Year 2
Class Overview
Reading Progression
Book Recommendations for Year 2
Our trip to the seaside at Hastings!
Visiting the allotments at Sevenoaks School: identifying plants, searching for minibeasts and digging out weeds!
Story time in the sunshine!
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Science: using our observation skills to investigate things that are living, dead or have never been alive in the grassy area.
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RE: How does Jesus want us to live our lives? Learning the story of when Zacchaeus met Jesus and writing about what he might have thought.
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International Day! To learn about Zimbabwe, we made clay roundhouses, sampled delicious traditional food, and created interesting fact files to share with the rest of the school.
PE: practising our throwing and catching skills that are needed to be a batter or fielder.
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Our Coronation Celebrations!
Maths: practising 2-digit subtraction
Geography: identifying the different climate zones around the world and using a compass to complete some direction challenges!
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Whole School Project: we have designed, created and painted clay tiles for a school art installation (inspired by Kente cloth to celebrate Black History)
Art: using natural materials to create a collaborative piece of art
Talents Fair - using our talents to make and then sell friendship bracelets and animal bookmarks to raise money for charity
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RE: crucifixion paintings inspired by our visit to the Stations of the Cross at St Thomas' Church
Writing: an information leaflet about Dia de los Muertos
KCSP Science Day: investigating chromotography with different inks and paper.
Visiting the Tower of London to learn more about the Great Fire of London!
Whole School Project: spine poems and artwork based on "The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse".
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Science: investigating outdoor materials and their properties.
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PE: Invasion Games - practising our attacking and defending skills!
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RE: Making Advent wreaths.
English: writing instructions for how to make a Christmas card!
Maths: making equal groups.
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DT: our parent "Sewing Angels" who came to help us sew our Christmas decorations.
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Computing: creating tally charts for our favourite fruit.
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PE: a circuits session to test our endurance and balance!
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Science investigation: Do children with the longest hands also have the longest feet?
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Maths: using Dienes to help with place value
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Art: creating pastel and chalk images of Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III
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