1. Colvestone Primary School
Soaring Skies Federation
Spring term
Animal Kingdom
Year 2
Jungles

2. Colvestone Primary School
Soaring Skies Federation
Habitats
Early Years : Under the Sea
Year 1: The Polar Regions
Year 2: Jungle
Year 3: Plains and grasslands
Year 4 : Urban Environments
Year 5: Rainforest
Year 6: British Countryside

3. Colvestone Primary School
Week 1
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Key question:
Where in the world is our habitat?
Special events this week:
Writing baseline assessment
Class newsletters to go to SLT for checking by
Change Star Writer and Star Mathematician
Door displays up by
Writing
Baseline assessment – writing to recount
Introduce all of the different habitats that our classes will be learning about this term through pictures, videos and texts
Create a mind map of things your class know already about each habitat
Ask children to write a text which recounts what they know already about each habitat, for example: In Spring term, we are learning about habitats. Year 1 are learning about the polar regions. The things I know about this habitat are..
Allow this writing to be independent so it can be used as a baseline assessment for the term.
Science
Explore how we differentiate between living and non-living things. What do living things all do? (7 life processes)
Geography
Use atlases and globes to locate the areas of the world where each of our curriculum focus habitats can be found
PSHCE
Explore how we reflect our core school values – ‘ charity’
Music
Listen to with detail and appreciate music which links to your habitat. Represent your understanding of the music in a drawing. PE
Build up flexibility and control in dance. Create a habitat themed class dance for a performance at the end of term.
Art and Design
Use drawing and sketching to create an impression of your habitat – develop techniques of colour, line, shape and form
RE – to be read alongside the Hackney Agreed Syllabus
What does it mean for a Christian to belong to a church?

4. Colvestone Primary School
Week 2
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Key question:
What animals can we find in our habitat?
Special events this week:
Communal displays up by
Writing
Writing to inform – non-chronological report about jungles (2 weeks)
Read a variety of information texts and reports about jungles
Think about their audience and purpose
Explore their layout features – title, subheadings, sections of writing, pictures
Plan SPaG lessons linked to language features – writing in the present tense, joining sentences with conjunctions ‘and’ and ‘because’, expanded noun phrases
Geography
Use atlases and globes to name and locate the 7 continents. Which of these continents contain jungle habitats?
Science
Name and identify different animals that live in the jungle. Group them by their classification – mammals, reptiles, birds etc.
PSHCE
Explore how we reflect our core school values – ‘ openness’
Art and Design
Use painting to create an impression of your habitat – develop techniques of colour, line, shape and form
Music
Compose a soundscape for your habitat using tuned and untuned percussion and voices for a performance at the end of term PE
Build up flexibility and control in dance. Create a habitat themed class dance for a performance at the end of term
RE – to be read alongside the Hackney Agreed Syllabus
What does it mean for a Christian to belong to a church?

5. Colvestone Primary School
Week 3
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Key question:
What plants can we find in our habitat?
Special events this week:
School support plans in by
Change Star Writer and Star Mathematician
Writing
Writing to inform – non-chronological report about jungles
As a class, plan the content and layout of your report. Think about what each section of writing will be about.
Think of some ideas for the heading and subheadings
Provide the class with a teacher model report to redraft and improve
Children to independently write their own reports about jungles
Provide writing frames and sentence starters for children who need support
Science
Identify and name a variety of plants that can be found in jungles. How can we group these plants? (trees, flowers etc)
PSHCE
Explore how we reflect our core school values – ‘ life-long learning’
Geography
Use atlases and globes to name and locate the world’s oceans. Which oceans provide a coast for countries which contain jungles?
Art and Design
Use collage with varied materials to create an impression of your habitat
Music
Compose a soundscape for your habitat using tuned and untuned percussion and voices for a performance at the end of term PE
Build up flexibility and control in dance. Create a habitat themed class dance for a performance at the end of term
RE – to be read alongside the Hackney Agreed Syllabus
What does it mean for a Christian to belong to a church?

