Art & Design

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Mark-making
Charcoal

Literacy
For literacy this term, we will all be following
the Literacy and Language scheme, focusing on
text genre and sentence structure/style (in
particular, the fiction genre of story writing and
non-fiction, instruction texts). We will also be
reading The Tin Forest.

PE
This term children will be
improving their core PE skills
and Dance.

Maths

What you can do

Encourage children to practise sounds as much
as possible.
Provide children with as many opportunities as
possible to write; keep a diary, write shopping
lists and stories etc.

Year 2
Term 1
Fire, Fire!
(History, Art, Geography)

tens, hundreds, reading and writing

numbers, counting in 2s, 5s, 10s etc).

We look at materials in brief (eg, wooden

houses compare with brick).

Music
Experiment with singing songs and speaking
chants

History
Significant events The Great Fire of London,
1666, and Samuel Pepys.
What was life like in London 350 years ago?

Explore using and changing the dynamics

Know that the songs Londons Burning and
Ring a-ring oroses are based on historical
events

Number/Calculation: Addition and

subtraction

Science

Number and Place Value (eg, units,

Ongoing daily Minute Maths

What you can do

Count with your child on the way to
school, look at different numbers when
you are out bus numbers, prices in
shops, house numbers etc.
Practice adding and sharing
numbers/objects.
Times tables are very important, please
practice 2,5,10 (extending to 3, 4, 6
when your child is ready).

RE
Computing

We are Astronauts (Scratch

programming on screen)

This term children will be learning about

The Creation Story.