Year 2

Year 2 will be looking at famous journeys and particularly early flight and the famous journey of the Titanic. Our love of reading text 'Traction Man' all about the action hero, this text will ignite our imaginations and insprire us to write our own adventure stories.

Year 2 are going to be exploring the wonders of the UK- identifying our favourite places in Stoke on Trent and looking at famous landmarks are in the UK and beyond. To help us with this we will be using maps, atlases and globes and using google maps to find features of interest.

Year 2 have already started their new topic with a visit to Ford Green Hall, we met Samuel Pepys and used a leather bucket to try and put out a fire. Through our love of reading text ‘Vlad and the Great Fire of London’ we will explore how Vlad finds Pudding Lane and what happens after. In our History topic we find out how the fire started, where it started and how it eventually ended. We will be making houses in the style of those in London at the time and our reading area embraces this also. A visit from our local Fire Brigade will allow us to compare how fire is tackled now and in the past.

Our story to inspire is ‘The tin forest’ about a man who makes his dreams come true by using some scrap metal to create his very own forest for birds and animals to live in. We will be using the text to discuss the PSHE theme of loneliness and how we can be a good friend. This story fits in well to our educational visit to Tanglewood at Cannock Chase- how will this forest compare? What signs can we see that Autumn is approaching? What habitats can we see here? Can we classify the plants and animals that live here? In Science we will be exploring weather and how it changes from month to month and place to place.