1. YEAR 2 (2015-16) Medium Term Planning Term 1
Compiled by Mr M Lamprell

2. Theme: Living Things & their Habitats
Year 2 – Autumn Term 1
Theme: Living Things & their Habitats
LITERACY
Riddles & Performance Poetry
Reading:
To respond to a variety of poems that include different patterns, sounds words and structure. (Provide practical activity to explore the pattern i.e. adding music, movement etc.)
To identify and explain why the pattern is used; what effect does it have (on the reader and listener)?
Outcome: Children can listen and perform poems, identifying different patterns in their language use and structure.
Writing:
Select and discuss a specific poem pattern/modelling the aspects.
To develop riddle & poetic language and vocabulary (onomatopoeia)
To perform a written poem and suggest how you can develop it
To understand simple poetry criteria
To compare and contrast different patterns (rhyme; acrostic)
To share, discuss and evaluate
Outcome: Children understand how to play with inventive language and can create a variety of particular patterns. Children can create a poem of their own. .

3. Theme: Living Things & their Habitats
Year 2 – Autumn Term 1
Theme: Living Things & their Habitats
MATHS
Number
To count forward from 0 in steps of 2 and 4, and 5 and 10s.
To compare numbers to 20 using < > and = signs
To memorise and re-call number bonds to 9+9
To calculate simple missing numbers
To partition 2 digit numbers into 10s and 1s
To solve one step word problems involving addition and subtraction of numbers to 9+9
To record partition diagrams
To add multiples of 10 to 1 and 2 digit numbers
To count forward and backwards from 0 in 2s, 3s, 4s and 5s and apply
Measurement
To read and record times in clock language
To recognise the difference between hours and minutes
To be able to count in 5 minutes
To use scales to weigh items ranging grams
To be able to make accurate weight estimations
Shape
To name common 2D shapes
To identify simple properties of shapes
Draw straight lines and familiar shapes using a ruler accurately
To generate and replicate patterns of 2D shapes
To explain the difference between 2D shapes using vocabulary

4. Theme: Living Things & their Habitats
Year 2 – Autumn Term 1
Theme: Living Things & their Habitats
GEOGRAPHY
Aerial Views
What does the world look like from a bird’s point of view?
To use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of their school; surrounding environment; town; country etc.
To label a diagram/map using geographical knowledge
To describe some physical features of their environment
To describe key features from an aerial view (beach, forest, mountain etc.); this could be then progressed onto towns – reading maps and identifying features (post office, school etc.)
HISTORY
What was my area like in the past?
Can children explain how their local area was different in the past?
To use chronological language
To explore different landscapes and settings
To explain why these areas/buildings were as they were.
Analyse photographs and pictures from different decades (of the school, town etc.)

5. Theme: Living Things & their Habitats
Year 2 – Autumn Term 1
Theme: Living Things & their Habitats
SCIENCE
Living things and their habitats
Why would a dinosaur not make a good pet? (clear links to Literacy texts in Terms 1 & 2)
To explore and compare differences between things that are dead, living and things that have never been alive
To explain what is a habitat and why an organism would live there?
To explore micro-habitats
To develop ideas that are linked to adaptations
To describe simple food chains and identify different sources of food
ICT
To explain why it’s important to be safe online (and advise my family)
To know what a computer is
To name key software and hardware vocabulary
To label key parts to a computer
I can open, edit and save work

6. Theme: Living Things & their Habitats
Year 2 – Autumn Term 1
Theme: Living Things & their Habitats DT
Mouldable Materials
Can we design our own bedroom door name signs?
To select from a range of materials according to their characteristics
To plan, edit and improve
To describe their design through diagrams and words
ART
Drawing
What is a ‘still life’ anyway?
To use three different grades of pencil in their drawing
To experience using charcoal, pencil and pastels
To understand how and why we create different tones for effect
To edit and improve
To be able to focus on a specific part of an artefact before drawing it RE
How do Christians, Jews and Muslims say ‘thank you’ to God for the natural world?
To explore the similarities and differences between the three religions
To recall and name different beliefs and practices (festivals, worship, ways of life etc.)
To express personal feelings that happen in the community

7. Theme: Living Things & their Habitats
Year 2 – Autumn Term 1
Theme: Living Things & their Habitats PE
TBC
See the new ‘Greenacre Scheme of Work’ for details.
MUSIC
PSHE