St Anne’s R.C. Primary School Year 2 Long Term Plan September 2014 – July 2015
AUTUMN
SPRING
SUMMER
TOPIC
Fiction
Cottonwool Colin
Sister for Sale
(Familiar settings)
The Night Shimmy
Chatterbox Ben
(Familiar settings)
Little Croc’s Purse
Oh Gnome!
(Playscript)
Billly Monster’s Daymare
Beuty and the Beast
(traditional tale)
Thrill City – Email and
letter
(Communication texts)
The Super Car Boot
Toy Sale!
Gnome, Sweet Gnome!
(Persuasive writing)
How to Turn a Class
Hamster into a Dinosaur
(Instruction text)
English
Biscuit Bear
Non
Fiction
Parents and their Young
(Explanation)
Life cycle of a
butterfly
Gram
mar
Capital letter
Question marks
Suffixes (-ful,
-less)
Conjunctions (for
subordination)
Apostrophes for
contractions
Information texts on
African Animals
Traditional Tales -The
Wolf’s story, The Three
Snow Bears
The Fish Who Could
Wish
Tiger
River
Don’t Call Alligator
Long-Mouth Till You
Cross River
(Poetry)
Journey to the Deep
(Non-chronological text
G.E.M.
Chocolate Planet
(Fantasy worlds)
Chocolate
(Information
texts)
Non chronological
reports - Unicorns
Sentences with
different forms
(exclamation and
command)
Adjectives, nouns and
noun phrases
Conjunctions (for
coordination)
Adverbs
Commas in lists
Suffixes (-ing,
-er, -est)
Verb tenses
Tenses in texts
Maths
See attached plan
RE
The Chosen People
Mysteries
The Good News
The Mass
Eastertide
The Church is Born
Science
Healthy Me
Mini worlds
Move it
Young Gardeners
Material Monster
Little Master
chefs
Computing
We are Game Testers
(Exploring how computer
games work)
We are zoologists
(Collecting dada about
bugs)
We are Researchers
(researching a topic)
We are Detectives
(Collecting Clues)
We are Photographers
(Taking better photios)
We are Astronauts
(Programming on
screen)
History
Why was Florence
Nightingale famous?
Why did the titanic
sink?
Geography
Art &
Design
Where would you
prefer to live England
or Africa?
Create a portrait of
Florence Nightingale in
the style of Paul Klee
Design &
Technology
PE
Music
Educational
Visits
What were the people who
lived in Manchester like a
100 years ago?
Victorian Britain
/ Coronation of Queen
Elizabeth !!
Recreate own
painting based on
African artists such
as Martin Bulinya
Create a model of the
titanic
Football skills
Manchester United
The long and short of it
(Exploring duration)
Why do we love to live
beside the seaside?
Gymnastics
Feeling the pulse
(Exploring pulse &
rhythm)
Tesco visit – Food and Farming
African dance group
Blackpool Zoo
Gymnastics
Taking off (Exploring
pitch)
What would Dora
the Explorer find
exciting about our
city?
Create a painting
of a famous
landmark or
building in
Manchester
Design & make a game
that could have been
played a 100 years ago
(board game or playground
game)
Dance
Design and make a
fairground ride
Games
Games
What’s the score
(Exploring instruments &
symbols)
Rain rain go away
(Exloring timbre, tempo
* dynamics)
Sounds Interesting
(Exploring Sounds)