Creative Topic

Year 2 2020-2021

Autumn 1

The place where I live (focus- Geography and History)

Geography

We are going to find out about the physical and human features in the local area.  For the knowledge organiser for this topic please see the link at the bottom of this page. 

Here are a few pictures of things we found on our walk around our local area.

History

This week we have been thinking about how our local area has changed. We looked at some maps from 1940s and 1960 and found that our school was built in place of a farm. Lots of the houses we live in had not been built and there were lots of farmers’ fields instead!

We thought of questions we would like to ask Mrs Walton about how the school had changed.

When was the school built?

How many classes did it have at first?

Who was the first head teacher?

We found out that the school was built in 1972 and took two years to build opening in 1974. It opened with only 7 classes. The first head teacher was called Mr Robinson and since then there have been three more heads.

Autumn 2       Fighting fit 

In this topic we look at how to stay healthy and how we change as we get older.

New Year cards and calendars Art and DT

Cards - we used different coloured tissue paper for the trees. We tore strips carefully making sure when we stuck them on there was no gaps. We linked this with a skill of colour awshing  we had learnt during our Art Week. 

Calendars- We designed a relief inspired by outdoors for example trees, wind clouds etc...  We painted using the fours colours that represnt the seasons.

STEM

For our STEM project this year the children had to design, make and evaluate a sleigh for Santa that would securely hold his sack of toys. The sleigh hadn to have wheels just incase it doesn't snow at christmas. Once we had built them we let them go down the ramp to test how far thy rolled and whether the sack fell out of the sleigh. 

Here are a few of our finnished sleighs.

Spring 2

Explorers (Focus- History)

We have been finding out about Neil Armstrong. We read books, looked on the internet and watched film clips.

We learnt he was the first person to walk on the moon.

We sequenced the events of the first moon landing.

Summer 1

Wind in the Willows (Focus - Science- animals)

This half term we have been looking at the different habitats that animals live in and how they have adapted to live in these habitats.

We looked at the adaptation of a camel.

We have also looked at different food chains. Looking at the vocabulary Producer, Consumer, Prey and Predator

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Year 1 2019-2020

Autumn 1

Our topic this half term is: Family album in which we will be learning about The United Kingdom, The Royal Family and changes within living memory. 

Autumn 2

We have had a special visit in Year One from Fred the skeleton this week, which has led us into our new topic ‘Brilliant Bodies’. This is a Science and Design Technology based topic.

We will be learning the names for different parts of our body and learning about the five senses, sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing. We will also be designing and making a moving skeleton.

Mrs Ellis and Miss Cowell are also working with Coach Amy this term to include our topic into our P.E starting with dance based around the story Funnybones.

Spring 1

Our topic this half term is Penguins, Possums and Pets. Our five key questions are:

What is the weather like in different parts of the world?

How are animals the same or different?

How can we sort animals?

Which animals live in which continents?

We will be exploring animals, this includes where they live, what they eat and what type of animal they are. we will introduce t he words herbivore, carnivore and omnivore. We will also look at the five animals categories which are Mammals, Reptiles, birds, fish and amphibians.

The children will categorise the animals according to the criteria. 

As a part of our topic we will explore the different continents, the equator and what the weather is like in different parts of the world.

Spring 2

Our topic this half term is Growth and Green fingers. This is a science and design and technology topic. We will be exploring plants and trees. We will be looking at our five key questions:

How are plants the same or different?

How are trees the same or different?

Can we eat everything grown on a plant?

What is the weather like in different seasons?

Where does food come from?

We will be linking this to our English topic  of Peter Rabbit when we make our rabbit pizzas using different vegetable toppings.

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