Year 2
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
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Healthy me |
Fire! Fire! |
Superheroes |
Africa |
Plants and habitats | |||
Topic
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History | Local history- history of Healey School.
| The Gunpowder Plot. The Great Fire of London.
| Look at historical individuals.
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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.
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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. |
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English
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Reading |
Yoga Ogre Silly Billy
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Vlad and the Great Fire of London |
Supertato
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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
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Explanation texts
Traditional story with a twist
Haiku poetry
SATs
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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
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RE
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How can we make good choices?
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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
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PSHE
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Families and Friendships
Respecting Ourselves & Others
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Safe Relationships
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Belonging to a Community
Money & work |
Media Literacy & Digital Resilience
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Physical Health & Mental Wellbeing
Growing & changing |
Keeping Safe
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Computing
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Creating pictures programmes |
Questioning programmes
| Effective searching programmes
Online safety |
Presenting ideas
Spreadsheets |
Questioning |
Coding | ||
DT
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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
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Self-portrait- using pencil
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Firework art Sketching Watercolours – scene from GFoL, Christmas card |
Drawing Cartoon Characters - superhero
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Making Animal Masks
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Plant rubbings
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Using different media – inspired by Great Artists (Van Gogh, O’Keefe, Morris) | ||
Music (Charanga) |
Friendship Song Mixed Styles
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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.
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PE
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Invasion games |
Ball skills |
Dance |
Gymnastics |
Athletics |
Net and wall games |