Subject Coverage
Year 2
2014-2015
Term 1
Topic
Under Attack! (8 wks)
Fabulous Florence Nightingale (7 wks)
Trip or
experience
Skipton Castle
Local castle such as Sandal
Visit from Florence Nightingale
DT- construct a product and cooking
 Design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves or others based on design criteria
 Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, drawing, templates, mock ups
 Select and use a range of tools and equipment
 Select and use a range of materials
 Explore their ideas and products against design
 Build structures exploring how they could be made stronger
 Explore mechanisms such as levers, axles in their products
Science – materials
 Identify and compare the uses of everyday materials for particular purposes
 Find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and
stretching
Science – living things
Subjects and NC
 Explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive
objectives
Music – medieval music linked to dance
 Listen to a range of recorded music
 Play tuned and unturned instruments
PE – dance and game skills
 Master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance and agility and coordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities
 Participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending
 Perform dances using simple movement patterns
Reading
opportunities
with NC
objectives
Maths
opportunities
with NC
objectives
Writing
opportunities
links with NC
objectives
ICT –
 Understand what algorithms are
ICT – Safety
 Use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private
History – Florence Nightingale
 The lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements.
 Compare aspects of life in different periods
Art – weaving
 To use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
RE - ?
Information books about castles
 Re-read books to build up their fluency and confidence in word reading
 Listen to, discuss and express views about non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently
 Being introduced to non-fiction books that are structured in different ways
Traditional Tales with castles as setting – Rupunzel and Rumplestilskin
 Become increasing familiar with and retelling a wider range of stories, fairy stories and traditional tales
 Information books about Florence Nightingale
Science investigation linked to catapults – measuring distance
 Choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length
Medicine amounts making 10, 100, 1000
 Solve problems in practical context
Weighing in cooking
 Choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure mass
Writing instructions for making a castle, how to defend a castle and how to make medicine
Information books about Castles
 Writing for different purposes
 Non-chronological reports about Florence Nightingale
Diary entries as Florence/soldiers
 Writing narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real and fictional)
Recount of visits and experiences to castles and Florence experience
 Writing about personal experiences
 Writing about real events
Term 2
Topic
Hot v Cold! (6 wks)
The Great Fire of London (5 weeks)
Trip or
experience
Jamaica Day
Visit to a Fire Station
Subjects and
NC objectives
Geography – Jamaica and Antarctica
 Understand geographical similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of a small area in a
contrasting non- European country
 The location of hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles
DT – Constructing houses
 Design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves or others based on design criteria
 Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, drawing, templates, mock ups
 Select and use a range of tools and equipment
 Select and use a range of materials
 Explore their ideas and products against design
 Build structures exploring how they could be made stronger
 Evaluate their ideas against design criteria
History – The Great Fire of London
 Events beyond living memory that are significant nationally
Computing – Research and creating a power point about Jamaica
 Use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content
 Create and debug simple programs
Music – Songs from Jamaica
 Use their voice expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes
Art and Design – Pointillism linked to Jamaica
 Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
 Use drawing, painting to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
 Develop a wide range of design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space
 About the work of artists
Science – animals including humans
 Notice that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults
Reading
opportunities
with NC
objectives
 Find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival
 Describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene
RE Poems about Jamaica and Antarctica
 Listen to, discuss and express views about a wide range of contemporary and classic poetry
 Build up a repertoire of poems learned by heart
Read information books about the Great Fire of London
 Being introduced to non-fiction books that are structured in different ways
The diaries of Samuel Pepys
 Discuss the sequence of events in books and how items of information are related
Traditional Tales from Jamaica – Anansi the Spider
 Become increasingly familiar with and retell a wider range of stories and traditional tales
Maths
opportunities
with NC
objectives
Tell the time when writing a recount of The Great Fire of London
 To tell the time to 5 minutes
Positional language linked to maps during The Great Fire of London
 Use mathematical vocabulary to describe position, direction and movement. Know turns.
Make tally charts and block diagrams for favourite fruit – Jamaica
 To construct tally charts and simple block diagrams
 Ask and answer questions about these
Writing
opportunities
with NC
objectives
To write instructions for building a house
 Write about real events
 Write for different purposes
To write diary entries as Samuel Pepys
 Write for different purposes
To write poems based on ones they have read – Antartica and Jamaica
 Write poetry
Term 3
topic
Where our wellies take us! (13 wks)
Trip or
experience
Wintersett Resevoir
Ryhill Locality
Butterfly World
Making sculptures
Subject and NC
Objectives
Geography – our locality
 Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of their school and its grounds and the key human and physical
features of its surrounding environment.
 Use simple compass directions
 Use maps and aerial photographs
Science- habitats
 Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basis
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 micro-habitats
 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
Science – plants
 Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants
 Find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy
Art and Design – Sunflowers and Van Gogh and building habitats (sculpture)
 To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
 To develop a wide range of art and design techniques
 About the work of artists
Computing – animal cams! Digital images and videos. And photographic collage
 Recognise common uses of technology beyond school
 Use technology purposefully
Computing –
 Use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs
Reading
opportunities
with NC
Michael Morphurgo – Where my wellies take me
 Recognise simple recurring literary language in stories and poetry
 Discuss their favourite words and phrases
objectives
Maths links
with NC
objectives
Writing
opportunities
with NC
objectives
Map work
 Positional and directional language
 Using a compass
 Problem solving involving distances to different places
Art and Design – making habitats
 Measuring accurately with cm
Science – different kinds of animals and numbers of animals in our environment
 Bar charts and simple tables
Instructions for making habitats
 Writing for different purposes
Recounts of visits and experiences
 Writing about real experiences
Poems linked to wildlife
 Writing poetry
Instructions for directions
 Writing for real experiences
Information leaflets about animals found in our environment
 Writing for different purposes
Life cycle reports
 Writing for different purposes
Themed weeks for the year:
Theme 1
November 2014
Theme 2
February 2015
Remembrance Week
Mining history of Wakefield
NC Objectives:
 Events beyond living memory
NC Objectives:
 Events beyond living memory (history)
 Use simple fieldwork and
observational skills to study the
geography of their school and its
grounds and the key human and
physical features of its surrounding
environment (geography)
Theme 3
June 2015 (Transition)
Weird Science!
NC Objectives: