Appliances using mains electricity or batteries or both are identify
Science
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Comparing humans and other animals.
Looking at similarities and differences
between humans.
Looking at plants in our local environment.
Data handling and looking at variation
amongst us.
Variation amongst different types of
animals.
R.E. - A special book
 Special things
 The Sefer Torah
 Rules and Laws
 Hebrew writing
 A synagogue
French
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Numbers
Sports – opinions, likes and dislikes
Countries and flags
Body parts
Brothers and sisters
Geography
 What makes Cornwall special?
 Geographical features of the area.
 Mapping skills.
 Simple coordinates.
 Likes/dislikes of local area. Could
improvements be made?
PE
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Ball Skills –learning and developing the skills
necessary to play various games.
Athletics
Art/ Technology
 Sketching local buildings and landmarks
 Then and Now pictures.
 Local artist study – Jo Downs / Tracy
Hunter
 What shall we put in our fruit salad? –
Design and make healthy snacks
CORNWALL
Mrs C Bourner
Miss L Patten
YEAR 2
Summer 1
History
 Legend of King Arthur
 The Story of Launceston and Famous people
associated with Launceston – Charles
Causley, George Fox, Cuthbert Mayne etc.
 The railway – where we could go from
Launceston.
 Then and Now – a close look at photos of
Launceston and St. Joseph’s.
 Our Cornish mining history.
 The story behind St Piran.
PSHEE
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People around us
Special people in our lives
People who help us
Talking about our feelings
Our families
Making choices
Music
 Learn what is meant by a steady beat
and learn how to control a beat.
 Learn and explore what is meant by
rhythm.
 Learn to use beat and rhythm to create
an accompaniment to a song.
 Preparation for Prize Giving.
English
 Reading and writing extended stories based on local
authors Georgie Adams (The Railway Rabbits) and
John Cleave (Gully stories)
 Poetry using patterned language
Information texts
 Reading information about Cornwall from leaflets,
tourist guides etc.
 Create and design a new leaflet to persuade visitors to
visit the local area
 Factual writing about Richard Trevithick (Steam
Railway).
 Understand and deduct information about different
types of texts.
CORNWALL
Mrs C Bourner
Miss L Patten
SummerTerm 1 2015
ICT
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Use of Google Earth for looking at and identifying places in Cornwall.
Producing a simple guide to Cornwall.
Rising Stars – ‘We are Journalists’.
Beebot – programming development.
Mathematics
Number System:
 Methods for addition and subtraction of larger
numbers.
 Writing large numbers and words for numbers.
 Continuation of multiplication and division.
 Problem solving involving all four operations
 Patterns in numbers.
 Number and place value
 Fractions of quantities, equivalent fractions
Shape, Space and Geometry:
 Presenting and handling data in block graphs and
pictograms.
 Use ICT to organise and present data.
 Money and Time word problems.
 Revisit measuring length, capacity and standard units.