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