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English • Writing instructions to build a Lego model – focus on imperative verbs. • Designing our own Lego character, giving them a name, personality and writing a character description. • Using our own characters to plan and write an adventure Lego story. Reviewing our stories and editing them. • Guided reading – focus on inference skills and finding information in a text. • English activities linked to Take One Picture artist and painting – tbc. • Grammar – focus on use of punctuation to add effect, use of adjectives and adverbs and a range of conjunctions to use subordination. • Drama – hot seating and freeze-framing. • Writing a letter to our year 3 teacher to get ready for key stage two. Art/DT • Printing with Lego. • Minibeast Art pictures. • Completing Lego challenges. Music • Planned and taught by Becky Arch • Creating a Lego theme tune. PSHE • Learn 4 Life – Ready, Steady, Go! • Exploring change – finding ways to cope with change, being excited about change and looking forward to things. • Reflecting on how we have changed over the year and getting ready for year 3. Science • Seed germination and growth – identifying conditions needed to survive. • Identifying plants within a pond and how the leaves are adapted to living in water and air. • Sorting animals into vertebrates and invertebrates. • Classifying plants and animals – knowing different things are found in different places. How are features of different animals suited to their environment? • Pond Club at lunchtimes Lego! Geography • Using Lego to make a map of school / home / village. • Geography linked to Take One Picture art week. History •Who invented Lego? How long has it been around? Why is Lego so popular? • History linked to Take One Picture art week. Year 2 – Term 6 Maths • Telling the time – to the nearest 5 minutes. Drawing the hands on a clock face and solving problems related to time. • Addition and subtraction – using a range of practical and written methods of addition and subtraction. Learning the column method. Focussing on 2 and 3 digit numbers. • Multiplication – using the array of Lego pieces to work out times tables. Creating our own arrays using Lego bricks! Knowing that division is the opposite of multiplication and solving problems. •Fractions – finding ½, ¼, 1/3 and ¾ of a shape or quantity. • Identifying features of 2D and 3D shapes including lines of symmetry. PE • Indoor – Circuits sessions to explore basic games skills. • Outdoor – Athletics skills • Outdoor – games Computing • Writing and illustrating our own Lego books. •Creating our own Lego movies using the iPads. • Using different software on the laptops and exploring a range of skills. RE • Continue work on Islam and the feeling of belonging. • Whole-school RE day.