YEAR GROUP: 2
TERM: 1
CREATIVE CURRICULUM TOPIC: Healthy Living
Subject
National Curriculum links
Find out about and describe the basic needs of
animals, including humans, for survival (water, food
Science
and air)
Describe the importance for humans of exercise,
eating the right amounts of different types of food,
and hygiene.
History
Learn and understand the lives of significant
individuals in the past who have contributed to
national and international achievements
Outcomes/focus
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Can ask scientific questions and think about how I can find the answers
Predict what they think may happen
Communicate what happens, using observations and measurements
Make simple comparisons using their knowledge and understanding
Can identify how to stay healthy
Can identify ways to help people remain healthy
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Can identify why, Florence and Cavell did what they did
Can talk about the lives of Florence and Cavell
Can ask and answer questions about the past using a range of sources
Can identify the impact of what they did for the wider world
Compare aspects of life in different periods
Geography
DT
NO GEOGRAPHY
Use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet
to prepare dishes
HEALTHY MEAL
 Can plan and develop their ideas when making a product
 Can cut food items safely
 Knows how to keep safe in the kitchen
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Art
Music
NO ART
NO MUSIC
Use technology purposefully to create, organise,
store, manipulate and retrieve digital content
COMPUTING
Can select and use the materials they need safely to make a salas
Can evaluate their product, saying what they like and dislike
Use technology safely and respectfully, keeping
personal information private
E-SAFETY & WORD PROCESSING
 Can identify ways of staying safe on the internet
 Can talk about who they can get help from (if needed)
 Know that they must not share personal information with others
 Can use technology safely and respectfully,
 Can identify where to go for help and support when they have con concerns
about content and contact on the internet or other technologies.
TOPIC SCHEME OF WORK
Lesson
Wk1
Subject
Topic
LO
Success Criteria
Activity (including differentiation)
To recap on
I can talk about what I
KWL grid on what they know. In tp’s children to discuss what they know about
previous
already know
health and growth. Give ch a chance to ask each other questions in the
experience
I can think about what I
want to know
classroom. On post it notes, ch to write 1 question they really want to know
about health. Share with the rest of the class. Add these to the KWL grid for
children’s books.
I can share my ideas with
the class
Wk2
Music
PETER COOK SESSION
Science/
To know the
I know that we must eat
Ch to plan salad. Ch to have pics of items including some unhealthy choices as
DT
importance of
healthy
‘red herrings’. Ch to choose best choices and put onto planning plate in their
humans eating
the right type of
food
I can make healthy food
choices
I can explain why I have
books.
Discuss work under the visualiser. Think about healthy and non healthy foods
and why they have chosen the foods for their plate.
chosen certain foods
Wk3
Music
PETER COOK SESSION
Science
To know the
I know there are
Discuss with children why some food when eaten in too large amounts is bad for
importance for
different types of food
our health – e.g. sugar, salts and fats. Have actual food for children to sort
humans of eating
the right
I know too much
physically into 3D lunchboxes.
amounts of food
unhealthy food can be
bad for us
I can choose healthy
food
Ch to sort the food eg, do we need the entire bag of crisps? The whole apple?
Chn create a healthy meal on a paper plate.
MA: to use printed images / LA: use plastic food on plates to create their meal
Science/
To evaluate new
I can taste different
DT
flavours
healthy foods
To plan a healthy
I can compare tastes and
choosing our own flavours. In a circle chn try different options for flavouring
dish
choose favourites
their breakfast e.g. cranberries, apricots, raisins etc. Discuss (using lolly sticks)
I can plan my own choice
of flavours
Talk about why it is so important to eat breakfast in TPs.
Explain that we are going to design and make our own healthy breakfast,
what we thought of each ingredient, how did they compare?
Chn create their own design for a ‘granola’ breakfast choosing their favourite
ingredients from the tasting.
Wk4
Music
PETER COOK SESSION
DT
To prepare a
I can make healthy food
In classroom, children to be placed into groups with the range of ingredients
healthy dish
choices
following last weeks tasting; cranberries, apricots, raisins etc.
I can prepare food safely
With health and safety of using scissors/knives children to prepare a healthy
and hygienically
breakfast into bowls discussing why they have chosen those items and what
I can cut fruits safely
makes them healthy. Key skills: snip, mix, spoon, stir
Sit down to taste the breakfasts. Chn evaluate what they think went well and
how could they’ve improved their meal.
Ext. Try other peoples recipes and respond.
Music
PETER COOK SESSION
Wk5
History
To make
I can talk about my
comparisons of
experiences
famous people
I can compare conditions
over time
I can note facts about
Florence Nightingale
History
To make
I can compare lives of
comparisons of
famous people
famous people
I can talk about famous
people
I know why they are
famous
Talk to children about their experiences of hospital and doctors surgery – show
a pic of a hospital nowadays and a pic from years ago. Compare the pictures and
note down the differences between them onto large sugar paper. Ch watch video
of Florence Nightingale. Discuss what conditions were like back then and what
she did and how she changed the way doctors and hospitals are now.
Ch use Mash cam on purple mash for Florence Nightingale – take pic of self as
Florence and then write facts next to it
Recap learning about Florence Nightingale and conditions back when she was a
nurse. Explain that we are going to compare her to another nurse from a
different time. Show children on a map England, Belgium and Austria as this is
where she worked.
Ch to watch videos on Edith Cavell
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/28095692
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/z84k2hv .
Compare her life and what she did to Florence Nightingale – discuss the
similarities and differences of them. On Ipads ch to use 2 publish to make a
booklet about facts about Edith Cavell
HA: to include their own viewpoint
MA: to write sentences
LA: to have a photo of Edith Cavell and label her with what she did etc
Topic/PE
To stay healthy
I know how to stay
through exercise
healthy
I can participate fully to
make my heart beat
faster
I can discuss changes to
my body
Wk 6
KENT WEEK
Wk 7
Science
To understand
the importance
of cleaning
I know about bacteria
I understand that
bacteria spreads fast
I know how to wash my
hands correctly
Discuss the importance of exercise in Talk Partners. Discuss changes to our
bodies when we exercise. Chn draw how their bodies are feeling ‘before' to
exercising.
Ch to hold a skipping competition. All year 2 children to go to the hall to
compete.
After discuss how they feel and whether it is different from before. Ask
children to produce ‘ after’ descriptions. Talk with children about what is meant
by exercise and being healthy. Identify different kinds of exercise children can
do outside school. eg I was hotter after PE, I felt really tired after I went
swimming, I felt thirsty after football
Discuss the importance of cleaning ourselves properly – ask the children how
often we wash and what parts of our body we wash. Make a large class mindmap
of washing, how often etc.
Ask the children if they know about germs and bacteria. Discuss how there are
bad bacteria but also good bacteria and that we need to wash regularly to keep
ourselves healthy. Put glitter hand gel on teachers hand and children to shake
each others hand to show how easily germs spread.
Show children germ stopper poster http://www.algomapublichealth.com/UserFiles/File/Media/Handwashing/501.pdf
Teacher to demo washing hands in a bowl in the classroom explaining the steps.
Ch to then go and wash their hands correctly in the toilets using step by step
guide pre stuck in toilets on the mirrors
Photos to be taken of every child