Long Term Curriculum Map Yr B
Autumn Term
A Knight’s Tale
YEAR 2
Multicultural
St George & the Dragon
Narrative block (1)
Narrative block (2)
Knight story pt 1
Robin Hood
Colour Poems
Recount Text:
Information Text:
E.g. school castle visit
E.g. all about castles
ANIMALS & PEOPLE
USES OF EVERYDAY
Offspring to adults; basic
MATERIALS
needs for survival
Identify & compare uses;
compare how things move on
different surfaces
Literacy
Writing
Genres
Science
Focus
(Investigation
in each unit)
New NC
DT
Focus
(design,
make,
evaluate)
Art
Focus
History
Focus
(weighted)
Geography
Focus
(weighted)
RE
PE
Music
PSHE
ICT
In addition
Location Knowledge & Map Skills: The UK and its
countries, capitals, flags, seas. Using maps and atlases
to identify the UK and countries; use directional
language
Special Words & Stories
Special People
Games (6 wks)
Dance (2 wks) / Gym: floor
work (4 wks)
Tempo & Duration
Emotions
Managing Risk & Change
Real world modelling
How to train your robot
Castle Visit; Remembrance & British Legion, Xmas Concert
Summer Term
What’s Out There
Pole to Pole
Creation myths eg North American Indian tale / Chinese New Year
Narrative block (3)
Narrative block (4)
Alien story
Alliterative Poetry
Instruction Text
Information Text:
E.g. how to make a ….
E.g. all about space
ANIMALS & PEOPLE
SOUND
healthy living including
Observe & name variety of
exercise, diet & hygiene
sound; hearing with ears;
distance and volume
Aboriginal / Inuit
Narrative block (5)
Narrative block (6)
Desert story
Rhyming poems
Explanation Text:
Recount Text:
E.g. life cycle or food chains
E.g. School visit to the Zoo
LIVING THINGS &
PLANTS
HABITATS
Observe, describe seeds &
Alive, dead, never alive;
bulbs; needs of plants to stay
suitable habitats for plants
healthy
& animals; name plants &
animals; food chains.
Food: Oaty
Techniques:
Product:
Food: Pizza
Techniques: An
Structures:
energy cookies
Making space
Sewn felt hand
Using ingredients
Explorer’s bag Explorer’s tents or
sources, food
rockets, space ships puppet character
from around the Cutting, measuring,
shelters
groups, healthy
design, make,
world
sewing, stapling, Strength and stability
diet;
evaluate
threading
Painting
Sculpture
Drawing
Painting
Sculpture
Drawing
(colour & (texture & form): (line & shape) Easter/Mothers (colour & pattern):
(texture & form):
(line & shape)
pattern):
Papier mache / Press printing
Day cards
Aboriginal dot Clay thumb pots, coil
Jungle plants
Kim Poor art box craft planet on a space Eg sliders in DT paintings; ready
pots & decoration
(tones);
scenes
theme
or drawing
mix
ready mix
spring flowers
Food: Knight’s
Techniques:
Mechanisms:
Soup
Castles flaps,
Wheels & chassis
(Harvest link)
hinges, folding,
linked to carts, war
Soup: chopping, measuring, levers,
machines etc
grating, dicing
sliders
Painting
Sculpture
Drawing
(colour &
(texture & (line & shape):
pattern):
form):
Paul Klee:
Xmas cards &
Watercolour Making shields Castle and Sun
calendars
castles
with raised pencil & pastels
(deepspaces detail Eg string
parkle)
in glue on card
1. Significant local historical places: Local castle visit. 3.
Remembrance Assembly & British Legion visit / Guy
Fawkes
3.
Spring Term
2.
The lives of significant individuals: The first moon
landing (Neil Armstrong)
Map Skills & Vocabulary: Maps, atlases, compass
directions, weather, aerial photographs, human & physical
features, the earth from space
Special Symbols & Objects
Special Things in Nature
Gym: small apparatus (4 wks)
Large Apparatus (6 wks)
Dance (2 wks)
Pitch & Dynamics
Keeping Safe (Bullying)
How to be Healthy & Safe
Programming
Maze explorers
Class Assembly, Easter
N.B. Units can be covered in any order through each term.
2.
Significant events & people beyond living memory::
Sir Francis Drake (first Englishman to circumnavigate
the globe & Golden Hind compared to Dame Ellen
MacArthur)
1. Place Knowledge & Fieldwork: Hatfield Peverel
compare & contrast an area in the UK & study of one
locality e.g. the Poles, rainforest. Continents, oceans,
climate, equator and Poles, atlases, maps & globes
Special Ways of Living
Special Places
Country Dance (2 wks)
Athletics / Swimming
Athletics (4 wks)
(6 wks)
Timbre & Texture
Being a Good Citizen
Growing Up & Moving On
Information collectors
Presenting my ideas
SATs / Fete
Zoo/Golden Hind visit, Sports
Long Term Curriculum Map Yr A 2014
Autumn Term
YEAR 2
Multicultural
Literacy
Writing
Genres
Science
Focus
(Investigation
in each unit)
Old NC
DT
Focus
(design,
make,
evaluate)
Art
Focus
History
Focus
(weighted)
Geography
Focus
(weighted)
RE
PE
Music
PSHE
ICT
In addition
Spring Term
Summer Term
Fire & Flames
What’s Out There?
