During the Spring term, Class 2 will cover the following objectives through our topic Volcanoes & dragons

### MATHS

### ENGLISH

Year 2 will be continuing to focus on addition, subtraction, multiplication and addition with Mrs Irwin which will extend to techniques such as partitioning to add and counting up on a number line to subtract. With Mrs Brown, the children will be studying fractions, time, shape and data. Year 3 will be completing the multiplication and division unit first and then moving onto addition and subtraction which will include expanded column addition. Following that, they will be covering angles and time. Mrs E. Brown will be teaching place value, money and shape.

We will start our English lessons this year by recounting the events of our own Christmas Day. We will do this by studying the features of other recounts, orally retelling our own Christmas Day to others, planning and then writing our own account of Christmas Day 2020. Year 2 will use basic time connectives to order their work logically and extend sentences using interesting conjunctions. Year 3 will be using exciting fronted adverbials to ensure their writing is both engaging and in chronological order. Following this, we will be creating and describing our own exciting dragons who will then feature in our fantasy stories based on ‘The Dragon Machine’. Year 2 will focus on utilising paragraphs to logically order their work and commas to separate adjectives. Year 3 will focus on techniques to create drama, tension and climax in their writing which will include the utilisation of accurately punctuated speech. The final piece of writing before half-term will be instruction writing on ‘How to catch a dragon’. Reading comprehension will continue on Thursdays. Year 2 will be looking at words in context, sequence of events, and inference and deduction skills. This term the children will also be completing a ‘cracking’ comprehension activity each week which will improve their retrieval and recording skills. Year 3 will be learning about justifying their answers with evidence, features of different types of text, as well as looking at word choices. Both year groups will be using a range of text types including: poetry, information texts, instructions and short stories. The year 2 grammar focuses for this term are as follows: plurals, apostrophe’s, tenses, prefixes and suffixes, and word classes. The year 3 grammar focuses for this term are as follows: comparative and superlative adjectives, plurals, adverbs of manner, synonyms of verbs, prepositions, irregular and regular past tense, main and subordinate clauses.

### SCIENCE

Year 3 will continue to be taught with Year 4 in science. This term the children are going to become rock detectives and will be able to identify and classify a variety of rocks according to their properties. We be venturing out of school to examine rocks used in and around Bilsborrow. Following this, we will further our studies by looking at fossils and then soil types. Y2 will be continuing their studies from last term on materials with Mrs J.Brown.

### RE

In RE we will be studying the topic ‘Jesus, the man who changed lives’ using the Blackburn Diocese Curriculum. This topic looks at how and why Jesus helped people such as Matthew the tax collector and Zacchaeus and how they changed as a consequence.

### COMPUTING

Year 2 will continue to look at programming and decoding. By the end of the unit the children should be able to: read and understand code, remix code to achieve a particular outcome, debug, and use printed code snippets. Year 3 will be exploring image, video and animation. They will be learning skills such as: how to use a range of devices to capture still and moving images for a purpose; to discuss and evaluate the quality of their own and others’ captured images; and make