Year Group:
2
Class Teacher:
Miss O’Neill Mrs Warner
Spring 2
Summer 1
Unit Title: Fantastic Florence
Unit Title: The Great Fire of London
(Florence Nightingale)
Entry point: To visit Porchester Castle and become reporters for the Entry point: Children will be stepping back in time to 1666 for a themed
day
Great Fire of London day.
Exit point: To plan a banquet and invite important guests
Exit point: Children will act out the Great Fire of London, taking on the
roles of different people within the story.
Outcome: To generate questions as a stimulus for the topic and
Outcome: To gain an insight into the effects of The Great Fire of
independently research answers. To gain an insight into how
London and how it has effected history by independently generating
people lived in the past
questions and researching answers. To develop an understanding of
the effects of fire.
Literacy: Traditional Stories (fairytales
Literacy: Non-Fiction writing:
with castles in the plot)
Key Text:
Newspaper reports on the Great Fire
Key Text:
Patterns on the page (poetry)
Rapunzel
of London (non chronological reports).
The Great Fire of London
Jack and the Beanstalk
Writing fire safety instructions.
Maths: Time tables focus
Extracts from Samuel Pepys
Calculation strategies, operations and
The stories created will be
Maths: Positional language, solving
Diary
the relationship between them
sent to our partner school
mathematical problems using addition
Measure weight, fractions of foods
in Africa
and division, measuring weight,
used in our medieval banquet
capacity and length.
Properties of shapes (2D/3D)
Science: Forces and Movement
To be able to use forces to allow their
draw bridge to move down to allow the
knight into the castle
Knowledge and Understanding of the
World:
History: Investigate castles and
explore motte and bailey; defences position, keep, battlements etc; life
inside the castle
Geography:
Visit a local castle and explore. Look
at the surrounding area and locate on
maps, identify and describe the place.
Why do you think this place was
chosen as a site? How has it
changed?
Also consider the effects of tourism on
the site of the castle
ICT: Developing ideas and making
things happen-using text ease as a
programme to develop work
processing skills
UNCRC Article(s):
Article 37: No one is
allowed to punish you in a
cruel and harmful way
P4C Stimuli:
Pupils to generate
questions
Use an illustration from the
key text
Key Questions:
Why do we have castles?
What was the purpose of
castles?
Are castles still important
today?
PDL: Changing Friendships
Knowledge and Understanding of the
World:
History: To explore the Great Fire of
London – how it started, why did it
spread? What steps were taken to
stop the fire? What were the
consequences? How do we know
about the fire? Children will also be
comparing London then to London
today.
Geography:
We will explore how London has
changed over time, in particular
thinking about the River Thames at the
time of the Fire of London and the
River Thames now.
ICT: We will be using ICT for our
research on the Great Fire of London.
As well as interactive programmes to
extend our knowledge.
PDL: Taking Charge
SEAL: Relationships
Creative Development/DT: Build a
castle; this could be a modern castle
for a character from a fairy tale.
Art: Mark Making
During visit to castle take rubbings - of
stones etc. Use these to produce
textured effects in pictures of the
castle.
Examine stained glass, architecture
etc
Produce heraldic shields, "stained
glass" pictures - using cellophane etc,
sketches
Science: Changing materials
Exploring and describing the way
everyday materials changed when
they are heated and cooled.
Gym: Pathways
Share our story writing
with our African friends
Entry point – off site visit
to Porchester Castle
Creative Development/DT: Oak class
will be making their own fire collage
using various different materials. We
will be designing and building 3D
house to place in our fire display. We
will also be baking bread and cakes
from pudding lane.
Finally, we will design a hose pipe that
could be used to help put a fire out.
R.E. Concept – Creation
Christian and Hindu stories
Gym: Twisting, turning, spinning
Games: Group games and inventing
rules
Games: Inventing Individual Games
MFL: Buildings in London
MFL: buildings
Music: Recorder
(listen to me)
Article 13: The right to find
things out and share information
(art/ICT/writing).
Article 19: The right to not be
hurt (role of fire fighters –P4C
link)
P4C Stimuli:
Pupils to generate their own
questions about the Great Fire
of London.
Fire Crew: Would you be a good
fire fighter?
Key Questions:
How did the Great Fire of
London start?
Why did the Great Fire of
London spread so far?
What were the consequences of
the fire?
How did they stop the fire?
How do we know about the fire?
SEAL: Safety and Independence
Community/International
Involvement:
International Links –
consider castles from
around the world
Dance: Word and word messages
R.E. Concept – welcoming
Palm Sunday
UNCRC Article(s):
Music: Tuned percussion
(listen to me)
Community/International
Involvement:
Autumn term – visit from the fire
crew