Rainforests
Fire myths e.g. phoenix / Guy Fawkes
Narrative block (1)
Narrative block (2)
George & The Dragon
Pie C dragon
Colour Poems
Information Text:
Instruction Text
E.g. eyewitness report of the
E.g. How to make bread
fire/ newspaper article
CHANGING
STAYING HEALTHY &
MATERIALS
MEDICINES
AT3 Changing Materials e.g.
AT2 Life & Living Processes
Use of heat
e.g. Fire fighters & fitness
(link to PSHE)
Creation myths eg North American Indian tale / Chinese New Year
Narrative block (3)
Narrative block (4)
Alien story
Alliterative Poetry
Instruction Text
Information Text:
E.g. how to make a .....
E.g. all about space
Hamamatsu Kite Festival (May/Japan)
Narrative block (5)
Narrative block (6)
Rainforest Story
Pt 2:
Rhyming poems
Explanation Text:
Recount Text:
E.g. simple life cycles or
E.g. School visit or local walks
food chains
PLANTS & ANIMALS
VARIATION
AT2 Life & Living Proc. e.g.
AT2 Life & Living
Insects, British wildlife
Processes e.g.
compared to rainforest,
similarities & differences in
wildlife and plant life
USING
ELECTRICITY
AT4 Physical
Processes eg light up a robot’s
eyes
SOUND & HEARING
AT4 Physical Processes e.g.
Synthesisers, microphones,
machines & sound
(Music & History link)
Food: Bread and
Techniques:
Product: Phoenix
Food: Oaty
Techniques:
Mechanisms: Moon
baking
Fold, measure, Puppet for Volcano Energy Cookies Mother’s Day cards Buggies Wheels &
(Harvest link)
slider, join
Adventures
sources, food
/ Making space
chassis
Bread & salt
Sewing, template,
groups, healthy
rockets, space ships
dough
cutting, pinning
diet;
Painting
Sculpture
Drawing
Painting
Sculpture
Drawing
(colour &
(texture &
(line & shape)
(colour &
(texture & form): (line & shape)
Easter/Mothers
pattern):
form):
Historical
pattern):
Papier mache / Press printing
Day cards
Fire, flames, Clay tiles with
portraits
Xmas cards &
Kim Poor
box craft planet on a space
Eg sliders in DT
silhouettes, embossing e.g. Samuel Pepys, calendars
space art
scenes
theme
or drawing
finger
Tudor houses, King Charles II;
(tones);
spring flowers
painting,
flames,
charcoal,
ready mix
volcanoes
volcanoes pencils (Artist?)
1. Significant local historical places: that are significant
3. Significant events & people: The first moon landing
nationally or globally e.g. London and the Great Fire of
(Neil Armstrong)
London (buildings, bridges and monuments)
Remembrance Assembly & British Legion visit / Guy
Fawkes
3. Location Knowledge & Map Skills: plans of London;
2 Map Skills & Vocabulary: Maps, atlases, compass
directional language. Location of key volcanoes around
directions, weather, the earth from space, aerial
the world in relation to the equator and poles.
photographs, human & physical features
Special Words & Stories
Special People
Special Symbols & Objects
Special Things in Nature
Games (6 wks)
Dance (2 wks) / Gym: floor
Gym: small apparatus (4 wks)
Large Apparatus (6 wks)
work (4 wks)
Dance (2 wks)
Tempo & Duration
Pitch & Dynamics
Emotions
Managing Risk & Change
Keeping Safe (Bullying)
How to be Healthy & Safe
Real world modelling
How to train your robot
Programming
Maze explorers
Remembrance & British Legion, Xmas Concert
Class Assembly, Chinese New Year, Easter
N.B. Units can be covered in any order through each term.
Food: Soup
From home grown
veg: chopping,
grating, dicing
Techniques:
Explorers bags
Digital:
Sculpture
(colour & pattern):
(texture & form):
Andy Goldsworthy
Making jungle
natural sculpture scenes, textures and
art. Photographing dioramas eg Henri
their work
Rousseau
Structures:
Explorers tents and
hideaways e.g.
frame, strength and
stability
Drawing
(line & shape)
Jungle plants
2.
The lives of significant individuals: Christopher
Columbus and a recent explorer to contrast different
periods (Botanic Gardens & plant hunters)
1.
Place Knowledge & Fieldwork: developing human &
physical geography vocabulary. Rainforests as an area
to compare & contrast & study.
Special Ways of Living
Special Places
Country Dance (2 wks)
Athletics / Swimming
Athletics (4 wks)
(6 wks)
Timbre & Texture
Being a Good Citizen
Growing Up & Moving On
Information collectors
Presenting my ideas
SATs / Fete
Botanic Gardens visit, Sports
N.B. Units can be covered in any order through each term.