WASHINGBOROUGH ACADEMY LTP - Year 1/2 Cycle ‘B’ Term 1 African Adventure
No.
Term 2 African Adventure
Term 3 The Hungry Caterpillar
Term 4 The Hungry Caterpillar
Term 5 Houses and Homes
Term 6 Houses and Homes
1
Values
Quality & Respect.
Thoughtfulness & Peace.
Happiness & Love.
Patience & Simplicity.
Caring & Tolerance.
Hope & Co operation.
2
Visits/ Visitors
Story Telling workshop. ‘Kinema in the Woods’ to see ‘The Lion King’.
Pantomime visit to the Drill Hall.
Whisby Nature Reserve. Mr Randall to bring in a tractor.
Religious visit – Newark Buddhist Centre. Farmer to visit school.
Lincoln Castle.
Sherwood Forest.
3
Numeracy
Count spots and stripes – estimation. Shape and symmetry – tribal prints. Data handling of growing plants for science.
Measure and order lengths of animals. Direction – journey through the desert. Sorting animals according to characteristics.
Mazes; position and direction Use of weighing and capacity in gardening. Co-ordinates in planting. Amount and price of seeds. Compass points.
Days of the week. Number and gardening word problems. Seasons and months of the year. Design a maze.
Shapes in buildings. Design symmetrical shields and flags. Co-ordinates. Make a model of a castle – measurements. Spend money at the castle.
Odd and Even numbers – patterns and sequencing. Divide soldiers into armies. Sort trees into Venn diagrams and Carroll diagrams.
4
Literacy
Write posters and leaflets to go on safari to Africa.
Explanation – Animal rights and conservation. How the Cheetah got its spots.
Instructions in cooking.
Fairy Tales – Robin Hood, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty.
Recounts of the children’s visit to Sherwood Forest.
Stories from other Cultures; extended stories -
Stories from a familiar setting; The Secret Garden Tom’s Midnight Garden Design your own garden.
Why the Elephant has a long trunk.
The Lion King Handa’s Surprise ‘How do they’ stories from African cultures.
Non chronological reports – Animal fact files and create Top Trump cards.
Stories by the same author: Eric Carle The Hungry Caterpillar and The Tiny Seed.
Narrative The Zoo by Antony Brown
Dictionary skills
How the Whale Became and Other Stories by Ted Hughes
Design a seed packet with instructions.
Explanation texts – Growing vegetables BFI films – planting a seed. Poetry about the environment. Sunflower diary.
The Knight and the Dragon by Tommy De Paola, Goodnight Sleep Tight by David Melling, How to train a dragon, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Information texts – houses and homes
WASHINGBOROUGH ACADEMY LTP - Year 1/2 Cycle ‘B’ No. 5
Grammar focus
Term 1 African Adventure
Term 2 African Adventure
Term 3 The Hungry Caterpillar
Term 4 The Hungry Caterpillar
Term 5 Houses and Homes
Leave spaces between words. Joining words and clauses using ‘and’. Punctuate sentences (Capital letters/full stops) Expanded noun phrases to describe and specify, for example, blue butterfly, plain flour.
Use familiar and new punctuation correctly (Capital letters/full stops, commas,? !) Coordination (using or, and, or but) Subordination (because) Learn how to use sentences with different forms (statement and question).
Commas in lists Learn how to use some features of written standard English Using suffixes such as ful and less. Learn how to use sentences with different forms (exclamation).
Capital letters for pronoun I/ proper nouns Learn how to use sentences with different forms (command) Subordination (using when, if, that) To learn how to use the past and present tenses correctly.
Use grammatical terminology. Formation of nouns using suffixes such as ness and er. Prefix ‘un’ as negation. Apostrophes for omission.
Term 6 Houses and Homes Use grammatical terminology. Use of the progressive form of verbs in the present and past tense to mark actions, e.g. She is drumming. He was shouting. Apostrophes for possession.
6
Spelling focus
Add s and es Add ing, ed and er – (no change to the root word) Suffixes can be added to verbs, eg helping, helper, helped. Add er and est to adjectives (no change to the root word)
Vowel digraphs and trigraphs (page 42) Add ly to turn adjectives into adverbs.
Revision of Reception work e.g. Letters of the alphabet and the sounds that they commonly represent The sounds f, n, z, k ff, ll, ss, zz an CK
Nk, syllables (like a beat) and tch; the sound v at the end of the words
Vowel digraphs and trigraphs (page 43)
Words ending in y, ph,, wh Using k for the k sound Compound words – how it changes the meaning of verbs and adjectives. Common exception words
7
Terminology for pupils
Capital letter Letter Word Full Stop Noun Noun phrase Adjective Verb Suffix
Singular Plural Sentence punctuation Question mark Exclamation mark Statement Question Adverb
Exclamation Comma
Command Tense Past Present
Expanded noun phrase Apostrophe
Apostrophe Compound nouns
8
RE
Creation Stories
Christmas Story Christingle Service
Buddhism – ‘The Good Earth; Giving Thanks’
Buddhism – ‘The Good Earth; Giving Thanks’
Places of worship
Places of worship
WASHINGBOROUGH ACADEMY LTP - Year 1/2 Cycle ‘B’ Term 1 African Adventure
No. 9
ICT
Internet Safety Using Muvizu 3D animation software– children talk about their favourite animals from the Lion King
10
SCIENCE
Identify and name a variety of common animals in Africa (Carnivores, herbivores and omnivores). Describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals.
Term 2 African Adventure
Term 3 The Hungry Caterpillar
Term 4 The Hungry Caterpillar
Create avatars of the children and get them to speak as their avatar about their favourite characters from the Lion King.
