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Year 2 Curriculum

Year 2                   Termly Curriculum              2023 – 2024

Autumn 2023

Spring 2024

Summer 2024

CUSP Reading 

  • Grandad's Island Block 1
  • Aesop's Fables - The Goose that laid the Golden Eggs Block 2
  • Mrs Noah's Pockets Block 3 
  • Paddington Blocks 4, 5
  • The Christmas Pine - Julia Donaldson
    Block 6
  • The Quangle Wangle's Hat - Edward Lear Block 7
  • Coming to England Block 8
  • The Street Beneath My Feet Block 9
  • Rhythm of the Rain  Blocks 10, 11
  • Little People Big Dreams  Block 12
  • Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World
    Blocks 13, 14
  • Aesop’s Fables – The Sun and The Wind Block 15
  • Fantastic Mr Fox
    Blocks 16, 17, 18

CUSP Writing
Introduce = green (Block A) Revisit = orange (Block B)

Strong Start Sentence Composition (optional)

  • Character descriptions A
  • Poems developing vocabulary A
  • Simple retelling of a narrative A
  • Formal invitations A
  • Stories from other cultures A
  • Poetry on a theme (humorous) A
  • Non-chronological reports A
  • Formal invitations B
  • Stories from other cultures B
  • Recount from personal experience A
  • Non-chronological reports B
  • Simple retelling of a narrative B
  • Recount from personal experience B
  • Poems developing vocabulary B (Enrichment)
  • Character description B
  • Poetry on a theme (humorous / poems about change) B (Enrichment)

Maths

  • Place Value
  • Addition and Subtraction
  • Shape
  • Monay
  • Multiplication and Division
  • length and height
  • mass Capacity and temperature 
  • Fractions
  • Time
  • Statistics
  • Position and Direction

CUSP Science

  • Living things and their habitats
  • Animals, including humans
 
  • Uses of everyday materials
  • Revisit Living things and their habitats / materials
 
  • Plants
  • Revisit Living things and their habitats / Animals, including humans

CUSP Art and Design

  • Drawing Block A
  • Painting Block B
 
  • Printmaking Block C
  • Textiles and collage Block D
 
  • 3D Block E
  • Creative Response Block F

Computing

  • Information Technology around us
  • Digital photography
 
  • Robot algorithms
  • Pictograms
 
  • Making Music 
  • Programming quizzes

CUSP Design and Technology 

  • Textiles Block A
  • Food and Nutrition Block B
    Sci Living things
 
  • Mechanisms Block C
  • Materials Block D
    Sci Use of Everyday materials
  • Food and Nutrition Block E
  • Structures Block F

CUSP Geography

  • Human and Physical features
  • Compare a small part of the UK to a non-European location – London and Nairobi
 
  • Compare a small part of the UK to a non-European location – London and Nairobi 
  • Fieldwork and map skills
 
  • Fieldwork and map skills
  • Compare a different non-European location to our locality - Amazon Rainforest

CUSP History

  • Events beyond living memory
 
  • Significant historical events, people, places in our locality
 
  • Significant historical events, people, places in our locality
  • Revisit – Events beyond living memory

CUSP Music - Tuned and untuned percussion

Untuned percussion 

  • Untuned focus: Experimenting with sounds 2 Block A
  • Representing sounds pictorially Block A

Singing 

  • Singing focus: Being together in music 2 Block B
  • Control the voice – sing as a choir Block B

Music

Untuned percussion 

  • Untuned focus: Introducing rhythm and pulse 2 Block C
  • Compose short patterns Block C

Singing 

  • Singing focus: Introducing pitch 2 Block D
  • Control and describe pitch Block D

Music

Untuned percussion 

  • Tuned focus: Introducing tempo and dynamic 2 Block E
  • Control and describe tempo and dynamic Block E

Singing 

  • Singing focus: Exploring emotions through music 2 Block F
  • Choose sounds to create an effect Block F

PE - Real PE

  • CORE - Personal
  • CORE - Social 
  • GYM - physical
 
  • CORE- cognitive
  • CORE - Creative
  • GYM - Cognitive 
  • Dance - personal 
 
  • CORE - Physical
  • CORE - Health and Fitness

PSHE - SCARF

  • Me and My Relationships
  • Valuing Difference

PSHE

  • Keeping Safe
  • Growing and Changing

PSHE

  • Being my Best
  • Rights and Responsibilities 

RE - Leicestershire Agreed Syllabus 

  • Who made the World? (Creation UC)
  • Who is Jewsih and how do they live?
  • Who is Jewsih and how do they live?
  • What is the Good news Christains believe jesus brings> (GOSPEL UC)
  • Why does Easter matter? (SALVATION UC AA Jewish perspective)
  • How should we care for the world and for others and why does it matter?

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