Welcome to Year 2

At KS1 and KS2 we follow a two year sequence:

2025/2026 and 2027/2028

Autumn 1 – 3D: Clay

Autumn 2 – Food Technology

Spring 1 – Printing

Spring 2 – Mechanica | Systems (axles and wheels)

Summer 1 – Portraits, including photography/digital

Summer 2 – Structures

2026/2027 and 2028/2029

Autumn 1 – Painting

Autumn 2 – Mechanical Systems (Sliders and Levers)

Spring 1 – Collage

Spring 2 – Food Technology

Summer 1 – Portraits, including photography/digital

Summer 2 – Textiles – weaving

Each year through KS1-2 we cycle through the following units at increasing depth:

1. Productivity
2. Programming
3. Computational Thinking
4. Creativity
5. Networks
6. Communication/collaboration

The Year 9 curriculum is both the culmination of Key Stage 3 studies and introduces many concepts and skills that form part of the GCSE syllabus.

Topics taught this year include:

• More advanced graph work
• Algebra work, including simultaneous equations, algebraic products and factorising quadratics
• Number work, including trial and improvement, recurring decimals, percentages work with appreciation/depreciation and rounding (upper and lower bounds)
• Trigonometry
• Congruency and similarity for triangles
• Transformations, particularly enlargements.

Learning to Read

Children in the early years who are learning to read (decode) follow the Read Write Inc. synthetic phonics program.

This enables them to work to decode a book appropriate for their phonic knowledge, to begin to develop reading stamina and fluency. At this point, children take part in our Oral Shared Reading program, so they can work on their comprehension skills using a shared text, read by an expert teacher.

Click here to see which books we read in Year 2.

Children in Year 2 learn about the following subjects:

The living world

• Biomes
• Hot and cold climates
• Rainforests

The economic world

• Food, water and energy
• The changing economic world
• Tourism and ecotourism
• Case study: Cambridge

We cover 2 topics a year for History in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. In Year 2 we look at Food and Trade, then Punishment and Medicine.

Our school uses Maths Mastery to teach the subject.

In Year 2 we cover:

• Numbers within 100
• Addition and subtraction of two digit numbers
• Addition and subtraction on word problems
• Measures: length
• Graphs
• Multiplication and division 2, 5 and 10

Autumn 1 – Film Music

Autumn 2 – African Music

Spring 1 – Folk Music

Spring 2 – Bhangra

Summer 1 – Samba

Summer 2 – Reflect, Rewind and Replay

• Gymnastics
• Dance
• Attack/defend/shoot
• Hit/catch/run
• Send/return
• Run/jump/throw

We follow a three-year cycle (see below) covering the major world religions as well as worldviews.

The programme is designed so that each previously taught religion is reviewed and comparisons are drawn between the content. Over six years, each child will have studied each identified religion/non-religion twice, studying in greater depth and making connections between religions.

Pupils are taught key substantive knowledge for each religion and worldview and each lesson is broken down into one of 3 disciplines: Theology, philosophy and Human/Social Science.

The Paradigm primary schools follow the Jigsaw programme.

From September 2019 we have allocated 45 minutes per week to PSHE at KS1 and KS2.

• Being Me in My World
• Celebrating Difference
• Dreams and Goals
• Healthy Me
• Relationships
• Changing Me

Autumn 1 – Plants and Seasons

Autumn 2 – Materials and Forces

Spring 1 – Animals including Humans

Spring 2 – Plants

Summer 1 – Materials

Summer 2 – Living things and their habitats