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YEAR 2
Term 1
Term 2
Term 3
Term 4
Term 5
Term 6
SUBJECT
Superheroes
Light and Dark
Dragons, Knights and Castles
Sensational Safari
SATS (Secret Agent Training)
Under the Sea
English
Reading Cautious Caterpillar (Twinkl story) Supertato Traction Man Superworm Focus: One-to-one readingWhole class reading (within phonics and literacy lessons)
The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark
Christmas: Coming Home
Focus: Guided Reading (ability groups) 60 second reads (whole class)
Skills: Rex Retriever,
Vocabulary Victor,
Predictor Pip, Inference Iggy, Sequencing Suki Fluency (CEW)
The Paper Bag Princess George and the Dragon
Focus: 60 second reads (whole class)
Skills: Rex Retriever, Vocabulary Victor,
Predictor Pip, Inference Iggy, Sequencing Suki
Fluency (CEW) Guided Reading (ability groups)
Tell me a Dragon Dragon Machine Dear Dragon The Snow Dragon
Focus: SATS style questions (whole class) Skills: Rex Retriever,
Vocabulary Victor, Predictor Pip, Inference Iggy, Sequencing Suki
Guided Reading (ability groups)
Lila and the Secret of Rain
Focus: SATS style questions (whole class) Skills: Rex Retriever,
Vocabulary Victor, Predictor Pip, Inference Iggy, Sequencing Suki
Guided Reading (ability groups)
Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch
Dolphin Boy
Focus: Guided Reading
(ability groups – Greater Depth evidence)
Skills: Rex Retriever, Vocabulary Victor, Predictor Pip, Inference Iggy, Sequencing Suki
English
Writing
Minibeasts: - Narrative: rewrite Cautious Caterpillar story - Information text: Bees Supertato:
- Character description - Write new supermarket adventure
Traction Man: - Character Description - New scene for story
Firework/ Bonfire poetry The Owl who was afraid of the dark:
- character description - story map
- write a new beginning to the story
- write a new chapter for the story – who does Plop meet next?
- Information text: Owls and another nocturnal animal
Paper Bag Princess: Write a new story ending Farleigh Hungerford: Trip recount
Dragon Hunt: Letter to Mr Brewer about Dragon Hunt and findings Pet Dragons: Diary writing about caring for pet dragon
Dragon Machine: Write own version of story
Write diary entry about experiences with naughty dragons Letter from George to his dragons (once living in the Wilderness) Write description of George’s journey to the wilderness
Write a diary about visiting the dragons
Lila and the Secret of Rain:
Write the story Write a short diary from Lila’s perspective Write a weather description (when the monsoon begins) Using the book as inspiration, write own ‘new secret’ story Diary Writing: Safari adventure
Setting Description: Sea scene
Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch:
Mr Grinling Character Description
Rewrite the story Change the characters (seagulls, Hamish the cat)
Literacy Shed Video Stimuli:
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- New setting (classroom): write Traction Man’s adventure having created story boxes
Superworm:
- rhyming poem/chant for own minibeast superhero - Write new ending for story. What happens to Wizard Lizard? Florence Nightingale: - Write letter from Florence to parents
- Setting description: describe the park where Plop lives
The Great Fire of London: Diary Entry – focus on the senses
Christmas:
Retell Coming Home robin story
Instructions: how to make bird cake
Elf Application Snowmen Picture Stimulus: any style of writing
Tell Me a Dragon: Write dragon descriptions Dear Dragon: Write letters to dragon pen pals Information Writing: Komodo dragons
Instruction Writing: - how to trap a dragon - how to …. (own choice – e.g. feed a dragon, ride a dragon, teach a dragon to breathe fire)
How to defend a castle
Information Text: Safari animals
- Grumpy Lighthouse Keeper
- Blimp and Turtle Information Text: Turtles Instructions: how to fly a blimp Recount: Bristol Aquarium Trip
English
(Spelling,
Grammar)
Recap Phase 3 and 5 Homophones Recap Year 1 Common Exception Words Questions Adjectives
Punctuation: capital letters and full stops question marks, exclamation marks, commas in lists
Recap Phase 5 Homophones Recap Year 1 Common Exception Words
Adjectives, Nouns, Verbs, Adverbs
Punctuation: capital letters and full stops question marks, exclamation marks, commas in lists
Phase 5/6 suffixes (s, es, ing, ed, er, est, y) Present and past tense (including progressive form)
Phase 6: Contractions Year 2 Common Exception words
Expanded Noun Phrases Subordination and Co-ordination Phase 6 (sounds) Sentence forms: statement, question, exclamation, command Year 2 Common Exception words Expanded Noun Phrases
Phase 6 (sounds and grammar)
Possessive apostrophe Year 2 Common Exception words
Subordination and Co-ordination
Recapping (particular focus on suffixes) - including –ment, –
ness, –ful, –less, –ly
Year 2 Common Exception words
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Subordination and Co-ordination
Maths
Place Value- Read and write numbers to at least 100 in numerals and in words.
