Year 2/3 Overview of Long Term Planning
Term 1 (Autumn)Around the World / Term 2 (Spring)
Health and Medicine / Term 3 (Summer)
The Seaside
Literacy / Text: The boy who biked around the world
Meerkat Mail
Weather Reports
Narrative Diaries
Non chronological Reports
Poetry of the World / Text: Vegetable Glue
Stories set in the past
Recipes
Healthy eating poetry / Text: Winnie at the Seaside
Instructions
Recipe/menu
Recount
Stories with familiar settings
Poetry
Biographies
Maths / Number and Place Value
Addition and Subtraction / Multiplication and Division
Fractions / Measurement
Geometry
Statistics
Science / Growth and Survival- Animals including Humans (yr2) / Science- health and movement- animals including humans (yr3) / Living things and their habitats(yr2) +yr 3 plants- sea life
ICT / Data handling- weather and climate of China
programming / programming / Multimedia- storybooks/ menu for an ice-cream parlour
programming
History/Geography / Geography- weather
History- Lives of significant individuals in the local area (small study) Captain James Cook / History- Key events in the past- the plague
Significant individuals- Edward Jenner / Geography- UK study- seas, oceans water cycle and rivers (small study)
History- lives of significant people- Life of a Victorian lighthouse keeper- Grace Darling
DT / Construction- UK make a windmill / Cooking and nutrition – healthy pizzas / Sheet materials- Moving Sealife Pictures
Art / Drawing and Painting
Work of artists- aboriginal/ Japanese art / Drawing and painting- portraits inspired by Guiseppe Arcimoldo / Textiles- Printing and dying- collage of the sea
Music / Year 1/2 Unit 2- pitch
Year 1/ 2 Unit 4- / Year 1/ 2 unit 6
Year 1/ 2 Unit 1 / Year 1/2 unit 3
Year 1/ 2 Unit 5
PE / Attacking and Defending
Gymnastics / Dance
Tennis / Swimming
Developing fitness
RE / Study of one other religion- Diwali (India)
Advent and Christmas around the World / Christianity- rites of passage
Easter- special meals / Different aspects of God’s Character (discreet)
PSHCE/ Citizenship / See LTP
French / See French Long Term Plan
Term 1 (Autumn)
Romans / Term 2 (Spring)
Inventors / Term 3 (Summer)
Light
Literacy / Text: Escape from Pompeii
Diaries and Letters
Explanation texts and factfiles
Discussion
Volcano poems / Text: The Tin Forest
Stories with imaginative settings
Report writing- IKB
Description
Recycling poetry / Text: Can’t you Sleep Little Bear?
The Owl who was afraid of the dark
Invitations
Stories/ retells- speech
Narrative-chapters
Non-chronological report- bears
Maths / Number and Place Value
Addition and Subtraction / Multiplication and Division
Fractions / Measurement
Geometry
Statistics
Science / Materials (year 2)
Rocks (year 3) / Forces and Magnets (yr3) / Light (year 3)
ICT / programming / Technology in our lives
programming / Digital Media- make a stained glass window
programming
History/Geography / Romans / History- Lives of significant individuals in the UK- Isambard Kingdom Burnel / Contrasting location- Where do bears live? Canada
DT / Textiles – making Roman purses / Construction- making bridges
Art / Sculpture- clay artefacts / 3D- making plants/flowers/animals/ birds from recyclable materials (link to The Tin Forest) / Collage- What is colour? Making colours lighter and darker, looking at the colour wheel.
Music / Year 3/ 4 Unit 2
Year 3/ 4 Unit 4 / Year 3/ 4 Unit 6
Year 3 /4 Unit 1 / Year 3/ 4 Unit 3
Year 3/ 4 Unit 5
PE / Yoga
rugby / Swimming
dance / Tennis
athletics
RE / Christmas gifts / Why do people love their scared place? (discreet) / Jesus as the light of the world
PSHCE/ Citizenship
French / See French Long Term Plan