Year Two Curriculum Matrix
Y2
LITERACY
AUTUMN 1
Water
Narrative 1 – Stories
with familiar settings
Non fiction 1 –
Instructions & recipes
Poetry 1 –
Patterns on the page
AUTUMN 2
Colour and Light
Narrative 1 – Stories in
familiar settings
Non-fiction 2 –
Explanations
Poetry –
Really looking
SPRING 1
Superheroes
Narrative 2 –
Traditional stories.
Non-fiction 3 –
Information texts.
Poetry –
Really looking
SPRING 2
Under our feet
Narrative 2 –
Traditional stories.
Non fiction 3 –
Instuctions.
Poetry –
Really looking
SUMMER 1
Contrasting localities
SUMMER 2
Talking time
Narrative 3 – Different
stories by the same
author.
Non fiction 4 –
Non chronological reports
SATS
Poetry 3 –
Silly stuff/ Language Play
Narrative 4 – Extended
stories/ significant
authors
Non-fiction 4 –
Non chronological
reports.
*Counting in 1’s, 10’s from any 2 digit number
*Partitioning numbers into tens and units
*Addition & subtraction skills
*Name & describe common 2D shapes
*Estimating & measuring lengths in cm & m
*Exploring symmetry
*Doubling & halving numbers
*Total sets of coins. Paying an exact sum.
*Counting on & back in 1’s, 5’s, 10’s & 100’s
*Ordering numbers hundreds, tens and units
*Estimating & measuring weight in kg & grams
*Tell the time using analogue & digital clocks
*Making block graphs & pictograms
*Name & describe common 3D shapes
*Strategies to help add & subtract
*Multiplication as repeated addition
*Add & subtract 2 digit numbers
*Partition Hundreds, tens & units
*Know halves/quarters in shape & number
*Estimate & measure capacity in litres & ml
*Use units of time: hour, mins & seconds
*Reading scales on scales, jugs etc
*Multiplication facts & multiple counting
*Division as the inverse of multiplication
SCIENCE
Materials - Changes
Sorting materials using
characteristics
Identifying common
materials
Exploring changes of
state
Electricity
Constructing electrical
circuits
Safety/dangers
Make & test predictions
Following Instructions
Following & planning
directions for a
programmable toys
Using tools on the tool
bar
Creating pictures using
computer functions
Fairy Tales
Investigation Unit
Grouping living things
Exploring basic needs for
plant growth
Solving problems
Examining environmental
influences
Using other ICT
equipment
Digiblue/microscope/
camera etc
Forces
Exploring movement for
different kinds of forces
Planning a fair test
Explore that forces can
change the shapes of
objects
ICT
Ourselves & other
animals
Understand that humans
& animals move, feed,
grow & use senses.
Naming body parts of
humans/ some animals
Explore healthy eating
Exploring CD ROMS to
find information
Research tools
Finding information
HISTORY
Comparing holidays in
the past to today
N/A
Famous People
What they did & the
impact they made on us
Compare old and new
Grange schools
N/A
NUMERACY
Data collection
Using database
programs
Dinosaur Investigation
Unit
Sort living things into
groups
Work out information
about dinosaurs using
evidence
Observe & measure
Word processing skills
Using the functions of
the keyboard
Artefacts
Examining a
collection/timelines
Asking questions
GEOGRAPHY
R.E.
ART /
DESIGN
TECHNOLOGY
PSHE
MUSIC
P.E
N/A
UK study – Isle of Coll
Links with Katie Morag
and the Isle of Struay
Mapwork skills
Scales/keys/symbols
Realising there are
different faiths/Harvest
Identifying special
occasions and
celebrations
Important leaders in
religions
Examining artists work
Exploring styles
Paint/collage
Exploring
line/colour/tone
Observational drawing
Design/build a
watercraft
Use of different
materials
Joining skills
Friendships
Belonging to groups
Following rules
MUSIC EXPRESS
Exploring duration
Recorder practice &
performance
LEAP INTO LIFE
Dance/skills
Studying a contrasting
locality overseas
St. Lucia compared to
Burton on Trent
N/A
Different places of
worship/artefacts
Visit Derby
Comparisons
Everyone is different
but special
Need for rules
Thinking about God
Stories from special
books. What do they
teach us?
Exploring different
mediums
Papier mache mask
Design/pattern/colour
Micro art
Abstract work using
nature/digiscope
Using materials for
representation
Individual art work
Opportunities to develop
own styles
Collage
Paper Sculpture
Paper folding &
techniques
Using electicity circuits
to decorate a winter
decoration
Building models
Using mouldable
materials/3D work
Design
Salt dough models
Design & graphics
Using packaging
to make new products
Levers and Linkages
Making a structure move.
Moving parts
Puppet making
Use of text story or own
ideas for performance
Design, join, measuring.
What is a bully?
Know rights &
responsibilities
Its good to be me
Likes/dislikes
Exploring their own
feelings
Doctors, medicine &
disease
Roles of doctors
Medicine awareness
Looking after our school
& community
Expressing opinions about
the environment
The world on a plate
Economic awareness
Use of money to buy
essentials eg food
Poverty / starvation
Pulse and rhythm
Exploring Pitch
Instruments & symbols
Timbre/tempo /dynamics
Exploring sounds
Gymnastics/large
apparatus
Gymnastics apparatus
Maypole dancing
Games Skills
Games/ sports