Curriculum Bulletin: Year 2

Twisted Tales

English

• To write a recount of the summer holiday
• To become familiar with traditional fairy tales so they can write the story of The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood. This will enable the children to write their own twisted tale by the end of the topic
• To write a recipe of Little Red’s cakes for Granny following on from the visit from The Learning Ranger
• To use and recognise four sentence types: command, statement, exclamation and question.

Maths

• To read and write numbers in words.
• To understand place value and be able to partition numbers to then use as an addition and subtraction strategy
• To compare and order numbers using < > = signs
• Count in steps of 2, 3, 5 and 10 from 0 starting at any number, counting both forwards and backwards.

Topic

• To design and make a purposeful product; a basket that Little Red Riding Hood could use.
• To use create an Asian inspired fairy tale setting using newspaper as the background, black paint and one colour.
• To learn The Three Little Pigs blues song, to add instruments to the song and perform.
• The Learning Ranger is the visitor for the topic. The children will be using willow to make leaves for Jack’s beanstalk, cakes for Little Red Riding Hood to take to her granny and a shelter for The Three Little Pigs.

Homework

• We will be setting homework weekly to inform you of the spellings that we expect the children to practise and learn for their spelling test on Monday
• We will also be letting you know about the things your child has been learning to do in that week, so you can practise at home if you would like to.

Days to remember

• Library is Tuesday. Please make sure your child returns their book within two weeks.
• PE is Thursday and Friday. Please make sure your child has a full PE kit in school, including suitable footwear.
• Please ensure your child has their reading log in school so it can be checked weekly by their teacher in guided reading lessons.