First and Primary schools

Suggested Year 2 Units

Below you will find units of work that we suggest for Year 2.

Please note:

  • It is not a rigid scheme of work, so feel free to move things around if it works better in your school. 
  • This layout does not contain all the units available for First and Primary schools.
  • All KS1 units available can be found HERE.

Year 2

Autumn 1

Writing in different styles

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

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Autumn 2

An introduction to animation

Get really creative as you introduce both 2D and stop frame animation. Students will love creating their own animated clips and stories with a variety of tools.  

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Spring 1

Programming with ScratchJr

Introduce students to 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.

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Spring 2

Keep safe and create

A combination of 3 lessons from Common Sense Education's excellent digital citizenship curriculum and the chance for your students to apply their learning to digital making activities that would help them share the important online safety messages with others.

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Summer 1

Programming with Logo

Introduce the written programming language of Logo. Students program their on-screen robot to move and create drawings using repeat commands and their own procedures.

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Summer 2

Finding and presenting information

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.

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Need more?!  Take a look at the whole KS1 collection here

All KS1 units