Curriculum Mapping Class 2 - Y2/Y3 Cycle A
Class 2 Year Autumn Term 1
A
Theme
Fire Fire!
Literacy
Class Novel s – ‘The
Great Fire A City In The
Flames’ Ann Turnball
‘The Great Fire’ Monica
Dickens
Maths
Science
Ongoing
nature
journals
DT
Autumn
Term 2
Christmas
Letters
Lists
Recount
Diary Writing
Newspaper reports
Poems on a theme
Traditional tales
Role play – Pudding
Lane
Addition and Subtraction - Mental
methods
Place Value
Shape & Measure
Materials
Humans
Material
Health and
properties - rocks
Nutrition.
Food – Bread
User – Thomas Farriner
Purpose – a new type of bread for the
king of England
Product – A new flavoured bread roll to
offer to the King of England by way of
an apology for setting fire to London.
Spring Term 1
Spring Term 2
Summer Term 1
Dahlicious Dahl
Class novel ‘George’s
Marvellous Medicine’
and ‘The Magic
Finger’
Stories from same
author
Non Fiction research
about Roald Dahl
Poetry rhymes
Role play area –
Dahl’s writing shed.
Inventors
Fantasy stories
Instructions
Explanations
An Island Home
Class Novels – all Katie Morag stories by Moira
Hedderwick
Stories with a familiar setting
Non-fiction and information text - Research into the
Island of Coll
Compare film to text – Cbeebies Katie Morag
programmes to stories.
Play scripts
Poetry- really looking
Role play – Coll post office
Multiplication and Division
Statistics and Fractions
Days of the Week
Addition and Subtraction – written methods
Shape/ Measures/ Statistics
Animals
Skeletons and
movement using
muscles/joints
Environment
Living things and their
habitats
Sheet Materials/
Mechanisms – Pop
Up Books
User – themselves
Purpose – a picture
that moves.
Product – Create a
picture to be put in a
Materials
Properties and their
uses
Plants
Plant growth
Construction – Photo frame
User – Granny Mainland
Purpose – To stand up on its own and hold a photo of
Katie Morag’s family to put on the mantel piece of
Granny Mainland’s living room.
Product - a frame for a photo of Katie Morag’s family.
(Planning Resource – Projects on a Page Y5/y6 –
Frame structures)
Art
Painting exploring
colour mixing and
creating burning sky
lines with silhouettes.
Work on different scales
3D work make Tudor
houses from pictures.
Use 2-D shapes to
create 3-D form.
Construct using recycled
manmade and natural
materials
Textiles
sewing
Christmas
tree
decorations
using cross
stitch.
Christmas
Art and Craft
activities
class book from a
Roald Dahl book of
your choice to that
moves
Y2’s using sliders and
levers
Y3’s using levers and
linkages
Drawing Illustrator
Quentin Blake,
exploring water
colour and pencil and
charcoal sketching.
Collage Making large
scale giants working
in pairs using
different materials,
textiles , papers.
Including hidden
flaps and pockets
using collage skills.
Create Celtic pattern
using collage skills.
Digital media
Record and collect
visual information
using cameras. Use
graphic package and
manipulate the tools to
create the desired
effects using lines and
shapes.
Printing - From drawings develop a simplified
printing motif of school. Plan and discuss ways this
image could be translated or rotated and repeatedly
printed. Plan and discuss colour choices for print or
background; perhaps print on a textured rubbing of a
building etc.
Use rollers and printing ink to print image repeatedly;
make individual and/or group prints.
Develop drawings further by producing a monoprint
of local area; start to collect and sort textures and
shapes which can be used to print as seen in class clip
7748.
Use printing rollers to ink up sides and edges of
objects and textures from which to print and build up
an image of ‘The Place Where I Live’.
When dry, work into print with pastel or watercolours
if desired.
3-D Work an imaginary island creature from a thumb
pot. Make a 3-D island home for your creature using
a diorama. Manipulate malleable material by rolling
and kneading.
History
Learn about events beyond living
memory that are significant nationally
or globally – The Great Fire of London
.
The Lives of significant
individuals in the past
who have contributed
to national and
international
achievements. Tim
Berners-Lee, the
Wright brothers,
Charles Macintosh.
Geography
Learn about the famous landmarks of
London. Compare London a city with
Catforth.
To understand that London is the
capital city of Britain and to know the
countries and capital cities of all
countries in the British Isles (Ie Wales
and Scotland)
RE
Sikh Dharam
Does worship have
to happen in a
special place?
Christianity Jesus
What makes us
go 'wow' or
makes us think
hard?
Islam
Why do some people
have religious
rituals?
Christianity
The Church How and
why is celebrating and
remembering
important in religion
and worship
Computing
IT –
IT –
Sound
ITData Handling
Computer Science –
Create games using
Be Time Detectives
Did my home/school always look like it does today?
What might my area/home/school have been like a
long time ago? How can we find out about what our
area/home/school was like in the past? What does
this tell us about what life might have been like in the
past? What would it have been like to come to school
when our school was first built i.e. Victorian times?
Has our playground like in the past? What games did
children play in school playgrounds in the past? Did
children use playground equipment like us a long time
ago?
Understand geographical differences and similarities
through studying the human and physical geography
of a small area of the UK and of a small area in a
contrasting non-European country.
To know the countries and capital cities of the British
Isles
To compare and contrast life on an island and in a
village in Lancashire
To recognise the physical and human features on
island.
To use an atlas to find the island of Coll
To draw a simple map of the Island
Christianity God What do Hinduism
people think is important What is really important?
to do daily, [weekly,
Why is this? How do we
monthly]? [Why] are
show this? Can worship
these important?
help people remember
what is important? Hindu
Dharma
Computer Science Digital Literacy
directing bee bots
Online
safety
ongoing.
Text and
multimedia.
Writing reports
and diary entries
using resources
and templates on
purple mash
of London using
purple mash
resources
PSHE/SEAL
Digital Literacy –
using internet to
find out about the
Great fire of
London
New beginnings
PE
Games
Locate and use
sounds from
online resources.
Use them in other
applications.
Use a database to
answer a specific
question. Enter the
information under
the appropriate field
heading.
2DIY and then begin
Learn to Code
themselves using
2code. Be an inventor
of their own game.
around a map of Struay
moving onto learning
how to use simple Logo.
Communications. Learn
how to e mail - linking to
the use of letters and post
office on Isle of Struay.
Going for goals
Good to be me
Relationships
Changes
Dance
Net and Wall games
Striking and Fielding
Athletics
Digital literacy – use
the resources on
purple mash to write
about the events in
the story of George’s
Marvellous Medicine.
Use 2Createa story.
Within Literacy.
Getting on and
Falling out
Gymnastics