Spring Term – Once Upon a Dream
Disney Dress up
Day
Dear Diary
In this topic you will:
 Create a diary entry of a
character from a fairy tale
 Explore materials and physical
changes
 Learn the compass directions
 Discover when and who made
the first ever television
 To control our bodies for
throwing and catching
 Consolidating our
understanding of addition and
subtraction
Week
1
4th – 8th Jan
Literacy
Diary Entries – Fairy Tales
Explanation Texts
End Point:
Students will be able to write Diary
Entries to retell a Well-Known Fairy
Tale from another character’s
perspective.
Wallace and Gromit – Snoozatron (video
clip for How to Get to Sleep)
Reading
2
11th – 15th Jan
On the Gogglebox
In this topic you will:
 Explain how Wallace and Gromit’s
Snoozatron works
 Explore our favourite characters from
TV over time
 Learn about different stories and events
in Religious Education
 Create our own play dough to explore
chemical change
 To explore the inverse operations.
 To lea basic throwing and catching skills.
3
18th – 22nd Jan
4
25th – 29th Jan
End Point:
Students will be able to write a How To
text to teach someone how to do
something (like brush their teeth).
The Prince’s Diary by Renee Ting
GPS Focus
Tense – Past,
Present, Future
Tense – Past,
Present, Future
Maths
Addition
Subtraction
Science
LO: To explore what
a material is by
exploring different
everyday items and
finding what they
LO: To explore paper as
a material and find out
how many physical
changes we can make
to paper.
Into the Magic Kingdom
In this topic you will:
 Describe our favourite Disney characters
using ambitious vocabulary
 Apply knowledge of different materials to
create puppets for our fairy tale diary
characters
 Compare television characters from the
past to now in the present
 To create an aerial map of the Yr2 area of
Sandal Primary School
 To discover different types of
measurements
Discovering Disney
In this topic you will:
 Create a range of poems on our
favourite Disney characters
 Learn about Walt Disney’s life and
accomplishments
 Prefect our jumping (height and
length)
 Describe our own and other’s
feelings in Religious Education
 Explore the colour wheel using
paint.
 To learn about arrays and
multiplication.
The Life of Walt
In this topic you will:
 Write a report on the life of Walt
Disney
 Explore painting to music using
knowledge of mood, colour and
different tools
 To discover division and how to
share
 To produce simple and complex
sentences.
 To practice our oral language skills
for our performance.
END GOAL
5
1st – 5th Feb
6
8th - 11th Feb
Readathon Week
Character Descriptions
1
22nd – 26th Feb
2
29th – 4th Mar
World Book Day
Poetry – Disney Characters
3
7th – 11th Mar
4
14th – 18th Mar
Sport Relief
Non-Chronological Reports
5
21st – 24th Mar
Disney Character Pictures
Acrostic Poems
Alphabet Poems
Colour Poems
Shape Poems
Walt Disney (online)
End Point:
Students to present a description of their
favourite Disney Character.
Disney Junior Encyclopedia of Animated
Characters: Including characters from your
favourite Disney Pixar films
Mid Term Break
Mini Themes
HOOK
A Performance for
School and
Special People in
our Lives of our
journey
End Point:
Students to write a report on Walt Disney – who he
was and why he is famous.
End Point:
Students to be able to use any or
all of these poetry forms to
describe their favourite Disney
character or events.
Teacher WAGOLLs (self-designed)
The Story of Walt Disney: Maker of Magical Worlds
by Bernice Seldon
Different Types of Poems for Kids –
Mrs’ Mitchell’s Virtual School
Who was Walt Disney by Whitney Stewart
Simple Sentences/
Compound
Sentences
Inverses
Exclamation and
Question Marks
Commas
Speech Marks
Ambitious
Adjectives
Adverbs
Capital letters
and full stops
Measurement
Measurement
Measurement - Time
Multiplication
Multiplication
Division
LO: To learn about what a
chemical change involves.
LO: Define both
chemical and physical
changes.
LO: To observe what
happens when we add
another ingredient to
our play dough.
End Point:
Be able to identify the
difference between physical
and chemical change.
Revisit Simple
and Compound
Sentences
Division
Revisit Simple
and Compound
Sentences
Inverse
are made of
Geography
History
See Investigating
Materials – see
MSTIE 1
See Paper Challenge –
MSTIE 2
See Play dough – MSTIE 3
See Brainstorm and
sort pictures – MSTIE
7&8
See Adding more –
MSTIE 6
LO: To learn about
a compass and its
directions - North,
South, East and
West.
