Year 2 – Curriculum T5&6

Darwin Class Term 5 and 6 Resources

Term 5: Swing Along with Shostakovich Sing, swing, and sway your way through this unit on metre! Along the way, pupils will feel patterns of beats in their bodies, swinging in time with a partner and marking the beat using simple body percussion patterns. They will explore how beats are grouped and will devise their

Following the GetSet4PE scheme of learning, our Physical Education (PE) lessons for term 5 and 6 our focus will be on athletics, sending and receiving, striking and fielding (cricket and rounders), and team building. Athletics In this unit, pupils will develop skills required in athletic activities such as running at different speeds, jumping and throwing.

Term 5: Relationships In this Puzzle, the children will learn about relationships we have with our household family members, extended family members and friends. Children will learn that you can have different types of relationships and these may differ. We will teach the children how to support family and friends if they are feeling sad

Term 5: Islam – Jumu’ah In Term 5 children will learn how Jumu’ah are Friday prayers. Before Jumu’ah, many Muslims wash, put on perfume or aftershave and dress in clean clothes. Just after lunchtime, worshippers meet at the mosque to say special prayers and listen to a talk by the Imam. The importance of saying

Presenting Ideas In this unit, children will learn how to present ideas using the concept mapping tool, 2Connect. They will organise information using the features of a concept map, and think about how to present their thoughts clearly to an audience. Key Learning To understand that ideas can be organised and presented using a concept

Art: Portraits and Poses Our art topic for term 5 is “Portraits and Poses”. Throughout this topic, we will learn about portraiture. Children will analyse portraits of Tudor Monarchs and compare these to selfies today. We will create our own portraits. To find out more, view our Portraits and Poses Knowledge Organiser. Design and Technology:

In term 5 and 6 our topic is “Animal Survival”. Throughout this topic we will find out about growth in animals by exploring the life cycles of some familiar animals. They build on learning about the survival of humans by identifying the basic needs of animals for survival, including food, water, air and shelter. Animal

Following the White Rose Maths scheme, Year 2 will cover four main blocks of learning over the course of the summer term: number (including the four operations); measure; statistics; and geometry. As part of the White Rose Maths scheme, each block is broken down into a series of small learning steps. Combined, these small learning

Our Class Text and Comprehension In term 5, our reading comprehension lessons will be based upon our class text, “Queen Victoria’s Bathing Machine” by Gloria Whelan. Throughout this fiction text, we will learn about how Queen Victoria loved water but was too embarrassed to make her way to the water as Royalty are too regal