Curriculum Bulletin: Year 2

Autumn 2: Fire, Fire! 

English: 

• To create a wanted poster about Guy Fawkes. 
• To write a diary entry from the point of view of Samuel Pepys 
• Read firework poems and answer questions about them. 
• Create a firework poem. 
• Design and write a cure for The Plague.
• The writings targets are: to use a comma in a list and to use a noun phrase. 

The class novel will be Charlie and Lola: We completely must go to London. 

Maths:

• To subtract a two-digit number and ones and a two-digit number and tens.
• To subtract mentally a two-digit number from another two-digit number.
• To recognise the relationships between addition and subtraction.
• To recognise the inverse relationships between addition and subtraction and use this to check calculations and work out missing number problems
• To count in twos, fives and tens from 0 and use counting strategies to solve problems
• To recall and use multiplication facts for the 2, 5 and 10 multiplication tables to solve simple problems. 
• To use the greater than, less than and equal to signs ( > , <, = ) to compare and order numbers. 

Topic:  

• Learn about the history of The Great Fire of London and The Plague. 
• Compare doctors and nurses from The Plague and today. 
• Compare the houses from 1666 and today. 
• Use different art techniques to create a picture representing The Great Fire of London.
• In music the objective is to learn and create chants and rhymes. 
• In PE the children will create and perform a firework dance. 
• In computing the children will learn about algorithms using a program on Discovery Education. 

Homework:

• Homework will continue to be set on a Tuesday whereby you will be informed on the mathematical methods that your child has been taught in school.
• The new spellings sections will be sent home on a Tuesday and the spelling test will be on a Monday.