YEAR 2 – LONG TERM PLAN 2014 – 2015
TOPIC
AUTUMN 1
AUTUMN 2
SPRING 1
SPRING 2
SUMMER 1
SUMMER 2
TOPIC
Food Glorious Food
Bright Sparks
Rainforests
Space
Castles
Nuts about Nature
Materials – burning/heating
Circuits to light up model - Electricity
Living things and habitats
Forces and Gravity
Materials from space
Use of everyday materials
Materials and uses
Plants, Animals
SCIENCE
Materials – heating and cooling
cooking. Sorting plants. Harvest
food grown
Great Fire of London
Guy Fawkes, Samuel Pepys
First Xmas tree
HISTORY
Neil Armstrong / Man on the Moon
(RP) Space stations
GEOGRAPHY
Locate countries & continents for
food
London
Geographical features / human
(RP) London tourism centre
(RP) research lab, weather station
Compare weather
Tropical climate / temperature
/weather
COMPUTING
We are games testers
We are detectives
We are researchers
DRAWING : Lines & Marks
Sketching Autumn fruit/vegetables –
oil pastels & paints
FOOD - Cooking focus - dough,
healthy pizza, vegetable soup, bread,
rolls
2nd year this will build on Y1 skills
(RP) Café, healthy restaurant
COLLAGE : London collage /
sketching houses
PRINTING : Block prints
ART
DESIGN
FOOD &
NUTRITION
Making houses to stand up, Tudor
house
(sheet materials)
History of castles / Kings & Queens, Catherine
of Aragon, Mary Queen of Scots, Oliver
Cromwell.
Changes – living memory – Baby George
Continents / Oceans / Countries
We are Astronauts
Field work – school & grounds
Weather & natural disasters (RP)
Garden or weather centre
We are photographers
We are Zoologists
Portraits – Queen Elizabeth /
Cholmandeley
DRAWING: Texture & tone, Lines &
Marks)
Digital media / Photography
Sketching plants & mini beasts
Barbara Hepworth – sculpture for
exhibition
3D
(FORM & TEXTURE)
DRAWING ON DIFFERENT SURFACES
Sketch Zoolab animals & flowers
(orchids etc) SHAPE
TEXTILES
Weaving mat – local craft person
Space charcoal / oil
drawings/sketches
Fruit muffins (5 a day)
Rehydrating food – risotto / couscous, lentils, chick peas
FOOD : Healthy banquet
Baking – bread recipes
Space Buggy
(Construction)
LITERACY FOCUS
Food poems ‘6 Dinner Sid’
Instructions, writing recipes
Diary entry – Sam Pepys
Story writing – alternative places for
bear
Madagascar story
Character profiles
Meg & Mog stories
Letters and postcards
Leaflets – Fairy tale stories
(RP) Fairy-tale castle
Explanations – adverts / invitations /
weather riddles
CORE BOOK
‘Pass the Jam Jim’
‘This is the bear & the scary night’
‘Crackle Spit’
‘Monkey Puzzle’
‘Alien tea on plant Zum Zee’
‘Goldilocks or Red Riding Hood Rap’
‘Sing a song of sixpence’
‘The Tiny Seed’ Eric Carle
‘I went to the animal fair’
‘Solar System’
CORE POEM
‘Mashed Potato’
‘Rain, Rain, Rain’ James Horner
PSHE
Unit 5 ~ Rules
Unit 1 ~ Financial capability
Unit 7 ~ Anti-bullying
Unit 8 ~ Drugs education
Unit 6 ~ Friends & Family
Unit 8 – Y2 changes
Myself & Relationships
Unit 9 – Personal Safety
Unit 10 – Y2 Sex & relationships
VISIT
Local Restaurants
Tudor Day – Sam Pepys / Lego / Fire
brigade visit
Zoolab
Planetarium visit
Castle
Burghley Sculpture Park
Pond Dipping – nature trip
PE
Multi-skills / gym
Dance / Gym
Gym / Multi-skills
Dance – Reach for the Stars / Games
Y2 1 term of swimming
Gym / Dance – Maypole /Country
Dance
Y2 1 term of swimming
RE
Harvest
Celebrations (link to Diwali – Hindu,
Eid-ul-Adha – Muslim, Hanukkah –
Jewish)
Special symbols and objects (Sikhism)
Special words, stories and writings
(link to Easter)
People in Christianity
Food Composition
London’s Burning.
World Music – Monkey Puzzle / Down
The Planets
Medieval Music – Country Dance
Weather sounds / Timbre
Utensils as music makers
Dinner time rhythms ME2 (pulse)
ME2 Number (Beat)
Music from Stuart period
ME2 Toys – this is the bear link (beat)
Fire, Fire – sing up
Ourselves (ME2) Exploring sounds
in the Jungle
ME2 (Pitch) Animals
ME2 (Pitch) Water
Japanese Frog
ME2 Our Land (exploring sounds)
Space composition
Easter
rhythm / Fairy-tale Rap
ME2 – Story time (exploring sounds)
ME1 Scary Castle (symbols)
ME2 Dance of the Knight (beat)
ME2 Weather (exploring sounds)
ME2 Seasons (Pitch)
Pattern (Pitch)
MUSIC
Dance Conkers / Games
Y2 1 term of swimming
Why do Christians say the holy spirit
is so important?