Year ½ Cycle A Polar Bears and Penguins Africa Dinosaurs Plants

Polar Bears
and
Penguins
Year ½
As a
Reader
Cycle A
Dinosaurs
Plants
Word reading
Phonic programme e.g. Letters and Sounds
Comprehension
Texts include: poetry (contemporary and classic), traditional stories, fairy stories,
nonfiction texts (NC p 28)
Phonics / Spelling programme (NC Appendix 1)
Writing : Narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real and
fictional); about real events; poetry and for
different purposes (NC p 31)
NC Appendix 2
12 Statutory statements (NC p 17)
Number and Place Value, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication and Division,
Fractions, Measures, Geometry: properties
of shape, Geometry: position, direction and motion, Statistics
Hot and Cold
Living Things and Habitats
Plants- our own Garden
Animals and their habitats Food chains
Centre.
Working Scientifically – on going across the year
We Are Games
We Are
We Are Detectives
Testers
Photographers
E-mail,
Exploring how games
Taking, selecting
communicating
work.
We Are Pilots clues.
We Are
Programming an
We Are Zoologists
Researchers
screen.
Recording bug hunt
Researching a topic.
data.
and editing images.
Dinosaurs
Transcription
Composition
As a Writer
Africa
VGP
Speaking and listening
As a Mathematician
As a Scientist
As a Computing learner
As a Historian
As a Geographer
As a D.T learner
Hot countries and cold
countries
The Equator
Map work
Observations on trip.
Geographical skills and fieldwork – on going across the
year
Designing, making and
evaluating a sledge
Colour mixing
Painting
Linked to topic
Linked to topic
Linked to topic
Collage
Working with Textiles
Listening and
Experimenting with
Sound world music/songs and
dances. Junk
Percussion Band? Africadrumming
Listening and Singing Using body to keep beat
Circle and Action Dances
Linked to topic
MFL- as a linguist
French
French
French
PE- as a sportsperson
Games
Dance
Gymnastics
Swimming
Swimming
As an Artist and
Designer
As a Musician