Mini Themes / HOOK
Disney Dress up Day / Dear Diary
In this topic you will:
- Create a diary entry of a character from a fairy tale
- Explore materials and physical changes
- Learn the compass directions
- Discover when and who made the first ever television
- To control our bodies for throwing and catching
- Consolidating our understanding of addition and subtraction
In this topic you will:
- Explain how Wallace and Gromit’sSnoozatron works
- Explore our favourite characters from TV over time
- Learn about different stories and events in Religious Education
- Create our own play dough to explore chemical change
- To explore the inverse operations.
- To lea basic throwing and catching skills.
In this topic you will:
- Describe our favourite Disney characters using ambitious vocabulary
- Apply knowledge of different materials to create puppets for our fairy tale diary characters
- Compare television characters from the past to now in the present
- To create an aerial map of the Yr2 area of Sandal Primary School
- To discover different types of measurements
In this topic you will:
- Create a range of poems on our favourite Disney characters
- Learn about Walt Disney’s life and accomplishments
- Prefect our jumping (height and length)
- Describe our own and other’s feelings in Religious Education
- Explore the colour wheel using paint.
- To learn about arrays and multiplication.
In this topic you will:
- Write a report on the life of Walt Disney
- Explore painting to music using knowledge of mood, colour and different tools
- To discover division and how to share
- To produce simple and complex sentences.
- To practice our oral language skills for our performance.
A Performance for School and Special People in our Lives of our journey
Week / 1
4th – 8th Jan / 2
11th – 15th Jan / 3
18th – 22nd Jan / 4
25th – 29th Jan / 5
1st – 5th Feb / 6
8th - 11th Feb
Readathon Week / 1
22nd – 26th Feb / 2
29th – 4th Mar
World Book Day / 3
7th – 11th Mar / 4
14th – 18th Mar
Sport Relief / 5
21st – 24th Mar
Literacy / Diary Entries – Fairy Tales
End Point:
Students will be able to write Diary Entries to retell a Well-Known Fairy Tale from another character’s perspective. / Explanation Texts
Wallace and Gromit – Snoozatron (video clip for How to Get to Sleep)
End Point:
Students will be able to write a How To text to teach someone how to do something (like brush their teeth). / Character Descriptions
Disney Character Pictures
End Point:
Students to present a description of their favourite Disney Character. / Poetry – Disney Characters
Acrostic Poems
Alphabet Poems
Colour Poems
Shape Poems
End Point:
Students to be able to use any or all of these poetry forms to describe their favourite Disney character or events. / Non-Chronological Reports
Walt Disney (online)
End Point:
Students to write a report on Walt Disney – who he was and why he is famous.
Reading / The Prince’s Diary by Renee Ting / Disney Junior Encyclopedia of Animated Characters: Including characters from your favourite Disney Pixar films / Teacher WAGOLLs (self-designed)
Different Types of Poems for Kids – Mrs’ Mitchell’s Virtual School / The Story of Walt Disney: Maker of Magical Worlds by Bernice Seldon
Who was Walt Disney by Whitney Stewart
GPS Focus / Tense – Past, Present, Future / Tense – Past, Present, Future / Simple Sentences/ Compound Sentences / Exclamation and Question Marks / Commas / Speech Marks / Ambitious Adjectives / Adverbs / Capital letters and full stops / Revisit Simple and Compound Sentences / Revisit Simple and Compound Sentences
Maths / Addition / Subtraction / Inverses / Measurement / Measurement / Measurement - Time / Multiplication / Multiplication / Division / Division / Inverse
Science / LO: To explore what a material is by exploring different everyday items and finding what they are made of
See Investigating Materials – see MSTIE 1 / LO: To explore paper as a material and find out how many physical changes we can make to paper.
See Paper Challenge – MSTIE 2 / LO: To learn about what a chemical change involves.
See Play dough – MSTIE 3 / LO: Define both chemical and physical changes.
See Brainstorm and sort pictures – MSTIE 7&8 / LO: To observe what happens when we add another ingredient to our play dough.
See Adding more – MSTIE 6 / End Point:
Be able to identify the difference between physical and chemical change.
Geography / LO: To learn about a compass and its directions - North, South, East and West.
To make our own compass in class using paper plates, felt tips and split pins. / LO: To apply knowledge of North, South, East and West.
To direct a friend how to reach a destination by using the compass directions. / LO: To learn about what a bird’s eye view of something is.
Looking at connecting blocks to draw aerial views. / LO: To discover features of an aerial map.
Look at an aerial map of a house and identify different features. / LO: To draw an aerial map view of different parts of the KS1 area.
Give each group a focus (Yr 2CW class, 2W class, bags, stairs) to draw an aerial view of. / End Point:
To create a whole class aerial map of the Yr 2 ara/classroom.
History / LO: To learn about the First Television- when it was made and who invented it.
Create a poster about the first TV. / LO: Looking at television shows from the past.
Talk about my favourite TV show and why (bring clip)
Get them to share their favourites / LO: To order television characters from over time using reasoning skills.
Show pictures of TV characters and place on timeline (black and white, look older, puppet strings show, 3d, digital) / LO: Discover similarities and differences between characters from then and now.
Venn diagram and pictures of characters. / LO: Use descriptive writing and knowledge of changes to characters over time to write descriptions (then and now).
To write two character descriptions of the same character on a single poster page. / End Point:
To write two descriptions of the same character (one from the past and one from the present). / LO: Learn about who Walt Disney is and why he is important today.
Watch a clip about Walt and complete a drawing of your favourite thing about him. / LO: To create a timeline of things Walt Disney has done for the world.
Create a whole clas timeline of all the great things Walt has done. / LO: To explore 3 different things Walt Disney accomplished in detail.
Write and Draw pictures (in comic strip) of different things Walt Disney has accomplished. / LO: To present a non-chronological report on the life of Walt Disney.
Write and present a report on Walt Disney. / End Point:
To create a non-chronological report on the life of Walt Disney.
Art / LO: To learn about the colour wheel – primary and secondary colours.
Create our own colour wheel with paint. / LO: To discover how to use colours to represent different moods.
Use colours to show different moods on faces. / LO: Explore different methods of painting (strokes, splats, spots, thin, thick).
Have different stations set up with different tools to use for painting. / LO: Apply knowledge of moods and method to create images from music.
Use Fantasia music for students to paint pictures to. / End Point:
To create an image from music after exploring paint and colour.
D&T / LO: To design a puppet for our character (from our diary entries).
To create a design of our puppets to work towards creating. / LO: To brainstorm a list of different materials we could use to make our puppets.
Using our designs, make a list of what we need to make our puppets. / LO: To discover if materials can be physically changed from bending, twisting, rolling stretching.
See Station Stops – MSTIE 4 / LO: To apply our knowledge of physical changes to materials to create our puppets.
Creating puppets / LO: To evaluate our puppets by checking if we have met our success criteria.
Evaluating and Presenting / End Point:
Design, make and create a puppet making physical changes to different materials.
PSHE / SCHEME OF WORK – Dreams and Goals / SCHEME OF WORK – Changing Me
P.E / LO: To learn to control our arms when throwing. / LO: To use our feet to throw with more accuracy. / LO: To control our arms and hands to catch. / LO: To learn to position our bodies to catch. / LO: To apply our throwing and catching skills by doing both together. / End Point:
To be able to juggle one or two balls without dropping them. / LO: To practise balancing on two feet and then on one foot.
Different jumps:
Two to two
One to two
One to one (same)
One to one (dif)
Two to one / LO: To use our knees when jumping (taking off and landing). / LO: To use arms for momentum both jumping up high and jumping out far. / LO: To learn how to jump from a different height safely. / End Point:
To be able to improve our jumping distance and height 3 times.
ICT
R.E / Stories and Key Events / Describe feelings – themselves and others
Music / Need to see Jo Derbyshire / Need to see Jo Derbyshire