LO: To apply knowledge
of North, South, East
and West.
LO: To learn about what a
bird’s eye view of
something is.
LO: To discover
features of an aerial
map.
LO: To draw an aerial
map view of different
parts of the KS1 area.
To make our own
compass in class
using paper plates,
felt tips and split
pins.
LO: To learn about
the First Televisionwhen it was made
and who invented
it.
To direct a friend how
to reach a destination
by using the compass
directions.
Looking at connecting
blocks to draw aerial
views.
Look at an aerial map
of a house and
identify different
features.
Give each group a focus
(Yr 2CW class, 2W class,
bags, stairs) to draw an
aerial view of.
LO: Looking at
television shows from
the past.
LO: To order television
characters from over
time using reasoning
skills.
LO: Discover
similarities and
differences between
characters from then
and now.
Talk about my favourite
TV show and why (bring
clip)
Get them to share their
favourites
Show pictures of TV
characters and place on
timeline (black and white,
look older, puppet strings
show, 3d, digital)
LO: Use descriptive
writing and knowledge
of changes to characters
over time to write
descriptions (then and
now).
Create a poster
about the first TV.
Venn diagram and
pictures of
characters.
End Point:
To create a whole class aerial
map of the Yr 2 ara/classroom.
End Point:
To write two descriptions of
the same character (one from
the past and one from the
present).
To write two character
descriptions of the
same character on a
single poster page.
Art
D&T
LO: To design a
puppet for our
character (from our
diary entries).
LO: To brainstorm a list
of different materials
we could use to make
our puppets.
To create a design
of our puppets to
work towards
creating.
Using our designs,
make a list of what we
need to make our
puppets.
LO: To apply our
knowledge of
physical changes to
materials to create
our puppets.
LO: To evaluate our
puppets by checking if
we have met our
success criteria.
See Station Stops – MSTIE
4
Creating puppets
Evaluating and
Presenting
LO: To create a
timeline of things
Walt Disney has
done for the world.
LO: To explore 3
different things
Walt Disney
accomplished in
detail.
Watch a clip about
Walt and complete
a drawing of your
favourite thing
about him.
Create a whole clas
timeline of all the
great things Walt
has done.
LO: To learn about
the colour wheel –
primary and
secondary colours.
LO: To discover how
to use colours to
represent different
moods.
Write and Draw
pictures (in comic
strip) of different
things Walt
Disney has
accomplished.
LO: Explore
different methods
of painting
(strokes, splats,
spots, thin, thick).
Create our own
colour wheel with
paint.
Use colours to show
different moods on
faces.
LO: To learn to
control our arms
when throwing.
LO: To use our feet to
throw with more
accuracy.
LO: To control our arms
and hands to catch.
LO: To learn to
position our bodies to
catch.
Have different
stations set up
with different
tools to use for
painting.
LO: To present a
non-chronological
report on the life of
Walt Disney.
Write and present a
report on Walt
Disney.
LO: Apply
knowledge of
moods and method
to create images
from music.
SCHEME OF WORK – Changing Me
LO: To apply our
throwing and catching
skills by doing both
together.
End Point:
To be able to juggle one or two
balls without dropping them.
LO: To practise
balancing on two
feet and then on
one foot.
LO: To use our
knees when
jumping (taking off
and landing).
LO: To use arms
for momentum
both jumping up
high and jumping
out far.
LO: To learn how to
jump from a
different height
safely.
ICT
Music
End Point:
To create an image
from music after
exploring paint and
colour.
Use Fantasia music
for students to
paint pictures to.
Different jumps:
Two to two
One to two
One to one (same)
One to one (dif)
Two to one
R.E
End Point:
To create a nonchronological
report on the life of
Walt Disney.
End Point:
Design, make and create a
puppet making physical
changes to different materials.
SCHEME OF WORK – Dreams and Goals
PSHE
P.E
LO: To discover if
materials can be
physically changed from
bending, twisting, rolling
stretching.
LO: Learn about
who Walt Disney is
and why he is
important today.
Stories and Key Events
Describe feelings – themselves and others
Need to see Jo Derbyshire
Need to see Jo Derbyshire
End Point:
To be able to
improve our
jumping distance
and height 3 times.