Cycle 1 Autumn 1 Themes New Beginnings 2 PSHE English Long Term Plan Year 1/2 Cross curricular opportunities yr 1 - Cats Julia Donaldson (stories Recounts yr1/2 AA Milne and poems) News Literacy units Rhyme and Pattern Poetry - Yr 1: Cats and other short rhymes (reciting and learning poems) Pirates 5 Listening to- Role play pirates at sea. Speaking to - Hot seat a pirate. Winnies Pirate adventure Class 3C all at Sea Wanted Poster (Pirate description) Writing instructions for making a treasure map (baseline work) Recount following the trip Yr 1 Lists of things to take on adventure Yr 2 as above but with reasons Yr 1/2: AA Milne choose 1 to learn by heart (when I was one) (read others) (2 wks) (Weekend news on a Monday - With grammar focus) Grammar (1 wk) Non-fiction - Recount - Talk for write (2 wks) Stories with a familiar (pirate based) setting (2 wks) Winnie s Pirate Adventure (Talk for Write)
Autumn 2 Cross curricular opportunities Literacy units Seasons Autumn 2 Listening to - Autumn sounds on a Percy the Park Keeper - Nick Butterworth Speaking to - Response partners about park Interviewing Mr Preston. Autumn Poems (e.g. AA.Milne) Recount of autumn walk Autumn Poem (non rhyming) Instruction writing - (eg: Outcome how to print autumn leaves) Non-Chronological report - Houses (Imaginary) Talk for write (make a text to go with a picture). Great Fire of London - 4 Listening to - interactive story. Speaking to - role play the story, verbal recount of the story. Interactive Story Information texts around great fire of London Diaries (year 2) /recount (year 1) Extended captions for pictures Stories with familiar settings - link back to Pirates and adapt for a polar setting (2 ) Grammar Focus Polar Bears - 2 Speaking to - Weather reports about the north and south pole. Listening to - Learning Zone clips about polar bear, news reports. Weather reports. The Polar Express (Yr2) Polar Bear Polar Bear What can you see? (yr1) Non-chronological reports (bears and Igloos) Instructions - How to make an igloo.
RE Focus (Christianity linked to Christmas) Listening to - Christmas story. Speaking to Christmas rhymes Christmas stories Recount of Christmas story Spring 1 Cross curricular opportunities Literacy units India 5 Grammar unit 1 ( 1 wk) Nursery rhymes from other cultures (Y1) Nursery rhymes from other cultures Listening - Hot seating visitors who have visited India Listening to traditional Indian music. Speaking about India books Speaking about experiences if travelled to India. I is for India Year 1 - Extended captions based on indian musical instruments Year 2 - As above but paragraphs. Indian Recipes Trip recount to temple Information leaflet about 1 religion. Instructions: How to make a Diva. Poems by D. Chaterjee and Yr 1 - Simple list Yr 2 - Alliterative To describe pictures/settings india Traditional Stories - Talk for Writing - traditional british fairy tale with similar partner story from other cultures (e.g. Cinderella) Include work on character profiles.
Maths Focus Week Shape/Time Speaking to: Shape Hunt Listening to: shape clues Read others shape riddles guess what it is. Shape Poems Riddles for shapes/time. Spring 2 Cross curricular opportunities Literacy units Seasons Spring 2 Tony Mitten - Dinosaurs Poems (Year 1s) Description of spring Information Text/dictionary (Nocturnal Animals/Dinosaurs) Dinosaurs 4 Listening to Spring sounds during a nature Learning and reciting 30 days hath September. Speaking to Garden Centre The Tiny Seed Spring Poem Dinosaur Information Book Talk for writing - write a Dinosaur story for the children to learn and innovate their own. Summer 1 Cross curricular opportunities Literacy units Great Women 3 Florence Nightingale information texts. Letter Listening to audio clips of great women from the past. Speaking - Hot seat great women from the present and past. Julia Donaldson Diary Recount Description Jill Murphy Julia Donaldson Shirley Hughes/Rose Impey (Children writing non-fiction texts in response to the story) SATS Maths focus Number Rhymes (Number bonds - Word Problems Word problems Silly Poems (e.g. Spike Milligan) Yr 1s - Limericks
counting rhymes.) Instructions Instructions Summer 2 Cross curricular opportunities Literacy units Minibeasts 3 Listen to minibeast sounds during a nature Fact files and information texts around minibeast. Poems/Riddles Non-Chronological report Explanation Texts Changes unit 2 Speaking to a minibeast through a conscious alley. Speaking to: Talking about feelings Listening to: The Very Hungry Caterpiller Mad about Minibeasts Yr 2 - Jaqueline Wilson Yr 1 Elmer Encyclopaedia of Minibeasts Information booklet about how they have changed with Pictures Riddles