Year 1&2 Cycle A
Autumn
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Topic and Focus
Ourselves
Transport
Traditional Tales
Underwater
Castles
Literacy
Crime scene posters and write up
Labelling body parts
Daily life recount
Diary
Body rap/poems
Weighing for cooking.
FloNi – timeline of her life.
Hospital supply checklist
(quantities, multiplication,
division, subtraction and addition)
Estimating weight/height
Instructions for a car
Mrs Armitage on wheels
Road safety booklet
Transport poems
Traditional tale writing
Playscripts
‘who am I poems’ (2)
Factfiles/non-chron(2)
Stories in imaginary worlds
‘what am I?’ poems
Invasion newspaper report
Recount of castle visit day
Explanation of castle defences
Mathematics
Science
Keeping healthy, bodies
ICT
Clicker5 labelling
Family trees/research online
Timetables/reading clocks
hrs/mins.
Vehicle top trumps- place
value, sorting, ordering
numbers.
Data handling of cars seen.
Timelines of when transport
was first used.
Number plates – calculating,
place value.
Classification of transport for
different criteria.
Shapes on vehicles.
Mileage of cars.
Forces,
Electricity
Dwarf bed – Standard measures,
measuring problem solving.
Cooking/cleaning for 7 dwarves
– multiplication, division, adding
and subtracting.
Cinderella slippers –addition,
subtraction, multiplication and
division.
Fractions of food for grandma –
how much of the pie did she eat?
How tall is the beanstalk – Using
metres, cm, and non standard
units to measure the stalk.
Sizes of animals – place value,
ordering and comparing THHTU
numbers.
Co ordinates – find the sea life on
the grid/ find the treasure / find
the missing ships.
Directions/rotations – Direct ships
/ sea life around the sea before hit
by mines. Bee bots.
Timing – Look at boat timetables
– what time do the boats dock,
board, arrive.
Symmetry and patterns – Use stained
glass windows and shields.
Shapes seen and used in castles –
recreating castle using 3D shapes.
Tessellation – stones on floor.
Schedule guards – add and subtract using
time. Understand 24hr.
Light and sound
Shadow puppets
Properties of materials
Forces & pulleys
Data handling
Navigating electronic books
Creating electronic books
(2create)
Floating/sinking
Materials and properties
Living things
Online research sea creatures
Art
Self portraits,
giant people, models, collage
DT
Gingerbread people
Fruit kebabs
Moving vehicles
Design a bike
History
Geography
Florence nightingale,
Family trees,
Changes in our lifetimes
People around the world
Music
Body percussion
Transport development,
Timeline,
Titanic
How to get places
Where countries are
Where transport links are built
Songs about transport,
Vehicle noises
PSHE
Occupations/aspirations
Staying safe
Healthy eating
Doctors
SSSS biology teacher visit,
Paramedic/police visitor in
Role Play
Inspiration/visit
Large collage
Papier mache creatures
Shell obs drawing
Character masks
Puppets
Scenery/dioramas
Where/when written&lifestyle
Grimm Brothers
Traditional tales around the
round
Pirates
First explorations
Sea monster discovery
Bodies of water
Maps – land/water
Pantomime/songs based on
Atmospheric music
Sound of the ocean composition
Songs about underwater
Road safety
Morals of stories
Travel agent
Visit carriage museum,
stations, boats.
Tractor in.
Smart Brothers road safety
Theatre scene
Hazlitt theatre
Drama workshop
Story teller
Uses of water
Conservation
Water safety
Boat/underwater
‘Underwater’ day
Hastings aquarium (with castles)
Taking and processing photos
Online research
Rubbings/engravings
Stained glass
Shields
Castle depiction through history
Making castles
Defences
Drawbridge
Development of castles
Invasions/defences
Dover castle
Castles around Europe
Invasions
Castle locations
Medieval music
Entertainment/instruments
Castle
Hastings castle