- Recognise the place value of each digit in a two digit number (tens, ones) - Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations including the number line. - Compare and order numbers from 0 up to 100; use <, > and = signs. - Use place value and number facts to solve problems.
- Count in steps of 2, 3 and 5 from 0, and in tens from any number, forward and backward.
Addition and Subtraction - Recall and use addition and subtraction facts to 20 fluently, and derive and use related facts up to 100. - Add and subtract numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and mentally, including: a two-digit number and ones; a two-digit number and tens; two two-digit numbers; adding three one-digit numbers.
Addition and Subtraction continued
Measurement: Money - Recognise and use symbols for pounds (£) and pence (p); combine amounts to make a particular value.
- Find different combinations of coins that equal the same amounts of money. - Solve simple problems in a practical context involving addition and subtraction of money of the same unit, including giving change Multiplication - Recall and use
multiplication facts for the 2, 5 and 10 times tables, including recognising odd and even numbers. - Calculate mathematical statements for multiplication within the multiplication tables and write them using the multiplication (×) and equals (=) signs. - Solve problems involving multiplication using materials, arrays, repeated addition, mental methods and multiplication facts, including problems in contexts.
Division
- Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 times tables, including recognising odd and even numbers.
- Calculate mathematical statements for division within the multiplication tables and write them using the division (÷) and equals (=) signs. - Solve problems involving division, using materials, arrays, repeated addition, mental methods and division facts, including problems in contexts.
- Show that the multiplication of two numbers can be done in any order (commutative) and division of one number by another cannot. Fractions
- Recognise, find, name and write fractions 1/3 ¼ 2/4 ¾ ½ of a length, shape, set of objects or quantity. - Write simple fractions for example, ½ of 6 = 3 - Recognise the equivalence of 2/4 and 1/2
Measurement: Time - Tell and write the time to five minutes, including quarter past/to the hour and draw the hands on a clock face to show these times.
- Know the number of minutes in an hour and the number of hours in a day. - Compare and sequence intervals of time.
Measurement: Length, Height, Mass, Capacity, Temperature
Choose and use
appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction (m/cm); mass (kg/g); temperature (°C); capacity (litres/ml) to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers, scales, thermometers and measuring vessels Compare and order lengths, mass, volume/capacity and record the results using >, <and =
Statistics
- Interpret and construct simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and simple tables.
SATS preparation
Number: Revise all 4
operations and worded problems
Geometry: Position and Direction
Use mathematical vocabulary to describe position, direction and movement including movement in a straight line and distinguishing between rotation as a turn and in terms of right angles for quarter, half and three-quarter turns (clockwise and anti-clockwise).
Order and arrange combinations of mathematical objects in patterns and sequences
Recap shape and statistics
Identify gaps in learning + problem solving tasks
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- Show that the addition of two numbers can be done in any order (commutative) and subtraction of one number from another cannot. - Solve problems with addition and subtraction: using concrete objects and pictorial representations, including those involving numbers, quantities and measures; applying their increasing knowledge of mental and written methods. - Recognise and use the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction and use this to check calculations and solve missing number problems.
