Year Two - Term Two

The student should be able to:

Objective

Literacy

Word Level Work
• Investigate and classify words with the same sounds but different spellings
• Recall High Frequency Words
• Use everyday words relating to the past
• Begin to spell common irregular words
Sentence Level Work
• Know and use words and phrases that link sentences
• Understand and use commas and exclamation marks
• Re-read own writing for sense
Text level Work
• Predict and check meanings of unfamiliar words
• Apply phonological, graphic knowledge and sight vocabulary to spelling
• Learn, re-read and recite poems
• Use simple poetry structures and substitute own ideas
• Comment on aspects such as word combinations, sound patterns and forms of presentation

Mathematics

Number Work
• Count on and back in ones and twos (from 0 to 100)
• Recognise odd and even numbers
• Compare two 2-digit numbers, practice recognising the larger and smaller
• Use patterns of similar calculations
• Count in tens
• Recognise near doubles
Measures
• Know that a right angle is a measure of a quarter turn
• Recognise right angles in squares and rectangles
• Recognise whole, half and quarter turns to the left or right, clockwise or anti-clockwise

Science

Plants and Animals in the Local Environment
• Learn to identify and classify plants and animals
• Treat animals and the environment with care and sensitivity
• Recognise that there are differences between local habitats
• Be able to use drawings to present results and make comparisons

Geography

A Contrasting Locality
• Be able to ask geographical questions
• Identify similarities and differences in their homes, in people’s lives, in a typical day and with their own locality and that of a contrasting locality

History

How do we know about the Great Fire of London?
• Place an event on a timeline
• Understand the concepts of where, when and why in relation to the Great Fire of London
• Identify what makes cities safer today from fires

Design & Technology

Wind Up Toys
• Identify that a winding mechanism has an axle that turns and a handle
• Observe carefully what happens when such a mechanism works
• Make simple drawings to show how the mechanism works
• Use techniques for making winding mechanisms
• Use tools accurately and safely
• Investigate and evaluate ways of making characters for the toy
• Identify criteria for their design
• Select tools and materials and use correct vocabulary to name and describe them
• Assemble, join and combine materials to make a winding mechanism
• Understand the need for a stable structure to support a mechanism

Information Communication Technology (ICT)

Finding Information
• Use appropriate search techniques to find information
• Search using key words
• Know that information can be connected in different ways at the same time

Art

Mother nature, designer
• Use properly and maximize resources
• Use recycled materials
• Try out tools and techniques and apply these to materials and processes

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Healthy Life Styles
• Make simple choices that will improve their health and well being
• Maintain personal hygiene
• Know about the process of growing from young to old
• Know rules for keeping safe, including basic road safety

Spanish

Historias en Imágenes
• Estructurará párrafos cortos teniendo en cuenta la división silábica y la segmentación de palabras.
• Diferenciará la coma y el punto como elementos para la entonación en la lectura oral.
• Creará historias en forma oral a partir de imágenes.
• Reconocerá el determinando como indicador de género y número del nombre.
• Realizará sus escritos con orden y legibilidad siguiendo el trazo propuesto.

Physical Education

Conductas Sicomotoras Elementales
• Contribuir a la definición de la lateralidad y al desarrollo de la dominancia lateral en los niños.
• Mediante percepción rítmica favorecer en el niño la apreciación temporo-espacial.
• Mejorar el equilibrio y la coordinación en los niños mediante juegos y desplazamientos con elementos.
• Favorecer la discusión en grupo y la integración social de los niños mediante las actividades colectivas.

