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Year 2
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Welcome to Year 2
Mrs Morley and Mrs Atkinson make up the Year 2 team
Summer Term 2025
English
The key text for English this term is ‘Lila and the Secret of the Rain’ which is an African folktale. Children will explore other books on this theme in reading and they will also write their own African folktale using the past tense, lots of descriptive writing and high level vocabulary.
In our Writing sessions we will be focusing on the book ‘Bob the Man on the Moon’ by Simon Bartram. Where we will be writing our own space adventure story. During this unit, we will be focusing on adverbs for how and where, expanded noun phrases, using conjunctions and ensuring we have capital letters and full stops.
Maths
This half term we will be focusing on Addition and Subtraction of 2-digit numbers progression on to subtracting across a 10 towards the end of the unit. We will also be looking at money and then moving on to division.
Later in the term we will be focusing on fractions where we will be recognising, finding, naming and writing fractions 1/3, 1/4, 2/4 and 3/4 of a length, shape, set of objects or quantity. We will also be writing simple fractions, for example ½ of 6 = 3 and recognising equivalence of 2/4 and 1/2.
Theme
In our Geography, where children will be learning about weather and climate. Children will be keeping a weather diary in school and they will also explore the weather in different parts of the world. Children will complete the unit by writing and presenting their own weather forecasts for a typical day in Africa.
In History, where we will be exploring the question ‘Why do we still remember the early moon landings?’. During this topic we will be focusing on why the astronauts risked their lives to get to the moon, how they got to the moon safely, what the astronauts did on the moon and debating whether the children would travel to the moon if they were given the chance.
Spring Term 2025
English
The key text for English this half term is ‘Everest’ which is a non-fiction text based on Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s climb to the summit of Everest. It documents the challenges and triumphs they faced along the way. We will then be writing a diary entry in role as Edmund Hilary as he reaches the summit of the mountain. We will focus on using the past tense in our writing and the use of adverbs.
Later in the term we will be focusing on the book ‘Namaste’, which tells the tale of a day in the life of a little girl from a traditional Nepalese village. We will then write our own comparison stories about a day in the children’s lives. We will be using capital letters, full stops, commas, exclamation marks and question marks effectively in our writing. We will also be learning how to write in the past and present tense. We are going to encourage the children to use subordinating conjunctions such as when, if and because in their work to increase the complexity of their sentences. Children will continue to try to join their handwriting and have handwriting sessions each week.
Maths
In Maths we will continue to secure fluency of addition and subtraction facts within 10. We will add and subtract two-digit numbers and single digit numbers. We will add and subtract two-digit numbers and multiples of ten.
We will look at how objects can be grouped into equal or unequal groups. We will also look at how equal groups can be represented with a repeated addition and multiplication expression. Finally, we will explore how multiplication expressions can be written for cases where the groups each contain zero items, and for cases where the groups each contain one item.
Theme
In Geography, we will be exploring the differences between Hyde and Tansen in Nepal. Here we will be comparing and contrasting the two locations. We will be looking at the human and physical features, rainfall and climate and tourism. Th children will also be applying their geographical knowledge from the previous term where we researched Hyde.
In History we will be thinking about how trains have changed over time. We will be finding out all about George Stephenson and his Rocket and thinking about changes in railways and the impact this had on Manchester.
Autumn Term 2024
English
In English we will be focusing on the story Hodgeheg by Dick King- Smith. This links closely to our Science unit on habitats and is a lovely story about a hedgehog who faces the dilemma of how to get to the other side of a busy road to reach the park. Children will write their own stories based on this idea using accurately sequenced sentences punctuated with capital letters and full stops, accurate letter formation and size, and descriptive language to engage the reader.
Maths
In Maths we will be focusing on reading and writing numbers 10 to 100. We will be learning to estimate multiples of ten on a 0-100 number line and applying our known facts from within 0-10 to add and subtract in multiples of ten. The children will also learn to add three addends efficiently by various methods and to calculate the difference between two numbers. We will be using our maths learning in our Geography and Science lessons this term to help us explore our area and local habitats.
Theme
This half term, our Geography focus is on Hyde and what it is like to live there. We will start by exploring the boroughs that make up Greater Manchester before focusing in on Tameside and then Hyde. We will explore the physical and human features of Hyde and later in the term we will take part in a Geographical field trip to Hyde.
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