6. Colvestone Primary School
Week 4
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Key question:
How are living things adapted to life in our habitat?
Special events this week:
Writing
Writing to describe – children are going to imagine that they are a scientist who has discovered a new species in the jungle. They are going to write a detailed description of their discovery. (2 weeks)
Read examples of descriptions and explore their features.
Explore the language features of description – adjectives, noun phrases, descriptive verbs. Look at exclamation sentences.
Use drama activities to re-create ‘discovering’ the species
Ask children to plan their species by drawing it and labelling its features
Geography
Use atlases and globes to find the names of the countries in the world which contain jungles. Look at their flags and their capital cities.
Science
Explore how animals in the jungle are specially suited to living in their habitat.
PSHCE
Explore how we reflect our core school values – ‘ vote’
Music
Compose a soundscape for your habitat using tuned and untuned percussion and voices for a performance at the end of term PE
Build up flexibility and control in dance. Create a habitat themed class dance for a performance at the end of term
Art and Design
Over the next two weeks, use sculpture using varied materials to create an impression of your habitat
RE – to be read alongside the Hackney Agreed Syllabus
What does it mean for a Christian to belong to a church?

7. Colvestone Primary School
Week 5
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Key question:
What does our habitat look like in different seasons?
Special events this week:
Change Star Writer and Star Mathematician
Writing
Writing to describe – children are going to imagine that they are a scientist who has discovered a new species in the jungle. They are going to write a detailed description of their discovery.
Provide children with a teacher model description of a new species that isn’t very descriptive. Re-draft it as a class.
Ask children to draft their descriptions independently.
Publish the writing into a classroom book or display showing Year 2’s ‘discoveries’
Science
Look at a type of plant living in the jungle. Label its basic parts – roots, trunk, leaves etc. What does it need to survive?
PSHCE
Explore how we reflect our core school values – ‘ enrichment’
Geography
Explore the different seasons that we have in the UK. How do seasons in jungle regions compare?
Music
Compose a soundscape for your habitat using tuned and untuned percussion and voices for a performance at the end of term PE
Build up flexibility and control in dance. Create a habitat themed class dance for a performance at the end of term
Art and Design
Use sculpture using varied materials to create an impression of your habitat
RE - to be read alongside the Hackney Agreed Syllabus
What does it mean for a Christian to belong to a church?

8. Colvestone Primary School
Week 6
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Key question:
What happens in our habitat in the night time?
Special events this week:
Writing
Writing to recount – diary entry of an explorer arriving in the jungle for the first time (1 week)
Give the children some examples of diary entries. Explore the language features – 1st person, past tense, thoughts and feelings
Plan some SPaG lessons around these language features
Use drama activities like hot seating to explore writing in role – the children are writing as an explorer arriving in the jungle for the first time. What do they see/hear/smell/feel?
Children write diary entries written in the 1st person
Re-draft and edit
Geography
Learn the names and label diagrams of the physical features of the jungle – layers of vegetation, rivers etc
Science
Identify and name nocturnal animals that live in the jungle. Explore how the jungle looks different in the day and night.
PSHCE
Explore how we reflect our core school values – ‘safety’
Art and Design
Learn about art from jungle regions. Research the lives and works of different artists.
Music
Compose a soundscape for your habitat using tuned and untuned percussion and voices for a performance at the end of term PE
Build up flexibility and control in dance. Create a habitat themed class dance for a performance at the end of term
RE - to be read alongside the Hackney Agreed Syllabus
Explore the significance of animals in Christianity.

