Year 2

​​​​​​​​​​Curriculum Overview

In Year 2, our students are given opportunities to extend their learning through the Australian Curriculum. They communicate this learning through a variety of literacy and numeracy contexts whilst developing their independent learning skills. By the end of year 2, students will have a stronger understanding of themselves and will have begun to connect with the wider community.

Year 2 students explore the following subjects/topics:

• English: Students will engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They will listen to, read, view and interpret spoken, written and multimodal texts in which the primary purpose is to entertain, as well as texts designed to inform and persuade. Texts explored will encompass traditional oral texts, picture books, various types of print and digital stories, simple chapter books, rhyming verse, poetry, non-fiction, film, multimodal texts, dramatic performances and texts used by students as models for constructing their own work.
• Mathematics: Students will connect number calculations with counting sequences, partition and combine numbers flexibly, identify and describe the relationship between addition and subtraction and multiplication and division. They will count numbers in sequences, use informal units to compare measurements and use the language of chance to describe outcomes of familiar chance events. Students will describe and compare time durations as well as continuing to develop their problem solving and reasoning capabilities.
• Science: Students will describe the components of simple systems and show how objects and materials interact through direct manipulation. They will observe patterns of growth and change in living things, and describe patterns and make predictions. Students will explore the use of resources from Earth and are introduced to the idea of the flow of matter when considering how water is used. They will use counting and informal measurements to make and compare observations and begin to recognise that organising these observations in tables makes it easier to show patterns.
• HASS: Students will examine remains of the past in their local area, coming to understand how connections have changed the lives of people over time and space and how their community values and preserves connections to the past. They will study where they are located in the world and how the world is represented on maps and through place names that reveal the history and value of these places. Students will explore other cultures' connections to their local place and their own connections to distant places. Through a study of technological change, they will see how they are both similar and different to people in the past and how they are connected to places near and far.
• Technologies: Students will explore and investigate technologies − materials, systems, components, tools and equipment − including their purpose and how they meet personal and social needs within local settings. They will develop an understanding of how society and environmental sustainability factors influence design and technologies decisions. Students will evaluate designed solutions and consider their impact of decisions and technologies on others and the environment. They will learn about common digital systems and patterns that exist within data they collect. Students will organise, manipulate and present data in creative ways to create meaning.
  

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