Year 2
Year 2
Curriculum Coverage 2016-2017
Year 2
Autumn 1 & 2
14 weeks
Spring 1 & Spring 2
13 weeks
Summer 1 & Summer 2
12 weeks
Project Title
To be confirmed
by class teacher
Essential Question
To be confirmed
by class teacher
Purpose/real
outcome
Audience
Immersive
environment
ideas
Text
Topic Overview
History – Events beyond living memory such
as The Great Fire of London
WOW Experience
Stafford Castle Trip
Key Geographical
Vocabulary from
NC to be covered
Geography –
Understanding the continents and oceans –
see geog below
Plus
Study of Ghana as a contrasting nonEuropean country.
Local history ; Significant historical events,
people and places in their own locality (but
do not touch the Pottery Industry as this will
be taught in year 3 ) – this could link
transport (see significant people)
Geog – study a small area of the UK (our
locality) human and physical.
(Street Detectives – for ideas )
Local Walk
Mrs Dean – (visitor) to talk about Ghana
from a first-hand experience.
Continent, coast, sea, vegetation, ocean, forest, river, season, beach, hill, soil, weather, cliff, mountain, valley, city, town, village, factory, farm,
house, office, port, harbour, shop.
Year 2
in KS1
History
Geography
Events beyond living memory that are
significant nationally or globally.
Great Fire of London
Key human features, including: city, town,
village,
- Use aerial
photographs and
plan perspectivs
to recognise
landmarks and
basic human and
physical features;.
Science
Refer to N.C and
teach discretely.
Everday Materials
*Identify & compare
the uses of a variety
of everyday
materials, including
wood, metal, plastics,
glass, brick, rock,
paper and cardboard
for particular uses.
* Find out how the
shapes of solid
objects made from
some materials can
be changed by
squasking, bending,
twisting and
stretching.

Homes from the past (locally a
variety)
 Victorian School
Significant historical events , people &
places in their own locality.
Titanic – Captain Smith
Spitfire – Reginald Mitchel
Name & locate the worlds 7 continents and
5 oceans.
devise a simple map; and use and constrct
basic symbols in a key
Introduce Equator, poles, hot and cold
areas, north and southern hemispheres
Use aerial photographs and plan perspectivs
to recognise landmarks and basic human and
physical features.
Understand geographical similarities &
differences through studying the human and
physical geography of the small area of the
united kingdom (locality – Autumn term) &
of a small area of a contrasting nonEuropean country- Ghana
Animals including
Living Things &
humans
their habitats
*Notice that animals,
including humans,
have offspring which Identify & name a
grow into adults.
variety of plants and
*Find out about and
animals in their
describe the basic
habitats, including
needs of animals,
micro-habitats
including humans,
for survival (water,
food and air)
*Describe the
importance for
humans of exercise,
eating the right
amounts of different
River Trent
Plants
*Observe and
describe how seeds
and bulbs grow into
mature plants.
*Find out and
describe how plants
need water, light and
a suitable
temperature to grow
and stay healthy.
. Living Things &
their habitats
*Explore and
compare the
differences between
things that are living,
dead, and things that
have never been
alive.
*Identify that most
living things live in
habitats to which
they are suited and
describe how
different habitats
provide for the basic
needs of different
Year 2
LINK TO D&T
PROJECT>
Plants – plant bulbs
for spring/summer
flowering schience
*Observe and
describe how seeds
and bulbs grow into
mature plants.
Art & Design
types of food, and
hygiene.
kinds of animals and
plants, and how they
depend on each
other.
*
*Describe how
animals obtain their
food from plants and
other animals, using
the idea of a simple
food chain, and
identify and name
different sources of
food.
Children should be taught the following :*To use a range of materials creatively to design & make products.
*To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.
* To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.
* About the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and
disciplines, and making links to their own work
.
Birds Eye view – Hands on geograpgy pg 64.
Hands on History – pg12, 13,14 & 15
Printing with map symbols pg 64
Ideas only – Use
your skills sheets
for planning.
Art & Design
Using these skills
you need to think
of art & design
projects to
coincide with your
topic.
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Design &
Technology
Children should be taught the following: To design puposeful, functional & appealing products.
 To generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, drawing , templates, mock-ups and where appropriate
ICT.
Select & use a range of tools and equipment
Year 2
Design &
Technology
Using these skills
you need to think
of design &
technology
projects to suit
your topic.
RE
Xmas production – use this opportunity to teach about the Bible story, document the drama – as the experience of this learning.
Please use the new Stoke on Trent agreed syllabus .
New Beginnings
Right & Wrong
Relationships- Me &
Others
PSHE
Significant people
Good to be me
Feelings
Keeping Safe
Animals & us
Changes
Family Life &
growing up
Charles Macintosh – waterproof materials
The chd are creating a 3D castle with a
waterproof feature.
Explorers (link to the oceans) – Captain
Cook (Australia)
– Scott of the Antatrtic (don’t do Columbus
specifically as included in Y4 – Americas) children research
Captain James Smith – Local person (Hanley)
– Captain of the Titanic
Reginald Mitchell – Spitfire designer