Year 2

This Summer, Year 3 will be getting out and about in our local area to explore the natural wonders of Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire. The children will be looking at becoming more active where cost is not a barrier, so that everyone in our local area has the opportunity to keep fit both mentally and physically. We will look at how physical exercise benefits our body and also what the physical and human geography of Meir looks like today.

In our history topic, we will be exploring how seaside holidays have changed over time. We will study the way that holidays have changed over time for British people and compare and contrast our own personal experiences to those of different times. We will do this through looking at sources such as photographs and stories to learn what the British seaside used to be like.
 
This half term our ’For the love of reading’ text will be; ‘Tell me a dragon’. Everyone has their very own dragon, and this book describes many different varieties of the beast, showing in words and stunning pictures exactly why their owners find them so entrancing. They range from a dragon as big as a village to a tiny dragon ending in a page inhabited by every dragon in the book! In Maths, we will be applying addition and subtraction methods to numbers up to 100, we will be strengthening our mental calculation skills and our recall of the 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables.

Our topic for this half term focuses on the local heroes of Stoke on Trent. We will learn about Robbie Williams a multi-award winning singer with numerous number 1 hits. We will find out more about Josiah Wedgwood and Clarice Cliff: heroes of pottery, not just in this city but across the world. We will learn about Sir Stanley Matthews: the first footballer to be knighted. We will look at Edward Smith: the captain of the titanic and then we will explore more about John Baskeyfield: the soldier with the Victoria Cross.
 
Our class text this half term is; Traction Man. We will be following Traction Man as he rescues toys, searches the sink for the lost wreck of the sieve and patrols the house for any danger. With an action outfit for every occasion, Traction Man is never less than stylishly turned out. In Maths, we will be applying addition and subtraction methods to numbers up to 100, we will be strengthening our mental calculation skills and our recall of the 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables. We will also be exploring how to read and time on analogue times.

Our topic for this half term focuses on the journey our food makes from field to fork. We will learn about the different kinds of shops that we can buy food from and the different types of food that we can buy. We will follow the journey of a carrot from the seed being planted into the ground all the way to a delicious meal on our plates. We will use our existing knowledge of the geography of the UK to help us to investigate where different foods come from.
 
Our class text this half term is; The great explorer. In English this half term, we will be reading and exploring our ‘for the love of reading text’; ‘The Great Explorer’. We will be following the Tom and his journey as he tries to help find his dad who is a famous explorer lost in the North Pole. We will describe his epic journey as he travels through the Arctic.
 
In Maths, we will be applying addition and subtraction methods to numbers up to 100, we will be strengthening our mental calculation skills and our recall of the 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables.
 

This unit of work focuses upon Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot alongside the Great Fire of London. The children will investigate the events of the Gunpowder Plot which led to Bonfire Night being introduced into the UK calendar. Next, they will study the Great Fire of London, and decide whether or not it improved London for those living there. They will learn to interpret evidence from the time and afterwards, examining whether the sources are reliable.

Our class text this half term is; The Great fire of London. In English this half term, we will be linking our ‘Love for reading’ text with our History topic and learning about life in London before and during The Great Fire in 1666. We will be describing the city during this period, exploring what life was like for people through diary entries and writing recipes for making bread. In Maths, we will be moving onto addition and subtraction methods for numbers up to 50 and we will be learning our 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables. Our Science topic this half term focusses on being healthy and how we can lead a healthy lifestyle.

This half term we will be learning about seasons and exploring how the four seasons differ. We will explore the signs of changing seasons that occur throughout the year and how different things in nature adapt to the changing seasons. We will also be learning about the weather, observing the weather and learning about how and why the weather changes. In English we will be reading the text; The Tin Forest and exploring the thoughts, feelings and actions of the main character in the story. We will be focusing on descriptive, imaginative writing and writing diary entries. We will continue to focus on spelling this half term. In Maths, we will be recapping the place value of numbers up to 50 and beginning to add and subtract with larger numbers. Our Science topic this half term focuses on our local environment. We will be exploring different animals, their food chains and how different animals obtain their food.