Imaginative Learning Project
The scented garden
2015-2016
Year Group:2
No. of children: 20 Term:
Knowledge of the World
.Children will visit beautiful local
habitats and see what exciting
objects and structures can be made
out of plants and trees around
them. They will explore a local park
and find friendly and unfriendly
plants, using simple fieldwork and
geographical skills to map out their
whereabouts to keep others safe.
No.of weeks:
Teacher: K. Warren
Tiptoe through tulips as your
senses discover blooming foliage
and enchanting fragrances of
flowers and herbs. Round and
round the mulberry bush we go,
planting bulbs and seeds and
watching them grow beneath
sunshine and flowers.
Explore the astounding world of
the scented garden, but be careful,
there are some wild and dangerous
plants that you won’t want to
touch!
Use the marvellous properties of
plants to make a magical gift for
someone special.
Everything is coming up roses!
Communication and Language
The Arts / Technology
Comptuing
Children will write recounts of
their time at Plantastia. They will
order photographs and share
their favourite experiences. They
will use their imagination to
create their very own flower,
labelled and describe its
properties.
When exploring the local area,
including the wildlife area,
children will stop and make
accurate, detailed drawings of
plants, flowers and trees which
capture their interest. They will
use material creatively to make a
3D flower garden.
Write and debug simple
algorithms to guide your pet
through the scented garden.
Work as a team to create a board
game with dangerous and
friendly plants. Will you pet be
able to get through the maze
with your instructions?
ILP Curriculum Overview
English
Imagine they have just discovered a completely new weird and wonderful plant or flower. Wow!
Draw it and label it, talking through their ideas with a partner. Answer questions such as: What
colour, shape or texture are its petals and leaves? Does it have a perfume? Is any part of it safe to
eat? Where does it grow? Give the plant an exciting, appropriate name. (Give well-structured
descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes).
Produce a written account of the visit or visitor in chronological order. Include descriptions of some
of the sights, smells and textures they experienced as well as interesting things people said or did.
Express and evaluate their personal feelings about each event. (Write narratives about personal
experiences).
Text types: Week 1 Instructions, 2 persuasion, 4 non chronological reports and 6 narrative
Mathematics
Following Abacus
Count back in 10s and 1s to solve subtraction (not crossing 10s) and check subtraction using
addition, beginning to understand that addition undoes subtraction and vice versa; add three or
more small numbers using number facts; record amounts of money using £·p notation including
amounts with no 10s or 1s; find more than one way to solve a money problem
Count in 3s, recognising numbers in the 3 times-table; write multiplications to go with arrays and
use arrays to solve multiplication problems; understand that multiplication is commutative and
that division and multiplication are inverse operations; solve divisions as multiplications with a
missing number; count in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s to solve divisions and solve division problems in
contexts
Measure and estimate lengths in centimetres; tell the time involving multiples of 5 minutes past the
hour and 5 minutes to the hour; tell time to 5 minutes; begin to say the time 10 minutes later
Partition to add two 2-digit numbers; find the difference between two 2-digit numbers; multiply
two numbers using counting in steps of 2, 3, 5 and 10; solve division problems by counting in steps
of 2, 3, 5 and 10
Science
History
30
Find
out and describe
plants need water, light and a
NPVNumber
and placehow
value
suitable
temperature
to grow
and stay healthy.
MASMental
addition and
subtraction
Observe
how seeds
and
bulbs
grow
intousing
mature
Compareand
twodescribe
2-digit numbers
and
find
bonds
to 100
thermometers; revise place value in 2plants.
digit numbers, numbers between 100 and 200, and 3-digit numbers (including zeros in the 10s and
Use
simple equipment, such as hand lenses or egg timers, to
1s places)
take measurements, make observations and carry out simple
tests. Explore a range of garden herbs using all the senses.
Group materials into living things and objects, noticing
changes over time and beginning to see patterns.
