Yearsley Grove Primary School
Long Term Plan - Year A
Term
Autumn
Theme
Link to current long term plan
EYFS
Exploring self and new school
Traditional tales
Festivals
(Compare/contrast to own lives)
Exploring locality
KS1
Year A, Summer term
History beyond living memory,
national / global (First flight)
Lower KS2
Year A, Spring term
Romans
Upper KS2
Year B, Summer term
Victorians - Inheritance
EYFS
Fantasy
Living things
(Frogs and Chicks – shelter,
Habitats – Garden bird watch)
Construction and Creativity
(Junk models)
Spring
KS1
Year A, Autumn term
Events beyond living memory
(Great fire of London, Fashion
through the ages)
Materials (Science) (DT)
Lower KS2
Year A, Summer term
Potential books
- Henry the Explorer
- The Great Expedition
- The Night Flight
- The Test Flight of Sky
Robin
- Flight School
- Wee and the Wright
Brothers
- Explorers who made it, or
died
trying
- Kensuke’s Kingdom
- You wouldn’t explore with
Sir Francis
Drake
- Street Child
- Oliver Twist
Grand Launch
Teachers in costume
- The Three little Pigs
- Meerkat Mail
- Mrs Armitage on Wheels
- The Inventor’s Secret
- The Tin Forest
- The Curious Garden
- Iggy Peck Architect
- Young Frank, Architect
- The Ancient Maya
- The Borrowers
Lego workshop
Trail / treasure hunt
Pledges
EYFS – Visit a church
- York library
-Exploring the school grounds
- Holly Huntington/Yearsley nativity
Performance/drama
KS1 - Visit to seaside, Library, Art
gallery
KS2 - Heritage awareness
-Residential
- Experience camping or sleepover
- Visit York attractions (Barley Hall,
Castle Museum)
- Trip to London (V & A, British
Museum)
-Train Journey
In class mystery
shelter e.g. hobbit
house, fairy door
EYFS – Advertise local events
(Easter eggstravaganza fundraiser)
KS2 - Walk to town
- Visit York attractions (Railway
museum)
Disasters
Upper KS2
Year A, Summer term
Shang Dynasty – Homes and
Temples
Electricity (Science)
EYFS
Healthy lifestyle
(lunchbox, grow food, lifecycles)
At home and far away
(South Africa)
Summer
KS1
Year A, Summer term
Plants (Science)
Lower KS2
Year A, Autumn term
Stone Age
Upper KS2
Year A, Autumn term
Chocolate
- The Gingerbread Man
- Handa’s Surprise
- Oliver’s Vegetables
- The Enormous Turnip
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- The Magic Porridge Pot
- Hungry Caterpillar
- Sam’s Sandwiches
- Pass the Jam Jim
- Each Peach, Pear, Plum
- Ug, Boy Genius of the
Stone Age
- Oliver Twist
- Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory
Whole school
cooking day – make
lunch and snack –
tea party
EYFS / KS1 - Use a knife and fork
KS2 - Cook 3 simple meals, have skills
such as chopping
Opportunities to garden
Know how to stay healthy
Visit York attractions (Chocolate
story)
Yearsley Grove Primary School
Long Term Plan - Year B
Term
Autumn
Theme
Link to current long term plan
EYFS
Exploring self and new school
(school rules)
Traditional tales
Festivals
(Compare/contrast to own lives)
KS1
Year B, Autumn term
History in locality (Guy Fawkes,
Dick Turpin, Space landing)
(- save the lions)
(Swap Geog Aut Place Knowledge
to Sum Human and Physical)
Potential books
- Little Red Riding Hood
- 3 Little Pigs
- We’re going on a Bear
Hunt
- The Selfish Giant
- The Highway Rat
- Burglar Bill
- How to Train your Dragon
- Raiders
- Goodnight Mr Tom
- Michael Morpurgo range
- Elephant in the Garden
- Diary of Anne Frank
Grand launch
Disaster in school
over holidays –
wrecked/mess
Whole school clean
up, who’s
responsible
Pledges
EYFS -Take turns and share
- Say Sorry
- Building relationships
- Mousetronaut
- Escape from Pompeii
- Supertato
Landing in
playground
EYFS – Advertise local events
- York library
KS2 - Voluntary work
– help out elderly
- Visit York attractions (Jorvik, Walls,
Castle museum, Nuclear bunker,
Eden camp)
Lower KS2
Year B, Autumn term
Anglo Saxons and Vikings
Upper KS2
Year B, Autumn term
The Children’s war
EYFS
Fantasy
Living things
(Frogs and Chicks)
Spring
KS1
Year B, Spring term
Toys, Fantasy
Living things and their habitats
(Science)
Lower KS2
Year B, Spring term
Tudors
- Star Wars
- Iron Man
- Space Odyssey
KS1 - Cycle training – ride a bike with
no stabilisers
- Link to another school in another
country
KS2 - Visit York attractions (Museum
garden, Observatory, Museum
gardens)
Upper KS2
Year B, Spring term
Space
EYFS
Healthy lifestyle
(lunchbox, grow food, lifecycles,
healthy clinics)
Sports day preparation
At home and far away
(e.g. South Africa – linked to
sporting event e.g. Olympics)
Summer
KS1
Year B, Summer term
Materials (Science)
Changes within living memory
(Olympics – London, Tour de
France, Tour de Yorkshire)
(Swap Geog Sum Human and
Physical to Aut Place Knowledge)
Lower KS2
Year B, Summer term
Local history (Railways)
Upper KS2
Year A, Spring term
Ancient Greece
- Olympig
- The Dinosaur Games
- How the Olympics came
to be
- How to Train with a T-Rex
and Win
8 Gold Medals
- The Last Train to
Nowhere
- The Railway Children
- Hour of the Olympics
- Danny Champion of the
World
Sports day –Theme
World cup
(inter class football)
KS2 - Links to another school and
community
- Holly sporting event
Visit York attractions (York Museum)