Identity

Rights and Responsibilities

Law and Order

Community

Environment

Celebrating Differences

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Topic Title

Healthy me

Fire! Fire!

Superheroes

Africa

Plants and habitats

Topic

History

Local history- history of Healey School.

The Gunpowder Plot.

The Great Fire of London.

Look at historical individuals.

Geography

Geographical vocabulary, aerial photos, field work and observational skills (local walk).

Identify  four countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom.

Compass directions.

Compare and contrast our local area to a small area in Africa.

Use geographical vocabulary to refer to physical features.

Use maps to identify Africa in relation to UK.

Identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the United Kingdom and the location of a hot area of the world in relation to the Equator.

Continents and oceans.

Characteristics of countries and cities of UK.

Use geographical vocabulary to refer to physical features.

Science

Animals including humans – focus on keeping healthy.

Weather patterns to collect data.

Uses of everyday materials.

Weather patterns to collect data.

Weather patterns to collect data.

Recap of Year 1 Seasons.

Plants.

Living things and their habitats – focus on life cycles and adaptations.

Educational Visits / Visitors

Local walk.

Visitors (people who have previously worked at our school).

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Trip to research a habitat

Forest School

Build a model of London using recyclable materials. The Great Fire of London will be replicated to show how quickly the fire spread.

Forest school activities:

Create the compass points using natural materials.

English

Reading

Yoga Ogre

Silly Billy

Vlad and the Great Fire of London

Supertato

Lila and the secret of the rain

Non-fiction information texts on plants

Maximus and the Beanstalk

Dougal the Deep Sea Diver

Writing

Outcome:

SPaG: Basic sentence skills

Instructions

Letter

Outcome:

Non chronological reports

 Adventure story

Outcome:

Fact file

Superhero story

Diamante poem

Outcome:

Stories from other cultures

Outcome:

Explanation texts

Traditional story with a twist

Haiku poetry

SATs

Outcome:

Diary entry

Non chronological report

Letter

Recount

Maths

Number and place value

Addition and subtraction

Shape

Money

Multiplication and Division

Length and Height

Mass, Capacity and Temperature

Fractions

Time

Statistics

Position and Direction

RE

How can we make good choices?

How and why do people pray?

How is new life welcomed?

What did Jesus teach and how did he live?

How can we look after our planet?

Non religion

PSHE

Families and Friendships

Respecting Ourselves & Others

Safe Relationships

Belonging to a Community

Money & work

Media Literacy & Digital Resilience

Physical Health & Mental Wellbeing

Growing & changing

Keeping Safe

Computing

Creating pictures programmes

Questioning programmes

Effective searching programmes

Online safety

Presenting ideas

Spreadsheets

Questioning

Coding

DT

Make a worry doll

Make a healthy wrap

Make a Tudor house from cardboard (recycling)

Textiles- super hero pouch - sewing

African fabric painting

Create a miniature terrarium

Create an ocean diorama

Art

Self-portrait- using pencil

Firework art

Sketching

Watercolours – scene from GFoL, Christmas card

Drawing Cartoon Characters - superhero

Making Animal Masks

Plant rubbings

Using different media – inspired by Great Artists (Van Gogh, O’Keefe, Morris)

Music

(Charanga)

Friendship Song

Mixed Styles

Ho Ho Ho

Winter time, festivals and Christmas time. Creating a performance using music and dance.

I wanna Play In A Band

Rock music and movement:

Hands, Feet, Heart

Music from South Africa, Freedom songs.

Zootime

Song structure

Reflect, rewind and Replay

Listen to Western Classical Music. The language of music.

PE

Invasion games

Ball skills

Dance

Gymnastics

Athletics

Net and wall games