Literacy – ‘ From Play to Pencil’ – Creative literacy project to engage children and
families. The Nottingham Playhouse Roundabout team will be working alongside
both Year 2 classes on a project based upon the traditional tale ‘Rapunzel.
Numeracy – Weekly mental math’s focus and regular tables work.
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Doubling and halving numbers to at least 30.
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Money – addition, change and word problems.
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Children will be learning to retell the story and then they will start to change
different elements and create their own versions.
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Multiplication – repeated addition, arrays, word problems and x tables –
10,2 and 5
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Drama games and activities will explore the different characters and their roles
within the story They will turn new stories into play scripts. Parents will be invited
into school to watch their plays.
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Division – repeated subtraction, sharing , problem solving and division
facts for above tables.
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3 Billy Goats Gruff, the focus will be on the traditional story and then they will be
adapting it and introducing new characters.
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Addition and subtraction facts for pairs of numbers to 10.
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Symmetry and shape. Reading different scales.
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Christmas problem solving.
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Focus – using powerful verbs, different sentence starts and extending sentences
Art/DT -Papier mache puppets linked
ICT – Comic Life children to create a comic strip
of part of Rapunzel so they can recognise when
characters are speaking and create
conversations ready for their play scripts.
with Rapunzel.
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Moving pictures using different
techniques to make the witch climb up the
tower.
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Mixed media pictures for film backdrops.
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Fire of London art work.
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Design and make a strong bridge for the
goats to cross the river safely.
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Sewing Santa hats and designing and
make a Christmas bauble competition,
Humanities –
Year 2 -Traditional
Tales - Autumn 2
Science – Investigations – Rapunzel only has a
candle to light her tower. How could we help her
make an electrical circuit?
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Bonfire night - Guy Fawkes
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Remembrance Day - why and what we are
thinking about?
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Electricity – sources, health and safety issues.
Which things use electricity in the home?
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The Great Fire of London linked with materials.
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Looking at castles and then a family homework
project – Make a castle for Rapunzel and the
Prince to live in.
Candle investigation – observation, What
happens as a candle burns? What does a
candle need to keep it burning?
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Investigate different materials that are used for
building, use scientific vocabulary link with
Rapunzel’s tower.
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Test pieces of card folded and cut in different
ways to find out how to make a strong bridge.
Famous bridges in Britain - Brunell
Global Dimmension
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Black History month – Mary Seacole and Aanasi
stories.
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Traditional tales from different parts of the world.
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Making and testing different materials in circuits.
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Dave Ellis from the ‘E Learning Centre’ work
with each class for a day – focus film.
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Using laptops for tables practise.
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Flip cameras to record their plays.
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Puppet Pals on the ipads to make moving
films with sound.
R.E/ Music/ PE
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Investigate places of worship and find out
about a church and synagogue.
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Explore the main differences between the
faiths and different key festivals.
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Hannukah – importance of light
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Visit St Patrick’s Church for a crib service.
PE –. Continue working with PE specialist –
focus gymnastics.
Music – Weekly music sessions learning
Christams songs and playing instruments.