Art & Design
Computing
Make detailed observational drawings of
scented flowers using hand lenses to look
closely at colours, shapes and patterns. Use
drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and
share ideas, experiences and imagination. Use
line and tone to draw shape, pattern and
texture.
Debug and write simple algorithms. Test your
algorithm using beebots. Challenge your
algorithm writing abilities by creating your very
own board game with friendly and gangerous
plant life. Will you beebot survive its trip
through the scented garden?
Geography
Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to
study the geography of their school and its
grounds and the key human and physical
features of its surrounding environment.
Make simple maps and plans of the walk,
recalling and sequencing what was seen using
the digital images as a reference.
Find out about plants and flowers that grow in a
contrasting location such as the Brazilian
rainforest. Understand geographical similarities
and differences through studying the human
and physical geography of a small area of the
UK, and of a small area in a contrasting nonEuropean country.
SMSC
Help tidy up the school’s garden or another
community site. Wear gloves to pick up litter,
pull out weeds and dig over borders and small
patches of earth. Perhaps plant seeds and bulbs
that will flower in the spring so that others may
enjoy them. Realise that people and other living
things have needs, and that they have
responsibilities to meet them.
Physical Education
Continue to learn a range of different ball
games practising skills of control, accuracy and
agility.
Design & Technology
Use soft wire to recreate the giant leaves and
flower heads of the rainforest, laying coloured
tissue paper over the wire frame. Select from
and use a wide range of materials and
components according to their characteristics
Music
Use own voice in different ways including
speaking, singing and chanting for different
effects. Learn an action rhyme such as ‘Here
We Go Round the Mulberry Bush’ joining in
with words and actions. Create new lyrics that
inform others how to plant a seed or bulb.
Before starting, sequence the process making
suggestions about actions to use for each verse.
Religious Education
Find out about a range of religious ceremonies
and what they mean to each religion, group and
person.
Modern Languages
Learning Mission
Engage
Develop
Visit a garden centre or park to
look at and ask questions about
different plants and flowers.
Encourage the children to talk to
adults about how they look after
plants and flowers. Let the
children get busy with their
senses and explore the plants in
lots of different ways! Remind
the children to listen carefully to
adults when they are sharing
information. On your trip explore
how plants and trees are used as
material to create structures and
art.
Take photographs to record and
sequence events of the day.
Science: Explore a range of garden
herbs using all the senses. Talk about
how herbs feel, smell and taste
(where appropriate).
Observe and name different parts of
plants and flowers by taking them
apart carefully.
Grow a window-sill garden using food
scraps such as carrot tops and
shrivelled potatoes. Observe how
these scraps grow roots and shoots
to form a new plant.
Art and design: Make detailed
observational drawings of scented
flowers using hand lenses to look
closely at colours, shapes and
patterns.
Music: Learn an action rhyme such as
‘Here We Go Round the Mulberry
Bush’ joining in with words and
actions. Work collaboratively to
create new lyrics that inform others
how to plant a seed or bulb.
Best of British
Learning about native British
wildflowers, trees and herbs.
Authors: Caryl Hart, Dick King-Smith, Jeanne Willis
Innovate
Flowers and herbs have
heavenly scents. Using what
we know about the amazing
smells of flowers and herbs,
we’re going to make a gift
with a gorgeous fragrance for
someone you know who’s
very special! You could make
• a pot of aromatic herby
butter
• a packet of luscious lavender
and lemon biscuits
• a sachet of perfumed potpourri
• a sweet and stinky
pomander
• a fragrant lavender bag!
Express
Geography:
Make maps and plans to
design a fantasy garden,
thinking about which plants
and flowers they would grow
there.
Computing: Create a map
and guide a bee bot through
it using algorithms that you
have written and debugged.
Science: Share with another
class what you have learned
out grouping materials, living
things and objects, noticing
changes over time and
beginning to see patterns.
Key Texts
How to grow a dinosaur (Caryl Hart) for instructions.
Hodgeheg (Dick King-Smith) for persuasion.
The bog baby (Jeanne Willis).