Year 2 | Riverside Primary School

Long Term Plan Year 2

Autumn 1

Writing in Different Styles

A unit to introduce children to word processing and desktop publishing using a number of different tools and design tasks.

Spring 1

Programming with Scratch JR

A programming unit that uses the excellent free app ScratchJr. Learn this great block-based programming language to create animations and games perfect for KS1. Write and debug algorithms, learn about repeating, and different triggers to create actions. (Most suitable for Y2)

Summer 1

Programming with Logo

A unit that builds on programming experiences with directions and introduces the written programming language of Logo. Students program their on-screen robot to move and create drawings using repeat commands and their own procedures.

Autumn 2

An Introduction to Animation

A unit that introduces both 2D and stop frame animation and different tools for creating both.

Spring 2

Finding and Presenting Information

A unit that introduces children to web browsers to explore and search websites safely, collecting and presenting information in graphs, and different ways of sorting and classifying data with databases.

Summer 2

Beginning to Present

A unit that introduces students to making interactive linear and nonlinear presentations and quizzes.

Pupils are taught to:

Algorithms and Programming:

* Use a range of instructions, including directions, angles and turns.

* Test, amend and debug a series of instructions.

* Write a simple programme and test it.

* Predict the outcome of a simple programme.

Information Technology:

* Organise digital content.

* Retrieve and manipulate digital content.

* Navigate a web to complete simple searches.

Digital Literacy:

* Use technology safely and respectfully.

* Know where to go for help.

* Know how technology is used in school and outside of school.

Knowledge and Understanding:

* Know you should only open an email from a known source.

* Know that bookmarking is a way to find safe sites again quickly.

* Evaluate the content of websites and know that not everything on a website it true.

Skills:

* Follow the schools safer internet rules.

* Send and receive an email as a class.

* Recognise advertising on website and learn to ignore it.

* Use a password to access a secure network.

* Use the internet for learning and communicating with others.