Numeracy Literacy Reminders and dates for your diary Stories with familiar settings and Traditional Stories Numbers to 100—ordering and place value 6th and 8th October Parent Consultation Evening Roald Dahl and a selection of stories, looking at characters, themes and settings Time—months, seasons, o’clock, half/quarter past Reading Workshop 17th Nov Data Handling—bar graphs Christmas Production—8th Dec Addition & Subtraction to 20 Nov.– R. Dahl Gallery trip 2D shape Homework Jolly phonics—including silent letters, soft g and c, ou for/u/ Jolly Grammar— including alphabetical order, speech bubbles Curriculum Newsletter Reading—daily Year 2 Spelling list—weekly Maths and Literacy weekly Comprehension Autumn Term 2014 TED—half termly Science Classification of animals and plants. Comparing humans and stick insects. Differences in humans eg. height, PE Ball skills—throwing, catching, bowling, batting. Swimming. Humanities Famous Victorians including Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole. An Island Home—comparing life on an island with life on the mainland through Mairi Hedderwick’s Katie Morag stories. Spanish Weekly lessons to develop conversational skills Thinking Skills Art/DT Learning Dispositions First to Find What is a good learner? Diamond 9 Other People’s Views Clay work, card-making, worry dolls and self-portraits based on the style of Picasso. Portraits, analysing artists, observational skills, collage. White Hat Thinking RS Music Pulse and rhythm. Harvest Festival Christmas Play ICT / Coding Word Processing skills—use of shift and enter keys. Highlighting texts/ changing fonts. Deleting. Use of Colour Magic. The focus is on festivals and looking at artefacts that are used in religious activities. PSHE Friendship. Worry dolls. Rules. Keeping safe.