William Reynolds Primary School Curriculum Framework Overview Year 2

School Global theme / DIVERSITY
(recognising similarities and celebrating differences) / Heroes and Heroines
(Inspirational people from all walks of life) / WONDERFUL WORLD
(Caring for the environment and developing a more sustainable future)
National & whole school events / Science Week 15th October
Black History Month (October) / Children in Need
Remembrance Sunday
Anti-bullying Week 19th Nov
Road Safety Week 19th Nov / e-safety week / World Book day 7th March
Red Nose Day
Arts Week 25th March / SATS
QCA Assessments / Sports Week 10th June
Class Theme / Happy and Healthy / Traditional stories / Space / Super Heroes / Nocturnal Animals / Pirates
Subject area / AUTUMN TERM 1st Half(7) / AUTUMN TERM 2nd Half(7) / SPRING TERM 1st Half(7) / SPRING TERM 2nd Half(6) / SUMMER TERM 1st Half(5) / SUMMER TERM 2nd Half(7)

ENGLISH

(Renewed Framework) / NARRATIVE UNIT 1
STORIES FROM FAMILIAR SETTINGS
(2 week)
NON-FICTION UNIT 3
INFORMATION TEXT (2 weeks)
Keeping Healthy
NON-FICTION UNIT 1 INSTRUCTIONS
(2 weeks)
Sports games and healthy food
Role Play
William Reynolds Health Centre / NARRATIVE UNIT 2
TRADITIONAL STORIES
(2weeks)
Alternative version
POETRY UNIT 1
PATTERNS ON A PAGE
(1 week)
NARRATIVE UNIT 2
TRADITIONAL STORIES
(2 weeks)
Alternative versions
ADDITIONAL BLOCK
Traditional stories from other cultures
(1 week)
Role Play
The Three Little Pigs / NARRATIVE UNIT 3
DIFFERENT STORIES BY THE SAME AUTHOR
(3 weeks)
Oliver Jeffers
NON-FICTION UNIT 4
NON-CHRONOLOGICAL REPORTS
(2 weeks)
All about Space
POETRY UNIT 2
REALLY LOOKING
(1 weeks)
Stars
Role Play
Space Shuttle / Additional unit
Sentence level work
Super hero stories
(2 weeks)
NON-FICTION UNIT 2
EXPLANATIONS
(3 weeks)
Linked to Science (Changing materials and whole school theme)
Role Play
Fancy dress shop
Super hero dress up day / NARRATIVE UNIT 4
EXTENDED STORIES/SIGNIFICANT AUTHORS
(3 weeks)
Jill Tomlinson
Dick King Smith
POETRY UNIT 3
SILLY STUFF (1 week)
Animal riddles
Role Play
Animal Hospital / ADDITIONAL BLOCK
NARRATIVE UNIT 2
TRADITIONAL STORIES
(2 weeks)
NON-FICTION UNIT 3
INFORMATION TEXT
(3 weeks)
All about pirates
NON-FICTION UNIT 1 INSTRUCTIONS
(1 week)
How to survive on a desert Island
Making pirate crafts
Role Play
Pirate Shio
Pirate dress up day

Quality Texts

/ Oliver’s Vegetables,
Oliver’s Fruit Salad
Flabby Tabby
Eat Up Gemma
The Best Loved Bear
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
The Papaya that spoke / Jack and the Beanstalk
Cinderella
Three Little Pigs
The Papaya that spoke / The Way Back Home
Lost and Found
Up and Down
How to catch a star / Super Daisy
George saves the world by lunchtime
Max
Super Hero – Everyone needs a hero / The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark
The Hodgeheg / Peter Pan
Legends of the seas pirates
Nasty Nate’s Pirates

Mathematics

(Renewed Framework) / Unit A1 (2 wks)
Counting Partitioning and Calculating
Unit B1 (3 wks)
Securing Number Facts, Understanding Shape
Unit C1 (2 wks)
Handling Data and Measures / Unit A2 (1 wk)
Counting Partitioning and Calculating
Unit D1 (2 wks)
Calculating, Measuring and Understanding Shape
Unit E1 (3 wks)
Securing Number Facts, Relationships and Calculating / Unit A2 (1 wk)
Counting Partitioning and Calculating
Unit B2 (3 wks)
Securing Number Facts, Understanding Shape
Unit C2 (2 wks)
Handling Data and Measures / Unit D2 (2 wks)
Calculating, Measuring and Understanding Shape
Unit E2 (3 wks)
Securing Number Facts, Relationships and Calculating / Unit A3 (2 wks)
Counting Partitioning and Calculating
Unit B3 (3 wks)
Securing Number Facts, Understanding Shape / Unit C3 (2 wks)
Handling Data and Measures
Unit D3 (2 wks)
Calculating, Measuring and Understanding Shape
Unit E3 (3 wks)
Securing Number Facts, Relationships and Calculating
Science / Life Processes
Humans and Other AnimalsLifecycles, Healthy eating, Food groups
* Including the role of drugs and medicine
School Nurse into school - medicines
CHEC Outreach into school –hand washing and teeth brushing
Visit Abraham Derby - Fitness / Physical Processes
Light and Electricity
-Linked to traditional stories / Physical Processes
Forces and Motion
Planetarium– Constellations
Into school with parents / Materials
(changing) / Life Processes
Variation and classification
-animals
Animal Man visit / Physical Processes
Sound
Musical instruments
Geography / Our locality
Telford
Telford Town Park – bicycle hub / Comparison with another locality
Bridgnorth
Severn Valley Railway trip / Overseas locality
The Amazon Rainforest
(Layers, rainforest life, tribes, caring for the environment)
Caring for the environment
History / Significant person
Florence nightingale
School nurse / Significant event
(Neil Armstrong and the first moon landing)
Inspirational person / Changes in lifestyle
Toys
Art / Portraits
Exploring Picasso and Andy Warhol
Forest school visit (Meg Boughton) – Making portraits with natural materials / Textiles and Materials
Planets 3D / Drawing and Mark Making
(observational)
Animaland building sketches
Clay modelling
Design & Technology / Mechanisms
Traditional Stories and Nursery Rhymes / Vehicles
Super Hero transport / Puppets
Pirate puppets
Music / Sounds interesting – Exploring sounds / The long and the short of it- Exploring duration / Feel the pulse - Exploring Pulse and rhythm / Taking off-Exploring pitch / What’s the score? – Exploring instruments and symbols / Rain, rain go away – Exploring timbre, tempo and dynamics
Physical Education / Gymnastics
Body shapes and balancing / Dance
Linked to traditional stories / Games
Sending and receiving
ball / Gymnastics
Travelling – rolling and jumping / Games
Sending and receiving
Bat and ball / Dance
Linked to Peter Pan
SEAL
PSHE and Citizenship / New beginnings / Getting on/falling out / Going for goals / Good to be me / Relationships / Changes
Healthy Bodies / Bullying
Friends
Diversity / Healthy Life / Keeping Safe
CSO – Road safety / Relationships / Growing up and Moving on
Religious Education / The beginning of the world – What we can learn from stories Christians tell / What can stories teach us about life? / Can we find the meaning of the symbols? / Beginning to learn from Sikh people and visiting a place of worship
Hadley Sikh Gurdwara visit / Who is a Christian and what do they believe? / Ideas about God
Healthy lifestyles / Science – Health and growth / Seal – Healthy life / Relationships
Learning in the community / Visit to Abraham Darby
School nurse visit
Forest School / Swimming
Town park visit / Swimming
Parents planetarium workshop / Sikh Gurdwara
CSO visit –Road safety