Whitefield Primary School - Year 2 Autumn Curriculum
Whitefield Primary School - Year 2 Autumn Curriculum Literacy
Science
To write an information text
To know what a habitat is
To write my own version of a story
To understand why animals live where
To write the ending of a story
To use direct speech to write a dialogue
To understand food chains
To use a wider range of vocabulary.
To know what a predator and prey is
To begin to use a wider range of sentence
they do
To know the place value of numbers to and beyond 100
To understand that addition is the inverse of subtraction and to solve problems involving To add and subtract 1 and 2 digit numbers
Would you prefer to live in our
Key Reading Texts / Fiction
local area or on Hilbre Island?
Hedderwick
Key Reading Texts / Non-Fiction
mentally and using concrete objects
and adverbs in my writing
‘Katie Morag and the 2 Grandmothers’ by Mairi
To read and write numbers to 100 and beyond
To use nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs
‘The moonshine Dragon’ by Cornelia Funke
this
types.
Maths
Important days to remember: PE: Wednesdays Homework: Available on the website on Fridays
Explanations
How would we tackle ‘The Great Fire
www.whitefieldprimaryschool.co.uk
Firework poems
of London’ today?
Home reading books : Return every Tuesday and
Recounts
Thursday
Information texts
Trips and visitors
Learning Challenge
To identify what happened in the Gunpowder plot
To identify what happened during The Great Fire of London
To know the habitat of an island
To know where meat comes from
To know the advantages and disadvantages of our local area
A firework dance workshop with a performance to the parents at the end
Visit to Hilbre Island
Walk around local area
How you can help your child at home?
Practise counting in 2’s, 3’s, 5’s and 10’s
Practice adding and subtracting numbers
regularly and support your child with homework
Read regularly with your child and discuss what has been read.
Encourage your child to write about points of interest
Science
To write an information text
To know what a habitat is
To write my own version of a story
To understand why animals live where
To write the ending of a story
To use direct speech to write a dialogue
To understand food chains
To use a wider range of vocabulary.
To know what a predator and prey is
To begin to use a wider range of sentence
they do
To know the place value of numbers to and beyond 100
To understand that addition is the inverse of subtraction and to solve problems involving To add and subtract 1 and 2 digit numbers
Would you prefer to live in our
Key Reading Texts / Fiction
local area or on Hilbre Island?
Hedderwick
Key Reading Texts / Non-Fiction
mentally and using concrete objects
and adverbs in my writing
‘Katie Morag and the 2 Grandmothers’ by Mairi
To read and write numbers to 100 and beyond
To use nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs
‘The moonshine Dragon’ by Cornelia Funke
this
types.
Maths
Important days to remember: PE: Wednesdays Homework: Available on the website on Fridays
Explanations
How would we tackle ‘The Great Fire
www.whitefieldprimaryschool.co.uk
Firework poems
of London’ today?
Home reading books : Return every Tuesday and
Recounts
Thursday
Information texts
Trips and visitors
Learning Challenge
To identify what happened in the Gunpowder plot
To identify what happened during The Great Fire of London
To know the habitat of an island
To know where meat comes from
To know the advantages and disadvantages of our local area
A firework dance workshop with a performance to the parents at the end
Visit to Hilbre Island
Walk around local area
How you can help your child at home?
Practise counting in 2’s, 3’s, 5’s and 10’s
Practice adding and subtracting numbers
regularly and support your child with homework
Read regularly with your child and discuss what has been read.
Encourage your child to write about points of interest
