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Curriculum Overview for Year 2 Reading • Use knowledge to read ‘exception’ words • Read range of fiction & non-fiction •Use dictionaries to check meaning • Prepare poems to perform •Check own understanding of reading •Draw inferences & make predictions •Retrieve & record information from non-fiction books • Discuss reading with others English Writing • Use prefixes & suffixes in spelling •Use dictionary to confirm spellings •Write simple dictated sentences •Begin to use handwriting joins appropriately •Plan to write based on familiar forms •Rehearse sentences orally for writing • Use varied rich vocabulary •Create simple settings & plot • Assess effectiveness of own and others’ writing Reading Number/Calculation ‘exception’ words • Learn 3, 4 & 8x tables •Secure place value to 100 • Mentally add & subtract units, fiction tens or hundreds to numbers of up to 3 digits •Written column addition & meaning subtraction •Solve number problems, including multiplication & simple division and perform missing number problems • Use commutativity to help reading calculations English Mathematics Geometry & Measures •Measure &Writing calculate with metric measures -•Measure simple perimeter •Add/subtract using money in context spellings •Tell the time – to 5mins (e.g. 10 past, 25 to) • Calculate using simple time problems appropriately • Draw 2-d / Make simple 3-d write shapes • Identify and use right angles forms • Identify horizontal, vertical, perpendicular and parallel lines predictions Grammar • Use range of conjunctions •Use present and past tense • Use range of nouns , pronouns , verbs and adjectives • Use time connectives •Identify speech punctuation Computing • Use sketchbooks to collect, record and evaluate ideas • Improve mastery of techniques such as drawing, painting and sculpture with varied materials • Learn about great artists, architects & designers • Improve and de velop drawing techniques •Design & write programs to achieve specific goals, including solving problems •Use logical reasoning •Understand computer networks •Use internet safely and appropriately • Collect and present data appropriately Design & Technology Geography Speaking & Listening • Give structured descriptions •Participate activity in conversation •Consider & evaluate different view points Not Applicable to the Year 2 curriculum • Locate world’s continents & oceans, Cyprus, Europe & USA • Types of settlements – villages, farms • Use 8 points of compass, symbols & keys • Describe & understand climate, weather changes & severe weather • How we communicate around the world Grammar Fractions & decimals • Use & count in tenths •Recognise, find & write fractions •Recognise some equivalent fractions • Order fractions with common denominator e of nouns & pronouns Data • Interpret bar charts & pictograms based on familiar writing record information Science from non-fiction books History Biology Famous People writing • Plants, incl. parts, lifecycle and requirements for life others’ •Florence Nightingale • Animals & Humans: skeletons & nutrition •Grace Darling •George Stephenson Chemistry • Scott of the Antartic • Classification of rock types • Simple understanding of fossilisation Physics • Sources of light; shadows & reflections • Simple forces, including magnetism Art & Design Famous Events •Great Fire of London •Gunpowder Plot •The Spanish Armada •The Queen’s Coronation Modern Speakingļ & Listening Languages French • Listen & engage •Ask & answer questions •Speak in sentences using familiar vocabulary conversation • Develop appropriate pronunciation •Show understanding of words & phrases viewpoints • Appreciate stories, songs, poems & rhymes • Broaden vocabulary Physical Education •Use running, jumping, catching and throwing in isolation and in combination •Play competitive games, modified as appropriate • Develop flexibility & control in gym, dance & athletics •Compare performances to achieve personal bests • Swimming proficiency at 25m (as weather permits) Music • Use voice & instruments with increasing accuracy, control and expression • Improvise music • Listen with attention to detail • Appreciate wide range of live & recorded music • Begin to develop an understanding of musical notation Religious Education PSHE • Festivals • Feelings and emotions • Opinions • Anti-bullying • Family and friends
