Pontyclun Primary School Year 2 Blog

Yr 2 Autumn Term Areas Of Learning Topic – The world of Roald Dahl

Literacy
Recounts – Writing about events that have happened.
Stories with familiar settings (characters, settings, event, problem, resolution).
Poetry – rhyming / nonsense poetry.
Writing lists
Writing Instructions
Punctuation – Capital letters, full stops, speech marks.
All about an Author – Roald Dahl.
The BFG and George’s Marvellous Medicine.

Numeracy
Count on and back in ones and tens.
Count 100 objects by grouping in 5s or 10s.
Splitting tens and units 56 = 5 tens 6 units.
Write, order and position numbers to 100.
Adding three numbers.
Number bonds to 10, 20, 100 i.e. 1 + 9, 2 +8.
Missing numbers – addition and subtraction.
Estimate, measure lengths, cms and metres.
Time – days, weeks, months, seasons
2D & 3D shapes and their properties.
Symmetry
Doubles / Halves to 30.
Money – addition / giving change from £2

Personal and social Education
Class rules
All about me
Sharing
Self – evaluation
Thinking skills
Making choices
Feelings
Right and wrong
New beginnings.

Knowledge and Understanding
Health and Growth -
Diet, reproduction,
Exercise, medicines.
Variation – similarities / differences in animals and plants.
School life in Victorian times.
Awareness of Pontyclun and mapping skills.
Care and concern for the world.

Creative Development
Exploring duration
Exploring pulse and rhythm.
Illustrator –Quentin Blake.
Design and make models.
Observational Drawings
Christmas Craft.

Physical Development
Gymnastics – PESS
Games – Throwing and Catching, ball skills and team building games.
Cutting and sticking
Building and constructing.
Handwriting manipulation.

Welsh Language Development
Greetings
Clothes
Weather
Food.



Reading - Please encourage your child to read on a daily basis. Your child will have a Reading day in school where he/she will be listened to by the teacher or the teacher’s assistant. If your child finishes his/her book before this day, we are happy to change it for another one at any time.

Writing – Children should be confident in writing sentences using finger spaces, capital letters and full stops. Encouragement of the correct formation of letters would be greatly beneficial.

Numeracy – Children should be confident in counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. They should practise mental addition and subtraction, doubles and halves and odds and evens.