Clapgate Primary
Curriculum Map – Key Stage 1: Year 2
Topic
Autumn 1
Amazing Animals
Autumn 2
Homes and Houses
Spring 1
The Land of Oz
Spring 2
Growing/seasons/weat
her
What does spring
bring for us?
Summer 1
What a wonderful World
Project
(driving questions)
If you could be an animal, what
would you be and why?
What would you ask the
Wizard of Oz for?
Texts
-Little Red Riding Hood
-How to Wash a Woolly
Mammoth
-DAVE
-George’s Marvellous Medicine
-Billy’s Bucket
English
-Character descriptions
-Wanted posters
-Instructions
-Information Texts
-Story retelling
-Recipes
-Informative- newspaper report
If you could build your own
house, what would it look like and
why?
-The Tiger Who Came To Tea
-Jack and the Flumflum Tree
(Author study)
-A Squash and a Squeeze
(Author study)
-The Smartest Giant (author
study)
- The night before Christmas
- Christmas stories
-Invitations
-Setting descriptions
-Recounts- diary entries
-Persuasive writing- letters
- Adverts
- Poetry
-Wizard of Oz
-Winnie the Witch books
(author study)
- Room on the Broom
-The Princess and the
Wizard
-Wizard Spells
- How The Weather
Works
- The Reasons for
Seasons
- The Rabbit Problem
- Home for a Bunny
- It’s Spring
- How to Grow a Seed
- My World Your World
- Playtime ( around the world)
- Tinga Tinga Tales
- Who are you, Stripy Horse?
- Come and Eat with us
- My World Your World
-Seaside Poems
-Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch
-Sharing a Shell
-Seaside Postcards
-Lucy and Tom at the Seaside
-Out of the Blue
- Commotion in the Ocean
- What Lives in a Shell?
-Recounts
-Stories from other
cultures
-letters
-Character descriptions
-Story retelling
-Poetry
-Rhythms and Rhymes
-Information reports
-Recounts
-Descriptions
-Poetry
-Story retelling
- Explanation texts
-Recounts
-Information texts
-Recipes and instructions
-Stories from around the world
- Poems from around the world
-Poetry, Rhythms and Rhymes
-Story retelling
-Persuasive writing
-Recounts- postcards
-Stories from other cultures
-Instructions
Maths
-Number and place value
-Addition and subtraction
-Counting
-Measurement: length
-Money
-Addition and subtraction
-Statistics: data handling
-Properties of 2D shapes
-Properties of 3D shapes
-Multiplication and division:
recalling multiplication facts
from 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
-Number and place value
-Addition and subtraction
- Problem solving
-Fractions
-Time
-Measure
-Multiplication and
division
-Problem solving
- Money
-Number and place value
-Addition and subtraction
-Properties of shape
-Time
-Fractions
-Money
-Multiplication and division
- Measure
-Addition and subtraction
-Problem solving
Science
-Living things and their habitats
-Materials and their uses
- Seasonal changes
-Plants
Seasonal changes
-Weather around the world
-Animals (human comparison)
-Plants and animals that live in the
sea
Where in the world would you
like to live?
Summer 2
Seaside adventures- past and
present
Would you like to be beside the
seaside?
Computing
-Programming and inputting algorithms (Scratch program)
-Understanding algorithms.
-Create and debug simple programs
Geography
-Locational knowledge.
UK
Worlds continents and five oceans (identifying where
different animals come from)
-Geographical skills and fieldwork.
- Maps/atlas
-Programming and inputting algorithms (Scratch
program)
-Use technology purposefully to create, organise &
store content.
-Place knowledge.
Leeds compared to EU country
-Programming and inputting algorithms (Scratch program)
-Recognise common uses of information, technology beyond school.
-Human and physical geography.
-Geographical skills and fieldwork.
-Geographical skills and fieldwork.
-Maps/atlas
History
-History of buildings in Leeds – comparing with buildings we have
today.
-Buildings in other areas – focus on the Victorian Period
-Lives of significant individuals in the past.
Comparisons of lives in different periods
-Florence nightingale
-History of seaside holidays – comparing past and present
Art and Design
-To use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
-Artist study of - Lowry
-To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas,
experiences and imagination
DT
-Cooking – Healthy eating and preparing food
-Design and construction of homes
-Explore and use mechanisms and build structures and evaluate
structures.
-To develop a wide range of art and design
techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line,
shape, form and space
-Observational drawings
-Select from and use a range of tools and equipment
to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting,
shaping, joining and finishing]
PE
RE
Multi-skills
Leeds RE syllabus:
- Beliefs and practices of religions and other view
- Questions of meaning, purpose and value
- Morality, identify and diversity
-Settling into Year 2
-Restorative practise, circle in and circle out
-Recognising and dealing with feelings in a positive way
Multi-skills
Leeds RE syllabus:
- Beliefs and practices of religions and other view
- Questions of meaning, purpose and value
- Morality, identify and diversity
- Feelings
- Anti bullying week
- Restorative practise, circles in and circles out
- Contributing to the life of the class and the school
- Singing
- Listening to recorded and live music
- Play instruments musically
-Imagination and project based learning
Multi-skills
Leeds RE syllabus:
- Beliefs and practices of religions and other view
- Questions of meaning, purpose and value
- Morality, identify and diversity
-Caring for ourselves and others (animals)
- Restorative practise circles in and circles out
PHSCE
Music
Enhancements
- Perform, review and evaluate performances.
- Children in need performance and Christmas play.
- Singing
-Scrap shed
-The Christmas Play- The Magical Christmas Jigsaw
-Children in Need day events
-Class Coffee Morning
- Sewing – making puppets for a Punch and Judy show (seaside holidays
theme in summer 2).
- Experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the interrelated dimensions of music.
- Singing
-Imagination and project based learning