Subject Breakdown
Class: Year 2
Literacy:
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Grammar: Capital letters, question marks,
suffixes (-ful, -less)
Fiction text: Cottonwool Colin by James
Wills and Tony Ross, (A picture book)
Sister for sale by Adrian Bradbury () A
story with a familiar setting)
Fiction focus: children explore the theme
of family relationships and independence
and look at how a character’s feeling can
change throughout a story. In the writing
week, they create a new story about
friendship which is set in a school.
Wider reading: Peter’s chair - Ezra Jake
Keats, Willy the Wimp –Anthony Brown,
Alfie and the Big Boys – Shirley Hughes,
The works- Every kind of poem you will
ever need at school- Paul Cookson (See
‘New School’ – Kevin McCann, ‘Younger
Brother’ – Trevor Millum, ‘My Brother Bert’
– Ted Hughes)
Non- Fiction text: ‘Parents and their
Young’
Non- fiction: Children export how families
in the animal world are different to families
in the human world, beginning with
information about how baby animals are
cared for; then looking at the life cycles of
frogs and sea turtles. At the end of this
unit they will be writing their own
explanation of a frog’s life cycle.
History:
Topic: Victorian period
This unit looks at a major event during the
Victorian period – the Great Exhibition of 1851.
The children find out more about Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, and Albert’s role in
inaugurating the exhibition. They are also are
introduced to the abstract term of empire and
Britain’s position in the world then. The children
use a wide range of original resources from the
Great Exhibition including pictures,
photographs, plans, eyewitness accounts,
catalogue entries and adverts to help them to
find out more about the Crystal Palace building,
the exhibitors and exhibits and the experiences
of the visitors.
Term: Spring 2
Numeracy
Year 2 will be covering the following areas of
learning in numeracy:
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Revise doubles and corresponding halves
to 15; find half of odd and even numbers to
30; Revise and recognise 1/2s, 1/4s, 1/3s
and 2/3s of shapes; place 1/2s on a
number line; count in 1/2s and 1/4s;
understand and write mixed numbers
 Count in 2s, 5s and 10s to solve
multiplication problems and find specified
multiples; introduce the × sign; record the
2, 5 and 10 times-tables; investigate
multiplications with the same answer; write
multiplications to go with arrays, rotate
arrays to show they are commutative
 Tell the time to the nearest quarter of an
hour using analogue and digital clocks;
understand the relationship between
seconds, minutes and hours and use a tally
chart; interpret and complete a pictogram
or block graph where one block or symbol
represents one or two things
 Revise 2, 5 and 10 times-tables; revise
arrays and hops on the number line;
multiply by 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10; arrange
objects into arrays and write the
corresponding multiplications; make links
between grouping and multiplication to
begin to show division; write divisions as
multiplications with holes in and use the ÷
sign
 Recognise all coins, know their value, and
use them to make amounts; recognise £5,
£10, £20 notes; make amounts using coins
and £10 note; write amounts using £.p
notation; order coins 1p – £2 and notes £5
– £20; add several coins writing totals in
£.p notation (no zeros in 10p place); add
two amounts of pence, using counting on in
10s and 1s; add two amounts of money,
beginning to cross into £s
Physical Education
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Badminton
Understanding the basic concept of the
game
Using a racket and shuttlecock
Serving
Forehand
Subject Breakdown
Class: Year 2
Term: Spring 2
• Can identify Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
• Can recognise changes in them over time.
• Know about Prince Albert’s idea for the first
world trade fair.
• Understand what an empire is and what it
meant for Britain at the time.
• Can discover how the exhibition space was
planned and built and why it was called the
Crystal Palace.
• Can follow images to make a model of the
Crystal Palace.
• Can use pictures and eyewitness accounts to
learn about the opening of the Great Exhibition.
• Can write a story for a Victorian newspaper.
• Know what was in the Great Exhibition halls.
• Can create a captioned picture of an exhibit or
feature.
• Understand what an exhibit is.
• Can identify the range of exhibits from the UK.
• Can create their own catalogue entry.
• Can study pictures to look at the wide range of
exhibits.
• Can design an exhibition stand.
• Know where international exhibitors came
from.
• Understand that for many visitors it was the
first experience of anything or anyone from
abroad.
• Can write about an international exhibit.
• Understand that millions of people were able
to visit the Great Exhibition due to cheap travel
and special ticket days.
• Can create train posters for the exhibition.
• Are aware of the range of exhibition visitors.
• Can imagine the experiences of different
visitors.
• Know what happened to the Crystal Palace
after the exhibition.
• Can design a new Crystal Palace for the
future.
Science:
Design technology/Art
Topic: Habitats
Topic: Vehicles
Year 2 will be looking at a range of different
local habitats. They will be looking at simple
food chains in local habitats and in other parts
of the world. They will be studying how birds are
suited to particular habitats.
• To know that there is a wide range of plants
and animals in the school grounds and in their
own gardens.
• To understand the word ‘habitat’.
• To understand that different habitats exist in
the school grounds.
• To learn that specific animals need specific
habitats.
• To understand that there are many different
habitats needed by animals.
• To learn that specific animals need specific
habitats.
• To learn about the range of living things that
live in deserts and rainforests.
• To learn about the range of living things that
live in seas and rivers.
This unit builds on children's experiences of
joining and combining sheet and reclaimed
materials and of using moving joints. They learn
about wheels and axles and how to use these
when making wheeled vehicles for a specific
purpose. They are encouraged to develop their
design ideas based on investigating vehicles in
the world around them.
Subject Breakdown
Class: Year 2
• To find out about insects and invertebrates
that live in microhabitats.
• To understand the characteristics of a
woodlouse in its habitat.
• To recognise which birds use the school
grounds.
• To recognise that the birds in the school
grounds eat different foods and have different
shaped beaks.
• To know some different characteristics of
plants living in the school grounds.
• To identify a variety of living things in and
around a pond and begin to understand their
interdependence.
• To be able to identify a range of local habitats.
• To recognise the importance of protecting
habitats.
• To know about food chains in familiar local
habitats.
• To understand food chains in less familiar
habitats – rainforests.
• To understand food chains in less familiar
habitats – oceans.
Term: Spring 2
Islamic Studies:
History of Prophets, ‘Aqeedah and Fiqh
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Nuh (A.S) builds the Ark
How to perform Ghusl
Nuh (A.S) and the flood
The boy and the king
Prayer times