Geometry: Properties of Shape
- Identify and describe the properties of 2-D shapes, including the number of sides and line symmetry in a vertical line.
- Identify and describe the properties of 3-D shapes, including the number of edges, vertices and faces. - Identify 2-D shapes on the surface of 3-D shapes, [for example, a circle on a cylinder and a triangle on a pyramid.]
- Compare and sort common 2-D and 3-D shapes and everyday objects.
- Ask and answer simple questions by counting the number of objects in each category and sorting the categories by quantity. - Ask and answer questions about totalling and comparing categorical data.
Science
Animals, including Humans:- describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene.
- notice that animals, including humans, have
offspring which grow into
adults
- find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (water, food and air)
Everyday Materials:
- identify and compare the suitability of a
variety of everyday materials, including
wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses
- find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing,
bending, twisting and stretching.
Plants:
- observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants - find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy.
Plants:
- observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants - find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy.
Living Things and their Habitats:
Term 5: Safari animals Term 6: Sea Creatures
- explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive
- identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different
habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds
of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other
- identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats
- describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food
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- describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials (Year 1 Objective)
chain, and identify and name different sources of
food.
History
Significant historical individual – Florence NightingaleSignificant historical individual: Neil Armstrong Change in Living Memory: space travel
Historical Event: Guy Fawkes (Bonfire night in the UK)
Historical Event: Great fire of London.
Events, People and Places locally: Farleigh Hungerford Castle (Medieval Life)
Find out who built the first castles in the UK and why.
Significant individual and changes within living memory: Tim Berners-Lee
Events, People and Places locally: William Harbutt (1844- 1921), inventor of plasticine.
Geography
Human and Physical: human features, including: farm (through Harvest), cityGeographical skills: Create city pictures for Superhero journeys (Use aerial photographs and plan perspectives recognise landmarks and basic human and physical features)
Geographical skills: Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of a park environment (through The Owl who
was Afraid of the Dark)
Geographical Skills: Study medieval maps and compare to current world maps - draw own map to land of the dragons (tea-stained maps).
Geographical Skills: Recap north, south, east and west
Geographical Skills: Dragon Hunt in school grounds. Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to
Locational Knowledge: name, locate and identify characteristics of the four countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom and its surrounding seas (use maps, atlases and globes)
Geographical Skills: Follow a plan/map of a local castle site. Geographical Skills:
Locational Knowledge and Geographical Skills: All continents
Use world maps, atlases and globes.
Place Knowledge: Compare similarities and differences between England (Bathampton) and Kenya.
Human and Physical: Compare and recognise factors affecting climate
Locational Knowledge and Geographical Skills: Name and locate the world’s five oceans. Use world maps, atlases and globes.
Human and Physical: geographical vocabulary: - key physical features including: beach, cliff, coast, sea, ocean, river - key human features including: factory, port, harbour
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study the geography of our school and its grounds.
use aerial photographs and plan perspectives to recognise landmarks and basic human and physical features; devise a simple map; and use and construct basic symbols in a key
in Bathampton and a village in Kenya. Key human features including: town, village, farm, house
Computing
Multimedia: iMovie Superhero Trailersuse technology to create, organise, manipulate and retrieve digital content
E Safety:
Poster & Discussion • I can describe the things that happen online that I must tell an adult about. • I can talk about why it is important to be kind and polite online and in real life.
• I know that not everyone is who they say they are on the Internet.
Multimedia:
Onomatopoeia words (Word)
• I can use technology to organise and present my ideas in different ways.
Programming:
Blind folded instructions
• I can give instructions to my friend (using forward, backward and turn) and physically follow their instructions.
Kodable
• I can tell you the order I need to do things to make something happen and talk about this as an algorithm.
• I can program a robot or software to do a particular task.
