Year 2 Summer 2010

Teachers: Alison Clapp, Reemal Patel, Teresa Frost

	English The children will continue to follow the National Literacy Strategy. During their daily literacy hour the children will be speaking, listening, and writing. This term our main areas of study will be Phonics and spelling Word recognition Sentence construction Punctuation, especially capital letters and full stops Reading comprehension Writing composition Handwriting During the school day the children will be able to read a wide range of books. They will also bring home a book to share with you. It would be very helpful if you could read with your child for 10 minutes per day, recording pages read and any comments that you may wish to make.
	Maths During our Numeracy lessons this term, the children will study Counting, properties of numbers and number sequences Place value and ordering Understanding addition, subtraction, division and multiplication Mental calculation strategies Money, real life problems and making decisions Measures Shape and space Data handling
	ICT During our ICT lessons, the children will be learning about Finding information and Simple branching data bases.
	Geography We will be studying ST LUCIA and looking at similarities and differences between ST LUCIA and WELWYN GARDEN CITY.
	History This term the children will be learning about FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.
	RE There are two main themes this term Religious Leaders Easy questions, difficult answers
	PE For the first Half term children will be doing gymnastics. in the second half children will take part in Athletics lessons where they will explore running, throwing and catching activities.
	Design and Tecnology Vehicles The children will design and make their own vehicle
	Science This term the children will study two units in Science. PLANTS AND ANIMALS and FORCES AND MOVEMENT
	Music Our music lessons will be linked to our topic work and the children will sing and use percussion instruments. Children will begin to learn the recorder.
	Art Our art work will be INVESTIGATING PATTERN, including patterns from other cultures.
	Planned Educational Visits : Whipsnade Zoo in the second half of the Summer term.