Welcome to Year 2

Teachers: Miss Sargison and Miss Elliott

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Quigley, Miss Silsbury, Mrs Outtram and Mrs Bentley

Summer Term

Our main topic for this term is:

Dinosaurs

Over the Summer term, we will base our learning on the book ‘The Girl and The Dinosaur’. We will learn lots of information about different dinosaurs and life in the Jurassic, Triassic, and Cretaceous periods. In Literacy, we will be writing a story based on an imaginative adventure with our favourite dinosaur. In Art we will be creating our own fossils using clay and use paint to print dinosaur footprints. We will be developing our directional and positional language in both Numeracy and Geography by learning the different points of a compass.

Key concepts being taught this term:

Literacy- Non-Chronological Report & Story

Numeracy – Fractions, Time, Measures & Position/Direction

Science- Living Things & Plants

Computing- Coding & e-safety

Art- Printing & Clay Fossils

Design Technology- Mechanisms &Cooking

Geography – Jurassic Coast & Compass Directions

History - Jurassic period, Triassic Period

& Cretaceous period. Fossils & Mary Anning

P.E – Fundamentals Movement Skills & Games

R.E – Who is a Muslim and how do they live?

PSHE: Relationships

Our P.E. days are on: Thursday and Friday

Homework is given out on a Thursday.

Spellings are given at the top of each homework sheet on a Thursday.

Curriculum