• I can look at my friend’s program and tell you what will happen. • I can use programming software to make objects move.
• I can watch a program execute and spot where it goes wrong so that I can debug it.
Handling Data: Dragon Hunt
• I talk about the different ways I use technology to collect information, including a camera or sound recorder.
Programming: Beebot / Kodable
• I can tell you the order I need to do things to make something happen and talk about this as an algorithm.
• I can program a robot or software to do a particular task.
Multimedia: Castle PowerPoints
• I can use technology to organise and present my ideas in different ways. • I can use the keyboard on my device to add, delete and space text for others to read.
• I can save and open files on the device I use.
Handling Data (j2e pictogram): Maths – Statistics
• I can make and save a chart or graph using the data I collect.
• I can talk about the data that is shown in my chart or graph.
Technology in our Lives: Research African Safari Animals
• I am starting to understand that other people have created the information I use. • I can talk about the differences between the Internet and things in the physical world.
E Safety:
Links to Tim Berners-Lee
• I can describe the things that happen online that I must tell an adult about. • I can talk about why it is important to be kind and polite online and in real life.
• I know that not everyone is who they say they are on the Internet. • I can explain why I need to keep my password and
Multimedia: Turtle iMovie films
• I can use technology to organise and present my ideas in different ways. • I can add, delete and space text for others to read.
• I can save and open files on the device I use.
Handling Data (j2e branch):
Science - Living Things and their Habitats
I am starting to understand a branching database.
I can tell you what kind of information I could use to help me investigate a question.
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• I can use the keyboard on my device to add, delete and space text for others to read.
• I can save and open files on the device I use.
Multimedia (j2e Write): Story: The Owl who was afraid of the dark
• I can use technology to organise and present my ideas in different ways. • I can use the keyboard on my device to add, delete and space text for others to read.
• I can print files on the device I use.
Use iPad app (Paper 53) to paint a robin
personal information private.
• I can talk about why I should go online for a short amount of time.
• I can tell you why I use technology in the classroom.
• I can tell you why I use technology in my home and community
Music
Hands, Feet, Heart Celebrating South African Music.Learn to sing, play, improvise and compose with the song.
Ho Ho Ho, by Joanna Mangona
Perform festive songs with movement and percussion.
Games to focus on pulse.
Great Fire of London: Singing London’s Burning (perform as a round) Play London’s burning on glockenspiel
Practise and perform songs from Christmas Nativity
I Wanna Play in a Band. By Joanna Mangona. Rock music. Learn to sing, play, improvise and compose with the song.
Zootime
Exploring Reggae music. Games relating to pulse, rhythm and pitch. Call and response. Performing as part of a group.
Friendship Song Learning about vocal health using warm ups and posture.
Learning to sing in 2 parts. Playing along with a song. Improvise own rhythms.
Lila and the Secret of Rain:
Use our bodies to create a rainstorm (rubbing hands, clicking, clapping, patting legs, jumping)
I know how volume can add to the effect of the music
Reflect, Rewind and Replay.
Listen and Appraise Classical Music. Continue to imbed interrelated dimensions of music using voices and instruments.
