Summer Term – Peace and Conflict
This term, our whole school ‘Peace and conflict’ topic in Y2 is called ‘Dare to be Different.’ We will look at significant individuals such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jnr and Zaha Hadid and how their dreams have impacted upon our lives. We will help the children to understand themselves as individuals and our collective responsibilities to work as a community to support each other, to show that children should ‘Dare to be Different’, knowing our own skills and talents.
Values – respect, compassion and equality.
Drivers – Historical and Geographical enquiry.
Documents
Parent Letter Summer 2022
Y2 Summer Topic Web
Colwick Park Adventure Center Trip
Colwick Park Adventure Center Information
The Nottingham Tennis Centre
Our Summer Class Texts
Tilly and the Time Machine by Adrian Edmondson
“Tilly is seven and a half – and about to make history.”
Tilly’s dad builds a time machine in the garden shed. Tilly can choose any place and any time to visit. she really wants to travel back to the last good memory with her mum… but thing don’t go according to plan. Dad is trapped in Victorian England and only Tilly can save him, but how can they communicate across the years?
A fabulous book that links to our themes Rags and Riches and visiting Victorian England. This story makes the links between family, having and not having.
The Prince and the Pauper based on the story by Mark Twain
Set in Tudor England – 2 boys; one rich and one poor, whom have never met before , can’t believe their eyes, they discover that they look alike. They decide to swap clothes and see what life is like on the other side of the palace gates. All is well until the King dies and they are stuck in each other lives.
An introduction to the Rags and Riches theme, set in a time where lives were very different for you depending on if you had money or not.