Year Two

• Stories and a variety of poems with familiar settings

• Instructions

Ongoing work on grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling and handwriting

• Traditional stories; stories and poems from other cultures

• Stories and poems with predictable and patterned language

• Poems by significant children’s poets

• Dictionaries, glossaries, indexes and other alphabetically ordered texts

• Explanations

Ongoing work on grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling and handwriting

• Extended stories

• Stories by significant children’s authors

• Different stories by the same author; texts with language play, e.g. riddles, tongue twisters, humorous verse and stories

• Information texts, including non-chronological reports

Ongoing work on grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling and handwriting

Counting, properties of numbers and number sequences

Place Value & ordering

Understanding + and –

Mental Calculation Strategies (+ and -)

Money and real life problems

Making Decisions

Measures including problems

Shape and Space

Reasoning about shapes

Counting, properties of numbers and number sequences

Place Value & ordering

Understanding + and –

Mental Calculation Strategies (+ and -)

Money and real life problems

Making Decisions

Measures including problems

Shape and Space

Counting, properties of numbers and number sequences

Place Value & ordering

Understanding + and –

Mental Calculation Strategies (+ and -)

Money and real life problems

Making Decisions

Measures including problems

Shape and Space

Health & Growth/ Variation

 Plants & Animals in the local area/Forces

 Grouping & Changing Materials/ Electricity

Famous people inc. Florence Nightingale

Seaside Holidays

The Great Fire of London

Going To The Seaside

Mother Nature, designer

What is Sculpture? Edgar Degas