Foundation Subjects

Summer 2

HIstory

This half term we will learn about Great explorers. Our objectives include:

• understand what an expedition is and why they happen
• understand how explorers impacted the world
• explore Neil Armstrong and Christopher Columbus
• Compare explorers

Knowledge Mat /uploads/715/files/Explorers.pptx 

 

Religious Education

We will look at Judaism. Objectives include:

• explore how Jews worship
• explore Jewish traditions
• learn about Jewish celebrations
• explore how different groups of people celebrate

Key question: How do we treat things that really matter to us? Does worship really help others?

Computing

We will have our online saftey lesson first, followed by our consolidation lessons. 

Objectives include:

understand how to use the internet safely carry out a one word search create a piece of art using a computer program create a powerpoint using text and images use an algorithm correctly to make a sprite move

 

PE

PE will take place on Thursdays each week. This will be taught by Gilchrist Sports. This term is ball games and kwik cricket. Our objectives are:

Ball games

• can I move into a space?
• can I pass the ball into a space?
• can I pass and move?
• can I follow an openent?
• can I try to win the ball?
• can I work as part of a team?

Knowledge mat /uploads/715/files/Ball-skills-KO-Yr-2-Oct-24.pdf

Kwik cricket

• can I roll and stop the ball?
• can I throw underam and catch the ball?
• can I bowl underarm?
• can I throw overarm?
• can I hit a ball?
• can I play as part of a team?

Knowledge mat  /uploads/715/files/Yr-2-SOW-kwik-cricket.pdf

Music 

We will explore exploring Our Big Concert. Our objectives are:

• respond to pieces of music
• improvise using tuned and untuned percussion
• perform to an audience
• respond to pitch and pulse

Knowledge mat /uploads/715/files/MMC Y2 U6 Overview.pdf

 

PSHE 

Our first lesson will be from the No Outsiders programme, focusing on families.  

We will then complete our unit on citizenship. Our objectives include:

• to understand the importance of rules
• to recognise how to look after the school envirnment
• to recognise the roles people play in the environment
• to understand roles that people have in the community
• to recgonise similarities and differences between groups of people in the community
• to recognise how democracy works in school
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Knowledge mat  /uploads/715/files/KO_Year-2_Citizenship.pdf

 

Art week is craft and design. Objectives are:

• investigate maps as a stimulus for drawing
• develop a drawing into 3d artwork
• experiment with craft techniques
• develop ideas around printmaking
• present artwork and evaluate it

 

knowledge mat  /uploads/715/files/KO_Yr2_Craft-and-design.pdf