Year 2/ Medium Term Plan

Term / Spring 1
Week / Week 1
08/01/17 / Week 2
15/01/17 / Week 3
22/01/17 / Week 4
29/01/17 / Week 5
05/02/17
Themed Week / STEM WEEK
Events
Article 16
Every child has the right to privacy. The alw should protect the child’s private, family and home life. / KS1 Parents Evening / KS2 Parents Evening / SAFER INTERNET DAY
Chinese new year performances
Lit and Lang / Reading Poetry
Read a selection of poems around the theme of water. / Writing Poetry
To write a poem describing a sea creature.
includes interesting information about my new sea creature, such as where it lives or what it eats
uses at least one poetic technique, e.g. rhyme, rhythm, repetition and alliteration
Includes kennings arranged in an interesting shape. / Reading and writing non-chronological texts
To write a well-structured non-chronological text about shipwrecks.
uses features like headings, subheadings and pictures to make it easy for the reader to find information
includes interesting information from my notes
includes facts, not opinions. / Reading Playscripts
Read different playscrips and get the children to act out scenes. / Writing Playscripts
To write some new scenes for a play.
use key features of playscripts, e.g. names before speech, stage directions and scene descriptions
include interesting dialogue, which reveals something about my characters’ personalities.
Grammar & Punctuation / Synonyms
includes commas to tell the reader when to pause. / Commas in a list
includes commas to tell the reader when to pause. / Suffixes –ing
includes correct use of -er and -est suffixes if comparisons are made. / Sentences with different forms
includes correct use of exclamation marks or full stops to show a command
includes correct use of question marks to show a question. / Tense in scripts
includes correct use of exclamation marks or full stops to show a command
includes correct use of question marks to show a question.
Spelling & H-writing / Suffix y / Suffix y (2) / Suffix ly / n sound kn and gn / igh spelt y
Maths / Time
Tell and write the time to five minutes, including quarter past/to the hour and draw the hands on a clock face to show these times.
Know the number of minutes in an hour and the number of hours in a day.
Know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year and leap year. / Multiplication and division
Show that the multiplication of two numbers can be done in any order (commutative) and division of one number by another cannot.
Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2,5,10 and 3 times tables, including recognising odd and even numbers. / Multiplication and division
Solve problems involving multiplication and division, using materials, arrays, repeated addition, mental methods and multiplication and division facts, including problems in contexts. / Fractions
Recognise, find, name and write fractions 1/3, ½, ¾ of a length, shape, set of objects or quantity. / Fractions
Recognise, find, name and write fractions 1/3, ½, ¾ of a length, shape, set of objects or quantity.
Write simple fractions for example, ½ of 6 = 3 and recognize the equivalence of 2/4 and ½.
History
Geography
Article 8
Governments must respect every child’s right to a name, nationality and family ties. / Name and locate the world’s seven continents and five oceans
Use the large floor map of the world to locate 7 continents and 5 oceans. Chn. to locate countries that they have visited.
Google Earth
Use world maps, atlases and globes. / Name and locate the world’s seven continents and five oceans
Use the large floor map of the world to locate 7 continents and 5 oceans. Link to key famous people – e.g. Florence Nightingale. Where did she travel to?
Google Earth
Use world maps, atlases and globes. / Identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the UK and the location of hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the equator and the north and south pole
Use world maps, atlases and globes.
Use satellite images of weather forecasts to predict the weather.
Google Earth
Show images of the earth from the International Space Station – use the globe to show the shape of earth and how it looks from space. / Identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the UK and the location of hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the equator and the north and south pole
Use world maps, atlases and globes.
Use weather photos of United Kingdom and write a simple weather forecast – cloudy, rain, sunshine. / Google Earth
Show images of the earth from the International Space Station – use the globe to show the shape of earth and how it looks from space.
Art & Design
DT / What is a sleeping bag? Why do we have them? What are they used for? What job do they need to do? Are there different types of sleeping bags?
Textiles (science link)
Design a sleeping bag for an Action Man?
Research: Look at types of fabrics /materials needed for a sleeping bag in a particular climate eg. Africa or Antarctica.
