Class 2

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• www.phonicsplay.co.uk/InteractiveResources.htm
• www.ictgames.com/resources.html

Don't forget to keep reading and challenging yourselves with your phonics and spelling rules.

Here is a fun website we use to help us:

www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm

You could also have fun on:

www.topmarks.co.uk/

Enjoy working on your times tables with TTRockstars:

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Welcome back. We hope you have all had a lovely six week holiday.

Our topic this new school year is 'Who makes the rules?'

We will be learning about:

• Queen Elizabeth I.
• Queen Victoria.
• Comparing both the queens and looking at their similarities and differences.
• Creating characters on Scratch Jr and developing conversations.
• Creating artwork in the style of George Seurat.

Knowledge Organiser – Who Makes The Rules?

This term our topic is 'Improve Our World!'

We will be learning about:

• Waste and how we can improve and help the environment.
• Litter and air pollution.
• Different sewing skills and creating an earth using these.
• Evaluating our learning both verbally and written.
• Gymnastics.
• Re-telling a story using adverbial phrases.

This term, our topic is 'Living in the Past.'

We will be looking at:

• Life then and now.
• Creating questionnaires and researching life in the past.
• Creating our own house through construction work.
• Evaluating our work and creating an exhibition.
• Writing a persuasive letter for others to buy our house.
• Editing and improving our learning.

Knowledge Organiser - Living in the past

This term, our topic is Heroes and Villains: Mary Seacole.

We will be learning:

• All about Mary Seacole and recapping Florence Nightingale.
• Creating a non-chronological report on Mary Seacole using Purple Mash.
• Writing a diary as though we are Mary Seacole.
• How to perform a dance in PE.
• Everyday materials and their uses in Science.

Knowledge Organiser - Heroes and Villains (Mary Seacole)

This term, our topic is 'Beside the Seaside'.

We will be learning:

• To create a leaflet to inform tourists at Cleethorpes
• About how seaside places have been spoilt and made better over time
• How to create quizzes using Purple Mash
• What different people believe about God
• Statistics

Knowledge Organiser - Seaside

This term, our topic is 'Amazing Africa!'

We will be learning:

• African folk tales and writing our own.
• Where Africa is in the world and what the equator is.
• Creating art in the style of Andy Goldsworthy.
• Measurement, including length and height.
• How and why different religions pray.

Knowledge Organiser - Africa

This term our topic is 'Know your place- Bolsover'. We will be looking at:

• The continents and oceans of the world.
• Maps and their symbols. 
• Using maps and compass points.
• Naming the capital cities of the four countries. 
• Identifying Bolsover on a map and looking at the human and physical features. 
• Creating a fact-file using our information.
• Experimenting with lines to create different effects.
• Beginning to use Microsoft Word. 

Below is a knowledge organiser which outlines the information we expect you to learn and remember at the end of the topic.

Knowledge Organiser - Know your Place - Bolsover:

This term our topic is 'Improve Our World!'

We will be learning about:

• Waste and how we can improve and help the environment.
• Litter and air pollution.
• Different sewing skills and creating an earth using these.
• Evaluating our learning both verbally and written.
• Gymnastics.
• Re-telling a story using adverbial phrases.

As well as learning about this topic, we will also learn about Guy Fawkes and his plot to destroy the houses of parliament!  

Our topic this term is 'Who makes the rules?'

We will be learning about:

• Queen Elizabeth I.
• Queen Victoria.
• Comparing both the queens and looking at their similarities and differences.
• Creating characters on Scratch Jr and developing conversations.
• Creating artwork in the style of George Seurat.

Knowledge Organiser – Who Makes The Rules?

This term, our topic is Heroes and Villains: Mary Seacole.

We will be learning:

• All about Mary Seacole and recapping Florence Nightingale.
• Creating a non-chronological report on Mary Seacole using Purple Mash.
• Writing a diary as though we are Mary Seacole.
• How to perform a dance in PE.
• Everyday materials and their uses in Science.

Knowledge Organiser - Heroes and Villains (Mary Seacole)

This term our topic is ' Once upon a time - Fairy Tales.'

We will be looking at:

• Ordering fairy tales.
• Re-tell some well-known fairy tales.
• Plan and write a story with an alternate ending. 
• Mix colours on the colour wheel. 
• Experiment with printing.
• Listen to music and clap in time with the beats. 

Knowledge Organiser for Fairy Tales

This term our topic is 'Explorers: Christopher Columbus.'

We will be looking at:

• Who Christopher Columbus is and what he did.
• Create a fact-file about him using the correct terminology.
• Comparing old and new ships. 
• The different routes Christopher Columbus took and why he did this. 
• Understanding tones and tints and using these skills to paint backgrounds relating to Christopher Columbus.

We will also be looking at staying safe on the internet and discussing why this is important. 

Knowledge Organiser for Explorers - Christopher Columbus