Music

Drawing the treble clef
• Locate C, D and E on the stave
• Play and sing “call and response” games and songs
• Develop and use basic rhythmic dictation

Year Two - Term Three

The student should be able to:

Objective

Literacy

Reading
• Discuss story themes and settings
• Predict story endings and incidents
• Identify and describe characters
• Read with intonation and expression
Writing
Word Level Work
• Split familiar oral and written compound words into their component parts
• Read and spell words containing the common digraphs
• Discriminate, orally, syllables in multi-syllabic words using children’s names and words from their reading
• Review the long vowel phonemes
Sentence Level Work
• Investigate and recognise a range of other ways of presenting texts
• Identify speech marks in reading, understand their purpose, use the terms correctly
• Use awareness of grammar to decipher new or unfamiliar words
• Use commas to separate items in a list
Text level Work
• Write character profiles
• Use dictionaries and glossaries to locate words by using initial letter
• Know that dictionaries and glossaries give definitions and explanations; discuss what definitions are, explore some simple definitions in dictionaries
• Understand that dictionaries and glossaries give definitions and explanations
• Use other alphabetically ordered texts e.g. indexes, dictionaries listings, registers, etc.

Mathematics

Number Work
• Recognise the place-value of digits in a 2-digit number
• Partition a number into tens and units
• Recognise doubles of numbers up to 10 by adding
• Solve “real life” problems involving addition
• Subtract 10 and multiples of 10 from a 2-digit number
• To count in tens and fives
• Partition numbers using knowledge of addition/subtraction facts
• Count in steps of three
• Rehearse the use of “x” notation
• Divide by sharing equally a set of objects
• Begin to recognise that two halves, three thirds and four quarters make a whole
Measures and Time, including problems
• Begin to name pentagons, hexagons, octagons, heptagons
• Sort 2D shapes based on numbers of sides and corners
• Rehearse the time to the quarter hour on analogue clocks

Science

Grouping and Changing Materials
• Know that there are a range of materials with different characteristics
• Know that some materials occur naturally and some do not
• Identify that objects made from some materials can be altered by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching
• Know and identify different ways to change materials e.g. heating and cooling
• Describe ways of making materials or objects change using appropriate vocabulary

History

Why do we remember Florence Nightingale?
• Identify how people became famous
• Make deductions from source material
• Be able to infer information from pictures of the past
• Recount the main events in the life of a famous person

Design & Technology

Joseph’s Coat
• Understand that fabrics can be patterned in different ways
• Understand that 2D paper patterns are used to mark out the shape and size of pieces to make a 3D product
• Learn how to make repeat patterns
• Cut, shape and join fabric to make a simple garment
• Make and/or use a simple paper pattern/template
• Select tools and materials and use correct vocabulary to name and describe them
• Evaluate what they have made

Information Communication Technology (ICT)

Routes
• Make directions as N,S E & W and up, down left and right
• Understand that devises must be programmed and have to follow instructions
• Enter a sequence of instructions
• Understand that instructions can be repeated

Art

Can Buildings Speak?
• Recognise different kinds of buildings
• Appreciate and understand their surroundings
• Acquire skills by working with a wide range of materials, tools and techniques

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)

Citizenship
• Take part in simple debate about topical issues by sharing their opinions and explaining their views
• Recognise what they like and dislike, what is fair and unfair and what is right and wrong
• Contribute to the life of the class and the school
• Recognise what they are good at, set simple goals, and deal with their feelings in a positive way

Spanish

La Historieta
• Creará y organizará historietas cortas a partir de imágenes.
• Utilizará palabras que indiquen cualidades del nombre en diferentes situaciones comunicativas.
• Identificará palabras que indican acción dentro de una oración.
• Reconocerá el nombre propio y común.

Physical Education

Proyección Espacial
• Incrementar las posibilidades de movimiento de los segmentos corporales de manera asociada y en independencia.
• Proporcionar al niño fundamentos prácticos que le permitan discriminar distancias, direcciones y trayectorias.
• Contribuir a la discriminación de diferentes momentos de tiempo y a la precisión en la coordinación óculo-manual.
• Destacar la importancia del respeto y la colaboración mutua en el trabajo colectivo.

