Ducklington CE Primary School
Long term Plans
2011-2015
Autumn 1 and 2
Cycle 1
Let’s Build
Suggested visits:
 Warwick Castle
 Wildlife park
WOW day – Let’s Build!
New Curriculum
History
New Curriculum
Geography
KS 1-Yr 1 Personal
History/Castles
Yr. 2- Castles/Family Trees
KS2- The Roman Empire and its
impact on Britain
KS1 Yr. 1 – Daily
Weather/Seasons
UK and surrounding seas
(castles focus)Map work,
direction and geography
vocabulary
Yr. 2 UK and surrounding seas
(Castles in Europe) Map work,
directions and geography
vocabulary. Continents and
oceans
Cycle 2
Light
Focus on Light in World
religions
WOW day to finish the topic :
 dark walk
 star gazing
 storytelling by
candlelight
 stain glass window
making
KS1Yr 1- Personal History/
Grace Darling, Guy Fawkes
Yr. 2 – The Great Fire of
London, Samuel Pepys
KS2 – Ancient Greece
KS1 –YR 1- Daily
weather/seasons
KS2 – Locational knowledge –
latitude, longitude …time zones
–day and night
Cycle 3
An Island home
Invaders and settlers
focus (KS2)
 Katie Morag (KS1)
WOW day – Challenges

KS1 – Yr. 1 – Personal History
Yr. 2 – Alexander Selkirk
KS2-Britain’s settlement by
Anglo-Saxons.
Vikings and Anglo – Saxon
struggle for England.
KS1–Yr1 Daily weather/seasons
UK and surrounding seas. Map
work, direction and geography
vocabulary
Yr. 2- UK and surrounding seas
Map work, direction and
geography vocabulary.
Continents and oceans
KS2 – Locational Knowledge –
counties and cities UK -
Cycle 4
World War 2 (KS2)
Remember, remember
(KS1)

Guy Fawkes
Remembrance Day
Wow day – Street Party
KS1 Yr. 1 – Personal History
Florence Nightingale, Guy
Fawkes, Remembrance Day
Year 2 – Florence Nightingale,
Guy Fawkes, Remembrance Day
KS2 – A Local study
KS1 Yr. 1 Daily weather/seasons
KS2 – Geographical skills and
fieldwork – use maps, atlases
etc.
Ducklington CE Primary School
Long term Plans
2011-2015
KS2-Map work
Spring 3 and 4
Food
WOW day – cooking around the
world
Easter
(Last 2 weeks of
term)
The Easter Experience
Community involvement
On Safari…
WOW day -
The Easter Experience
Community Involvement
New Curriculum
History
KS1 – Yr. 1/2 Food in the past
KS2
New Curriculum
Geography
KS1-Yr 1 – Daily Weather/Seasons KS1- Yr. 1 – Daily
Weather/Seasons– Map work,
KS2-Human and physical – trade
links, distribution of natural
resources
Locational Knowledge – world’s
countries
KS1
KS2
direction and geographical
vocabulary.
YR 2 – Map work, direction and
geographical vocabulary
Water
WOW day – Splash day to
finish the topic:
 Whole school swim?
 Water art
 Water aid
Easter
Communication
WOW day –
Easter
KS1-Yr 1 Canals
Yr. 2 The Great Fire of
London
KS2
KS1 – Yr. 1 – Transport(Flight/
Air Balloon)
Yr. 2Telephones- Graham Bell,
Tim Bernes-Lee
KS2- A theme in British History
beyond 1066 - Victorians
KS1- Yr. 1 – Daily
KS1 Yr. 1 – Daily Weather/Seasons
KS2
Weather/Seasons
KS2 – Human and physical
geography – climate zones…
rivers.water cycle etc
Ducklington CE Primary School
Long term Plans
2011-2015
KS2-
Colours
Summer 5 and 6
Olympic Focus
Range of Geography skills
Explorers
Sea and Seafarers
KS2
Pirates KS1
Space
To infinity and
beyond…
Suggested visitor: mobile
planetarium (KS2)
Sun sea and sand…
Egypt (KS2)
Suggested visits:
 Ashmolean Museum
Oh I do like to be
beside the seaside…
(KS1)

Focus Week
Last 4 weeks of
summer term
Focus KS2 performance
New Curriculum
History
New Curriculum
Geography
Healthy Living Week
Healthy Living Week
Healthy Living Week
Chariots of Fire
‘Ocean Commotion’
‘Kids in Space’
 Write play
 Design program
 Act/sing/stage hand for
performance
KS1 –Yr. 1 – History of Pirates
KS1 – YR 1/2 Toys,
KS2-
KS2-
KS2
A non-European Society
that provides contrast – Mayan
Civilization.
Healthy Living Week
‘Joseph’
 Write play
 Design program
 Act/sing/stage hand for
performance
KS1-YR1 –Mondrian/Pollock
YR 2 – Olympics
The Seaside!
Yr. 2 – Famous Pirates
A theme in British History
beyond 1066 - Tudors
KS1 Yr. 1 – Daily Weather/Seasons KS1 Yr. 1 – Daily
Weather/Seasons
KS2
UK and surrounding seas
Yr. 2 - UK and surrounding seas
Continents and Oceans
Neil Armstrong
KS1 Yr. 1 – Daily
Weather/Seasons
KS2
KS1 – Yr. 1/2 Seaside Holidays
KS2 – The achievements of the
earliest civilizations – Ancient Egypt.
KS1 Yr. 1 – Daily Weather/Seasons
Map work, directions and
geographical vocab.
UK and surrounding seas
Yr. 2- Map work, directions and
Ducklington CE Primary School
Long term Plans
2011-2015
KS2 – Geography skills – compass
points, grid references etc.
End of year
Leavers’ Service at St Bartholomew’s Church – whole school and Year 6 parents invited
Year 6 performance in school
geographical vocab.
UK and surrounding seas
Continents and Oceans
KS2 – Geography skills – field work