Students will explore how people use imagination to create and share art. They will inquire into different art forms and how they express feelings, ideas, and emotions. Through creating, performing, and responding, students will discover how light, sound, and movement communicate meaning. They will build communication and social skills as they take creative risks and connect with others. This unit inspires expression, celebrates perspective, and helps students understand the power of art to engage an audience.

WORDS THAT PAINT PICTURES

Students will explore how writers use words to paint pictures in our minds. They will read stories and poems, ask questions, and think deeply about characters, settings, and feelings. They will build vocabulary, notice style, and discover how stories are told. Students will plan, write, revise, and share their own imaginative texts. They will use voice, descriptive language, and visuals to express ideas. Through writing, reading, and performing, they will bring their stories to life.

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.

PATTERN & FUNCTION

Students will explore patterns in everyday life using objects, sounds, actions, and numbers. They will create, extend, and describe repeating and growing patterns. They will find number patterns through skip counting and odd and even numbers. Students will spot missing elements and use patterns to support addition and subtraction. They will learn that numbers can follow rules and use symbols to show them. This unit builds thinking skills through pattern discovery and prediction.

NUMBER OPERATIONS

Students will continue to explore how numbers work together through addition and subtraction. They will build fluency adding and subtracting within 20 and use different strategies and tools to solve problems with numbers up to 100. They will learn that addition can be done in any order, but subtraction cannot. Students will solve word problems using mental math and visual models. They will double numbers and count in groups or 2s, 5s and 10s. This unit builds confidence and flexibility with number operations in real-life contexts.

COMMUNICATING IDEAS FOR REAL PURPOSES

In this unit, students will develop communication skills through the exploration of invitations as functional texts used for real-life purposes. Through reading, analysing and creating different invitations, they will identify their purpose, structure and essential information, recognising how text organisation supports comprehension. Students will explore how language choices may vary according to purpose, context and audience, using oral language to invite, inform, respond and clarify. They will also investigate how words, images, symbols and visual organisation work together to communicate information clearly and effectively. Through planning, creating, revising and presenting invitations, they will develop increasing independence and confidence in using Portuguese to communicate with purpose.

Creating and presenting invitations may also provide opportunities to explore different forms of expression and creativity, establishing connections with the How We Express Ourselves Unit of Inquiry.

EXPRESSING IDEAS THROUGH MOVEMENT

Students will explore how movement can be used to express ideas, feelings, and imagination through Gymnastics. Integrated with the Year 2 How We Express Ourselves Unit of Inquiry, students will investigate how movements can be created and combined to communicate meaning, how imagination can inspire a performance, and how an audience may interpret the same movement in different ways. They will take creative risks, respond to music and visual or spoken cues, and make choices about how they want to express themselves. As part of their stand-alone PE learning, students will develop coordination, body control, balance, and confidence as they respond to music, create body shapes and patterns, invent movements, and combine them into simple movement sequences.

STORIES IN MOTION: MOVEMENT, MUSIC, AND MAKE-BELIEVE (PART 1)

Students explore how imagination and different forms of expression can bring stories to life. They create characters, movements and an adventure story through dance, drama, puppetry and music, while using colour and marks to build an evolving piece of artwork alongside the story. They make creative choices with movement, sound, voice and visual expression to communicate ideas and feelings.

Students collaborate, listen and build on each other’s ideas as they develop and share their stories. Through rehearsal and performance, they explore how creative choices can change meaning and how stories may be understood in different ways, building confidence in sharing their creative work with an audience.

Creating

Develops and transforms ideas to communicate a story through movement, space, sound, image and materials.

Makes choices about how to develop and layer ideas in their creative work.

Responding

Develops their creative work in response to what they see, hear and experience.

Responds to creative work as an audience member, sharing ideas about what they see, hear or experience.