Evaluate: Test different materials ability to keep in heat (science) / Design a sleeping bag
Sewing Techniques
Weave paper to learn how to sew.
Chn. to sew fabric together by hand making stitches to ensure that there are no holes / Make a sleeping bag
Children to measure and cut the fabric to the correct size.
Sew the fabric together making sure that there are no holes. and / Test your sleeping bag
Evaluate the effectiveness of your sleeping bag using an experiment based on a science lessons.
Test your sleeping bag to see if it fulfils the criteria. / Evaluate your sleeping bag
Evaluate your sleeping bag to see how you can improve for next time.
If I made my sleeping bag again I woul d…..
Music / Suggested unit of work:
(Pitch) / To understand the idea of low and high pitches using tuned instruments such as xylophones. / To be able to play alternate between soh-doh (G-C) pitches in a steady rhythm on the xylophone / To be able to use the soh-doh rhythm as an accompaniment to a chosen song. / To listen to a variety of different musical styles commenting on the pitch, tempo and dynamic.
PSHE
Article 23 (Children with disabilities): Children who have any kind of disability have the right to special care and support, as well as all the rights in the Convention, so that they can live full and independent lives
Article 28: (Right to education): All children have the right to a primary education, which should be free / Dreams and Goals
I can identify my learning Strengths
and know how this makes me feel.
Celebrating Our Achievement
I know how to share success with other people
I know how contributing to the success of a group feels / Dreams and Goals
Goals to Success
I can choose a realistic goal and think about how to achieve it / Dreams and Goals
I can persevere even when I find tasks difficult / Dreams and Goals
Learning with Others
I can recognise who it is easy for me to work with and who it is more difficult for me to work with.
I understand how working with other people can help me to learn / Dreams and Goals
A Group Challenge
I can work co-operatively in a group to create and end product
I can work with other people to solve problems
Continuing Our Group Challenge
I can explain some of the ways I used to work co-operatively in my group to create an end product
I can explain how it felt to be learning as part of a group
RE
Article 14
Every child has the right to think and believe what they want and to practise their religion, as long as they are not stopping others from enjoying their rights. / Why are different books special?
- Why are some books more special than others?
- What holy books are special to us and why? / Why are different books special?
Why is the Bible Special and for whom?
What Is the Torah and why is it special? / Why are different books special?
Why is the Qu’ran a special book?
. What the Shrimad Bhagwad an important book? / Why are different books special?
What makes the Guru Granth Sahib a special book?
What makes the Tipitaka a special book? / Why are different books special?
What makes me special?
Computing / All lessons to begin with 10 minutes typing practise
Programming - Turtle - understand what algorithms are; how they are implemented as programs on digital devices; and that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions / All lessons to begin with 10 minutes typing practise
Data Handling - use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content / All lessons to begin with 10 minutes typing practise
Programming - Turtle – Use mathematical knowledge to predict the movement of the turtle from a give algorithm. / All lessons to begin with 10 minutes typing practise
Maths - use mathematical vocabulary to describe position, direction and movement, including movement in a straight line and distinguishing between rotation as a turn and in terms of right angles / All lessons to begin with 10 minutes typing practise
Maths - use mathematical vocabulary to describe position, direction and movement, including movement in a straight line and distinguishing between rotation as a turn and in terms of right angles (clockwise and anti-clockwise).
Science / Materials
Identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses. / Materials
Identify and discuss the uses of different everyday materials so that they become familiar with how some materials are used for more than one thing (metal can be used for coins, cans, cars and table legs; wood can be used for matches, floors, and telegraph poles) or different materials are used for the same thing (spoons can be made from plastic, wood, metal, but not normally from glass) / Materials
Think about the properties of materials that make them suitable or unsuitable for particular purposes and they should be encouraged to think about unusual and creative uses for everyday materials. / Materials
Find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching / Materials
To find out about people who have developed useful new materials, for example John Dunlop, Charles Macintosh or John McAdam.
PE / Dance / River Dance / Games / Games / Basketball