Year 2 - Butterflies and Ladybirds
Summer Term 2024
We would like to give you are warm welcome back after the Winter Break. This term we will be learning the following:
Writing
Year 2 will be continuing to follow the Read, Write, Inc. programme. During this term, your child will be placed into similar reading attainment groups, where they will be able to read a story fluently and complete writing tasks based on what they have read. Your child will be bringing home 3 books each week (storybook, book bag book and a library book). Please ensure your child reads these books with you and returns them by the date written in their reading records. Additionally, our English class text will be The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton in Summer 1 and Greek Myths by Geraldine McCaughrean in Summer 2.
Maths
The initial focus for Maths this half term will be fractions. The children will be identifying parts and wholes, equal and unequal parts. They will then learn to recognise and find a half, quarter, third and three-quarters. From here, they will move onto time. They will learn how to read the time including, o’clock, half past, quarter past and half past. We will work up to telling the time to five-minute intervals. After this, we will focus on statistics. This topic allows us to find different ways to read and show data. We will learn about tally charts, tables, block diagrams and pictograms. Our final topic will be position and direction. The children will learn language of position and using this be able to precisely describe movement including the different types of turns.
Throughout the year, in tandem with their core Maths lessons, the children will be following the Mastering Number programme. The aim of this programme is to cement the children’s deep knowledge and understanding of numbers and how they are linked.
Science
We will be focusing on plants as our first science topic this term. The will learnt to identify the different parts of a plant and its function. We will discover where plants come from and how they are transformed into the food on our plates. We will be planting our own seeds; observing and recording the changes of time to explain the life cycle.
Our second topic will be animals, including humans. We will learn what animals need to survive, how the offspring of animals are different to one another and classify them into their different groups. We will learn the importance of staying healthy and good hygiene.
Religious Education
RE gives our pupils valuable insights into the diverse beliefs and opinions held by people today and in the past. It helps with their personal development and supports an understanding of the spiritual, moral, social and cultural questions that will surface again and again in their lives.
In Summer 2 we will be looking at Buddhism.
History
Studying history is important because it allows our pupils to understand the past, which in turn allows them to understand our present. If we want to know how and why our world is the way it is today, we have to look to history for answers.
In Summer 1, we will be studying the ancient civilisation of The Aztecs. We will locate the empire and understand what daily life was like. We will taker a deeper look at how the Aztecs worshipped and their way of communicating with other tribes.
Geography
Studying geography creates global citizens. Pupils better understand the inter-dependence of our world and how we are connected through location, place, movement, region, and human-environment. All of these aspects are things pupils need to understand in our global society.
In Summer 2, our topic is Extreme Earth. This topic focusses on natural disasters. We will look at earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, floods and droughts. How and why do they occur and what we can do to help to keep ourselves safe.
Music
In music, we are learning to sing and perform Zootime in Summer 1 and Friendship Song in Summer 2.
PE
PE will be on occur on a Monday and Wednesday. This term they will be working on fitness, athletics, ball games and cricket in Summer 1 games in Summer 2.
Art
Art will be taught by Miss Clark on a Monday for Butterflies and Tuesday Ladybirds. The Summer 1 theme is Transformation, looking at the artist Chris Kenny. For Summer 2, the theme is Music and Art, looking at the artists Kadinsky, Alice Coltrane and John Cage.