Year 2 Spring Term
Science Term 3
Year 2 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Healthy Me | To describe the importance of exercise for humans. | To know the importance of eating the right amount of different food types. | To describe the importance of hygiene. | To perform simple tests. | To identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials. | To name parts of the body and those related to the senses. |
Science Term 4
Year 2 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Little Master Chefs | To describe the basic needs of animals, and Describe the importance of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food and hygiene. | To identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses. | To identify and classify. Describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food and hygiene. | To describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food and hygiene. Design fruit salad | To observe closely, using simple equipment. | To perform simple tests. Using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions. Gather and record data to help answering questions. |
Geography Term 3
Year 2 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Journeys – Food | To identify shops selling food locally | To understand that the food we eat has a food story | To understand what farming is, what a farmer does and where the plants and animals we eat come from. | To understand that animals are reared in the UK, and used for dairy and meat | To understand that some traditional foods originate in the UK | To understand the geography of the UK, and the types of food produced here |
History Term 4
Year 2 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Holidays | To know what seaside holidays were like when our grandparents were children. | To use photographs to provide information about seaside holidays in the recent past. | To use sources to provide information about seaside holidays in the recent past. | To use stories to provide information about seaside holidays in the recent past. | To understand the diversity of holiday experiences from when our grandparents were children. | To use our knowledge of the seaside in the past to create our own reconstruction. |
DT Term 3
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
To explore how pizzas are made | To evaluate different pizzas. | To design a pizza. | To develop knife skills. | To make a pizza. | To evaluate a pizza. |
Art Term 4
Year 2 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Art from other cultures - African Art | To use printing (mono printing, block printing, relief printing etc.) to create artwork | To use simple motif printing blocks to create and print complex patterns with mathematical and visual precision. | To practise the skill of weaving | To know about colour mixing to make finer variations in secondary colours | To know about art from different cultures | To respond to a traditional African tale in their own chosen media. |
Music Term 3
Year 2 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: I wanna play in a band | To find the pulse and know that this Unit is about Rock music | To march and find the pulse. | To copy and clap back rhythms. | To play accurately and in time. | To compose a simple melody using simple rhythms, and use as part of the performance | To perform and share |
Music Term 4
Year 2 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Zootime | To find the pulse and know that this Unit is about Reggae music. | To sing and dance together, in time and using actions | To recognise high and low sounds | To play accurately and in time. | To improvise | To compose a simple melody |
PE Term 3
Year 2 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Dance | To move in time to a beat. | To move at different levels. | To show mood through dance. | To work in a group to create a dance. | To express themselves through dance. | To perform a dance. |
PE Term 4
Year 2 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Ball games | To show awareness of others when playing games. | To throw and catch a ball with control. | To perform a range of actions with control of the ball. | To throw the ball in different ways. | To apply skills and tactics to small sided games. | To perform a variety of actions with a ball keeping it under control. |
RE Term 3
Year 2 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Life journey Christianity | To know how to make people feel like they belong. | To know what baptism is. | To know what happens during Holy Communion. | To explore the school community. | To know what Christians do in the wider community. | To know what Christians do in the wider community. |
RE Term 4
Year 2 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Life Journey Islam | To know key Muslim beliefs. | To know how Muslims belong to a community. | To know how Muslims welcome a new baby. | To know how Christians welcome a new baby. | To compare birth rites in Christianity and Islam. | To compare birth rites in Christianity and Islam. |
RSE Term 3
Year 2 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Keeping myself safe | To understand that medicines can sometimes make people feel better when they’re ill. | To identify situations in which they would feel safe or unsafe. | To know what to say in situations to keep themselves and others safe. | To recognise that body language and facial expression can show how safe someone feels. | To recognise that some touches are not fun and can hurt or be upsetting. | To identify safe secrets (including surprises) and unsafe secrets. |
RSE Term 4
Year 2 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: Rights and Responsibilities | To identify how inappropriate touch can make someone feel. | To explain, and be able to use, strategies for dealing with impulsive behaviour. | To identify special people in the school and community who can help to keep them safe. | To identify what they like about the school environment. | To understand that people have choices about what they do with their money. | To recognise that money can be spent on items which are essential or non-essential. |
Computing Term 3
Year 2 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 |
Topic: iAnimate | To understand what an animation is. | To understand what an animation consists of. | To create a storyboard. | To understand an animation needs to be scripted. | To understand what stop-frame animations involves. |
Computing Term 4
Year 2 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 |
Topic: iPub | To understand the world wide web and how it was developed. | To consider how technology changes with time. | To share knowledge through multi-media presentations. | To plan a presentation of research findings. | To create an interactive eBook | To create an interactive eBook |