Music

Locating C,D,E,F,G,A,B on the staff
• Learn how to follow the shape of a melody
• Clap rhythmic patterns
• Use basic rhythmic dictation

The student should be able to:

Reading
• Identify and describe characters
• Have overall independence, accuracy, fluency in reading to gain a sense of meaning.
• Be able to predict events in the story.
• Retell the story in sequence with significant detail.
Writing
Word Level Work
• Discriminate spell and read the phonemes ear (hear) and ea (head)
• Spell words with common suffixes, e.g. –ful, –ly.
• Use synonyms and other alternative words/phrases that express same or similar meanings
Sentence Level Work
• Write in clear sentences using capital letters and full stops accurately
• Become familiar with questions, learning a range of “wh” words typically used to open questions: what, where, when, who and to add question marks
Text level Work
• Write sustained stories, using their knowledge of story elements: narrative, settings, characterisation, dialogue and the language of story
• Write simple evaluations of books read and discussed giving reasons
• Understand the distinction between fact and fiction; to use terms “fact”, “fiction” and “non-fiction” appropriately
• Use a contents page and index

Number Work
• Recognise the place-value of digits in a 2-digit number
• Partition a number into tens and units
• Recognise doubles of numbers up to 10 by adding
• Solve “real life” problems involving addition
• Subtract 10 and multiples of 10 from a 2-digit number
• Count in steps of 3, 4, 5 and 10
• Partition numbers using knowledge of addition/subtraction facts
• Rehearse the use of “x” notation
• Divide by sharing equally a set of objects
• Begin to use the “ ÷” sign
• Recognise one half, one quarter and one third of shapes
• Begin to recognise that two halves, three thirds and four quarters make a whole
Measures and Time, including problems
• Rehearse the time to the quarter hour and quarter to on analogue and digital clocks
• Recognise and order the months of the year.
• Sort 2D shapes based on number of sides and corners

Forces and Movements
• Recognise that pushes and pulls can: change the shape of an object and make things speed up, slow down or change direction
• Suggest questions about ways in which different objects move
• Know that pushes and pulls are examples of forces
Using Electricity
• Know that everyday appliances use electricity
• Realise that everyday appliances are connected to the mains and that they must be used safely
• Know that some devices use batteries
• Be able to make a complete circuit using a battery, wire and bulbs

Going to the Seaside
• Know about the human and physical features of the seaside
• Recognise features on a map
• Express geographical ideas through poetry

Seaside Holidays From The Past
• Recall information from their past to answer questions about holidays
• Use time related vocabulary
• Sequence photographs into a time series by identifying differences between present and past times

Vehicles
• Recognise that that there are many types of vehicles
• Understand that vehicles have different purposes
• Understand and recognise that vehicles are made up of different parts
• Use wheels and axles, understanding that wheels and axles can be assembled in two different ways
• Use hand tools safely and appropriately
• Measure and cut accurately
• Assemble, join and combine materials in order to make a vehicle

Communicating Information
• Know that there are differences between hand written and word-processed text
• Know that text can be entered and corrected
• Know that ICT can be used to rearrange text to make it easier to read
• Use spaces between words and using the shift and backspace key

Personal Project
• To make a proposal and initial design for a personal project
• To explore qualities of known materials and select appropriate ones to develop project
• To produce final 3-D or 2-D piece based on their original idea

Relationships
• Recognise how their behaviour affects other people
• Listen to other people
• Play and work co-operatively
• Identify and respect differences and similarities between people

Textos
• Construirá textos cortos con cohesión y coherencia teniendo en cuenta legibilidad y segmentación oracional.
• Leerá textos cortos en forma rítmica y sostenida
• Identificará la idea principal en un texto corto
• Expresará en forma oral solución a problemas planteados.
• Distinguirá retahílas y trabalenguas de otras formas literarias.

Habilidades Reglamentadas y Estructuradas
• Practica de movimientos básicos de un deporte aplicando diferentes ritmos y recorridos para favorecer el desarrollo psicomotríz en los alumnos.

Preparing for the Graduation Ceremony
• Further develop basic rhythmic dictation
• Listen to classical music
• Learn about different types of instruments