Welcome to Year 2

Maple Class

Spring 2- Roald Dahl

In English we will be exploring many of Roald Dahl books and will use them as a base to create our own chapter to one of his stories. We will also think about the thoughts and feeling behind a character and will retell and write as one of his famous characters. We will explore creating non-fiction texts such as instructions, with the story George Marvellous Medicine.  We will look at the features of a recipe and create our own recipe for a marvellous medicine. 

In mathematics, we will be exploring money, identifying each coin and its worth, adding them together and giving change from £1. We will explore fractions, where we will be able to identify ½, ¼ and a whole. We will learn that a half is one of two equal parts and a quarter is one of four equal parts. 

In science, we will be learning about plants. We will be exploring the different conditions that plants can grow in and plant our owns seeds to see what happens! We will be learning the different parts of a plant and what the plants need to survive. 

In history, we will be exploring Roald Dahl. This links into our English topic, where we will be reading some of his books to support us in our writing. We will be learning about Roald Dahl’s life and find out where he lived in our local area. We will consider what our local area would have been like when Roald Dahl lived here and compare it to what we can see now.  

In DT, we will be looking at different food groups and the healthy choices that we can make. We will explore how this may impact our health.  We will try many different types of pizzas and consider if it is healthy and if we like them. We will plan and make our own pizzas to try, using the knowledge of healthy eating.