PE
Carnival Dance
English
Traditional Stories - Robin Hood
Poetry unit— The tree (Seasons Poem)
Instructions—How to build a bug hotel.
Geography
Brazil— comparing
Amazon Rainforest to an English Forest.
Layers of the Rainforest.
3D map of Brazil with natural and man-made landmarks
Visitors/ Trips
Waterloo Park. Nature walk. Looking at natural and man—made
Sheringham Park activities with park rangers.
Art and Design
Sculptures using natural materials
Maths
Place Value
Introducing all four operations.
Making homes for mini beasts from 3D shapes
Science
Properties of materials—Best materials to make a mini beast hotel
Habitats for animals that live in forests / linked to geography.
Computing
Online Safety: Why it is important to be kind online and in real life.?
Music Harvest songs Rounds Times tables 2, 5, 10, 3
RE
Judaism—Yom Kippur
PSHE
Jigsaw theme - Being me in my world
Behaviour for learning— Listening and Independence
Talk Pants—NSPCC
Forests
Y2/Autumn 1
Back to Nature
Forest school site—looking at different trees and plants.
PE
Games
Food
Y2/Autumn 2
English
Food Poetry– Writing our own version of Michael Rosen’s poem ‘Chocolate Cake’ using visual text
Fiction– Writing our own version of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the chocolate factory.
Non fiction—Non Chronologi-cal report about life of Roald Dahl.
History
Local sweet and choco-late makers in Norwich.
Writing in role as a Vic-torianfactory worker
Visitors/ Trips
Roald Dahl experi-ence.
Carolling in the Community.
Local chocolate makers
Maths Handling data– Making graphs.
3D shape- Using nets to make chocolate bar wrappers .
Problem Solving—organising presents for Father Christmas.
Science
Changing state– How do we change from liquid to solid and solid to liquid? We will apply this to making our own chocolate bars.
Computing
Writing algorithms and
Programming objects using position-al instructions.
E-Safety:
Music
Singing carols to people in the com-munity.
Times tables 2, 5, 10, 3
RE
Why are stories Jesus told important to Christians?
Making Christingles
Geography
Where does chocolate come from?
The process of making the product and the places around the world cocoa beans are grown.
Art
Design and Technology
Designing and making own chocolate bar and packaging.
PSHE
Jigsaw theme—Celebrating Differ-ence
Behaviour for Learning— Confidence and self belief
Food
Y2/Autumn 2
PE
Gymnastics.
Healthy Lifestyle workshops.
English Fiction- Traction man. Writing own su-
per hero story Non-fiction- Instructions How to make
a superhero cape. Poem—”If I were a superhero…” Letter writing to Aqua Dan Newspaper boy and Origami girl Story—Elliot Midnight Superhero Visual texts—Incredibles, Rockateer
History
Real life Superheroes- D-day, 9/11 and other important events.
Local and personal Superheroes
Ordering events on a timeline
Visitors/ Trips
Paralympians
Emergency ser-vices
Aqua Dan
Design and Technology
Design and make a Superhero cape.
Maths Addition and subtraction—practicing
the methods we have learnt and solving problems.
Multiplication and division—solving problems using our 2, 3, 5, 10 time tables
Measuring volume and weight Telling to the nearest 5 minutes
Science
Properties of materials- Which material would be best for a Super-hero cape?
Computing Create a comic strip. Pop Art photo editing using iPads. Online-Safety: Why should I go
online for a short periods of time?
RE Shabbat—Learning
about what this means to Jewish people and making Challah bread
PSHE Jigsaw theme - Dreams and Goals
Talk Pants NSPCC
Behaviour for learning— Per-severance and collaborating
Super Hero
Y2/ Spring 1
Music Notation Visiting the Junior
School for ‘Sign 2 Sing’ Times tables 2, 5, 10, 3
Cooking
Opportunity
Healthy Food
Art and Design
Comparing artists Andy War-hol and Frida Kahlo and mak-ing our own versions of their work.
PE
Gymnastics
Healthy living Workshops
English
Non- Fiction text — Emperor Penguins,
March of the penguins—film clips
Fiction text - Lost and found,
Information leaflet – for Banham Zoo.
History
Famous person—Robert Falcon Scott.
Geography
Finding out about Antarc-tica and comparing it to the other continents.
Design and Technology
Making a penguin puppet.
Plan and evaluate the design
Maths Inverse relationships Fractions Multiplication and division Penguin problem solving 2D and 3D shapes
Science
Life cycles of animals,
Incubating eggs,
Life Processes
Music Notation and compos-
ing rhythm patterns Times tables 2, 5, 10,
3
Computing
Happy Feet—comparing reality and imaginary.
E-Safety- asking an adult if you are unsure.
PSHE
Jigsaw theme— Healthy Me
Behaviour for learning—Being responsible
Antarctica
Y2/Spring 2
Visits/Visitors
Bird watching at
Water loo Park with RSPB Big Birdwatch
RE
Christianity; Why is Easter im-portant to Chris-tians?
Philosophy
What if humans laid eggs?
Art and Design
Making a penguin press print
Making a clay sculp-ture of a penguin
PE
Moon Landing Dance
English
Fiction- Portal stories “Leon and the place between” “The Bubble”
Non- Fiction- Explanation text ‘How do cars work?’
History
Comparing transport now and long ago
Famous person—Amy John-son
Neil Armstrong
Visitors/ Trips
Rhyme on the rails.
Vintage car
Modern car
Design and Technology
Making a car with moving parts
Maths
Measuring
Time
Fractions
Multiplication and division.
Computing
Creating a poster to advertise our toy car.
A.L.E.X coding.
E-Safety:
RE
What are the im-portant parts of a church?
Science
Forces—push and pull, speed up and slow down. Bring in bikes and scooters to test and write explanation texts.
PSHE
Jigsaw theme—Changes
Behaviour for learning— Being thoughtful
Transport
Y2/Summer 1
Art and Design
Ink and wax resist pictures.
Music Transport songs Composing, rocket,
racehorse Times tables 2, 5, 10,
3, 4
PE
Tennis
Fire
Y2/Summer 2
English
Reading diaries—Samuel Pepys
Recount-Diary writing.
Folk Tales- How the rab-bit stole the fire.
History The Great Fire
of London.
Visitors/ Trips
Elm Hill- Sketching Tudor buildings.
Design and Technology
Design and build our own Tudor house.
Maths
Handling data.
Problem solving, using all the skills we’ve learnt this year.
Science
Electricity
Testing and Exploring Circuits
PSHE
Jigsaw theme— Changes and transitions. Thinking about Junior School
Behaviour for Learning— Resilience
Talk pants—NSPCC
Music Learning songs for our
play.
Great Fire of London songs
Times tables 2, 5, 10, 3, 4
Fire
Y2/Summer 2
Computing
RE
Comparing dif-ferent places of worship
Back to Nature
Campfires
Art and Design
Observational drawing
Sketching using different media and materials