Leicestershire Term dates 2015-16 Year 2 Long Term Plan
Term/Week
Date (Mondays)
Block/Unit
Literacy
Terrific
Transport
What do you
Autumn
27/28th
Aug(Thurs/Fri)
Spare
1
2
3
4
5
31 August
7 Sept
14 Sept
21 Sept
28 Sept
A1
6
7
5 Oct
12 Oct
19 Oct
C1
Half term
B1
Topic
Mr Gumpy’s Motor Car
know/want to find
out?
What is transport?
Mr Gumpy’s Outing
Water / Science
Blue Balloon
Air
Non-fiction
Past transport
Mrs Armitage on wheels
Non-fiction
Make your own
transport
Forces/ Finale week
Poetry
Autumn week
Light Up!
1
2
3
4
26 Oct
2 Nov
9 Nov
16 Nov
5
23 Nov
6
7
8
30 Dec
7 Dec
14 Dec
D1
E1
A2
Traditional stories.
Diwali/Halloween.
Reports.
Gunpowder Plot.
Recounts.
Great fire of London
Traditional stories.
Descriptive
writing/explanations.
Xmas story
When rabbit stole
the fire.
The fair /
Electricity
Xmas lights
Poetry
Winter week
Spare
Xmas hols
Spring
1
5 Jan (Tues)
2
11 Jan
3
19 Jan
4
25 Jan
5
1 Feb
6
8 Feb
Half term
15 Feb
22 Feb
Marvellous
Materials
Freezing
investigations
B2
Numeracy
week
Polar animals- Emperor
penguins. Information
texts
C2
Traditional storiesWhat are materials?
defeating an enemy
What do you want to
The 3 little pigs
find out?
International week- Greece. The legend of
Icarus and Daedalus.
The true story of the 3
What materials
little pigs
would make a good
house for 3 little
pigs?
What materials would
Non- chronological
make a good house for
reports
the 3 little pigs?
1
It’s boiling / Topic
finale
D2
It’s alive!
Stories by the same
author – Francesca
Simon. Horrid Henry’s
Underpants
What are living
things? What do you
want to find out?
2
29 Feb
3
7 March
Horrid Henry –
characters and events.
Billy’s Sunflower
4
14 Mar
Non-chron reports
5
21 Mar (4 days)
Easter
hols
Summer
28 Mar
1
11 April
2
18 April
3
25 April
4
2 May (4 days)
Information texts –
plants and nocturnal
animals.
5
9 May
Descriptive writing – The
Tiny Seed – Eric Carle.
Plants – Sci x 2 + 1 x
art.
6
16 May
SATs Week.
Arts week –
pms.
7
23 May
Half term
1
30 May
6 June
2
3
13 June
20June
4
27 June
Extended stories – The
Twits
5
4 July
Seaside study – range of
genres tbd
6
11 July
E2
A3
Explanation Texts
How do living things
grow and change?
What do plants need
to help them grow?
What plants can we
find in the local
environment?
What animals can we
find the local
environment?
Terrific Toys and Perfect Plants.
Traditional Tales –
Pinnochio (characters
coming to life)
Narrative writing –
based on Pinnochio
C3
Non-chron reports –
toys from the past.
What are puppets?
What toys did
children use to play
with?
Plants – Sci x 2 + 1 x
art.
Plants – Sci x 2 + 1 x
art.
Where in the world are we?
D3
Where the Wild Things
are. ( 2 weeks)
DT focus – design
and make an island
for the Wild Things.
Local geog – how could we find places
in Loughborough?
E3
Spare
Country study – France –
range of genres tbd.
Spare
Geog focus - using maps, country study
France.
Human and physical
geog – incl visit to
Bradgate Park
X curric – ‘seaside’
activities.