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Spring Term

Year 2 Curriculum – Spring Term

 

At Millfield, our curriculum is based around

 ‘Repeat, Revisit, Remember’

Instead of doing a set topic for each half term, our curriculum is designed so that we repeat topics every few weeks.

 

Below are some of the specific things we are doing this term in each subject

 

 

Literacy (writing)

  • ‘Dream Giver’ – Write stuff lessons and a continuation story
  • Descriptive Writing - Comparisons of different characters (Puss in Boots/Ogre)
  • ‘Taking flight’ sentence/vocabulary work

 

Guided Reading

  • Comprehension skills VIPERS
  • The Kind Moon (poem)
  • Rock Pools (information text)
  • Vikings (information text)
  • Toy Shop (story)
  • On top of the world (Information text)
  • The Owl and the snake (story)
  • Friends (poem)
  • Guinea Pigs (Information text)
  • The lady of Stavoren (fable)

 

Maths

  • Arithmetic tests
  • Times tables – 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x
  • Word problems

 

Science

  • “Paper is made from wood” - De Bono’s hats lesson
  • Plants
  • Structure of plants
  • Wild and garden varieties
  • Differences between bulbs and seeds

 

Topic – Geography

  • Wales (Cardiff)
  • Weather
  • Land use
  • Features
  • Map reading – coordinates

 

Music

 

Art

  • Artistic trade
  • Weaving and Dying
  • Drawing and Sketching skills
  • Drawing trees

 

RSE

  • Labelling the body

 

PSHE

  • Change and Loss – dealing with emotions

 

P.E.

  • Gymnastics at Invoke gymnastics

 

Design and Technology

  • Levers and axels
  • Can we make a vehicle that will transport and egg?

 

SPAG

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

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