Class 2 (Penguins) Parent Rep:

Welcome to the Class 2 page. If you need to contact the Class Teacher (Miss Bird) please email: jbird@victoria-road.kent.sch.uk

Here's what we are learning in Penguins this year...

	Term 1		Term 2			Term 3	Term 4	Term 5		Term 6
	The Wonderful World of Me		Story Makers			London’s Burning	How Does your Garden Grow?	Animal Madness		I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside.
English	The Colour Monster Newspapers Persuasive Writing Magic Finger -Diary -Poem -Non-fiction poster		The Jolly Postman -Familiar stories and nursery rhymes -Letter writing The Day the Crayons Quit -Story Writing -Character description (design a new crayon character) Poetry Fireworks/Bonfire Night (rhyme and alliteration)			Diary writing- Samuel Pepys Toby and the Great Fire of London Great Fire of London Recounts News Paper Report	Lila and the Secret of Rain -Speech -Captions -Fact files Instructions	Meerkat Mail -Postcards -Travel Brochures Claude in the City (POR) -Descriptive writing -Non-chronological reports		The Storm Whale -Drama -Poetry -Writing for Purpose The Secret of Black Rock -Graphic novels -Persuasive Arguments -Book review
Maths	Place Value Addition and Subtraction		Addtion and Subtraction Measurement (money) Multiplication			Divison Statistics Shape	Fractions Measurement (length and height) Position and Direction	Problem solving Measurement : Time, mass, capacity and temperature		Investigations
Science		Materials					Plants	Animals including humans	Living things and their habitats
Computing		We are astronauts		We are game testers		We are photographers	We are researchers	We are detectives	We are zoologists
History		Changes within living memory				The Great Fire of London			Famous explorers
Geography				Oceans and Continents		Compare and Contrast London and Brazil			Villages, Towns and Cities
Design Technology				Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Make something new out of something old (e.g. Turn a tin can into a pencil case)		Create Tudor Houses. 3D	Sweet / Savoury salads and snacks made from fruit and vegetables (link to instructional writing)	Moving animals / animal puppets.
Art and Design		Self Portraits					Nature Art and sculptures		Lowry Paint and Colours
Music		Exploring Sounds		Nativity performance		Beat	Water Pitch	Animals Pitch	Travel
RE		What can we learn from sacred books?				How and why do we celebrate special and sacred times? (Ideas: Divali, Hanukkah and Guru Nanak’s birthday).	What does it mean to belong to a faith community?	Who is a Muslim and what do they believe?	Who is Jewish and what do they believe?
PE		Boot camp Multiskills				Ball skills	Striking and Fielding Groovy Gymnastics
PHSE		Being in my world			Celebrating Difference	Dreams and Goals	Healthy Me	Relationships	Changing Me