9. Colvestone Primary School
Week 7
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Key question:
What are the changes that happen to living things in our habitat as they grow?
Special events this week:
Change Star Writer and Star Mathematician
Writing
Writing to explain – explanation of the life-cycle of a living thing from a jungle habitat. (2 weeks)
Read some age-appropriate explanations about the life cycle of animals (butterfly, frog, chicken etc)
Think about the language and layout features of explanations and plan some SPaG lessons around these
Choose a living thing from the jungle to write your life-cycle explanation about. Research the different stages of their life.
Summarise each stage in notes
Geography
Explore the weather patterns in the jungle. How do these change depending on season?
Science
Identify which animals in the jungle habitat are predators and prey.
PSHCE
Explore how we reflect our core school values – ‘tolerance’
Art and Design
Choose one artist from a jungle region. Explore and research their work.
Music
Compose a soundscape for your habitat using tuned and untuned percussion and voices for a performance at the end of term PE
Build up flexibility and control in dance. Create a habitat themed class dance for a performance at the end of term
RE – to be read alongside the Hackney Agreed Syllabus
Explore the significance of animals in Christianity.

10. Colvestone Primary School
Week 8
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Key question:
How is our habitat different to a contrasting habitat?
Special events this week:
Writing
Writing to explain – explanation of the life-cycle of a living thing from a jungle habitat
Plan the content of each paragraph of your explanation – include an introduction and conclusion
Draft the explanation
Re-draft and edit
Publish the explanations onto nice paper and use as a classroom display
Geography
Compare the physical and human geography of your habitat to our home habitat of London.
Science
Identify which plants in the jungle are producers – which are eaten by animals?
PSHCE
Explore how we reflect our core school values – ‘origins’
Art and Design
Use the skills practised in Spring 1 to create artwork inspired by great artists linked to your habitat.
Music
Compose a soundscape for your habitat using tuned and untuned percussion and voices for a performance at the end of term PE
Build up flexibility and control in dance. Create a habitat themed class dance for a performance at the end of term
RE - to be read alongside the Hackney Agreed Syllabus
Why do Christians celebrate Jesus’ resurrection at Easter?

11. Colvestone Primary School
Week 9
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Key question:
What issues are affecting our habitat today?
Special events this week:
Change Star Writer and Star Mathematician
Writing
Writing to entertain – write a letter to an animal from the jungle. Explain to the animal how we will try to save his habitat from issues affecting it. (2 weeks)
Read examples of letters. Look at the layout features – address, date, To/From
In Geography lessons, explore some of the issues affecting jungle habitats. What can we do to help?
Look at a teacher model letter and explore the language features– writing in the 1st person eg. “we will”, “our school”
Show a teacher model letter that needs redrafting. Edit it to make it better.
Geography
Explore conservation issues affecting your habitat (eg. deforestation). What can we do in school to help?
Science
Look at simple food chains of living things in the jungle. Use producers, prey and predators.
PSHCE
Explore how we reflect our core school values – ‘neighbourly’
Art and Design
Use the skills practised in Spring 1 to create artwork inspired by great artists linked to your habitat.
Music
Evaluate your performance and make any changes. PE
Evaluate your performances and make any changes.
RE – to be read alongside the Hackney Agreed Syllabus
Why do Christians celebrate Jesus’ resurrection at Easter?

12. Colvestone Primary School
Week 10
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Key question:
How can we sustain life in our habitat?
Special events this week:
Writing
Writing to entertain – write a letter to an animal from the jungle. Explain to the animal how we will try to save his habitat from issues affecting it. (2 weeks)
Plan the content and structure of your letters
Draft the texts
Re-draft and edit
Read your letters aloud to the class. How will the animal feel when she receives your letters?
Geography
Explore changes that humans are making which are affecting your habitat.
Science
Make your own simple food chains of living things in the jungle.
PSHCE
Explore how we reflect our core school values – ‘ equality’
Art and Design
Use the skills practised in Spring 1 to create artwork inspired by great artists linked to your habitat.
Music
Perform your soundscape with control and expression to an audience. PE
Perform your dance with control and expression to an audience.
RE – to be read alongside the Hackney Agreed Syllabus
Why do Christians celebrate Jesus’ resurrection at Easter?