Internet Safety
App exploration: Bring the topic to life by looking at a variety of different apps over the course of the term and ask pupils to discuss their thoughts and feelings towards each app and review the good points/bad points of each of them.
Internet Safety
Food chains -describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals using the idea of a simple food chain. Identify and name different sources of food. (This will be based on African animals.)
Life Cycles - identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited, including micro-habitats e.g. life cycle of a butterfly.
Plants - Identify a range of wild and garden plants. Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants including trees Seeds and bulbs-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. Sunflower growing competition.
Materials - distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made. Identify and name a variety of everyday materials. Compare and group together materials and say ‘what is the best material?’
solid objects can be changed (squash, bend etc.) Investigate the best materials to build the houses of the ‘Three Little Pigs’ Describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials. Wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard. Castle/bridge building competition, using a limited amount of materials.
Walk around our village, using observation skills, looking for key human and physical features.
Four counties and capital cities of the UK and its surrounding seas.
Robin Hood & King John
Using Design caterpillar on iPads, Dr Panda, Hungry Caterpillar app, create a minibeast hunt.
Pond dipping at Whisby. Compare the things that are living, dead and never lived (fossils). Dissect a flowering plant and add basic labels. Set up a wormery.
11
GEOGRAPHY
Compare and contrast a small area of the UK and a small area in Africa. Name the continents. Use atlases and globes to identify the location of Africa.
Ariel photos of Washingborough and Africa.
Compass points. Devise a simple map for the hungry caterpillar to find his way home (eating along the way.) Use and construct using basic symbols.
Term 5 Houses and Homes
Use Castle Builder, Epic Citadel, Nearpod and Minecraft to go through the different parts of a castle and find out the purposes of these parts.
Term 6 Houses and Homes Design and build children’s own castles on iPads Scratch with castles and knights
The history of houses and homes. materials.
WASHINGBOROUGH ACADEMY LTP - Year 1/2 Cycle ‘B’ No.
Term 1 African Adventure
Term 2 African Adventure
Term 3 The Hungry Caterpillar
Term 4 The Hungry Caterpillar
Term 5 Houses and Homes
Term 6 Houses and Homes
12
Global
Compare and contrast a small area of the UK and a small area in Africa.
Compare children’s lives in Africa and Washingborough e.g. the length of the school day.
What foods would the ‘Very Hungry Caterpillar’ eat if he lived in … Explore different foods around the world.
Explore the work of Water Aid.
Explore how homes are built around the world (for example, on stilts to avoid flooding).
Carry out a street survey of Washingborough to look at the different ages and styles of houses.
13
PE
Throwing and catching. Inventing games.
Dribbling, hitting and kicking skills.
Dance/Gym
Group Games and inventing rules.
Athletics
Make up games with a partner.
14
DT
Make a ‘Lion King’ mask
Tie-dye/batique – design a costume for The Lion King.
Make caterpillar stick puppets, using card and wood
Design a garden for the Hungry Caterpillar on a tray.
Design and build 3D castles.
Design and build 3D castles.
15
ART
Paint our animal mask.
Watercolour of an African sunset. Pencil sketches of African masks.
Decorate the Hungry Caterpillar puppet.
Pencil and pastel still life drawings of fruit.
Design and build 3D castles.
Design and build 3D castles.
Explore colour mixing of yellow and red, using paints.
Printing patterns using potatoes.
16
MUSIC
Explore and appraise African music.
Compose African music.
Create sounds for our puppet shows.
Listen and appraise the music of the ‘Carnival of the Animals’.
Tudor Dance using Elizabethan music.
Painting to accompany music.
17
Food Education
Preparing our garden
Winter digging to prepare the soil
Plant vegetables/fruit, flower and herb seeds; monitor growth using charts and photographs (lettuce, peas, chives, mint, courgettes, strawberries)
Plant out seeds of vegetables/fruit, flowers and herbs
‘Secret Garden Salad’ using vegetables grown in our garden
Set up a stall to sell any surplus vegetables
Plant bulbs in KS1 area Plant potatoes Where do bananas come from? The importance of breakfast. Cooking: Recipes including ‘Open Top Banana sandwich’
Plant potatoes & onions Cooking: Recipes including ‘Pasta Salad with Roasted Veg’
Cooking: Recipes including ‘Leek and Potato Soup’
Plant flower seedlings into pots & hanging baskets for our outdoor area Cooking: Recipes including ‘Chocolate Courgette Cake’
Set up a stall to sell any surplus vegetables Tasting sessions of different vegetables and fruit Cooking: Recipes including ‘Strawberry Smoothies’
Baking for the School’s Summer Gala Cooking: Recipes including ‘New Potato Salad’
WASHINGBOROUGH ACADEMY LTP - Year 1/2 Cycle ‘B’ Term 1 African Adventure
No. 18
Class readers
Term 2 African Adventure
‘The Lion King’
African Folk Tales
‘When Hippo was Hairy and other tales from Africa’ by Nick Greaves
‘The Village that Vanished’ by Kadir Nelson
Term 3 The Hungry Caterpillar
Term 4 The Hungry Caterpillar
‘My Father’s Hands’ by Joanne Ryder
‘Grandpa's Garden’ by Stella Fry
‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’ by Philippa Pearce
‘Two Old Potatoes and Me’ by John Coy and Carolyn Fisher.
‘The Secret Garden’ by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Term 5 Houses and Homes ‘Stories of Knights & Castles’ by Usborne
Term 6 Houses and Homes Castle stories ‘The story of Robin Hood’ King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table’ by Marcia Williams