Class 2

Welcome to Class 2

This half term our topic is called 'The Lion King'.

Literacy
During Literacy lessons we will be looking at The Lion King as this is the main topic of of this half term. We will be doing a 3 week storytelling block focusing on character descriptions, setting descriptions, recounts from the points of view of a character & innovated story writing. We will also look at Newspaper reports

Focuses: Key features of a newspaper, planning a newspaper. The death of Mufasa, News reports drama. Finally  Information booklets on Africa Focuses: Looking at where Africa is, what is in Africa, the structure of a report.

Maths
We are going to continue to develop our mathematical knowledge this half term. We are continuing to look at all elements of maths including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We will also be using and applying our skills through problem solving sessions.

Science
As our topic is 'Animals including Humans', we will be completing lots of different Science experiments involving changing of materials.

RE
In R.E. we will be looking at Harvest. Also the Creation Story

Art/DT

Exploring how colour and textures are used. Creating our own Lion Den, Animal Masks, 3D animals and African landscapes.

ICT

This half term we are going to learn basic computer skills and complete some simple programming and algorithms using apps on iPads. We are also going to write a set of instructions for a partner to complete a simple algorithm.