Long Term Planning
2015 – 2016
Year Two
Autumn 2
Africa
Spring 1
Dinosaurs
Spring 2
Ancient Egypt
Tadpoles Promise
by Tony Ross
Tyrannosaurus
Drip by Julia
Donaldson
What’s the matter
Habibi
Instructions
(recipe)
Non chronological
reports.
Nonsense poems
and riddles
Newspaper report
and instructions
0 – 100 place
value
Number bonds
Place value
Number, addition
and subtraction,
multiplication and
division, fractions
SAT’s revision
Animals inc
humans
Animals inc
humans + planting
notice that
animals, including
humans, have
offspring which
grow into adults
Number
Measuring length,
weight,
temperature and
recording data in
tables, money,
geometry
Data
Habitats
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
Materials
Identify and
compare use of
wood, metal,
plastic, glass,
brick/rock,
paper/cardboard
Plants
Observe and
describe
seeds/bulbs
growing into
plants, find out
about and describe
the need for water,
light and
temperature to
grow healthily.
Literacy
Fiction
Non- fiction
Poetry
Numeracy
Science
Summer 1 SAT’s
Dungeons and
Dragons
SAT's half term
Character
descriptions
Autumn 1
Food Glorious
Food!
Lunchtime by
Rebecca Cobb
importance for
humans of
exercise, eating
the right amounts
of different types of
food, and hygiene.
and describe the
basic needs of
animals, including
humans, for
Summer 2
Dungeons and
Dragons
George and the
Dragon by Chris
Wormell
Poetry about
myths and
legends.
Plants
Observe and
describe
seeds/bulbs
growing into
plants, find out
about and describe
the need for water,
light and
temperature to
grow healthily.
survival (water,
food and air)
History
Vocabulary
Before, after, past,
present, then, now
Walter Raleigh
and other
explorers who
brought back food
Jamie Oliver
School dinner
campaign.
Guy Fawkes and
the gunpowder
plot.
UK history
Concept nation,
civilisation,
parliament,
democracy, war,
peace.
Remembrance day
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 chain,
and identify and
name different
sources of food.
Dinosaurs
Ancient Egypt
Pre historic world.
Inventions, Gods,
burial rituals, food
Legends e.g.
St George and the
dragon
Geography
Vocabulary
Human – city,
town, village, farm,
factory, house,
office, shop
Physical – beach,
coast, forest, hill,
mountain, ocean,
river, soil, valley,
vegetation,
weather
Art
DT
Computing
Food around the
world.
Continents
Italy – Pasta salad
Asian cuisine
Staple foods from
around the world
(tasting bread)
Comparing UK
and Africa around
schooling, homes
and play.
Continents where
dinosaur bones
have been found.
Egypt – location
and Egypt today
Continents
Giuseppe
Arcimboldovegetable faces
Healthy food
http://school.asda.
com/teachers/dieta
ndhealth/ks1.aspx
www.foodafactforlif
e.org.uk
Making a pasta
salad
Healthy food
interactive
activities
Sorting and
grouping animals
by characteristics
African sunset art
Clay modelling
African huts
Making toys out of
recycled materials
e.g. footballs
Junk modelling
dinosaurs
Egyptian art
hieroglyphics
P.E.
http://www.ks1resources.co.uk/page11.html have a look for ideas
Collage dragons.
Pyramids
Researching
African animals
and art work
Music
Map work
Photographs of
plants – changing
them and altering
the contrasts etc
Easter
performance.