Freezywater St George's CofE Primary School

Geography: 

Where would you prefer to live:  England or Kenya?"

Yr 2’s Geography topic for the Autumn Term is “Where would you prefer to live:  England or Kenya?”  They will be locating and finding out about both localities and what makes each a special and attractive to place to live, comparing their key features, climate and way of living.  This will include looking at maps to locate London and comparing old maps with new maps.

Why did London burn?

In the Autumn Term 2  Yr. 2’s history project will be “Why did London Burn?”  Within this topic they will study and learn about the Great Fire of London – how it happened and the subsequent rebuild of London and be able to place these events on a timeline.

Maths

We will be  following the Rising Stars maths. We will focus on a range of maths concepts which will last between 1-2 weeks.  In Autumn 1, we will focus heavily on place value.  Children will then move on to fact families focusing on addition and subtraction and how these two calculations interact with each other.  Finally, we will study shape, focusing on symmetry, 3D shape and patterns.  During in Autumn 2, children will begin to look at multiplication and division. They will then move on to extend their learning on addition, subtraction and fractions. Finally, they will look at measures of length and temperature.

RE

We will learn about the story of our class Saint - St Teresa - and what it is that makes a person a Saint.  We will learn about her journey in becoming a Christian and how important she has been to the Christian faith.  We will be focusing on prayer, the importance of the Lord's Prayer as a celebration of God, and how the words of this prayer guide us in our worship and how we live as Christians.  In Autumn 2, we will discuss what we can learn from the lives of Saints (in particular our school saint) and how we can use some of these things in our own lives to make us better Christians.  We will also look at the Christmas story and the importance of light, the Christingle and the symbols of Christmas.

Writing: 

In terms of writing expectations, children in Year 2 will need to be able to demonstrate the following skills independently:  Say, write and punctuate simple and compound sentences.  Use full stops, capital letters, question marks, exclamation marks and inverted commas (speech marks) correctly. The children will learn to use descriptive language and will use joined up handwriting with commas and letters in their correct places.  They will learn to use past and present tense with varying word choices for adjectives and nouns e.g. gigantic egg, ferocious tyrannosaurus.

Science

What is your habitat?

Our Snap Science units in the Autumn Term will be ‘What is in your habitat?’  We will focus on habitats and food chains using books and our local environments to identify how animals survive and how habitats change. 

Materials:  Good choices?

In Autumn 2, through various investigations, we will be identifying and comparing the suitability of a variety of everyday materials including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses.

English

In our English lessons we will cover a range of fiction and non-fiction genres, which will be linked to our topic.  We will link English closely with our history and geography learning starting with listening to, retelling and writing traditional English tales and African Anansi folk tales. During Autumn 2, the children will learn to write a diary and a newspaper report based on The Great Fire of London. They will end the term by using play scripts leading up to our Christmas production (if permitted due to Covid-19).  The children will have weekly Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling focus which will be supported by our phonics programme of study called Read Write Inc. Spelling, Grammar.  Spellings will go home weekly to learn and be given out on a Tuesday and tested the following Tuesday giving the children a week to learn and practice their spellings at home supported by learning in the classroom. 

Reading

In Year 2, the children will continue to have guided reading sessions in small groups, individual and whole class reading opportunities.  To further support reading, we will read a class book every day. Each child will be given a ‘reading day’ to change their books and read to an adult.