You may find this information about the National Curriculum helpful:
http://www.risingstars-uk.com/curriculumparentguide
Important Learning
Autumn 1- Fire Fire (Great Fire of London)
Autumn 2- Rosa Parks/Nelson Mandela
Spring 1- England/Carribean
Spring 2- Town/Cities (Orion Monkeys)
Summer 1- What were people who lived 100 years ago like?
Summer 2- Seaside
Reading and Homework
Each week your child has a reading day where they read with the teacher and are given a new book.
Children are expected to do 10 minutes Champion Reading every day - they can choose a book from their class library and change this whenever they like.
Homework goes out on Friday, to be handed in on Wednesday.
Literacy
During the Autumn Term we focus on stories and diaries. We learn how to write rainbow sentences so that we can make sure our writing is interesting with adjectives, connectives, openers and adverbs.
In the Spring Term we learn about information texts and we continue our rainbow sentence work through studying a range of non-fiction texts.
Throughout the Summer Term we look at different stories by the author Anthony Browne.
Children are expected to have neat handwriting, using correct letter formation. They are also expected to learn and spell the most commonly used key words.
Numeracy
Each term we develop our mathematical understanding in:
Children are taught to be able to apply these skills and understandings to a range of problem solving situations.
Autumn Term Topics
Come Fly with Me / Forces
Fire of London / Heating and Cooling
Topic / Science
Spring Term Topics
Caribbean Island Explorers / Electricity
Night time Explorers / Variation
Summer Term Topics
Nocturnal Animals / Plants and Animals
Around the World with Monkeys / Staying healthy
Trips
We go to the RAF Museum whilst learning about flying. In the Summer Term we have a special trip to the seaside. As well as our trips we have half termly immersion days to capture the children's interest in our new topic.
Be prepared in Y2