Year 2 Term 3

April to July

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9 March 2025 at 05:22:18

🇮🇹 Italy & Ancient Rome

Maths 🧮

Fractions

Introduction to parts and whole
Equal and unequal parts
Recognise a half
Find a half
Recognise a quarter
Find a quater
Recognise a third
Find a third
Find a whole
Unit fractions
Non-unit fractions
Recognise the equivalence of a half and two quarters
Recognise three-quarters
Find three-quarters
Count in fractions up to a whole

Time

O'clock and half past
Quarter past and quarter to
Tell time past the hour
Tell time to the hour
Tell the time to 5 minutes
Minutes in an hour
Hours in a day

Mass, Capacity & Temperature

Compare mass
Measure in grams
Measure in kilograms
Four operations with mass
Compare volume and capacity
Measure in millilitres
Measure in litres
Four operations with volume and capacity
Temperature

Science 🧬

Plants (Biology) ♻️

Bulb or seed?
What to plants need to grow?
Bulbs and seeds investigation

Growing Up (Biology) ♻️

Parent and offspring
Life cycle if humans
Life cycles of different mammals
Life cycle of amphibians
Life cycle of butterfly
Butterfly diary

Wildlife (Sustainability) ♻️

What does wildlife do for us?
What can we do for wildlife?

Reading 📖

In Year 2, all students have access to a comprehensive and systematic Phonics programme tailored to their individual needs: 👉 read more.

Flat Stanley

Author: Jeff Brown Illustrator: Scott Nash

Stanley Lambchop wakes up one morning to find a notice-board has dropped on him in the night, leaving him happy and healthy, but only half an inch thick. It's a little unusual, but he finds he can fly like a kite, be sent on holiday through the post and can use his special skills to foil a burglary at the local art gallery. Still, he's glad when his brother Arthur has a bright idea to help bring him back to his normal shape.

This inventive story is full of wit and humour, and is sure to intrigue young readers. Originally published in 1964, Jeff Brown's ingenious tale has since become a well-established favourite both in the classroom and at home.

Reading age: 7+

Writing ✍️

Adverts: writing an advert for their own lunch box

Basic persuasive advert, written in the present tense and using some basic noun phrases for detail.
Use conjunctions to give reasons for choices (because, so etc.)
Commas in lists
Question marks for questions
Exclamation marks for exclamations
Coordinating conjunctions -with, and, or, but, so
Use present and past tense including progressive
Use past, present and future tense
Adjectives to describe a noun
Verbs
Adverbs for description and information

Narrative

Simple narrative and description
Past tense and introduction to progressive past tense
Simple adverbs of time to sequence events
Adverbs for additional detail (slowly etc.)
Basic noun phrases (the big bad wolf)
Simple conjunctions to join ideas (and, if, with, but, so)
Exclamation sentences
Verbs chosen for effect
Exclamation marks for exclamations
Use speech without speech marks
Coordinating conjunctions -with, and, or, but, so
Use present and past tense including progressive
Use past, present and future tense
Adjectives to describe a noun
Verbs
Adverbs for description and information
Write a retelling of a story.
Use a familiar story as a model to write a new story.
Creating a descriptive peice of writing about a 'found' penguin
Narratives should have considered language choices e.g adverbs, percise nouns (turquoise rather than blue, jumper instead of top, policeman instead of just man)

Letter Writing

Write a simple letter using the formal letter format
Commas in lists
Coordinating conjunctions -with, and, or, but, so
Use present and past tense including progressive
Use past, present and future tense
Adjectives to describe a noun
Verbs
Adverbs for description and information

Across the curriculum 🌏

Study of a European Country: Italy ♻️

Using maps to locate
Shape and landscape of the country
Climate
Tourism
Lake and mountains (skiing)
Transport

Ancient Rome (case study: Pompeii)

Timeline
Architecture
Government
Education and work
Religion
Society
Event: Eruption of Vesuvius
Aftermath

Curriculum Objectives & Expectations ♻️

Use world maps, atlases and globes to find countries, continents and oceans studied
Name and locate the world's continents and oceans
Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key physical and human features
Weather patterns
Ask and answer geographical questions (such as: What is this place like? What or who will I see in this place? What do people do in this place?)
Identify key features of a location
Use geographical similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of a small area of Brunei and a contrasting country
Observe and use pictures, photographs, and artefacts to find out about the past
Start to use stories or accounts to distinguish between fact and fiction
Observe or handle evidence to ask simple questions about the past
Talk, write and draw about things from the past
Start to show some basic understanding of substantive concepts, such as monarchy, parliament, war, voyage, society
Talk and write about things from the past using some historical vocabulary
Start to understand that during the same period of time, life was different for people in the past, such as rich and poor, male and female
Talk about why the event was important and what happened
Mapping
Basic observational skills
Draw simple features
Add labels onto a sketch map or photograph
Use aerial photographs
Simple bar charts
Begin to use a range of evidence to ask and answer questions about the past
Use a range of primary and secondary sources to find out about the past
Describe connections and contrasts between aspects of history, people events and artefacts studied
Regularly address and sometimes devise own questions to find answers about the past
Justify opinion about the effects of an event on society

Key Vocabulary

Continent, capital, Europe, Rome, Italy, climate, weather, transport, train, beach, coast, mountain, sea, city, town, village, volcano, river, snow, ice, glacier.

Art, Design & Technology 🎨 👷

Design, make and evaluate a functioning lunchbox
Nature Art: Sculptures

PSHE 😀 🫶

Personal, Social, Health and Economic education

Physical health and mental wellbeing

About routines and habits for maintaining good physical and mental health and why sleep and rest are important for growing and keeping healthy
The importance of, and routines for, brushing teeth and visiting the dentist and how food and drink affect dental health
How to describe and share a range of feelings and ways to feel good, calm down or change their mood e.g. playing outside, listening to music, spending time with others
How to manage big feelings including those associated with change, loss and bereavement and when and how to ask for help, and how to help others, with their feelings

Growing and Changing

About the human life cycle and how people grow from young to old
How our needs and bodies change as we grow up
About change as people grow up, including new opportunities and responsibilities
Preparing to move to a new class and setting goals for next year

Keeping Safe

How to recognise risk in everyday situations, e.g. road, water and rail safety, medicines and how to help keep themselves safe in familiar and unfamiliar environments, such as in school, online and ‘out and about’
How to help keep themselves safe at home in relation to electrical appliances, fire safety and medicines/household products
About things that people can put into their body or onto their skin (e.g. medicines and creams) and how these can affect how people feel
About whose job it is to keep us safe and how to get help in an emergency, including how to dial emergency numbers and what to say