Year Group: 1/2 Term: Summer Theme: Wishful Thinking

Theme: Wishful Thinking The Motivators Bodenham Arboretum

Areley Arboretum

Areas for Learning: As Scientists we will: Learn about plans and how they grow. As Historians we will: We will learn about toys that our parents and grandparents played with and how they differ to toys today. As Artists we will: Look at the work of Andy Goldsworthy and Leo Sewell and use their work as inspiration for our own sculptures. As Musicians we will: Design and make our own junk instruments and then compose our own junk music using Stomp for inspiration. As Design Technologists we will: Design, make and evaluate our own bird feeders and junk instruments. As Geographers we will: Look at what effect humans can have on our environment.

Art and Design Skills Grammar

Y1 -

Word: Plural ending (s es) verbs with no change (ing ed er) prefixes (un) how it changes the meaning of verbs and adjectives. E.g. unkind or untie. Text: Sequencing sentences.

History Children will look at the sculptures of Andy Goldsworthy and Leo Sewell as inspiration for their own junk and natural sculptures.

Children will compare the toys and devises that they use today to the toys which their parents and grandparents will have played with. What are the similarities and differences? Which do the childrent hink are better and why?

Music Geography Children will make their own junk Children will identify key human and phsyical

instruments and then using Stomp as inspiration create their own ‘junk compositions’.

Punctuation: Finger spaces, capital letters, full stops, exclamation marks, question marks.

Y2 –

Word: Formation of nouns using suffixes, ‘ness’ and ‘er’. Formation of adjectives using suffixes, ‘full’ and ‘less’. Text: Use when if, that, because (subordination) and use or, and, but (coordination). Types of sentences – statement, command, question, exclamation. Sentence: Correct use of present tense and past tense. Punctuation: Apostrophes where letters and missing, exclamation marks, question marks, ellipses.

Books

Wanted: The Perfect Pet The Tin Forest

The Flower

Outcomes Reading

During reading activities children will: Children will infer from pictures in the above

books Children will find and retrieve descriptive words

from the texts Identifying Modal verbs in adverts

Children will choose thought bubbles for

features of their surrounding area and locality. Children will look at how humans effect their environment and study the difference between towns and cities and the countryside.

D.T. British Values/ PSHE Children will design, make and evaluate bird feeders as part of their environment project and design, make and evaluate junk instruments as part of their music lessons.

Safety Children will learn about ‘Stranger Danger’ and the difference between strangers in and out of the safe school environment. Children will also learn about the need to be careful around animals that they do not know, and animal welfare, road and water safety a

Science P.E. Year 1 The Seasons – Children will continue to compare the seasons and the effect on the wider world. Plants – Children will identify common wild and garden plants and identify deciduous and ever green trees. Year 2 Plants – Children will observe and how seeds and buds grow into mature plants. How plants need water light and a suitable temperature to grow. All children All children will continue to develop their science investigation skills through questioning, planning experiments and drawing simple conclusions by saying what they have

Following the Amateur Athletics Association schemes of work Children will learn basis athletics skills in: Throwing Jumping Running Children will also develop their team building through a variety of striking and fielding based activities. These activities will develop the children’s skills in: Throwing Catching Hand – eye coordination Running Team and individual tactics

found out. characters which best fit their character from what they know.

Writing

Children will debate consequences Children will work on developing their expanded

noun phrases to write descriptions of characters from the books being studied.

Children will work on developing settings based on descriptions and illustrations from their

books being studied. Children will write adverts for aspects of the

texts e.g. a dog for Wanted: the perfect pet, or a gardener for The Tin Forest.

Children will write a set instructions e.g. How to grow a seed – The Flower

How to be a good Dog – Wanted: The Perfect Pet.

Children will write non-fiction information texts about

Ducks - Wanted: The Perfect Pet. Flowers – The Flower

Children will write short stories based on the texts that they are reading.

I.C.T. R.E. Children will program basic algorithms into beebots using positional language.

Children will look at the meaning of belong to a Faith community and discuss why it is important to people to belong.