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Curriculum
Year 2
Project
During this term the children have been working towards answering the Essential Question of ‘What makes a hero?’
This has included:
English
- Using adjectives to describe heroes and villains
- Labelling the characteristics of heroes and villains
- Writing captions about their chosen hero
- Writing a description of their chosen hero
- Reading a range of comic books
- Learning about the features of a comic strip
- Sequencing events of a story
- Writing a superhero comic strip
- Researching and reading information about famous artists
- Writing a report about Roy Lichtenstein
- Writing questions to ask firefighters.
- Writing a report about real life heroes
- Labelling the features of different text types
- Reading and writing instructions linked to flapjack making
Maths
- Counting in practical contexts including how many times they could catch a ball
- Learning how to measure accurately using a ruler, trundle wheel and metre stick
- Measuring how far they could throw a discus and how tall they could build a tower
- Recording the above information in a tally chart
- Learning to recognise the value of various coins and combinations of coins
- Solving problems by working out how much a superhero costume would cost
- Adding two amounts of money to find totals
- Adding 3 numbers to find totals
- Comparing the information to find the quickest route to put out a fire.
Science
- Learning about a healthy diet
- Sorting foods into the five basic food groups
- Testing the taste of different foods to inform a future recipe
Computing
- Creating a pic collage about heroes and villains
- Making a comic using the comic life app
- Researching using QR codes and the internet about Roy Lichtenstein
Art
- Studying the pop artist Roy Lichtenstein
- Recreating the pop art picture called Sunrise / Sunset
- Responding to artists work by creating their own piece of Pop Art.
D.T.
- Taste testing a range of ingredients
- Designing an appealing product to be sold at their exhibition
- Following a recipe to make flapjack
- Adapting a basic recipe to create an appealing product
- Making their final flapjack design to sell at the exhibition
- Evaluating their products
Music
- Playing tuned percussion instruments
- Singing in a round
- Learning a range of songs
R.E
- Reading Christian stories linked to heroes
P.E.
- Developing and improving a range of multi- skills linked to superhero challenges
- Learning the basic rules of netball
- Learning gymnastic movements and how to put these into a sequence.
Experiences to enhance the learning have been:
- A superhero dressing up day
- A Hercules superhero challenge themed week
- A visit from the local fire brigade
- Baking flapjack
- The final project included an exhibition to sell their flapjack to raise money for children in need.
In addition to the projects running your child has also been taught ‘stand-alone’ lessons including Maths skills, English skills, Guided reading, Hand writing, Phonics, Steps to Success, SMCS (Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Education) and Music. They have also studied a range of comics and enjoyed reading them.