1. Year 2: Spring - Great and Ghastly Events
English texts/video stimulus:
Fact books about London
Factual books about Space.
Fact files/internet and books about Queen Elizabeth II
Stories about Space
Young readers Titanic story.
English Writing Opportunities:
Write a letter to the Queen
Fact file about the Queen.
Instructions on how to make a space rocket.
Space fact file
My first day at school
Social, Moral, Spiritual and cultural links:
How do you become a Queen?
Links to British values.
Art and Design:
Paint a portrait of the Queen.
Design a new space outfit for the astronaut.
Artefacts from the sinking of the titanic
Design and Technology:
Create a spaceship from recycled materials.
Inventions and inventors who designed equipment to explore space.
Year 2: Spring - Great and Ghastly Events
Science:
Why/How did the first man manage to land on the moon?
How do you manage to go to the toilet in space?
How/what do astronauts eat?
Gravity/forces
Mathematics:
Money – related to looking at the Queen’s face on notes and coins.
3D shapes in recycled materials.
Dates
Calculations related to space, how far? How many days?
Computing:
Fact file information about the Queen on the internet.
Keyboard skills – typing up a fact file.
Coding and de-bugging
Famous People:
The Queen
Buzz Aldrin
Neil Armstrong
Visits:
Cosford (Space)
Geography:
Geography
Mapping our model city using homework project junk buildings.
Where did the titanic sink?
Located London in relevance to Telford on a map.
Look at important places in London in relation to the Queen.
History:
How did the titanic sink?
When was the Queen born?
What does the Queen do everyday?
When/where did the Fire of London happen?
When was the first moon landing? Who landed?
The Queen’s coronation.
Music:
The national Anthem
London's burning
Space and planets inspired music.
PE:
Charleston dance.
Jive moves.