Class 3- Y2 and Y3
Curriculum Overview September 2015 – July 2016
Autumn
1
Themes
Reading
Spelling and phonics
Grammar and Punctuation
st
half term
Awesome Tudors
Spring
2
nd
half term
Let’s Celebrate
1
st
half term
Summer
2
nd
half term
What lies beneath? (Angry Earth)
1
st
half term
Out of this World! (Step
back in time)
2nd half term
Moving on up (transition)
Children are introduced to books from several authors that are read to them initially and when able to access themselves they read to themselves and
their peers. They discuss the books before, during and after reading in which they find, determine and understand new words, predict what will happen
next, answer comprehension questions and questions requiring them to infer and deduce from the text. They determine the use of language and how this
affects the reader. This builds on their own ideas for writing.
The children participate in a range of reading activities across the school week, with guided reading sessions twice a day, every day for 30 minutes. This
ensures that an adult has heard them read at least twice across the week. During these sessions they are taught to listen to and discuss a wide range of
fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference texts. Rising Stars materials are used for assessment. This scheme uses the AF strands but these are
closely aligned to the new 2014 assessment strands of 2a – 2F. The AF strands will form the focus of questioning during Guided Reading lessons.
Follows the new spelling scheme for the KS1 phase. The first half of the Autumn term is revision of Y1 spelling scheme. Over the week, the children are
given opportunities to practise their spellings and will use a variety of strategies to learn them, culminating in a test on Monday. Should a child struggle
with a spelling, it will be added to their personal spelling list. Spelling activities form part of the basic skills lessons every day. Children also participate
in daily phonics activities until they have learned all related phonemes and graphemes.
Children will engage in a variety of activities for a minimum of 15 minutes each day, using different stimuli, to learn skills in grammar and punctuation.
Assessment will be through the Rising Stars materials which are aligned to the 2014 National Curriculum. Within the class, children use V.C.O.P to aid
development of skills in this area. (Vocabulary, Conjunctions, Openers. Punctuation)
Literacy (Y2)
Recounts
Story writing (Traditional
tales/Fairy stories)
Instructions
Numeracy (Y2)
Each term, the children will follow aspects of the new National Curriculum 2014 as stated below: Rising Stars assessment materials are
used, thus ensuring full coverage of the statutory requirements of the 2014 National Curriculum.
Place value, ordering
numbers
Addition and subtraction
Multiplication and division
including one-step
problems
Finding fractions of
numbers
Learning the days of the
week/months of the year.
Properties of 2d and 3d
shapes.
Information Texts
Invitations
Letters
Poetry-Pattern and Rhyme.
Addition and subtraction
Multiplication and division
Fractions
Length
Number and place value
Statistics
Properties of 2d shapes.
Traditional Stories/Stories with familiar settings
Instructions
Explanation texts
Poetry-Using the senses
Number and place value, estimation and rounding
Properties of 2d and 3d shapes
Addition and subtraction
Multiplication and division
Fractions
Length
Statistics-Tally charts
Position
Time
Different stories by the
same
author
Character/setting
descriptions
Non-Chronological reports
Addition and subtraction
Number and place value
Multiplication and division
Fractions
Mass
Statistics
Properties of 3d shapes.
Extended
stories/significant
Authors
Recounts
Pictograms
Position
Fractions of numbers
Time
Addition and subtraction
Multiplication and division
Number and place value,
estimation and rounding
History
Who were the Tudors?
Royalty
Life and living
Goodies and Baddies
Guy Fawkes
Tracking the environmental changes from physical to
man-made landscapes. Why was Skinningrove a good
place to settle hundreds of years ago? (Geographical
investigation, look below).
The Space race.
Neil Armstrong.
History of Sport/modern
Olympics.
Geography
Map of England – mark on
London, Carlin How,
Skinningrove.
Find England on globe.
Location of castles – Why
were they built there?
(physical geographic
positions). map work
Locating capital citiesLondon-Houses of
Parliament. (locational
knowledge)
Christmas celebrations
around the world.
Investigating the local landscape using maps before
and after the mine was built. What made the
landscape suitable for habitation originally
(Physical).How and why did the landscape change
during the mining boom (human). Locational
knowledge-human and physical characteristics.
Human geography-types of settlement, land use,
economic activity, trade routes and distribution of
resources.
Planet Earth exploration
from satellite images,
weather research.
Continent/country and
major city location.
Locate countries on maps
that participate in the
modern Olympics. Find
major mountain ranges,
rivers, deserts, forests
around the world using
atlases and Google Earth.
Field work/Ed visits
Going into our local area,
taking photographs and
compare with pictures of
London.
Bolton Castle visit.
Real Histories.
Y3 Animals including
humans
Y2 Animals including
Humans
Investigation into St
Helen’s Church.
Mine visit and the impact on the local area. Observe,
measure and record human and physical features in
the local area.
Observatory visit at
Preston Park or Dalby
Forest.
Y3 Light
Y2Everyday Materials
RY3 Rocks
Y2 Everyday Materials Before half Term
Y2Living Things and their habitats After Half Term
Y3 Forces and magnets
Y2 Living Things and their
habitats.
Y3 Plants
Y2Plants
PSHE Respectable,
responsible citizens
SMSC
RE
New Beginnings
Getting on and falling out
Good to be me
Say no to bullying
Changes, Going for Goals
Hinduism
What do miracles tell us
about who Jesus was?
How do Jesus’ parables
help Christians to live
their lives?
Internet safety
Logging on/off, drawing a
picture, writing a
sentence, saving closing,
logging off and shutting
down.
Lavender bag-textiles
Build a Tudor
house.(structure)
Tudor banquet
Portrait investigation,
design and completion.
What do Christians
remember about palm
Sunday?
Photography – digital camera. Put into a presentation
of words and pictures of the local area.
Why are holy books
important?
IT
Why is Advent important
to Christians and why is
Divali important to Hindus?
Use the internet to find
out how people celebrate
Christmas around the
world.
Celebration food-Party.
Cooking and nutrition
Mechanisms, miners cart.
Pasty making.
Investigate colour
mixing/shading.
Rangoli patterns
To learn about the artist Lowry-Linked to industrial
paintings/sketches.
Build a rocket.(structure)
Design and make a home
coming meal for an
astronaut or alien.
Rocket/shuttle design
Science Y2/3
DT
Art
Relationships
Control-drawing a map of
the solar system and
navigate a shuttle/rocket
around the planets.
Music
Animal magic
PE
See curriculum map
Painting with sound
(Exploring sound colours)
Dragon Scales
Class Orchestra
Play it again
Salt, pepper, vinegar and
mustard (singing games).