Hazel Class - Year 2 Autumn Term 2023
Walk on the wild Side
Literacy
Writing:
Where the Wild Things Are
Fiction - writing to entertain story writing
How to catch a monster
Non fiction - instruction writing
The Secret of the Black Rock
Fiction - writing to entertain diary entry
Dear Greenpeace
Non-fiction - letter writing
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Reading and phonics:
Little Wandle scheme
Science
Living things and their habitat
Explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive
Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other
Identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats
Describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food.
Environment
Explore the ecological changes that affect the modern world.
History
History of Peaslake
Explore the Iron Age, using Holmbury Hill Fort as our local connection.
Recognise and talk about why people did things, why events happened and what happened as a result. (Cause and consequence, historical significance)
Identify differences between ways of life at different times through role play, writing, pictures and discussion. (Similarities and differences, change and continuity)
Compare sources: are they fact or fiction?
Music
Learn la solfa and hand sign.
Pitch accurately.
Rhythmic ostinato.
The Liberty Bell March – Sousa, In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt - Grieg
Nativity
Use stick notation for the ta rest. Use dot notation to indicate so, mi and la on the stave.
Compose 4 beat sound pattern.
glockenspiels
PE
Team sports; Football, Rugby, Volleyball, Developing agility and balance:
Movement control,
Team tactics, hand/eye;
Dodgeball.
Weekly Swimming,
Dance using the scheme 'creative steps’.
Art & Design
Explore and Draw -
Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
Use drawing to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space
Know about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.
Sewing different stitches make a decoration
Explore a variety of techniques from weaving, tie-dyeing, fabric crayons and wax resist, mosaic.
Running stitch using large eye needles and knot.
Cut and shape fabric using scissors/snips.
Apply decoration and colour using beads, buttons, fabric pens, feathers etc.
Arrange and glue materials to different backgrounds to create textured collages.
Fold, crumble, tear and overlap papers.
Mathematics
Place value:
Read and write numerals to 100
Partition a 2 digit number into tens and ones
Count in 2s,5s and 10s
Addition and subtraction:
Add and subtract any 2 two-digit numbers
Recall number bonds within 20
RE
Why do Christians call God
“Creator”?
Biblical creation story, God as ‘creator’ of the world & in other parts of the Bible, Celebration of Harvest
What is the nativity and why is it
important to Christians?
‘Nativity’ as the birth of Jesus, Other important people in the Nativity, Why did angels announce Jesus’ birth?, Diversity of Nativity sets across the world
Christmas as focus of worship of Jesus.
PSHE
Physical Health and well being
Establishment (class rules, zones of regulation, school expectations and values)
Physical Health and Wellbeing
What keeps me Healthy:
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eating well
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the importance of physical activity, sleep and rest
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people who help us to stay healthy and well and about basic health and hygiene routines.
Emotional Health and Well-being
Friendships:
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the importance of special people in their lives
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making friends and who can help with friendships
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solving problems that might arise with friendships
Geography
Follow directions (as yr 1) and include north, south, east, west. Draw a map of a real or imaginary place (from aerial photograph) devising own basic symbols in a key. Begin to understand the need for a key. Use class agreed symbols to make a simple key. Follow a route on a map. Use a plan view. Use an infant atlas to locate places.
Detailed maps
Use an infant atlas to find information. Use aerial photographs and plan perspectives to identify human and physical features. Develop simple fieldwork and observational skills when studying the geography of their school and local environment and our village. Express views about the environment and can recognise how people sometimes affect the environment.
Computing
IT around us
Online Safety
Identifying IT and how its responsible use improves our world in school beyond.
Digital photography:
Capturing and changing digital photographs for different purposes.