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PE
Dodgeball: throwing, catching, rolling, passing and coordinationBasketball coach Spy Dance
(Secret Agent Training)
Perform dances using simple movement patterns. Athletics: running, jumping, throwing, skipping
Art &
Design
Drawing: minibeasts (Cautious Caterpillar) Wax crayon beehives Sculpture: Tinfoil bees Onomatopoeia words (Roy Lichtenstein) Cityscape (layered pictures) Illustration of a superhero Florence Nightingale: LampVan Gogh: Starry Night
- Paintings (fork patterns) - Oil pastels on black card Robins (Coming Home): Water Colour paintings Owls:
Nature Art: Leaf owls Zentangle patterns Charcoal owls
Black and White Pictures
Jackie Morris inspired pictures: Draw dragons and
backgrounds (watercolours)
Dragon Eyes: clay, oil pastel, aboriginal
Paul Klee: Castle shapes in chalk and pastels Bucks Brothers: Castle sketches
Draw fairy tale castle from step by step guide (form and space)
Pointillism: castle paintings
Polystyrene printing: Castles
African sunset silhouette (hot colours)
Animal print Curled paper lions Drawing safari animals Kente Cloth (weaving paper)
Layered pictures: Lila and the Secret of rain characters
Black History Artist: Lois
Mailou Jones – African
mask drawings (oil pastels)
Under the sea collage Lighthouse drawing Lighthouse painting
(Maud Lewis) Metzinger: Sea
landscape painting Paper Chain octopi 3D paper boat art
Design
Technology
Design and make: Superhero character Superhero masks and logos
Cooking and Nutrition: Design a healthy dinner; Harvest, chop and cook apples (Forest School); Cook bread at Dry Arch
Make bird cake Design, Make and Evaluate: castles out of cardboard
Design, Make and Evaluate moving animal pictures (with technical knowledge): levers Design, Make and Evaluate African necklaces Design, Make and Evaluate mud huts and
Design, Make and Evaluate felt sea creatures: stitches, button eyes, stuffing Design, Make and Evaluate: a lighthouse Cooking and Nutrition: Fruit ice lollies
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rain makers (Lila and the Secret of Rain)
RE
Growth Mindset (wk 1/2) Heroes in our lives (wk 8 to tie in with Florence Nightingale)Unit 4: Where do we belong?
(a) Where do I belong? (Feelings, experiences) (b) Where do people belong? (Family, local community, group, club, place, country, faith) Harvest
Unit 4: Where do we belong?
(c) What do people do because they belong to a faith or belief
community?
(d) How might ideas of family and community be reflected in our own lives?
Christmas (Jesus’ birth)
Unit 9: Why is Jesus important?
(a) What people help, inspire and guide me? What makes them special?
(b) What do stories from the Bible say about Jesus?
(death and resurrection)
Unit 9: Why is Jesus important?
(b) What do stories from the Bible say about Jesus? (friends and followers, miracles, parables)
(c) What things did Jesus say and do that guide people in their lives? What do I think? (E.g. love your neighbour / teachings on love and forgiveness)
Unit 6: How should we live our lives? (a) How does what I do affect other people? (b) What rules and codes of behaviour help me know what to do? (c) What values are important to me, and how can I show them in how I live? (Fairness, honesty, forgiveness, kindness)
Unit 6: How should we live our lives? (d) How do some stories from religions and beliefs and the example set by some people show me what to do?
PSHE
Rules:Actions, behaviour, choices, improving things for the common good Internet Safety: dangers, how to keep safe, where to get help
Belonging:
Family, friends, communities, groups, clubs, place, country, faith
Anti-bullying week:
Sticks and stones activities
People’s similarities and differences
Relationships: bullying, behaviour, choices, seeking help, types of bullying
Road Safety Week:
To learn rules for, and ways of, keeping safe, including basic road safety
Relationships: being kind,
friendships, work and play
Caring for our local environment
Being Special:
Inspirational people, what makes people special, similarities and differences, important relationships
Secret Agent Training:
Positive relationships through work and play Teamwork: taking different roles and reaching common goals
Money and Work:
Jobs and places of work Money: its role in society, spending, need vs want, managing money, enterprise
WOW
factor
Trips: Dry ArchChristmas Play Trips:
Computing: Apple Store
Trips: WOW:
Secret Agent Dance
Trips:
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Bath Children’s Literature Festival
WOW:
Playwood
Supertato: evil peas trash classroom
iMovie: Superhero trailers
Superhero masks
WOW:
Owl visit WOW:
Dragon Hunt in school grounds Pet dragons Farleigh Hungerford Castle WOW: 3D castles
Letter and voice recording from Secret Agents Safari adventure in hall (passports, luggage, safari jeeps, IWB showing safari)
WOW:
iMovie: Turtle films Sewing: felt sea creatures Class Assembly to parents
