Class 2
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Our Class 2 Curriculum 2020-21 |
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In September 2020, we moved to mixed-age classes across school so our curriculum this year reflects this change. Some topics appear in more than one class this year. |
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Our Topics |
Autumn Term: Spring Term: Summer Term: |
Dazzling in Durham Toys in the Past Brazil |
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Art |
Autumn Term Summer Term |
Drawing – Andy Goldsworthy and Henri Rousseau Textiles Sculpture |
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DT |
Autumn Term Summer Term |
Structures and construction Winding mechanisms Food |
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Science |
Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term |
Plants, seasonal changes Animals (including humans), seasonal changes Materials, seasonal changes |
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Computing |
Autumn Term
Summer Term |
Digital literacy and coding (code.org) Digital literacy, coding (codepillar) and Scratch Junior Digital literacy, coding (code.org) and Word Processing |
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Geography |
Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term |
The geography of our local area
The geography of a contrasting locality |
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History |
Autumn Term
Summer Term |
Significant people – local saints, famous people from Durham Toys through time, significant people – Steiff
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Music |
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term |
Kerry Mathews No Place Like Jean Sibelius Finlandia I wanna play in a band Zoo time Friendship Song Reflect, Rewind, Replay |
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PSHCE |
Autumn Term
Summer Term |
Health and Wellbeing – spreading diseases, household chemicals, people who keep us safe Relationships - secrets and surprises, bullying and behaviour Living in the Wider World – caring for our environment, people in our community, helping others In Year 2, we also have the opportunity to become a mini bud. |
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PE |
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term |
Invasion Games Gymnastics (making Shapes) Dance (Round the Clock) Invasion Games (Skittles) Athletics Net and Wall games |
We also have opportunities to work with sports coaches as part of our involvement in the Durham School Sports Partnership. We take part in events and competitions throughout the year. |
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RE |
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term |
Multi-faith Unit: Who is Jewish and how do they live? Christianity: Incarnation Christianity: What do Christians believe God is like? Christianity: Why does Easter matter to Christians? Multi-faith Unit: Who am I? What does it mean to belong? |
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Maths:
During the Summer Term the children will be working with numbers to 100. They will read write and count with these numbers, say the numbers one more and one less, know their place on a number line and represent them pictorially. They will be introduced to the concepts of grouping and sharing, simple fractions and recap on various aspects of measures and shape that were taught during lockdown. Adding and taking away within 20 will continue to be reinforced throughout the term both through number sentence work and word problems. We will continue to work on counting forwards and backwards within 100 from various numbers, consolidate counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s and learn to recall number bonds for numbers to 10.
English:
This term our new ‘Brazil’ topic will influence our reading and writing. We will be researching facts about the Amazon Rainforest and using this information to write non-fiction booklets/leaflets, instructions and letters. We will read stories set in the rainforests and use them to create our own stories with similar settings. We will continue to develop basic sentence structure, use correct punctuation and use phonic knowledge with greater accuracy in spelling. Through comprehension activities the children will learn to retrieve answers from a text, answer questions involving inference and prediction and think about the order of events. We will continue to focus on correct letter formation in all writing and showing clear capital letters, ascenders and descenders throughout all their work. Whooshes and flicks onto letters will be taught in the second half of the term