Welcome back to what will be the final term for our Year 2 Hillingdon girls. The information below will outline the Term 4 curriculum and provide some useful information about the term ahead.
Students will continue to engage in English learning each day, building on and extending their phonetic knowledge, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension and writing skills throughout the term. In spelling, students will learn their final spelling patterns for the year, including ‘tch’ and ‘tion’. They will then review learned sounds and rules and apply their spelling knowledge to written tasks.
In storybook lessons, girls will explore rich vocabulary, discuss texts and apply their comprehension skills to consider emerging themes in the books we are reading. Students will also make links between the text conventions used in books and their own writing. This term, students will explore a poem and a novel in storybook lessons.
In grammar lessons, students will learn about verb tense. They will then practise conventions for writing direct speech, including the use of speech marks.
The start of the term will begin with a focus on information reports. The students will apply their language and vocabulary skills and practise writing whole texts that inform the reader. In the second half of the term, the students will engage in a poetry writing unit.
For daily Home Reading, parents will be provided with information in the Home Reading Diary to assist with supporting reading at home.
This term, Year 2 will consolidate and extend existing skills and strategies in Mathematics lessons. Daily reviews will assist students in retaining core concepts and these will be applied and extended throughout the term.
Students will consolidate their learning in forming groups to solve multiplication and division problems. Exploring concepts of data and chance, students will make and interpret data displays and describe the likelihood of events using the language of chance. Students will explore and describe transformations of two-dimensional shapes, including making half and quarter turns. Applying their knowledge of addition and subtraction, students will find missing numbers in an equation and solve worded problems. Students will connect and apply their mathematical knowledge to reason mathematically, interpret and solve problems.
During the unit Our Living World, the girls will explore the animals and plants within their local environment, making observations, and investigating ways in which the local environment can be improved upon to encourage living things to thrive. They will then undertake a scientific inquiry into bees, including the native bees. The girls will discover what is being done by scientists and engineers to increase populations and breeding. They will then design and produce a solution to attract bees to their own backyards or in their local environment.
In Digital Technologies, students will continue to investigate algorithms with the Scratch Jr platform as they further develop their computational thinking skills. They will apply their understanding and skills of coding a Scratch Jr program for a small project that links to other areas of their learning.
During the unit Changing Technologies, the girls will revise their understanding of the term ‘technology’. They will examine how technology has changed over time in relation to a variety of activities, such as communication, travel, shopping and leisure. The girls will develop their historical skills of representing information in pictorial form, such as with a Venn Diagram or a timeline. They will use their critical thinking skills when looking at photographic sources. They will develop their ability to use a variety of sources when researching a specific item of technology such as the telephone or a cooling fan.
The topic for Term 4 is Food. The girls will learn to say what they ate for breakfast, lunch and dinner. They will also compare their meals to what people in France might eat and drink.
This term in Library, Year 2 will be introduced to series of longer books from different genres such as Just Grace by Charise Mericle Harper and Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows. The girls will participate in Hillingdon Bingo which encourages the girls to read widely, using both hard copy books as well as Story Box Library. Access Story Box Library on any device with our Ascham login:
https://storyboxhub.com (Username: Ascham, Password: storybox)
Students will revise the Dewey Decimal System and will select and research a topic of interest to present in a written or oral form.
In Music, students will participate in singing, moving, listening and performing activities to help consolidate the skills that they have learned throughout the year, developing their awareness of the musical concepts. They will continue to develop their music writing skills by notating known songs in simple music notation. They will learn to play some simple songs on the xylophone. The students will also prepare and perform songs and dances as part of the Hillingdon Open Day.
During Term 4, students will experience PE lessons focusing on Ball Skills, Swimming and Dance. In Personal Development and Health (PDH), students will learn about Healthy, Safe and Active Lifestyles, including choices and factors that impact their own and others health and safety.
The Summer (Term 1 and Term 4) Sports uniform comprises:
Students will participate in a 1-hour Visual Arts lesson with Ms Castle each week. Skills and experiences related to drawing, colouring, collage, craft and digital art will also be covered. Students will work collaboratively using a range of media to create original artworks which will feature as the backdrop for the Term 4 Hillingdon Open Day performance. The focus in the second half of the term will be on painting and printing. Students will study the work of American artist Roy Lichtenstein and create Pop Art inspired artworks.