Hungerford Primary School

This term, the Year 2 children will be learning about Elizabeth Blackwell who was the first woman to get a medical degree and become a doctor in 1849. In this three week topic, the children will find out all about her life and the challenges she faced.

The children started off their summer term topic by visiting Hungerford Common where they explored different types of habitats as part of their science learning. Through reading the Bog Baby book, they will learn that animals thrive best in their natural habitat and they will learn what animals need to survive and grow.

This term, the children will also be learning computing skills; learning to log on and off the laptops and to use the Purple Mash Paint program.

They will also be finding out more about habitats in their weekly Forest School sessions.

This topic has a science and geography focus.   We will be learning how things move, how sounds travel, and more about the continents and oceans of the world.

We started our topic with a PIRATE day where children learned about the Pirate Code, played pirate games and chose their own pirate name.  OOOOOH AAARRRR!

In English lessons, we will be reading pirate stories, writing character descriptions as Wanted posters and writing the next part of our class story The Pirates Next Door. 

In the first half of the Spring term, the Year 2 children will be learning about heroes – sporting heroes, environmental heroes, and about ordinary people who have jobs that require determination, courage and resilience.  These include inspirational people such as David Attenborough, Lionel Messi, Greta Thunberg, Amelia Earhart, Malala Yousafzai etc.

This links perfectly with the Character module we are doing in our myHappymind lessons this term.

We are working on developing the following character strengths through all areas of our curriculum.

LOVE AND KINDNESS    

BRAVERY AND HONESTY 

EXPLORING AND LEARNING    

TEAMWORK AND FRIENDSHIP

LOVE OF LIFE AND OUR WORLD   

Our next topic is Paddington’s Passport.

As Paddington Bear came from Peru, the children began to learn some key facts about the country and its geography.

They have learned to name the seven continents of the world and the five oceans.

The children then explored London, learning about some of the key tourist attractions; Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, the River Thames and London Bridge, the London Eye and Buckingham Palace.

The children have learned to name the countries that make up the UK and to name their capital cities.

Our first topic is “INTER-NATION MEDIA STATION”

This unit is all about media and broadcasting. The children will learn about how people communicated in the past leading to the invention of television, the internet and radio. We will be working on our communication skills and learn to present information in role as broadcasters.