Year  2     Spring Term 2009

LITERACY

• Non-fiction books – considering layout, contents, index, glossary etc.
• Making own charts and flow diagrams
• Writing a non-fiction report

NUMERACY

• Calculation – multiplication & division; recording in  umber sentences
• Measures – graphs
• Problem solving – money and shape

SCIENCE:

Electricity:

• Consider the dangers of electricity
• Looking at batteries
• Simple circuits using batteries, bulbs and wires

ICT:

• Instructions – program instructions using 2go program
• Learning about right-angle turns

HISTORY:

• Florence Nightingale – who she was; why her work was important and still relevant today

GEOGRAPHY:

A contrasting locality:

• Life in the city of Shanghai – similarities and differences with life in Prestwich

RE:

• Easter – listen to the Easter story; finding out how the festival is celebrated

DT and SCIENCE

Forces:

• Pushes and pulls; moving and changing objects
• Design and make a pull along toy

ART:

• Animals in art

MUSIC:

• Chinese New Year
• Dragon poems – adding instruments to poems

PSHE:

Going for Goals;

• Taking responsibility; Persistence (keeping going)
• Resilience: Setting and achieving goals

Good to be me:

• Understanding feelings – how they lead us to behave the way we do
• Self awareness – feeling good about myself
• Managing my feelings; standing up for myself

OTHER

PE:

• Dance – Exploring the story ‘Giraffe’s can’t dance’
• Gymnastics - Pathways